My Thursday with Reese

Good Morning all,

I am happily enjoying time with my grand kids, they are asleep now, Reese is under my feet chilling after running me around the condo after a dog toy,

he loves to play fetch. I wish I had the energy this Yorkie or my grandchildren have.....((((whew))))))

In these pictures are my grand babies Bre, and Yana. the dogs are having a play date,

their names are Egypt and Reese.

Isn't it cute how Egypt has snuggled with the baby for a nap!

I pray everyone has a blessed weekend! God blessings upon each and everyone!

© Continue to be blessed from the well!

Psalms 134

(1)Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord,

which by night stand in the house of the Lord.



(2) Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,

and bless the Lord.



(3) The Lord that made heaven and earth

bless thee out of Zion.

Good evening everyone,

I really haven't written a whole lot since writing the series on domestic abuse " my personal story " well after the story was written, my life started crumbling layer by layer, going through changes all of around me.


Spiritually, mentally and physically.


you see I find in life the closer you get to where God wants you, closer to your passion, purpose and destiny the evil one will try to back you up,

slow you up and start throwing fiery darts at you. I know for a fact that writing my series has blessed many around the country, near and far , some testimonies of deliverance I may never hear, but I am confident that the series has touched at least one person.I thank God for humbly letting me plant some seeds of hope into hopeless situations.

Just when I felt I wanted to really slow up things and just cruise through life, I received this text message " be not weary in well doing" wow, just to have the Word of God to comfort me , means a lot to me.

The evil one wants to destroy my ministry, my passion and my purpose, but it won't work, " no weapon form against me shall prosper" Jesus prayed for me in the garden of Gethsemane.

So I boldly pick up the Word of God and I run on, I strive on to see what the end is gonna be. The race is not given to the swift , or the strong but to he that endured to the end. I run knowing full well, every level I rise in Christ, there will be a bigger devil to deal with!


Yet I am confident of this one thing..........



I am a survivor, I am a endurer! satan you lose again! Bless the Name of Jesus!

© Continue to be blessed from the Well!

Women's Rainbow Awareness Conference

At my church this weekend we had a Women's Rainbow Awareness Conference,

Our co-pastor's wife Sister Lisa Wills spearheaded, organized and put it all into action and it was a great sucess!

It was a two day affair and was simply awesome, I walked away with a lot of valuable insightful information:


Workshops on finance and credit reports, giving, nutrition, medical issues, well being, there was facials, speakers on single and married women issues .We had our blood pressure checked,

we had a light lunch and a dinner of blacken salmon, bake chicken, shrimp, string beans, dirty rice , mac and cheese and cheesecake.

there was folders with lots of info to take home, crafts, oh and I won 4 door prizes. all this happening on Saturday 10- 7:30.

On Sunday the speaker sealed the conference with the Word of God, it was just great being in the presence of like minded women of God.....Looking forward to next year!

The speaker Evangelist Jackie Morring said this " that it is OK to go to conferences , but we must conference with God everyday!"Thank you for letting me share my week end with you ........

©Continue to be blessed from the well!

Who you let go

> God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who

> you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.

©Continue to be Blessed from the Well!

Steps of a Good Man

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way .

Though he fall , he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

I have been young , and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

Psalm 37: verses 23 -26

Setting the Captives Free " The End"

You see your yesterday will effect your tomorrow.

When you live through or experience any type of abuse on any level it will affect your tomorrow,

you will process life differently, you look at life different, you are very selective in picking your friends.

Always having a guard and a shield up to try to prevent the onset of any kind of friction or confusion that may try to disrupt our sense of peace we carve out for ourselves, some of us fail miserably in life,

make bad choices in the selection of life partners, boyfriends, and eventually spouses. I have a relative that has been married 3 times,

another that repeatedly has been in and out of prison, another relative that once had a bad drug problem that cost her almost everything she had. Me myself I have dealt with my own issues too, such as a weight problem, trying to eat a situation away, when it is not so much what I am eating, but what is eating me. I have dealt with depression, loneliness, being dependent and co dependent.

Looking closely, you will see it all stems from the residual of the pain of childhood, things that are covered will not heal, how can you heal what you can't acknowledge and deal with, your childhood happened,

stuff happens we all have a story to tell, that can kick you in your gut and drop you to your knees, I declare before you today there is hope in what seems like a hopeless situation,

you can't change your yesterday, but you can starting today acknowledge and start the life changing healing process on your road to forgiveness,

forgiveness is not so much for the other person but for you, to keep away heart attack, cancer etc that can feed off the disease of hate.

If you see yourself in this series I have written , talk to your pastor or a trusted person, or even get professional counseling if that's what you need to break free, just do it,

don't let the pain of yesterday rob you of any more tomorrows.

