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The Gift of Will: A Road to Forgiveness: A Passageway to the Divine

The Gift of Will: A Road to Forgiveness: A Passageway to the Divine

Palmer, Marie
Cerasoli, Lisa

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ISBN10: 1732341192
ISBN13: 9781732341197
Publisher: Story Merchant Books
Published: Sep 17 2018
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When I landed in California in 1989, I followed the rest of the passengers to baggage claim. There, one woman caught my attention. I knew she was my mother, even though I hadn't seen her since I was three. When our eyes met, she knew who I was, too. The closer I got, the colder and more distant the space between us became. This was my first memory in my new world, my first jolt of freedom.

The pain and shame and worthlessness that I experienced when I escaped the Children of God cult at fourteen became something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I was derivative of the abuse and severe neglect I had suffered since birth. And so was my brother, Michael. We were born second-generation Children of God cult members and had known no other life. Our father was devoted to the organization and was abusive both physically and emotionally, and our mother had parted ways with him when we were just two and three. Adults had started experimenting sexually with us by the time we were ten and eleven. We had been brainwashed to believe our leader, Moses David, was to be followed without question. We read the Bible daily; we read Mo Letters about rape and hell and the fate of backsliders-people who went against the cult. We were told that horrible things would happen to us if we left. Our subconscious minds ruled our behaviors once we entered the real world, the Whore, as the C.O.G. called America. Deluded as we were, we backslid into our own demise.

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