Ashamed

By Wyveta Kirk

Identical twins prove difficult to tell apart by looks, but their behavior often reveals huge differences. Such were Tacy and Lacy. Tacy, the impish twin, continuously challenged her parents. When Tacy found herself in serious trouble, her sister could no longer protect her.Tacy felt ashamed of how she behaved, and her father, a minister, faced public humiliation. Lacy vowed to make the other involved party pay greatly. Lacy lived consumed with uncontrollable anger and ideas to avenge her sister's mistreatment. But a twist of fate brought all possibilities to an end. Lacy was left with no way to vent her anger. Then an outside help showed her how to forgive the impossible and again be right with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wyveta Kirk
• Release date: Mar 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310191268

Wyveta Kirk

Dr. Wyveta Kirk is a Christian psychologist, specializing in families and relationships. Her focus is on helping individuals live fuller lives and couples develop closer connections. She spent hours counseling, coaching, consulting, and conducting seminars. She taught for three universities and is published in a variety of magazines and professional journals. She speaks frequently on topics of relationship and family concerns. Dr. Kirk can design a program to fit your needs or you can use one of her tailor-made seminars: Women Talk Men Walk -- Help Your Child Feel Loved and Stay Close the Lord -- Manage Anger -- and Motivate others and Yourself.. In addition to Women Talk Men Walk she authored a Christian fiction novella, Little Rock Secret, Up it's the Only Way to Go and Life Cycle and Career Stages of High Achievers.

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ASHAMED

Dr. Wyveta Kirk

A Christian Novella of Shame and Forgiveness

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Copyright © 2015 by Wyveta Kirk

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Ashamed/ Wyveta Kirk – 1st edition

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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, legislative groups, or locales is completely coincidental.

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DEDICATION

Dedicated to all who have ever done something that left them feeling ashamed.

I hope you learn to repent, seek God’s forgiveness, and appreciate His loving blessings that follow.

"I want you to know, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you" (Acts 13:38).

CONTENTS

Trade with Me

Keep My Secret

Dad’s Insistence

Diamonds Diamonds

Parental Challenges

Doubts

Wedding Day

No Tacy

Five Years Later

Shadowing

Intruding

A Little Deceit

Awkward Party

Long Weekend

Grand Cayman

Time of Change

About the Author

CHAPTER ONE

TRADE WITH ME

Please, Lacy, come on, trade dates with me. The boys will never know. I would do it for you, and you know it. Besides, without my arranging tonight, you wouldn’t be with him. You didn’t even know Chris until this evening. You can’t care about him. Tacy didn’t particularly like her date, but she found Lacy’s fun and attractive.

Please, Lacy. If the boys should question us, we’ll just insist they have called us by the wrong names all night, and we didn’t want to embarrass them by correcting them. You know it always works. Okay? Ple-e-ase.

The twins, Tacy and Lacy, traded dates frequently just for the challenge of proving they could. Being identical, they learned at an early age they could pretend they were the other, and no one else knew, except their mother. Numerous times they fooled their dad.

Tonight the sisters double dated. As typical, Tacy organized the arrangement. She met the boys at a ballgame, and she never left any place without some good looking guy knowing her name and phone number. Tacy loved boys, all boys. And double dating on a first date was about the only promise Tacy had made to her parents that she kept. So, Lacy tagged along as a double –date partner to please their parents.

Lacy showed little interest in the opposite sex. She decided long ago to remain unattached until college. Trading dates meant nothing to her. So as always, she let Tacy decide which boy she preferred. If Tacy wanted to sit by Chris, instead of Jeff, Lacy didn’t care. She could have just as much fun with one guy as the other.

The twin’s dad, Larry, should have recognized when the twins attempted to deceive him. He, too, was a twin. But the men proved very different from the girls. Larry and his brother, Perry, thought more alike than Lacy and Tacy. Both men dedicated their lives to the Lord at an early age and became ministers. Today they held positions at large congregations and kept in touch daily by email. They remained the closest of friends regardless of how many miles separated them.

The girls, however, were only identical in looks. Their characters shared little similarity. Had Tacy been born a single child, her parents would never have wanted another. They didn’t have the energy to care for two children as mischievous and rebellious as Tacy. And her defiant behavior started at an early age. By age two, when the mother paddled Tacy’s hand for grabbing something she shouldn’t touch, her eyes flooded with tears. But at the same time, behind her back her other little hand continued reaching for the item. Tacy lived determined to do as she wanted, and she knew how to bypass most of the discipline strategies her parents tried.

Although very different, the girls remained close in their unique and strange way. Tacy designed the roguish pranks to pull. Like the time she crawled out a bedroom window to attend a party instead of studying for her math exam and then insisted that Lacy should take the quiz for her. Since the school refused to let siblings share the same classes, they could switch places without any problem and pretend they were the other. And Lacy, as always, couldn’t tell her sister no. She felt obligated to ensure Tacy passed. Because of Lacy, both girls graduated high school with honors. However, if Tacy, had taken all tests herself, she