Then start walking slowly into your final destination. Your childhood detoured you but the Word of God has assurance that your arrival to your purpose and destiny will be smooth in Him.

This concludes my series I pray you have been blessed and encouraged, you can't read a persons life by looking at them, can you spot a victim or a survivor?

No I couldn't either, until I became one......

All this leading to my own personal revolution of unresolved issues, leading to open and inward stubbornness, rebellion, sometimes dis respectful, skipping school, etc all leading to juvenile detention, family court, foster care and finally becoming emancipated at the age of 16,

free to make my own choices and decisions, some good, some bad, thrust ed in a grown up world on all levels too soon,

looking back I thank God for all I have gone through because it defined made me into the unique person I am today.

I am not the product of my circumstance's , I am thank God the end result, you see it doesn't matter what you go through, but it does matter how you come out.

I was determined not to let all this make me into a bitter, hateful person, I chose to fight and be a survivor, for my family and to be a beacon of hope for a seemly hopeless situation.

I really am humored that God who knows our beginning and our ending,

He saw my future, He saw me writing this series to inspired , educated, and inform everyone that there is hope in a hopeless situations,

all your tomorrows are not filled with sorrow ! Thank you Lord! What the enemy meant for bad God turned it around for good!

To God be the glory!

© Continue to be blessed from the Well!

Setting the Captives free......Part IV

And a change did come ...not the way we expected , but a major change did come.

Well my father was deployed to Korea for 3 years. The day he left we rejoiced, we were so happy, this was short lived, ......

What happens is without God in your life you go from one pain to another, after he left, money was very tight, my mom because he controlled everything, had poor money management skills, so she had to look for work to supplement the income,

food was limited, she did wonders with homemade biscuits , grits , rice, potatoes and gravy thank God for a momma from South Carolina who could cook from scratch.

Well one day. The sheriff came and we were evicted, we were homeless, everything we owned was in a trash heap pile outside on the curb, we were so young being tossed again into a situation that was out of our control, .......

as we sat on the curb with our belonging....the door to house of shame locked or rather padlocked, there were people driving by asking if we were having a garage sale,

I just cried not seeing any hope in sight, just hopelessness in front of us........hungry, tired,out doors with my mom and sisters and even worse, I had to use the bathroom..............

To be Continued ........................

© Continue to be blessed from the Well!

Setting the captive free Part V

It is a bad feeling to be up against the wall and have no sense of direction,


My mom was limited and stunned by the hands of her abuser, he left her scared , no money management skills, she made very poor choices in selecting her new boyfriends, and we suffered at their hands only on a different level,

but just like sin is sin, abuse is abuse on all levels, ...........

A good Samaritan drove by that night as we sat in darkness, came by with a truck and some people to help move my family to another location, we moved into a home that same night and because of the kindness these good Samaritans showed, it restored my hope in the goodness of people.

That act of kindness started my journey toward seeking God and seeking to be be captured by the love of godan and to be apprehended by him in relationship..........

on my journey I have had many highs and lows in my quest to learn and discover this man named Jesus.

Every day I thank God for where I came from and where I am now, thanking God I am free no longer bounded, my chain have been loosen , my prison gates have been opened the word says he came to set the captive free......he who the son sets free is free indeed, ...........

the reason I wrote this mini series is because when I was at work I saw a woman with a severe disfiguring black eye, you could tell it was domestic abuse related,

my heart just reached out to here, her spouse quickly took her out of the waiting area as the waiting customers started to stare. Just seeing this prompted me to tell of my childhood if you are in a abusive situation get out,

it will not get better without counseling, tell some body , tell everybody, don't hide in shame and silence or you could be killed or one of your children or love ones hurt or killed because you did nothing....

Domestic abuse doesn't just hurt or affect the victim it hurts and effects everyone, not one day but everyday,

do like I did , stop and break the cycle! Give your future children and grandchildren a better inheritance, give them the inheritance of Love,

give them a knowledge of Jesus Christ,

teach your children by example,by putting Love in action, teaching them that hands are for loving not for fighting......


© Continue to be blessed from the Well!

My Independence day story Part III

I never knew until, I was older what all this meant, I was too young to do anything , to young to know what to do,
to young to really verbalize it , or put it into words without shaking with fear for what I knew was coming next ........

yet feeling uncontrollable terrible pains on the inside,

I read my bible secretly at night, but I never under stood what I was reading, yet I knew deep down, change was coming....Change was coming ...when I didn't know.

the pain was so bad I had to face reality that our life was not normal...........

the life we were living was not acceptable in a sane moral society, I was almost brainwashed too that it is OK to be hit by someone who says they love you when you have done basically nothing but not respond in a way pleasing or acceptable to them,

even as a child I could sense something is wrong, the one time I did speak up, I was verbally abused and slapped so hard, my voice was silence as not to feel that sting of hate. (He hated me from that day forth, even to this day he has no dealing with me, after many efforts on my part to make contact, to no avail )

Hate , the pure ugly , distorted face of hate, I have seen hate and it is not pretty.......

