Confessions Of A Pastor S Daughter

Pastors' children should be allowed to pursue their dreams. After all, you only have one life to live. People need to stop putting their pastor and their children on a pedestal. They too are going to make mistakes. To my knowledge, there is only one perfect man to walk on this planet Earth. He is the sinless one, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is the only one that I have to answer to when this place can no longer afford me a home. I pray that he has forgiven me for all my sins. I want him to say, "Well done thy good and faithful servant. Welcome! Be Blessed!

Confessions of a Preacher's Daughter, is a memoir that delves into the internal struggles in the life of a young lady growing up as a preacher's daughter. After years of emotional and physical recklessness, she searches deep within to figure out the question, "Why me?"A preacher's kid shouldn't have this many struggles, and the family unit should be one filled with love and longevity. Journey with Tameka through years of her life as she shares intimate feelings and experiences brought on by others and some she caused herself. Let her story be a testimony and an inspiration to help heal, bless, and prosper you in the current season of your life.

I'm a preacher's kid, and that means living under a magnifying glass. I can't so much as trip or let my hair frizz or get a C on my report card without shaming my family. My only refuge is my anonymous blog (with maybe five readers) where I can vent. Okay, and gush about the Prince Harry lookalike of my dreams. And detail my plan to move out of state this summer. Dad has other ideas, like forcing me to attend the local Bible college with every other judgy person I know. It makes me roll my eyes so much I know what the back wall of my skull looks like. Will my dad come to his senses by the time I graduate? Will my blog get more than five readers? And do any of my readers pray? Because I need all the help I can get.

It is Children's Day at Mt. Sinai Holiness Church of God In Christ in Newark, New Jersey, in the Fall of 1959 and I feel as though I am being held prisoner on the first pew. I am five years old and wearing one of my favorite dresses ... On my feet I am wearing a pair of shiny black patent leather shoes, so shiny I swear I can see my reflection in them. My short sandy brown hair, parted in three pigtails and secured by three large pink and blue ribbons, is standing on end like corkscrews. We are blessed this day with a guest speaker, Reverend Walter J. Cook ... When his sermon began three hours earlier, he promised he'd talk to us children about going to Heaven and how wonderful life will be once we got there. "You wants to go to Heaven, don't cha?" He asked. I shook my head yes. Considering the alternatives, I definitely wanted to go to Heaven. But ... that was over three hours ago. Now my head ... bobs up and down and back and forth like ping pong balls, as we desperately fight to keep our eyes open.

Have you ever felt that your transition from child to teenager to adult has been anything but graceful? Confessions of a Pastor's Daughter is a collection of poems gathered from the diaries of teenaged Rue Scott between the ages of 16 to 21. Confessions of a Pastor's Daughter truly encompasses how it feels for teenagers and young adults to fall in love too young, cope with devastating heartbreak, battle mental illnesses, struggle against the tide of puberty and perception, and deal with the raw, emotional, and wild experience of maturing. Confessions of a Pastor's Daughter encourages the reader to dive into the mind of Rue Scott and read the innermost thoughts of her teenage self so the reader can understand that they were not and are not alone in their journey to adulthood!

These refreshing confessions of a pastor will help readers live for an audience of One.