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Personal Narrative: Transcend To Legacy
Everyone experiences some type of pain. The pain can be intense, severe and moderate. To me pain is pain. It hurts. It destroys. It hinders. It is unbearable. But that is pain. You may have learned that the beginning of my pain aroused from my childhood. In the book Transcend to Legacy: Facing myself, I described the significant and various events that lead to pain throughout my current life. I learned that God was using my pains from family, relationships, jobs and everyday experiences to prepare me for the calling He had on my life. Transcend to Legacy: The Calling, walks us through the process of identifying discovering and walking in your call.

It’s been over a year since I published both books, only to learn that healing and deliverance is a process and takes time. We will be healed and delivered from situations, but don’t
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I believe we can all agree that we learned something positive out every negative situation. I know this to be true. Had you not learned some lessons from the painful experiences, many of us would not be where we are today. The fact that you are a live and reading this passage let’s me know you have endured and overcome some levels of pain.
God wants the best for us, being that we are of the flesh and not always of the Spirit, we as humans bring upon ourselves situations that warrant chastisement. : Hebrews 12:6 (KJ 2000 Bible) says, “For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives”. Another word for “chasten” is “discipline.” The passage goes on to quote Proverbs 3:11-12, which says, “My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.” Proper discipline is a proof of love.
I want to share a story about God the Shepherd and how He administers discipline to His children in order to get their attention and ensure that they remain followers of

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