When Your Affluence Fails: How Low Does One Fall?

By Rev. Euclid S Osborne

In a fictitious story, this book tries to tell those vulnerable women that though their situation may seem grim, there is a plan in place for their deliverance. When it appears as though all they have had is lost, it tells them that all is not lost. Though their tears may have flowed uncontrollably, this book reminds them that weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

The book touches the very same social issues that we see in our communities every day. The young woman with the image of a princess gradually became a community vagrant. Sharon lived a disgraceful life for many years after her fall from prominence. Her life changed again for the better when she came in contact with a near family kin that she never knew.

How many women that you have known or heard of were called prostitutes, whores, and harlots just because they had many children with different fathers? You never stopped and wondered why your acquaintances situation was like that. Why are we so quick to condemn our friends and neighbors when situation exceeds our ability to comprehend?

I can very well relate to the scenario that speaks to the debasement of women in our society, in the past and the present, and most of all the women in my country. The stereotyped, marginalized, and ostracized actions of the critiques have torn the hearts of women from their chest leaving them with very low self-esteem. Many are standing on the stone quarry of condemnation, ready to cast stones that would cut, bruise, maim, and even kill those women who have lost the will to go on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781512777345

Rev. Euclid S Osborne

Reverend E. S. Osborne is an uncompromising Baptist preacher, who was born and raised on the island of St. Kitts, West Indies. He continues to leave his listeners uneasy with his thought-provoking, heart-searching messages. Rev. Osborne earned a Bachelors of theology degree from West Lenoir Baptist School of Ministry in North Carolina. He is the assistant pastor of the Valley Baptist Church on St. Kitts, where he addresses critical issues affecting individuals social and spiritual development. His intention is to transform his listeners into leaders and maximize their individual potential. He has been married to Heather for over twenty-six years. They have three children: Brenton, Britany, and Briana. Rev. Osborne and his wife speak at seminars on how to have a lasting marriage. He also sings and writes gospel songs.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-7735-2 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017903030

WestBow Press rev. date: 01/18/2018

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1 Living in Eudaemony

2 The Pride of Bradford

3 The Beginning of Sorrows

4 The Death of Harry Pennings

5 The Search for Love

6 Love Doesn’t Change a Thing

7 Consumed by Shame

8 The Doom of Sharon

9 The Revelation of a Distant Relative

10 The Conception of the Redeemer

11 The Revival of a Collapsing Society

12 For Such a Time as This

13 A Precarious Apprehension

14 The Meeting

15 His Acceptance Speech

16 Fit for a Palace

17 Confession and Repentance

18 Snatch Away

19 His Overwhelming Joy

Conclusion

Thanks

Bible Types

Praises for Rev. E. S. Osborne

What Does the Book Say?

About the Author

I

dedicate this book to my mother, Ms. Mavis O. Osborne. She single-handedly raised six children in the Caribbean’s darkest era. During this period, colonialism and white supremacy dictated our way of life. Nations tried to free themselves from this yoke, while individuals on affected islands equally tried to free themselves from poverty and social ills that conjoined in that time.

This was the time when I was born. Because of the difficulties of life during this period, my mother trusted God dearly. She believed God was the only way out of all the mist and gloom affiliated with this period. Therefore, she introduced all her children to church at the earliest age possible.

We attended the St. Georges Anglican Church. Mother taught all of us how to pray. We prayed before each meal, before going to bed, and after we were awakened.

My mother is a lady who was raised in a hostile society. She couldn’t evade the criticisms and verbal abuse. She was gravely deprived of financial satisfaction. She suffered rejection but was not dejected. These combinations intoxicated the entire island and overwhelmed most of her peers. Yet Mother remained tenacious in the things of God, strong, courageous, and resilient. She said what gave her hope was the Bible verse John 16:33: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Foreword

Pastor E. S. Osborne, in a very beautiful, real-life manner, brings the message of God’s plan of salvation to a place where anyone can relate.

Like Jesus, he chose to bring this message across using parables wrapped in metaphoric sagacity and excitement in the story of the life of one Sharon Pennings. He shows what happens when her affluence died and how low she fell.

In this self-searching allegoric expression, Pastor Osborne covers the entire plan of salvation. the perfection of man when he was created, his fall from a position of abundance and security, the hardship that followed, his need for a savior and salvation, and his ultimate redemption from the fall.

This book will keep your attention with its line after line, captivating, bittersweet story.

Like Sharon and her sons, we can all experience the love of a savior in our deepest need for him, and we should be encouraged to go and take this same message of salvation and redemption to our neighbors in the wasted lands everywhere.

This book will help us to see clearly that Jesus is everything we need, even when our affluence dies.

Pastor Irvine Browne, St. Kitts, W. I.

When Your Affluence Fails

How Low Does One Fall?

Introduction

It is said that the society we live in can make us or break us. This means that if a prominent person in society wants someone to reach a lofty status, he or she can do things to ensure that person’s position in society. On the other hand, if he or she does not like someone, the prominent person can ensure that individual’s downfall.

The things we say to each other and the deeds we do to each other with the intention to pull someone down are appalling.

The woman in my story some may prefer to call a vagrant. Another name for a vagrant is a vagabond, a tramp, a beggar, and a prostitute, one whose way of life makes her liable to be arrested. I prefer to call the woman in my book a victim of social circumstance, one who has fallen from a position of affluence to one of being indigent.

We have all seen some forms of discrimination wrongly attributed to individuals in our community, in our state, and in our country. These discriminations, acrimoniously applied, cause one to alter his or her thought pattern and, ultimately, change his or her lifestyle.