The Unchained Me... Seeking To Be Free

By Martha S. Thomas

The Unchained Me... Seeking To Be Free by Martha S. Thomas

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781636304601

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The Unchained Me... Seeking To Be Free

Martha S. Thomas

ISBN 978-1-63630-459-5 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63630-460-1 (Digital)

Copyright © 2021 Martha S. Thomas

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Table of Contents

Leaflets of Life: The Heart’s Cry

Life: The Ingress of Wretchedness

Understanding: The Egress of Bondage

This is dedicated to my three musketeers:

Kee, Dut, JoJo

God has given me life that they may have a more abundant one. I was chosen for them and them for me. God entrusted me to build strong men in him even in my brokenness. The scales of change have tilted in our favor. A life lived through adversity is one we now rejoice in victory as overcomers.

In appreciation

to my mother, Rosie, and my favorite sister, Rita, for their undeniable support

To my MVPs,

Oprah, who opened my eyes; T. D. Jakes, who renewed by spirit; and Iyanna, who changed my mind.

To hope

for Halting Oppression in my Pursuit of Enlightenment.

Above all,

To God for loving me so, to Jesus for standing in the gap, and to the Holy Spirit for guiding and never forsaking me. The oneness of the three has imparted wholeness in me.

Leaflets of Life: The Heart’s Cry

The Heart’s Cry

Cycle 1:

Intro: Life Meets Understanding… Hello

Entry 1/21/2015: It’s revealed the day after my forty-fourth birthday.

I was awakened in the midnight hour the morning after my forty-fourth birthday. I searched for slumber, but it was too late. I was consumed by the fire shut up in my bones. The combustions of life had ignited understanding. The revelation had begun.

Stock the kerosene. Trim the lamp. Burning the midnight oil is the new in-service training that will be the lamp unto your feet and the light unto your path. When life meets understanding, living is the reality that unshackles the soul, freeing the imprisoned mind to the realization that dying and existing are archenemies of the bones’ marrow.

LIVE… For riding the wings of incremental turbulence to get to this place has morphed an eagle covered in feathers of awakened acknowledgment. Guiding your understanding through the cycles of life and giving wisdom to lead you beyond the brink of the road less traveled.

Cycle 2:

Dying inside of Living

LIFE—the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

But how can you live when you are gradually ceasing to exist or function in your mind, in your being, in all of your existence? You’re disappearing, and no one even noticed that you’re dying inside of living. The woes of life have consumed vitality, and decomposition is reigning supreme… distinguishing living from nonliving.

What should have been exuberant physical strength and mental vigor in the beginning is exposing a life now extinguished by an unfairly dealt hand. Death awaited you even at birth with a failed, unsuccessful attempt. Yet there was an unawareness that psychological incubation would be the manifestation of the residue left behind.

Living has imposed a death penalty that will execute the horrors of existing. Yet walking barefoot on a rock-filled road on a hot summer day within only eight years of existence, you question the sky above. Is there living inside of dying? Not even understanding or being able to comprehend in your minute mind that this death sentence would empower your life. So you accept your fate and live as a withering flower. Mortified and humiliated from the toxic rain that has penetrated the innocence of your fragile petals and disintegrated the very existence of your being.

As the rays of sunlight grow all living things, a cancerous growth is being cultivated that will cause incremental turbulence upon your life, imprisoning the mind and shackling the soul. Simply because a deficiency of wholeness that’s underdeveloped voids your understanding. Obscurity