A New Legacy
What was your childhood like? The first part of my childhood was not so great. My father was an alcoholic and traveled for work so he would be gone for stretches of a time and then home for stretches of a Time. When he was angry, he would throw things and was verbally abusive. I was always afraid to tell my parents if I did something wrong because I was afraid of how bad the punishment would be. I also experienced sexual abuse from a man from church so begin my distrust of men. I remember telling my mother, but she didn't know how to handle it because she too, had experienced years of abuse as a child. By the grace of God, my father came to know Jesus and stopped drinking and his destructive behavior and so began the new phase of my childhood! I was fortunate to come to know Jesus myself and thus begin my journey of healing from past wounds. When I married my husband, we wrote down a list of things we wanted different in our family then what we had experienced growing up. Our home...