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    I'm Not Trying to Save All the Children, Just Yours and Mine
    I'm Not Trying to Save All the Children, Just Yours and Mine
    I'm Not Trying to Save All the Children, Just Yours and Mine
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    I'm Not Trying to Save All the Children, Just Yours and Mine

    By Bessie Davis

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    This book is about the realities of problems that we as parents face with our children and what our children face on daily basis outside of the home. It gives advices and suggestions that might be of some assistance to you. Each chapter carries its own message. The main idea for this book is for parents to get focused on being the parent, making corrections, building new relationships with their children and being the one controlling the home. Bringing up our children Gods way is the only way. He is humorous in many ways as he is being God to us all while chastising us, WOW huh?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 6, 2007
    ISBN9780595889150
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      I'm Not Trying to Save All the Children, Just Yours and Mine - Bessie Davis

      I’m Not Trying to Save All the Children, Just Yours and Mine

      Bessie Davis

      iUniverse, Inc.

      New York Bloomington

      I’m Not Trying to Save All the Children,

      Just Yours and Mine

      Copyright © 2007 - 2008 by Bessie L. Pasley-Davis

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 9780595445868 (pbk)

      ISBN:9780595889150 (ebk)

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Foreword

      Greetings

      Setting

      Are you trying to be a good parent?

      Tough Love

      Setting an order in the home

      A mother, Trying

      Let’s talk about Love

      Words are powerful

      Going beyond what we see when we pray

      peaking on fashion, trust and strong willed children

      F.Y.I

      Being in denial [Is that you?]

      A listening ear

      Are you set in your ways?

      A house divided

      Keeping your word is important

      About this chapter

      Talking with you child

      The image that our children portray

      A short story of mine

      Something else for you to think about

      Your child and their best friend, Or [Are they?]

      Dealing with disliking someone

      Touching on things in life

      X—it out! The word—Trying

      Let’s deal with name-calling

      Our teens when it comes to dating/sex

      It’s time to get creative

      Wake up your home with some humor, which brings joy

      Last, but certainly not least learning how to forgive The hard part—huh?

      Summary

      WRITTEN BY BESSIE L PASLEY-DAVIS FROM DECEMBER 2004 TO AUGUST 2007

      This book is dedicated to you.

      Knowing that we all need each other in one way or another, let’s dedicate our lives to helping and loving one another no matter how hard it will get sometimes. Anything that is worth having is worth working for. For those who have confess the Lord Jesus Christ, live a life before others that they might see the true goodness of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ inside you.

      Acknowledgements 

      Thank you first, Father Jesus for stirring me up for this wonderful task. It means more to me, Lord God that you loved me so much that you gave your only begotten son to die for my sins that I may live to praise and worship you forever. You’ve done what no other can do. I love you Lord with all my heart. Glory be to your name JESUS! Hallelujah.

      To all my children, I couldn’t have done this book without your help. I love and appreciate you all so much. Mommy had all of you in mind while writing this book. My heart and soul thanks God for such a wonderful and loving handful of gifts, which is all of you. My precious family circle of love.

      To my loving and supporting husband Charles Davis Jr, you are my pooky love, my sweetheart, I love you honey. To my wonderful parents Lewis, Synobia, and my stepmother Valeria Pasley, Wow! You all are the best. Thank you for being there for me. I’m truly blessed with my sons Ywantru/Janyell Pasley. And Darnell/Shanea Redd Jr. My precious daughter Denita Renee Redd. My grandbabies Kassidy Pasley, Ywantru Pasley ll, and Tres Pasley.

      To my sister Laura Mitchell, I thank you for pouring your love and energy into helping me with this book. I love you sis, you’re that rose which blooms in my heart. Thanks for everything. Kiss your husband Joseph for me. To my other loving siblings, Delores/Raymond Starks. Jessie/Belinda Pasley and family. Clyde/Maggy Pasley Griffin and family, Lewis Pasley Jr, Hoesa/Celeste Pasley, David A. Pasley, Lester Pasley and family, Lavitis Binion. Latricia Weens, Samuel Pitts, Dejanee Turner. You all are the best. I Love you.

