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Beyond The Pulpits Shadow

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Have you ever struggled with a secret too difficult to unveil? The story is one full of struggles and healing. It tells the story of a young girl who is caught in-between many confusion as a young teenager. Having no one to call, no one who truly understood, she has to survive through life, not basically live. It's a novel where the chief plots unfolds and leaves readers to take a deeper look into their own lives. It sends a message out there to young girls who battle with silent molestations with no one to talk to. Chioma thought her life was going to crash before her very eyes, she battles depression for a long time, she fights silent battles. Will she overcome? Will depression finally win?

Daddy, a principal character in the novel is a symbol of oppression and cruelty disguised in the regalia of a clergy man. He takes advantage of many other young girls like chioma because of their vulnerability and openness to him as their father. So also some women battle with their womanhood and feminity, while trying to coexist in some false religious circles.

It is a book full of exposures and teaches young ladies, or even older ones to speak up if they are going through any form of molestation from whoever.

A quick read, full of suspense, very educative and entertaining.

The book shows how that with the right type of love, at the right time, from the right places, can do a lot to individuals battling different types of struggles. It also shows that knowing God for yourself rather than going through men that you can barely verify their walk with God and their secret life is better.

It further exposes the interpersonal relationship in families. Some parents barely are able to have a good relationship with their wards. Love from parents and family goes beyond providing basic need like good, clothing and shelter. They also owe their wards a level of emotional covering, shelter and provision. The books shows that absenteeism as parents whether in any form, can have some form of effects. Teenagers battles alot growing up in contemporary cities like ours, ready to eat them up and expose them to lifestyles they are barely prepared for.

The Book is one that brings all these elements together to become an informative whole. In the end we will find out if Chioma was able to overcome all her struggles and stand firm again.

Disappointment? Dissatisfaction? Anger? Revenge? Let's find out how all these things can work together to get us to a c****x and then a peaceful resolution.

This is a must read for teenagers, parents and everyone basically. It teaches wisdom, so one can order his life and also be able to teach others.

It is a short book, with about 6 chapters, but every chapter will keep you glued to the page.

Let's explore the world through the lenses of another man's story.

Many young ladies battle with s****l molestation in their homes, immediate environment and without.

I love heard someone say that most cases of molestation happens with people closer to you than you think. Is this true? We can find out. Alot of young people may be able to speak up when exposed to the right environment and people.

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Chapter 1-The Office ‎ ‎The palpitation of my heart could be heard from miles away. ‎ I was scared of the dangerous pleasure I was about to engage in, I wanted to stop for a moment to better rationalize my action. I really wanted to pull back. Somewhere deep down I knew this wasn't right. I knew for sure this was going somewhere it shouldn't, this isn't suppose to be. But no! Everything was happening so fast. I couldn't pause or even think rightly. ‎This was going to cause us alot . ‎Families. ‎Relationships. ‎Trust. ‎This was going to take from us more than we are getting now. But my pastor wouldn't listen. I feared him, like my own father, I honored him and took his words like the word of God. But here he was trying to destroy my life and take away my precious jewel I've been holding on to for years. Who was I going to tell that my pastor emotionally blackmailed me to get here, who was I going to explain to that I didn't want to go that way Initially, but he wouldn't just stop. What will I tell my parents? ‎My mum doesn't listen many times when I had things to say, my safest place in this world was with my pastor. I called him Big daddy and mentor. For a split of second my mind wandered away, if Big Daddy can do this, then my esteem and self-worth is gone. He was doing to me something I dreaded and always spoke about in my school. What will I explain to those small girls I always preach to back in school? ‎My world! ‎I remember wanting to scream and being unable to carry my body. He brought Scripture and started speaking to me to suit the obvious wound he knew he had inflicted on my tender soul. He talked about submission and faith. I just stayed there looking at him with a blank stare. He talked about how sometimes faith demands that we sacrifice things that are precious to us, that It was a very pleasant sacrifice to make. He said it was a great honour to be deflowered by an anointed man of God. That my life will never be thesame after now. ‎Truly my life never remained thesame. ‎Deep down I knew this wasn't counsel, this wasn't guidance, this wasn't admonition. These were lies encapsulated in scriptures. This was manipulation to the very core! ‎It was about 12:35pm after we were done. 12pm was visiting hours for daddy, and of course I came out from his office after I had straightened my gown and washed my face. I had to look normal. ‎I stepped into the corridor .Everyone smiled at me and were about going into his office in their turns. I smiled back, it was a false smile that barely reached my heart. "Good afternoon sister Faith", I said to one of daddy's P.A who stood by the corridor to ensure people went into daddy's office orderly. "Good afternoon Sister, Chioma". She responded. How was the meeting? I hope you feel better now? Yes, I'm very much better I said with a sheepish smile. I walked out of the three-storeybuilding. That day it felt like something walked out of me, I became a shadow of myself, I couldn't relate this experience with anyone, not even my closest friend in school. I stopped attending my school fellowship, stopped attending those small cell meetings we use to have. I became very alienated from everything else.Even my parents believed so much in the grace upon Our Daddy's life. They could give anything to him, including me. What was I suppose to do now? ‎ ‎

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