The Super Strong Collection

By Dominique Wilkins

Read the three stories of strength. The characters who stand strong during times where the next person would not last. To understand that it is true, that when the time comes, you can miraculously become stronger. Find out how and what it takes in this collection.
Includes titles: 3 Wishes, Giving My Tears a Break & Work it Out

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dominique Wilkins
• Release date: Mar 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310568602

Dominique Wilkins

Dominique Wilkins is a licensed cosmetologist, mother and the founder of Christian Authors Promoting Success. Dominique writes short stories in the Urban Christian Fiction genre, to which everyone can relate. In a time where crime is high, morale is low, and drama is everywhere, Dominique writes to encourage her readers and provide them with resources to keep them going and desire to do better. Read real stories about bad parents, jealous neighbors, backstabbing friends, cheating, love, pain and the ability to inspire change or provide a life lesson. Transferring a decade of emotional support and encouragement from the beauty shop to the pages, these stories are written with biblical scripture intermingled for the reader to refer back to or research for more healing directly from The Bible. Now head over to the "Book Sale" tab or any library in Elkhart and Bristol, IN to find out which book or collection relates to you!

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Giving My Tears a Break

By

Dominique Wilkins

Copyright 2014 Dominique Wilkins

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Author of 5 star titles:

The Bad Parent

I Need a Little More Jesus

Theresa in Wonderland And Many More!

Chapter 1

Hannah Jeffries finally pulled over after a policewoman had been pursuing her with her lights on for almost a mile on the bypass. The police officer had to pull alongside Hannah and sound the siren in order to get her pull over.

Officer Chisholm walked slowly up to the driver’s side window of the packed mini-van and asked Hannah, Miss, what were you thinking? You were doing seventy-five miles per hour in a sixty mile per hour zone and were steadily climbing!

I’m sorry Officer, I was distracted. It’s just that it’s so quiet and peaceful out here. I was just thinking about how much I was going to enjoy giving my tears a break! Hannah said quietly with a smile.

Well, break’s over. I’m going to give you a ticket for reckless driving, so you can take it home and cry there, the officer told her.

Hannah looked at the officer and apologized softly, still smiling as if nothing could steal her joy.

Officer Chisholm observed Hannah’s behavior the whole time, then looked at the sleeping boys in the back seat and decided that before she wrote the ticket, she just had to ask, What is it that you’re running from that prevents you from adhering to the speed limit or from seeing my flashing lights for so long?

Just then, the corners of Hannah’s lips turned up as she looked the officer in the eye and said, I’ve got a vehicle packed full of only our essentials. I’m heading to a place where I can love myself and my children again and the only tears I plan on crying will be of joy, not from pain or from failure. You see, I almost died back there and now, I’ve got a chance to live, so excuse me if I have to incur a speeding ticket to get to freedom!

Officer Chisholm looked her in the eyes and saw a familiar twinkle, so she probed for more. You almost died?

Chapter 2

Hannah had been in a relationship with her boyfriend, Nathan Hawes for ten years. They had been living together for the past nine years. Throughout the ten years, she longed and prodded him to marry her. Yet, for years, he gave various excuses as to why he couldn’t. His money wasn’t right, he was distracted by something at his job, or some stage of his life was ‘off’ at the time.

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

(Colossians 2:8 ESV)

Hannah could never understand the holdup. She felt that they were doing everything a married couple did, just without the legal document to bind them. Eventually, they had not one, but two children and things seemed to get worse. As strange as it seemed, Hannah had heard that having children had that effect on a relationship, but she couldn’t understand why until she went through it.

The addition of the children had a way of quieting and even minimizing her need to argue. She did not want her children to see them arguing all of the time and did not want it to be a reason to push Nathan away. She loved him and wanted to be with him before they had children, so now, of course she wanted nothing more than to raise her children as a family with him present.

In her new life, she quite often found herself feeling alone. She decided that with the kids’ growing issues and needs, it was best to be more available at home to address them. With her children in mind, she took a pay cut and settled for a work-from-home position. This new occupational choice gave her great satisfaction knowing that whenever the phone calls came in from school, both she and her job were able to be flexible enough to take care of them.

As the boys got older and got involved in more and more things -- some good and some bad, she gave birth to a baby girl. She was barely surviving the madhouse that had become her life. She found herself stuck in a routine that felt a lot like a suffocating hole, and as time went on, it got worse.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28 ESV)

Chapter 3

Hannah was completely overwhelmed with her life at this point, so she cried out to Nathan for help. She knew that he wasn’t the most trustworthy source, but he was their father and her man. If she felt overwhelmed, then so should he, she thought. She made the executive decision to start delegating responsibilities to Nathan.

She put up with a lot, so she knew that breaking him into some mature and necessary responsibilities shouldn’t be too horrific. She approached Nathan with a plea for help. Nate, I’m having some trouble getting everything done and know that you are good at taking care of business. So do you think that you can watch Milan on the days that you start work late, while I get the boys off to school and back?

Nathan looked at her, pleased that she knew to acknowledge his superiority and then responded, "Sure Babe, of course I can. As a matter of fact, I can even drop her off at my mother’s for you on those