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    Celibacy, What Was I Thinking?
    Celibacy, What Was I Thinking?
    Celibacy, What Was I Thinking?
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    Celibacy, What Was I Thinking?

    By Tranea Prosser

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    Get a can of peanuts and a bag of M&M’s. Let’s talk about SEX baby, Let’s talk about you and me, Let’s talk about all the reasons we don’t want an STD.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 5, 2013
    ISBN9781626755130
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      Title: Celibacy: What Was I Thinking?Author: Tranea ProsserPublisher: BookBabyReviewed By: Arlena DeanRating: 5Review:"Celibacy: What Was I Thinking" by Tranea Prosser...What was this novel about?"We can all agree that sexual abstinence is becoming increasingly popular again in 2012 and the reason is that you can’t buy a cure for AIDS or Sexually Transmitted Diseases over the counter at your local pharmacy! Celibacy: What Was I Thinking? is an enlightening take on living a celibate lifestyle in this modern day era. The author, Tranea Prosser, uses her own life experiences to teach fundamental lessons and she explores reasons why sexual abstinence is not only the safest, but the smartest way to live a healthy lifestyle outside of marriage. Using a variety of humorous situations, witty remarks, and idiomatic quips, Celibacy: What Was I Thinking? not only gives practical advice, but also lightens an otherwise hefty issue and makes for an entertaining read. Refreshingly authentic and beautifully inspiring, Celibacy: What was I Thinking? will make readers question their current lifestyles and empower them to make educated decisions in the future. Teenagers just beginning to explore their budding sexuality, religious followers who need encouragement to remain chaste, as well as widows and widowers who are now single will especially benefit from this book. However, anyone can doubtlessly find tidbits of information in Tranea Prosser's admonitions that will make them consider what celibacy is all about." What I like from this read?"Celibacy: What Was I Thinking" by this author was a good read not only for Christians but to any one who is able to open their hearts to receive it. I found myself after picking up the novel not able to put it down until I had finished it. This author lays it out showing and telling of her life's experiences of her many struggles as she is lead into and forgoing empty sex life and dead end relationships to giving it all to God. In the end I felt she will get all the love and self respect that she so well deserved from that special person. Why is that? It's because she is waiting on this from God. I loved the examples that of how this author brings it all up front and center for all to see just how to handle some real important issues on this road to celibacy. What I especially like from this read?This author has been celibate for many years. Wow, that is absolutely wonderful! I found this novel was very detailed as this author discusses her background of her former marriages, to some of her dating relationships experiences that even had some humor in it where I found myself laughing out loud from some it!What impressed me about this read?"Celibacy" What Was I Thinking" impressed me that this author gives the reader a truly good read of her feelings of how it was and is today. Truly staying true to God and do what is right while you are looking for that special person is the only way to go. Will there be test and trials? Yes, but with God by your side...you can be a conqueror. The author has given the reader seven beautiful chapters. They are not long chapter... just a quick easy read with some great information for anyone who want to know how this person did it...and is going it...being 'Celibate.' I really like the read and one of my favorite was chapter five..'Keeping the Perspective'.... and when it's all said and done...I liked this quote from the author..."I know some people who use exercising to deal with this celibate lifestyle, and everyone has to find their own groove. I use Prayer, Writing, Fritos and Pepsi!" "Celibacy is more about self awareness and personal growth." Thank you Ms. Prosser was such a beautifully well written powerful novel.

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    Celibacy, What Was I Thinking? - Tranea Prosser

    DISCLAIMER – The stories you are about to read are true and the names have been changed to protect the persons involved because they are still walking, living and breathing as far as I know!

    Copyright @ 2012 by Tranea Prosser. All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the author to use or reproduced by any means – electrical, mechanical, photocopying, any part of the book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

    ISBN 9781626755130

    Photo credit: Front & Back cover @White Glove Photos.

    Cover design & LaYout: Keemon Leonard for KEEative Designs

    Preface

    Chapter One - Making it Plain

    Chapter Two - How It All Started

    Chapter Three - Interesting Encounters

    Chapter Four - New Discoveries

    Chapter Five - Keeping The Perspective

    Chapter Six - My Favorite Scriptures

    Chapter Seven - Moments of Reflections (Excerpts from Journal)

    Meet the Author

    Dedication

    Acknowledgements

    PREFACE

    I was encouraged by someone I had just met that I should write a book. I looked at her as if she grew another forehead and an additional set of ears on it. Personally, I don’t feel like an expert on anything other than my relationship with Jesus Christ and living the lottery of life. But in reflecting on the many topics that I could talk about and praying for direction, God gave me my assignment and topic to share my experiences about living a celibate lifestyle. So with that directive in mind and in my heart, I have responded to the challenge. This road was not easy when I first started in the beginning. I am sure there are situations that I have yet to encounter in the future. Thankfully after sixteen years, it is surprisingly a bit easier and even fun.

