Come Back to Friendship

By Dr. Laverna Moorer

It's a given. Humans aren't perfect. And, in a contemporary world of 7.7 billion people that includes more than 3 billion on social media alone, it is still difficult to develop healthy and loving connections or to form true, genuine, and authentic friendships.

But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother, and before we lost our

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bookside Press
• Release date: Dec 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9781778832192

Dr. Laverna Moorer

Founder and CEO of "Women of Excellence," Laverna Moorer was born and raised in Panama, later migrating to New York where she was introduced to a transformative relationship with God and His Word. Since then, she has earned a Doctorate degree in Divinity and works to manifest a vision to provide women in desperate situations with a stable and safe haven.

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Contents

Introduction

1. It All Began In The Garden

2. Definition Of A Friendship According To The Word Of God

3. How To Come Back

4. The Role Faith Plays

5. Self-Denial

6. The Result Of Coming Back

7. The Danger Of Being Away

8. Who Is Affected By This Friendship?

9. How To Cultivate Your Friendship With Your Heavenly

10. The Role Of The Holy Spirit Plays

11. My Own Experience Walking In God's Presence

Prayer

About Me

I want to dedicate this book to the family and friends the Lord has given to me along this journey; those whom I love, admire, and appreciate so dearly.

My beautiful family: my daughter, Ariel Moorer; my husband, Rodger Moorer, who has been a great support; my sons, Jorge E. Cedeno and Jorge A. Cedeno, and their wives; my grandchildren, Jorlen, Jaylen, Taliq, Arihanna, Kamel, and Josiah.

My brother, Rogelio Gibbs; my spiritual mother, Yolanda Valentine Aviles, who has been a great example for me as a woman after God; Pastor Barry Dailey, a powerful man of God.

Introduction

Introduction

I always believe that the word friendship was special because I always wanted a real friend in my life---a friend that I could tell all my secrets to and I could share as I grew as a teenager. I was very close to my mother. She was like a best friend, as well as a wonderful mother. I was very attached to her. Anywhere, my mother went I went. I always wanted to be with her.

When I was seventeen years old, my mother died from asthma and my world came down. As a seventeen-year old girl, all my dreams of doing things with my mother vanished. I still had my dad, but it was something about my mother and me. As I tried to go on with my life, it was difficult. All the pain and the void of not having my mother, my friend, was hard to live with, but I knew I had to find it in me to go on with my life.

One day, I met this girl through someone else and became friends. Her name was Pamela. She was a very nice friend and she had her mother who was so special to her and her mother reminded me of my mother. Her friendship was helpful for me. It kept me from thinking about the pain of not having my mother. Our relationship went for months, but one day she decided to date some guy and didn’t spend as much time with me as she used to. Little by little, we stop seeing each other.

Then I met another friend in Dallas and she was a little more experienced with life than me. Our friendship was very strong, but she got married to an Army soldier and went on with her family. She never stopped her communication with me. Every time she moved to a different state or country; she would let me know. But it didn’t stop me from feeling abandoned and left behind.

Yes, again I went on with my life and I got married. My ex-husband was a light-skinned Spanish man. I was more on the dark-skinned side. His family didn’t like me because I was considered Black. His family tried to separate us by sending him to New York, but the day before he left, we got married again, this time abounding with a child. We had a little boy, Jorge E., who was one year old. He left us behind. My ex-husband did make sure he sent us money to support us. Thirteen months later, visas came through for my son and me. His family’s plan did not work like they wanted. God was all in the mix. Well, the time came for me to leave my country and join my ex-husband in Brooklyn, New York in 1980.

He was very happy. I was happy, but I just didn’t know how I was going to survive in such a cold place. It was too much for me. It was so cold, and I cried every day because I wanted to go back home, but my dad would not let me come back. He said that my place is where your husband is. Well, I tried to think positively and learned how people make it in this cold country. I didn’t know English; that was one of my roadblocks. I had to stay home while my ex-husband worked. It was so hard to get used to the taste of the food, especially the meat and the water. I lost all my hair; my skin was externally dry from the water. But I wanted to make a good thing out of a bad situation. I knew I was here to start a family with my ex-husband who was my friend and protector. I figured this marriage should last forever. All I have to do is do what a wife does.

I didn’t care for his