I Took One Step So He Could Take Two

By Aliyah Lo

I Took One Step So He Could Take Two is about all the trials and tribulations that I went through throughout my life and how God has been there along, helping me even when I didn't know that He was. It's about how even though I have been through all that and I have sinned like crazy, look where I am at now, and it is only by the grace of God that I am still here, able to share our story of His love for me and how He never left me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886445022

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: When I Was a Child

Chapter 1: Running before I Can Walk—The First Step

God's First Set of Footprints

Chapter 2: My First Set of Footprints

God's Second Set of Footprints

Chapter 3: Lost and Blind—Growing Pains and the Third Step

God's Third Set of Footprints

Chapter 4: My Second Set of Footsteps

God's Fourth Set of Footprints

Chapter 5: My Fifth Step

God's Fifth Set of Footprints

Chapter 6: Stressed and Struggling

My Third Set of Footprints

God's Sixth Set of Footprints

Chapter 7: My Seventh Step

God's Seventh Set of Footprints

Chapter 8: My Fourth Set of Footprints

God's Eighth Set of Footprints

Chapter 9: The Last Step in the First Part of My Journey

God's Last Steps of This Part of My Journey

Part 2: The Journey Continues—The Young, Adulterous Woman and the Transformation

Chapter 10: The Warning before the Transformation

Chapter 11: College Years

Chapter 12: A Glimpse into the Future

Chapter 13: My Past Coming Back to Bite Me

Chapter 14: My Past Coming Back to Bite Me Part Two

Chapter 15: Onward and Upward

Chapter 16: Life before Marriage

Chapter 17: The Married Life

About the Author

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I Took One Step So He Could Take Two

Aliyah Lo

ISBN 979-8-88644-501-5 (Paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88644-502-2 (Digital)

Copyright © 2023 Aliyah Lo

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Acknowledgments

Iwould like to thank God first and foremost for giving me the gift of writing and lighting my spirit up with the idea to share my story with other people.

Secondly, I would like to thank my family who always supports me.

Finally, I would like to thank all my friends and loved ones who supported me and prayed for my success no matter what.

I couldn't have done it without any of you. I love you all.

Introduction

To everyone who thought that this was going to be a story of all the good and bad times: I am sorry. People don't need to see or read about good times to bring them to God—people need to see and read about the bad times to see God's hand at work, to see how He keeps you through it all. So this is the story of how my life has been so cursed with sexual sins since I was young and of how I became the woman I am now. It started with the sin of fornication and turned into adultery until, finally, God saved me from it all. You all are going through a journey with me, to see how God saved a wretch like me, how and why I am doing it for God, and why you should do everything for God as well.

Now we begin the journey.

See you soon!

Part 1

Part 1: When I Was a Child

Chapter 1

Running before I Can Walk—The First Step

Growing up, I used to go to Pentecostal Temple with my grandmother and cousins every Sunday. My cousins' names are Christen and Michal. Christen is older than me by one year. Her birthday is the day after Christmas. She was tall and skinny with light skin and long hair. She was a tomboy when we were growing up. She always played basketball, and she hung out with the boys. Michal, on the other hand, was a girly girl. She was short and thick with light skin and long hair. She was athletic too but not in the same way as Christen. She did gymnastics. She was really good at it. Her birthday is a week and four days after mine. Now, she used to date one of the guys whom she and Christen hung out with. I, on the other hand, was shy and didn't know how to make friends. I was short, medium build, with light skin, big eyes, long black hair, and buck teeth.

My grandmother, God rest her soul, was Maxine Stowers. Grandma Maxine played no games. She used to tell people who was going to hell and who wasn't. I guess she felt she had that knowledge because she was a hard-core Christian and a nurse. She had a strict set of rules that we had to follow. One of those rules was that if we stayed home from church, we'd better be actually ill. It's crazy, though, because I only stayed with my grandmother for half of my fourth-grade year. I know you are probably wondering—what about third grade on down? I don't remember much about those years. In the first half of my fourth grade, I lived in Andover, Maryland, with my mother. In those days, I used to watch Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego, Ghostwriter, and things of that nature. I went to a school that I liked. Those were the days; they were carefree with no boy trouble. That was the life.

I don't remember much about the school except that at my school there was a boy who had an extra finger; I thought it was weird, and the memory has stayed with me all these years. I really only had one friend—her name is Naomi. One day, I was left at home. I got so bored that when Naomi asked to play with me, I went out. At that time, I didn't know that I wasn't allowed to be left alone, so when I got locked out and went looking for help, the neighbors called the cops. My mother got in trouble when she came home. Instead of losing her job, going to jail, or both, she sent me to go stay with my grandmother.

I felt so bad. I didn't mean to get her in trouble. This brings me back to what I was saying previously, about how I went to church every Sunday. I lived with my cousins Christen and Michal and my grandmother. We lived in a four-story house with a basement and an attic. My grandmother's house was spotless. We used to help clean the house on the weekends, but of course, we had to clean up after ourselves. Looking back, I don't remember my grandma having any bugs in her house. I remember one mouse, and that is it.

One day, when Michal, Christen, and I were trying to sleep, Christen woke me up because she heard our cousin Danielle, who had passed away. Those two were very close. Well, I woke up and listened, and the next thing I knew, I also heard someone calling Christen's name. I was so spooked. When we went downstairs, I saw a shadowy figure in the shape of a female who looked like my cousin. Christen was too scared to go and touch it, so she made me. I'm not going to lie, I was so scared of what I was seeing, but I did it anyway to appease my cousin. When I touched it, my hand went right through her, and the next thing I knew, she'd disappeared. I was shaken out of my wits. I had never experienced anything like that before. Christen was so scared