Delphine

I was working as a nurse for four years and then suddenly I stopped to seek God for healings and to promote my writings. I was seeking healing because I had become sick with Bindaries and could not hardly move and it also caused some emotional setbacks. I read my bible and I began to heal. I was writing at the time and I took off to go and promote my writings. I never returned to work four years later.

I lost my hosing due to lack of funds. I lived on the streets of San Francisco for a year. I remember being cold, lonely and wet. I went from shelter from shelter, from city to city. I ended up in Los Angeles but I could not get any where in Los Angeles so I came back to Oakland.

This summer, I had just gotten back from la and had came into 29,000 dollars but spent it all on a new car and took my daughters shopping.  I ended up penniless. It went really quick.

My daughter was very upset with the fact that I blew the money and she talked to me real rudely on the morning I left. I went to the beach, and she went to work. And I stayed on the beach all that night and I began to cry. I did not want to return to my daughters. I thought about  committing suicide and I called the police at a pay phone.

They sent me to John George by ambulance. John George sent me to the Woodrow house and there they arranged for me to come to south county homeless project. I am hoping that I will get housing assistance, I am taking medication I have calmed down a lot.

My daughters and I are getting along fine. I am strong enough to have God’s help to get up. I am not relaying on the medication, I am getting back to writing, within weeks that I have been here at the shelter, I completed a children’s book called, Marvin Climbs The Tree.

Message to others is Stay strong, God is on the line.

Marvin Climbs the Tree…..

Once there was this new baby borne squirrel: he was a very special squirrel. He was very special in everything he did. Marvin was his name.

Every morning after breakfast his mother calls him for his climbing lessons.

In everything Little Marvin was very outstanding: very, very outstanding.

However there was one thing that little Marvin dreaded. And that was to climb a tree all by him self. “Marvin!” His mother called.

“Oh, no” Marvin cringed.

He knew it was time for his climbing lesson. As he circled around the tree for the umpteenth time, Marvin was deeply out of breath. Finally, his mother met him on the other side of the tree. “Marvin! she yelled, “ You’re in big trouble, Young Man. And boy your papa is going to be really angry if you do not learn your lessons today.”

But mother, I am afraid I might fall out of the tree, I can not do all those things that little Claiborne does with his mother but nothing if you do not learn your lessons today, your father is going to blow his top.

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