      To my nieces and nephews Ryan, Lori, Lindsey Starks. Kristin and Johnny Mitchell. Lewis Pasley lll, Dezarris Pasley and family. Shawnell Pasley, Hoesa Pasley Jr, Rashad Pasley, Brittany Smith, Marquis Pasley, Moleshia Jordan, Briana and Simone Lumbus. My mother—in—law Ada Davis, my sister—in-law Valerie/Brian Lumbus, and a host of other friends and relatives. I love all of you for your love and support that you’ve given me. May God bless you all. A special thanks to my support team: Wynne Antonio, you’re that special someone who’s been there for me like an angel and it’s been fun. You know that you will always be a part of our family.

      Thank you, Elaine Williams for stepping in when I needed you the most. To my best friend/sister Gloria Jordan and family, my cousins Alice and Alexis Winthrop, and to all my relatives that I didn’t mention, I love you all. To my friend/sister Deborah Price and family, you have been a blessing more than you know. Thanks to all the students and staff at Carl F. Shuler Middle School in the years of 2000-2006, I miss, and love all of you. To Tabatha Stubbs, Anthony Bartell, Mrs. Adrianna Robinson, thanks for everything. Thanks to my cousin Victoria Maxey who was in my corner one hundred percent. Also, special thanks to Alice A. Hill, for your heart in everything that you’ve done, Cindy Trivett for your understanding and support. Michele Stewart, David and Sheri Stevens, for your encouragement. Mrs. Johnson- Jordan for all your help and support. To Gregg Morrow, thank you for all your help. You were just great with your patience in showing me a lot of things. Thanks again.

      Foreword 

      I, Bessie L. Pasley Davis have spent the best part of my life growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. I’m married with three grown children, four grandchildren. I attended Cleveland Schools and graduated with the class of 1999 with a G.E.D. Being a people person, I finished Hondros Business College for real estate. Attended M.L.K Skills for Clerical skills in the earlier 80s. I’ve worked and volunteered at a few local child care centers. I have successfully completed a child care course at Jane Edna Center in Cleveland. For seven years, I have worked as an Instructional Assistance/ Teacher for the Cleveland Board of Education. I love singing and I have performed around Ohio in the late 80s and early 90s. I attend The Light of Liberty Church with Pastor Melvin and Cheryl Warren whom has blessed me mightily with love and wisdom. My experience with children came early in my teen years; having to grow up with seven siblings and being the oldest of three girls; I helped see after my sisters and brothers while my parents worked. I made it my priority to study children after my first child at the age of eighteen.

      I am spiritually driven and was inspired by the Lord to write this book. After carefully observing the relationships between parents and their children, I wanted to reach out to parents and lend them a helping hand in anyway I could. For me to start this journey, I had to reach out to the Lord to guide me, and to show me who we are as human beings. So the Lord took me to the beginning of his word that I may know him for myself. In knowing him, I would get know him and what we were made of spiritually and how we operate in the natural and spiritual realm. And what I found out was; only our creator could tell us, about us.

      I discovered that God had a deep passion for us before we were born. We were all created equal, being made from the dust of the ground and returning back to dust one day. Yet, we have a purpose for being here on earth, and not just, existing. My desire is to get into the heart of parents inner soul to make the necessary adjustments in making their family whole again. I have a deep passion with in me to reach out to parents anyway I can, to help them balance out their relationship with their children who seem not to understand the realities of life. I hope this book will be of help to whoever seems to think that there is no hope for their families uniting in love and understanding. It can be done with Christ. May God get the Glory for all he has done for us. Amen

      Greetings 

      WELL! PRAISE THE LORD, FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED. You may or may not agree with me that Jesus Christ is Lord, but as for me, I must agree with him that he is Lord, and it is he who has made us and not we ourselves. In this book, I will be quoting some bible verses because it was the Lord who inspired me that we may be blessed by its contents. You will also find that I am some what comical because things aren’t always as serious as we make them out to be. Life can be enjoyable if that’s what we want. We do silly things if you really think about it. But most of the time, people want to be serious instead of being set free and live life to its fullness.

      This book may or may not be for you, but if not, you might want to bless someone else with it. Since everyone is entitled to his or her opinion in what one choose to believe, there is no judgment intended or passed in this book, but only that we are here for

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