The Long Road Home

By Highly Favored

My life was a disaster from birth I didnt think that it was worth living, when
something tragic happens to someone it was not easy to walk away and forget The
pain and suffering the hurt brought me by someone I loved and looked up to who
was my protector. Who later made my life a living hell I couldnt understand why
things had to go wrong and it had to be me out of all people
But when God has a plan or a calling on your life you will go through turmoil,
storms and trials, death seen and unseen and come out a new creature. Remember
before I tell my story that you are not junk, a looser or a mistake. God doesnt make
mistakes he makes diamonds from coals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493176472

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CONTENTS

Biography

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1: (Preachers kids)

Chapter 2: He loves us he loves us not?

Chapter 3: Behind closed doors

Chapter 4: My first love

Chapter 5: Another Mission

Chapter 6: Killing me softly

Chapter 7: Wish the party was over

Chapter 8: Time for a change

Chapter 9: Sight Seeing

Chapter 10: A Promise Kept

Chapter 11: Marriage or Misery

BIOGRAPHY

I have always been quiet and off to myself even as a child, I really didn’t open myself up till I was in high school. I didn’t have very many friends but it was ok with me I made things happen anyway! Today I am thankful for the Lord coming into my life in a time that I needed him the most. I thought all the other desperate moment I called on his name he never heard me but I was wrong! Sometimes we have to go through something’s in order for God to get our attention and nobody said things were going to be easy. But when your attention is on God you will find that there is no other joy like the joy of the Lord. Even being locked away behind prison walls alone with nobody to visit me God said that he would never leave me nor forsake me until the end of time and that’s a long time. When I was out there smoking crack losing my mind God was there, and when I was going through hard times, chasing this horrible things that this world had to offer me he was there, and losing everything my kids, love for myself, my family, and respect he never left me. People turning their backs on me, listening to them laughing and talking about me I was in pain and didn’t care. But God will take what the devil had for bad and turn it around for your good. We say why did God let this happen to me? But we don’t stop to think that the devil has nothing good in him and is out to steal, kill, and destroy our lives. And because of the callings that God has on our lives he will do all that he can to take you out. But I want you to know that greater is he that is in me then he that is in the world. In that cell that day when they sentenced me to 5years and six months, I walked in and they slammed the door shut behind me and I feel to my knees and gave my life back to God. I knew I couldn’t make it by myself the Lord came into my life and gave me favor in the eyes of the people. There was a lawyer that represented me and I didn’t have a dime to offer him for his services Mr. Sabatini I will never forget him, he was a Italian lawyer that fought for me all the way to the supreme court and never asked for no money. He couldn’t understand why he had to defend me to the point that he had went as far as he could before giving up. I had a job the first week after being put on the main floor working in the prison cleaning, sweeping and mopping the floors. I never forgot what daddy taught us about God; trust him he doesn’t turn his back on us we turn our backs on him. The lord told me that he was not going to let me come home till he was finished with me, no matter what the release date was he needed to prepare me for the work he had for me to do. There was a great calling he had on my life, He said I want you to go back out and help the women from where you came from.

Upon me getting ready to be released, the Lord placed it on my heart to help women that were abused and women who were parole. I made myself available to the parole agents opened seven homes for these women and gave them a place to stay, a program to follow and I showed them if I could do it you can too. I reunified the families together working with (cps) child protective services, I became a motional speaker, a mentor and I share my testimony where every asked. God has been awesome to me I also share the word of God to those who have ear to listen and I thank God for calling me into the ministry. My plans are to travel all over the world telling of Gods goodness, telling my testimony on how I was a drug addict and my life was a mess. One day God told me if I can’t get you attention here at home I will set you somewhere I could. Going to prison was the best thing that had ever happened to me and if I had to do it all again I would just to be able to feel what i felt when he wrapped his arms around me and told me I am here my daughter the battle is not yours it’s the lords.

