Flip Side of a Coin

By Min. Lorraine Henry

This is a true story about the author's life. It is a very tense, graphic, explicit, in-depth and candid book of trials, tests, testimonies and witnessing to those who are hurt or have been hurt and the pain from past experiences.

This story deals with love, anger, hate, trust, innocence, forgiveness, abuse, drugs, abduction, jealousy, sex, attempted suicide, molestation, and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Its about the struggles of one little girl growing up to adulthood and the situations she had to face and endure. At one point she tried to commit suicide but through all the suffering she encountered, she managed to make it.

She survived by receiving Christ as her personal Savior when all else had failed.

This book gives words of encouragement along with scriptures and touches on every age category. The author gives her personal thoughts concerning each segment of her life and hope that it will touch and change the lives of others and is not meant to judge anyone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9781449053451

Min. Lorraine Henry

Min. Lorraine Henry is a single mother of three beautiful daughters: Tijuana, 40 years old, Dorothy, 39 years old and Natasha, 36 years old. She also has seven grandchildren, two girls and five boys (1 deceased). She has been saved and filled with the Holy Spirit since 1978. She is sold out for the Lord. She has managed to depend totally on Christ and says she can't live without Him. She is a current member of Guiding Light Tabernacle under the leadership of Apostles Michael and Stacie Prince. She is presently the Sunday school teacher for the intermediate class and she is in the Praise and Worship group singing to the Glory of God. God called her into the ministry at 3:30 am in July 2003. Since then, she has taken many ETA and bible classes to successfully receiving the Standard, Foundational and Advanced Church Ministries certificates. She has made a promise to God that she will never turn her back on Him. This is her first book that she has written and one day would like to write a follow up to this book. She is truly a living testimony.

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© 2011 Min.Lorraine Henry. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 2/18/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4490-5345-1 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4490-5344-4 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009912792

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgement

About The Author

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Conclusion

About the Book

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book, first and foremost, to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my late parents who brought me into this world, my late brother Stephen and to my sister Patricia.

A special dedication to my late grandson,LaRon Roberts, who gave me so much encouragement when he was battling cancer.

I also dedicate this book to my three beautiful daughters, (Tijuana, Dorothy and Natasha), who had to put up with me when I went through one extreme to another and fussed with them when I thought they needed it. I know sometimes they might think that I don’t love them but I do and always will.

Last but not least, I dedicate this book to my grandchildren who I hope will read this book and don’t make the mistakes that I had made. I love you all.

Acknowledgement

I want to thank my two best friends Val Montgomery and Inez Turpin, who stuck by me day after day, month after month and year after year, when there were times I felt like giving up and you stuck by me like a sister. You both kept pushing me to give birth to this book. I love you guys so much and thank you.

I would like to acknowledge Apostles Michael and Stacie Prince, who are not just my pastors but who are my dear childhood friends. I appreciate the love and compassion that you both have. Pastor Stacie, if it wasn’t for you witnessing to me and opening the door for me to come to Christ, I don’t know where I would be. I love you both.

There’s one special person I would like to acknowledge, that is Rev. Mother Diane Duke. You have been like a mother and sister to me. You have made me feel special in a lot of ways. You have given me a lot of encouragement with words of wisdom. You have taught me to let my light shine and not to think about what other people have to say about me. You have told me to press on, so I’m pressing on. I applaud you Mother Duke and I love you.

About The Author

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Minister Lorraine Henry is a single mother of three beautiful daughters: Tijuana, 40 years old, Dorothy, 39 years old and Natasha, 36 years old. She also has seven grandchildren, two girls and five boys (1 deceased).

She has been saved and filled with the Holy Spirit since 1978. She is sold out for the Lord. She has managed to depend totally on Christ and says she can’t live without Him. Where ever she goes her light is shining.

She is a current member of Guiding Light Tabernacle under the leadership of Apostles Michael and Stacie Prince. She presently is the Sunday school teacher for the intermediate class and she is in the Praise & Worship group singing to the Glory of God.

God called her into the ministry at 3:30 am in July 2003. Since then, she has taken many ETA and bible classes to successfully receive the Standard, Foundational and Advanced Church Ministries certificates at Refuge Bible Institute. She would like to further her studies in theology. She has made a promise to God that she will never turn her back on Him.

This is her first book that she has written and one day would like to write a follow up to this book. She is truly a living testimony.

Preface

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

To everything there is a season,

A time for every purpose under heaven

A time to be born, And a time to die;

A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted

A time to kill, And a time to heal;

A time to break down, And a time to build up

A time to weep, And a time to laugh;

A time to mourn, And a time to dance

A time to cast away stones; A time to embrace,

And a time to refrain from embracing

A time to gain, And a time to lose;

A time to keep, And a time to throw away

A time to tear, And a time to sew;

A time to keep silence, And a time to speak

A time to love, And a time to hate;

A time of war, And a time of peace.

Chapter 1

In The Beginning

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My life’s journey goes back to my grandmother and grandfather. In the 1800’s granddad lived on a plantation in the south named Guess. He ran away to keep from being killed by the slave owner because he was passing love letters between a slave and a white man. Granddad came to Long Island, New York by boat and gave himself the surname of Henry, William Henry. I was told he was about 7 feet tall wearing a miraculous shoe size 15. One hand was large enough to hold an infant baby. While here on Long Island, he met my grandmother, Bertha Valentine. Grandma was a short Shinnacock Indian woman who fell in love with my grandfather. Because of this union, she was banned from the reservation. They lived in Old Westbury where granddad had a small fruit and vegetable store on Jericho Turnpike.

While living in Old Westbury, grandma had five children, two daughters and three sons. One of the sons became my father, Stephen Valentine Henry. I don’t remember my grandfather because I believe he died either before I was born or when I was an infant. One of my aunts died giving birth to a baby girl, so I never saw her. When daddy reached his young adult years, he traveled to upstate New York where he met my mother, Lillian Elberta Manning. During the late thirties and early forties it seemed to be the fashion of black men wanting to date white women or light skin black women. Well, don’t you know that mommy and daddy fell into this category. I don’t remember my grandparents on my mother’s side of the family, but I was told that they visited us maybe twice. Anyway, my mother’s parents didn’t like the idea of my father wanting to marry my mother, for one thing, my father was a black man and another, I think, was that mommy was the only child, but they didn’t stop it. My grandmother on my mother’s side of the family used to read tea leaves for people. I guess you would call her a fortune teller. Once they got married, daddy brought mommy back to New York. They lived in Harlem, and then moved to Westbury. My relatives on my father’s side of the family weren’t too happy about this marriage either. All the family reunions that my relatives had didn’t include our family because of the interracial marriage. From these two wonderful parents became I being born on April 16, 1950. They named me Lorraine Susan Henry. I was the youngest sibling of three, one sister and one brother.

Looking back during the fifties was pretty much good. When I say good, I mean the economy wasn’t like it is today. When I think about