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attempts. In today’s society, doc-
tors are quick to prescribe medica-
tion such as Ritalin and others for
children with behavior issues.
Sometimes, the best medicine is to
observe and watch the children
while they are having their behav-
ioral episodes.
While I worked in a child care
center, we had this young man
who was four years old. He al- was first molested by her uncle/
ways had outbursts and would be
sent to my office. When he was
brought to me, I would sit and just
talk with him and just listen to
him. At such a young age, this
little man had huge amounts of
anger and aggression, but just by
listening to him vent, I realized
that he was just confused by things
happening at home. This is just
one story that mimics that for so
many other children.
Other health concerns outside of
mental and emotional ones are
obesity and eating disorders as
well as substance abuse. Food
and/or drugs may be used as a cop-
ing mechanism to help numb the
internal pain of abuse.
As a way of masking the pain and
esteem issues, many may experi-
ence an identity crisis and become
sexually promiscuous or even turn
to alcohol or drugs to help cope
with the pain. When God created
the concept of sex, it was created
to be a beautiful thing between a
husband and a wife to populate the
earth and be pleasurable; however,
the enemy has perverted it and has
used it as a weapon to hurt so
many and break the spirits of so
many.
I want to share with you the testi-
mony of a young lady named
Je’Nora, whom I met in Houston.
We connected on social media and
after one of the editions of King- where she started dating women,
dom News came out she and I had
a conversation. She began to share
her testimony and I was amazed.
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what happened because she felt
JE’NORA’S TESTIMONY
At the age of 5 is when Je’Nora
cousin. She was often left with
her grandmother because her
mother was very promiscuous and
was chasing after men. The time
came for Je’Nora to go stay with
her mother, but she didn’t want to,
but in order to be obedient, she
went. At the age of 14, her mother
married Je’Nora’s current stepfa-
ther, but at this age is when he be-
gan to fondle and touch her in in-
appropriate ways. She had a close
relationship with her female cous-
ins and wanted to protect them, so
she chose to be the sacrifice to
save others. As the abuse contin-
ued, Je’Nora told her violator that
she was going to tell other mem- and began to say, here I am sacri-
bers of the family, but he threat- ficing myself because of the hurt
ened to kill them if she told.
the age of 17, Je’Nora’s cousin
passed away and it was at this time
that she finally felt she could
breathe and that she could finally
tell her story because he’s not go-
ing to go for her. After all, her
cousin’s protection was the reason
why she continued to be the one
taking the abuse, but now her
cousin was gone and it was finally
time to speak up.
She spoke up, but she was ques-
tioned as to why she didn’t speak
up sooner. The family thought she
was lying. She was forced to do
lie detector tests, and she went into
Child Protective Services where
her grandmother received rights to
care for her. She got to a point
and she said she would never deal
with a man never again. This was
her way of masking the pain of
she couldn’t tell everyone what
she was feeling.
She felt the spirit of confusion in
her life trying to take over, but
Je’Nora would pray to God and
ask for direction. She knew the
things that were happening in her
life were not of God, but she did-
n’t know what to do. She didn’t
even fault her stepfather for the
things he had done to her because
she came to realize that what hap-
pened to her must have happened
to him for him to do it to her. It
was during this time of revelation
that she realized God had her the
entire time. She realized her value
in God because she wasn’t angry
at her stepfather for the things he
had done to her; instead she had
compassion and was able to pray
for him.
Je’Nora began to share why the
relationship with a woman was
able to mask her pain. She shares
how she had so many questions
At and the pain and then with the fact
her mother wasn’t around and ac-
tive in her life, she turned to fall-
ing in love with a woman’s heart.
Not so much the flesh part of it,
but the heart of the woman. She
was seeking that motherly love
and the attention of a woman that
she didn’t receive from her own
mother.