My mom didn't stop him or try to protect me she couldn't she was economically dependent on him, emotionally tired and frustrated, she lacked alternative housing resources, lacked job skills, she was socially isolated from her family and she lacked church resources.

Yet at a early tender age I still trusted a God I really didn't know, or never had a first hand experience with, I didn't know Him as my Savior, not yet ............

don't believe people when they say God doesn't hear a sinners prayer not true cause he heard mine.........

He saw my mommas tears and he saw mine too.......

To be continued ..........


National Domestic and Violence Hot line
1-800-799-SAFE

tty 1-800-787-3224

Help is available 24 hours a day

Continued to be blessed from the Well !!!!

My Independence Day Story Part II

I lived in a home that was really fake, we learned how to hide how we really felt.

In public we looked like a happy family with so many smiles and hugs around the family at functions such as cookouts or reunions, or a visit to see grandma, which were very few,( we were already told by him, not to accept anything to eat or drink if asked, We were hungry too.)

you see one of the things abusers do is the tactic called isolation, they keep you from visiting your families or your friends, at first you think it is cute, they must really love me, after a while it ain't cute anymore. He slowly destroyed her friendships, she felt trapped, she felt she had no resources that she could depend or trust in. So she cling ed to all she had, her children who gave her unconditional love.

The abuser will try to control every thing and every aspect of the person they are abusing life, they control your money if you work, or they won't let you work so you will have to look to them for everything.......

I have a friend whose ex husband gave her a cell phone to keep up with her location, she had problems if she didn't answer his calls promptly. My mom never had a cell phone, my father controlled every aspect of her life,

the only freedom she had was when he was at work from 7 am to 4 pm. We had liberty then too, we acted like kids when he wasn't home, my mom played bingo, wrestled playfully with us, comb each others hair, she was a very loving mother ....

until almost time for him to come home.....

the atmosphere changed as he walked into the door............

like a dark shadow covering and hovering over our lives.....


To be continued......


If you are someone you know is experiencing abuse on any level there is hope,

call or visit this web site

1-800-799-SAFE

tty 1-800-787-3224

Help is available 24 hours a day

Continue to be blessed from the Well!

My Independence Day Story Part I

Well this a subject I am very passionate about due much to my up bringing as a child seeing first hand what the pain of domestic abuse can do to a family, no one knows the real pain that lies behind closed doors,

I write this not to down grade or air my family business, my purpose is to educate , inform and hopefully if I can through telling my story, help one woman or man see that there is hope on the other side of hopelessness,


I pray that one day no child, no one for that matter will ever go through life feeling what I had to live through and endure as a child. My memories will never be eradicated, but my memories can be rewritten in another way,

I forgive the hands that have hurt me and the mouths that have spoken negatives words into my life, and I strive everyday to leave the past behind and walk into a new day, expecting , hoping and believing God for a brighter tomorrow.

The past was very painful, the home I lived in was a home with no love,I always felt scared, never feeling safe, always waiting for the shoe to drop and my father would take his anger out verbally and sometimes physically on my mom,

who was the mother to 6 children, I can remember a many day , we as young children huddle around my mom crying as she cried after the aftermath of abuse suffered at his hand.........

We took a series of shots to go on a tour with my father to Korea ( he was in the air force), at the last minute, my mom decided that was to far to be away from her family, that , that was too much water to drink....

What she was really saying was she knew the cycles of abuse, the tension and stress start building up,the ability to communicate has been lost, the picking for no reason, the egg shells situations, the arguing, the fighting and then the full blown abuse, the explosion has come then as quickly as it started it subsided,

( this is the shortest stage and generally last from a few hours to 24 hours to 45 hours) then the loving reconciliation, the making up period and I'm sorry time, gifts for all of us,


we are just so glad it is over and we can be a family again and for my mom, another baby came.

Then the cycle would start all over again. As a child we watched very little television, we just were quiet children when he was home. Perfect little children not wanting to feel or hear his wrath that could go on for hours, so instead of television we would watch the cycle start all over again.....

yet to all the neighbors or to my teachers, classmate or even my girlfriend Cheryl who I would walk to school with, we were just a regular normal family that was hiding a secret.

Little did they know the breakdown that was going on inside the house of shame...................

to be continued....

Continued to be blessed from the Well!