    Chapter One

    MAKING IT PLAIN

    Let’s begin with the definition of what celibacy is and is not. It is abstinence from sexual intercourse by your own volition and sometimes by reason of your religious views. It is usually based upon being unmarried. It is not a carrot to dangle in front of a man to try to motivate or manipulate him to marry you. It is also known as secondary virginity which is a decision to abstain from sexual activity, starting with the day you make the decision and continuing until the day you get married or re-married. It’s an opportunity to start over mentally, physically and spiritually. Your physical virginity may be lost, but virginity is more than just a physical state. It’s an attitude, a frame of mind. It’s manifested in the way you look at yourself and others. Secondary virginity is also a time to change bad habits and heal past wounds. It allows you to cleanse and renew yourself prior to marriage.

    Some of the reasons people have become celibate are because they have been burned severely in relationships repeatedly. Or when they’ve become addicted to the thrill of dating and keep going on the first and second dates but never have the ability or maturity to take it any further. They realize that they have been using sex to get what they want and started equating it as a bargaining chip. It’s always lust or infatuation at first sight, love comes more gradually. There is no such thing as love at first sight!

    I resembled a couple of those categories! Now before I go any further, let me properly introduce myself.

    Hi y’all, my name is Tranea Prosser. I was born and raised in Austin, Texas. I consider myself an original Austinite! I am a sinner saved by grace. I have an active prayer life and Christian walk. I have been a sheltered Baptist since I was nine years old. I was raised in a middle-class home with one brother. My mother was a housewife, gospel vocalist and church musician. My father was a truck driver, gospel vocalist and quartet singer. Both of my parents sang gospel within their family groups. My brother is a retired barber. I am an employee, nurse, health care provider, daughter, mother, grandmother, comedian, singer, emcee, TV host, talent scout, volunteer, mentor, author, poet, songwriter, niece, cousin and friend. I manage my comedy career as Comedian MizT and this is my first book.

    I consider my childhood to have been normal. In elementary school we didn’t have to worry about getting kidnapped walking to or from school or being sexually violated. The word pedophile would have been a foreign language had anyone used it at that time. When my parents had adult company, my brother and I had to go outside and play. I never overheard grown folks business. I wasn’t allowed to be in the room. My time was spent going to school, going to church, playing jacks, playing with dolls, making doll clothes, going to family reunions, riding in the country to go feed my grandparents’ cattle, listening to the radio , playing hopscotch, selling watermelons with my daddy in the summer, making mud pies, playing on the swing set, playing church on the swing set, shooting marbles, baking cakes with my Easy Bake oven, mothering my Baby Alive doll, sewing doll clothes, riding my bike, playing flag football with the boys in the neighborhood, jumping off the roof of the house, homework, choir rehearsal, playing school with my other dolls, playing crazy eights, climbed a tree once, watching Gunsmoke and the Carol Burnet Show, playing at my friends’ houses, getting whippings with a belt, getting whippings with a tree branch, creating dance routines for shows, winning dance contests with my brother, wearing my granny’s heels and red lipstick, standing with my nose in the corner for punishment, playing on the merry-go-round, learning to make tortillas, learning to speak Spanish, spending the night with first cousins, attending Sunshine Camp during the summer, getting sores on my legs from walking through bull nettler, peeing on the sores from the null nettles, volunteering in the school library, singing in the school choir, learning how to comb and press my hair, playing at my grandmother Mama Ruby’s house, eating pears from the tree in Mama Ruby’s back yard, baking homemade bread and 3-layer coconut cakes with Mama Ruby every Saturday, and washing dishes standing on a chair. I took piano lessons with Mama Ruby for a short time when I was eleven years old. Mama Ruby had me reading the bible to her when I was seven years old. Mama Ruby was my grandmother on my daddy’s side. My mother’s mom passed when I was six months old.

    I started teaching Sunday school at age nine

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