DEDICATION

I would like to dedicate my Accomplishments to God who is head of my life and a God of a second chance if it had not been for the lord on my side where would I be. To my children because of all that I put them through they still loved me no matter what and when we were apart they never forgot that I was their momma. It was not easy to turn my back on them, but the lord knew what was best I couldn’t be there for them if I couldn’t help myself.

To My sisters for trying to understand the madness that I was going through and for never giving up on me when I needed someone the most, Most of all my loving mother who’s prayer’s brought me through in those Midnight hours she was laying at the feet of the Lord Love you momma.

To My First Lady and Dad in the Lord, of New Hope Church of God in Christ you saw the best in me I thank God for you first lady. The love and kindness you showed me on that Friday night it drew me in and I want to say thank you. My teaching and training could not had come from a stronger First lady I thank God for being obedient to your guidance while following and watching your every move it made me to be a humble strong woman of God I love you both. To my pastor, thank you for the vision the Lord gave you utilize the spirit of Excellence to Minister to the needs of the total Man and Woman. Thanks for all your correction with love and prayer.

INTRODUCTION

Preface or Introduction

My life was a disaster from birth I didn’t think that it was worth living, when something tragic happens to someone it was not easy to walk away and forget. The pain and suffering that was brought to me by someone I loved and looked up to and who was supposed to be my protector. Who later made my life a living hell I couldn’t understand why things had to go wrong and it had to be me out of all people

But when God has a plan or a calling on your life you will go through turmoil, storms and trials, death seen and unseen and come out a new creature. Remember before I tell my story that you are not junk, a looser or a mistake. God doesn’t make mistakes he makes Diamonds from Coals.

CHAPTER 1

(Preachers kids)

I grew up on a farm out in what we call the country part of the Westside, we lived in a five bedroom house that momma and daddy built from the ground up and even though Daddy had only one hand, he worked hard to try and raise and take care of us. You see daddy didn’t have no high paying job nor did he ever have a job that I know of but one he was a cook at the hotel back in the 1920’s or 30’s. He didn’t get a chance to go to school matter fact; he didn’t get any further then the third grad and had to help his father on the farm they had a lot of animals he had to tend to every morning and around the house. We really don’t know much about daddy and his family; they were never talked about much. One thing that I do know is before he and momma gotten married he always had lots of women around him at all times, every time you saw him he had two or three women on his arms he was a very handsome man. Very tall 6’6 beautiful Carmel skin tone and his hair was so pretty all he used on it was Murray hair grease and water and the most beautiful waves would set in his hair. Momma also didn’t get to finish school because her mother left them at a young age. Her dad had to raise eight of them on his own and there was no time for school. Momma was worked hard as a little girl having to chop cotton and worked in the fields trying to keep up with her brothers and sisters as they worked side by side. Even though she has to walk five or ten miles in the heat and even in the snow to school as a kid she did the best she could trying to get an education. When Momma and Daddy met she had left home to try and make a life for her and two sons her dad didn’t want her there with children and not married he was very strict. So she came to California to start a life, she had gotten a job working in a department store. She would go to work every day making sure that she had a roof over her head and food so she would not have to depend on anyone. There were times she would see daddy coming with all his women hanging on his arms, as he passed by her job trying to get her attention. But momma would turn her head and look the other way because she was not going to talk to him nor would she give him the time of day with all those other women around. Momma was a very beautiful woman too she had long black hair that rested down her back, light skinned and has freckles native American she was about 5’4 and had a small figure out of this world any man would had been lucky to have been in her life. This went on between them for years until one day daddy caught momma walking out of her job getting ready to go home from a long day of work. He walked right up behind her and said come here little girl and momma said; I told you I didn’t want to talk to you till you got rid of those other women. He had tried talking to momma many times before and didn’t get anywhere. But he was so interested in Momma that he looked at her and looked at them and took a deep breath, as he exhaled told those other women to be on their way! Because this was who he was going to spend the rest of his life with and there was no future with them it was over and that’s how he and Momma got together. Daddy was a pimp but then again nobody really knows the real story behind the scene not even Momma. But they ended up getting married and Momma already had two children of her own daddy took them in as his own and raised them. I think there were a lot of things going on before I was born with my brothers, but they wouldn’t say anything. They were already grown by the time I was born and I think things were done to them that they just wouldn’t say anything about it. it all begin way before I was born that there was a generational curse on this family, reason why I say this is because my brother was very quiet! Almost too quiet and as I got older, I noticed he didn’t come around as much only on holidays and when he did come he didn’t stay very long. It was like he didn’t want to be around the family or he was avoiding as long as he could of seeing Daddy. When I was born Daddy was already a preacher and he use to make me so proud to have a Daddy like him. We were known as the Preacher’s kids. Daddy use to have us girls singing in the choir, the church was kind of small and we did more singing than any other church I know. Daddy use to take us girls to compete against other churches singing we loved to sing. You see there was a trophy involving me and my sisters; we would sing our hearts out in order to keep that trophy at our home church. We went from County to county throughout the central valley singing. There were only a few people that would come out on Sundays but that didn’t stop daddy he would preach to the benches if nobody would come out to fellowship. There we were reading the scriptures, praying, singing, worshiping the lord. I was old enough to work in the church and I would be the one that would be taking minutes for whatever happened that Sunday morning in service we learned how to be busy in church at a young age.

