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Linda Black (Lewis)
I'm not real sure whether these posts get "censored" before they get posted or not...if they do, mine may not get posted. I guess I will find out.
I am a Holy Ghost filled Child of God. I came to Tupelo filled with the Holy Ghost, and while I was at TCM I lived for God with everything I had in me. I felt a calling into the mission fields of Ethiopia, and as soon as I graduated Tupelo High I went to Texas Bible College to prepare myself for my calling.
But...TCM did absolutely NOTHING to encourage me spiritually! Yes, we attended church every time the doors were open, and GOD blessed us mightily, and we has our nightly Vespers in our dormitories, and we learned from them. But my experiences at TCM itself, everytime I think about my time there, are not fond when it comes to how I was treated by all but three members of the staff. (Brother and Sister Kitchens and Brother Drury) Otherwise, I was continually put down, told what a terrible christian I was, called a pharisee AND paddled with a board for things I did not do just because one other person said I did it, slapped in my face by staff, accused falsly of sneaking out my window at night to meet the boy who I liked...the list goes on and on...
I've never complained before, because I CHOSE to be at TCM. (The Judge in our custody case gave me my choice of where Sheryl and I would go) I figured, I made my bed, I had to lay in it. I've said all the above to say this: My paternal father taught me to say :yes sir, no sir, yes ma'am, no ma'am, thank you and you're welcome, and he did it without cruelty. What I learned at TCM was to discern the difference in honoring truth and beleiving lies, I learned to listen to what aomeone says to me with my heart and not my head. I learned that some things, no matter what the circumstance looks like, really may not have happened the way I think they did, and I need to check myself before I assume they did. I learned to never, never, never call anyone a name that is not their given name.
God Bless.
Linda
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