My Story: How God Delivered, Healed, and Set Me Free

By Tawnya J. Jackson and MR-AH Photography

• Are you a single parent?
• Are you in a questionable relationship?
• Are you tired of being sick & tired?
• Are you experiencing depres

• Language: English
• Publisher: Transformed Publishing
• Release date: May 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781953241122

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Introduction

What a beautiful Saturday morning God has blessed me to see! I am laying across my bed thinking about how grateful I am to the Lord. He has brought me a long way over the years.

Let’s drift down memory lane together back to the 1990’s. At that time, I was the mother of three daughters, divorced, living the single life, and had done everything I was big and bad enough to do. Yes, that included drugs, alcohol, dating a married man, partying all night, not working, and living off of government assistance and child support.

Eventually, I came to a point in my life where I was tired of being sick and tired. I wanted change. I had my entire life ahead of me. I had ambitions and desires. Unfortunately, I did not know how to bring them to pass, so I continued to live two lives. I was miserable and unhappy but continued to do whatever it took to get from one day to the next.

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Single Mother

Year: 1993

Sha’Therian (Tori) and Sha’Tawnya (Tia) are my oldest two daughters. At this time, ShaTalya was the youngest. She was spoiled and always whining. Being the oldest, Tori was so humble and cared for her younger sisters and even me sometimes when I was tired from getting high or depressed. All the drama I went through with Donald, my boyfriend at the time who I started dating when ShaTalya was eight months old, took a toll on me.

Donald was a married man when I started to date him. He was also a longtime family friend, who I never thought I would have an interest in. When I said yes to this relationship, all hell broke out. I learned how to accept the good with the bad when it came to Donald. We broke up many times over the years just to make up. It was foolishness. His wife finally divorced him. The divorce was not directly because of me, but I am sure myself and the other women he fooled around with played a great part in it.

Life went on. I have the best supportive family in the world. My mom has always been a great mother. She took care of her three children. She raised us up right and took, or sent us, to church on Sundays. Even when she did not go, she still sent us. She made sure we were dressed in the best. Her children have always been her everything and she loves us very much.

My daddy was The Man. True to the saying, Papa was a rolling stone, wherever he laid his hat was his home. He has about twenty children that I know of, but rumors say there are even more. I loved my father with all my heart and soul. He was a great man. He always provided for his family and made sure there was a roof over our heads and meals on the table each day. We never went without lights and water. I thank God for my