I was around 6yrs old. jr was 11 yrs. Old and he was beginning to have problems with daddy he just couldn’t take any more stuff off of daddy. Daddy was being mean to him and would make him play the bongos every Sunday, jr really could not sing daddy would always make sure everyone in the family was doing something active in church no matter what. Until he just got tired one day and ran away and left church completely. Daddy had it bad saying if you don’t want to go to church get your stuff and get out of my house. He was very hard on jr, I remember we were in the house one day and daddy had gotten mad about something and myself and jr was coming out of my bedroom, as we were walking down the hall all of a sudden a brick went flying by jr’s head, daddy was trying to hit him with the brick and missed. Then, because he missed he told jr to come to him and he grabbed him up in the neck of him collar and with one hand lifted him up off his feet raised him up in a corner of the room. Daddy told him I will hurt you boy, momma told daddy put that boy down this has gone too far already. jr was getting feed up with the way daddy was treating him so, he decided to do something about it as soon as he could. He got tired of daddy making him slop the pigs and work in the yard, chopped wood and cut grapes and everything else under the sun he could find for him to do. I knew it was not going to be easy for me whenever jr decided to leave. Somehow I could feel that things were getting ready to change for the worst. So one day he went to go live with one of his friends, after a few weeks had passed jr returned home because he found out that there’s no place like home. Turns out his friends dad had the same ideals that daddy did and with that jr thought to himself; if he was going to do work he might as well go home and work. Once again daddy was not happy with his return. I, Jed and Jinny we called her (Jinny) really don’t know why she was called that but it worked all these years. We all had nicknames and I could always tell when I was in trouble daddy would call me Dolly. Sometimes we use to play in the front of the house where there was a field and when they would plow the field up, where corn or hay that had grown that time of season, we would go across the street and throw rocks at each other sometimes getting hit upside the head if you turned you back for one minute. There was no getting away from my left curve rocks, because of me being left handed made me good at everything that I would do. We always made the best of times even though we didn’t have much. When we were able to get a break from all the work that dad would have us doing even if it was only for thirty minutes we had fun. I could remember there was a time we were in the yard playing while daddy was working on a car, we found some old records and we throw them it each other. it would be fun sailing records at each other for no good reason at all just something to do. We did not have a frizz bee we made due what we had. Anyway we were sailing these records at each other and trying to catch them as they came sailing Jed was not paying attention and got in the way and of course; she didn’t duck and got cut across her eye with an album. I just knew that was going to be the end of the world

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