Category: My Story ~ Enlightenment vs Spiritual Psychosis

He showed up at the school one evening with an equipment delivery. Another student and I had just finished cleaning and closing the kitchen for the night. We were headed out the door as Rashaad was entering. As soon as the coast was clear, I made my way back to the kitchen where he was…

It was two weeks before I saw Rashaad again. He only came to do big jobs for Mr. Sims or to to make deliveries in one of the trucks. And yet, nearly every time, he could find a secluded or semi-private area where we could kiss, such as in the arts and crafts cabin. I…

 It was the last evening of camp preparation. The next day, church busses filled with cheering kids would be making their way down the long gravel driveway. Rashaad and several others would be leaving the next morning. We had all stayed around the campfire as long as we could before making our way back to…

I was still sixteen when I joined my older sister at Ambassador Baptist College aka ABC. It is a non-accredited IFB school which was then in Shelby, NC. Although I had been sent there as an alternative to a reform school for girls, I was absolutely thrilled. My father was more than a thousand miles away…

Only days after that trip to the club, my doctor’s office called. I was curled up reading Craving Grace when the phone rang. The medical assistant spoke slowly and kindly asked, “How are you?” My heart sank. Something must be wrong, I thought. Every prior call for Pap smear results over the last thirteen years…

I’m going to rewind again and this time back to the last eighteen months or so just prior to leaving NC for AZ. Back then, I had an online dating profile. And that’s how I met a man, a builder, whom I’ll call Bob. Before I met him in person, he informed me that he…

I want to go back to just a couple of years prior to my introduction to Mary Jane. I was working as a private duty nurse caring for an older than me, but still very young woman who was receiving hospice care. As I got to know her husband, he introduced me to a book…

I can see my younger self sitting with my mother and siblings on the church pew. My father is standing behind the pulpit as he preaches from the Kings James version of the Bible. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day…