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    I’Ve Tried and Tried and Tried: Between Darkness and Light
    I’Ve Tried and Tried and Tried: Between Darkness and Light
    I’Ve Tried and Tried and Tried: Between Darkness and Light
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    I’Ve Tried and Tried and Tried: Between Darkness and Light

    By Cheryl H. Harrington

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    If this is a fair world, Cheryl H. Harrington would have most likely not written this book. This book is a thrilling story about the struggles and hardships that she has been through in this cold, hard world. It goes from the ever so loving happiness of a family, to the deepest depths of addiction. Her story is one for the history books, but also a story that tells of the strength and passion of a black woman who dreams to be successful in this world today. Not everyone can overcome the challenges she has faced in her life, but as a strong black woman in this unforgiving world, Cheryl has made a name for herself. This story here tells how that name came about.

    In life God provides you with chances, opportunities, situations, circumstances, and people....for a reason or a season Sometimes both. The author of this book has not written these words for entertainment, they are authentic. This is her story. I know because God has loaned her to me for quite a season now and i recognize the reason...This story being shared is one of true revelation of the meaning of a deep and loving relationship with our Divine Higher Power and most be-loved God! The courage,strength, wisdom, sincerity this soldier of the Lord has chosen to share will help those wandering in the dark to look deeper, harder and longer at the choices they have made and whom they have served within and without their struggles through life....Riveting book....awesome, metaphorically intertwined in the complex and compelling struggle Christians experienced while carry our cross...Amazing!!!!!!!!!
    V. Roseborough, MSW, LCSWA
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 18, 2013
    ISBN9781481742009
    I’Ve Tried and Tried and Tried: Between Darkness and Light
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    Cheryl H. Harrington

    Starting in 1986, Cheryl H. Harrington has worked as a foster parent. Throughout the years, she has been a foster parent to at least 29 children, ranging from newborns to 16 years of age, that have been under her direct care. She is a mother of 3 biological children and has 3 adopted children and has 5 grandchildren. One of ten children, born in Farrell, Pa. and lived in High Point, North Carolina for 19 years, and then returning to Pa in which she lived there for 16 years. and moved back to the South. She now resides in Greensboro, NC. Cheryl is a proud grandmother, and foster grandmother of many of her now adult children and foster kids. Ms. Harrington has written her first book, which has taken her 10 years to achieve. May God be a blessing in your life.

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      I’Ve Tried and Tried and Tried - Cheryl H. Harrington

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      I give knowledge to Jesus, my Lord and Savior, and higher Power Ababa Father.

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      Jehovah Jihra, my provider. This is my way of making sure you know that he’s with me, in every word I write and in every sentence that comes together. I serve a God who knows me and kept me from hurt, harm, and danger. I believe in him to do a mighty thing in me. Anoint me with his Holy Spirit and transform me to a humble person, in my mind, my heart, and my will. I pray to God that this book will transform you, conform you, and humble you into a person of God’s will and his keeping. I want to get your undivided attention. Shall we put our minds and thoughts into this book and dwell on these words? I wanted to write this story for so long, and now God has given me a story to share with you. My passion and my pursuit are to encourage you so that you will have something to share about and to think about.

      We live in an ungodly and forbidden cruel world, and the most racist and discriminated place, which I believe should be exposed. This bothers me to the core of illness. I’m so sick and tired of the racial indifferences. Let’s face it; we’ve got to talk about it. I believe that the racial indifferences we live in are unjust. The struggles today are nothing like back when I was a child. Some change has come. Just collectively, I gather some thought about the racial differences. What happened to affirmative action and the Fourteenth Amendment? In an ideal world (however, we’re not in an ideal world), we would be free from the practices and consequences of racial discrimination. All the ethnic groups would enjoy equal opportunity on the tests. In the field of moral action, truth is judged by the actual facts of life. For it is in them that the decisive element lies. So we must examine the conclusions we have reached so far by applying them to the actual facts of life; if they are in harmony with the facts, we must accept them. If they clash, we must assume that they are mere words. Prejudice is ignorance, in the mind as well as taught by the very ones who don’t know better. I only have seen through my eyes the vision of real-life circumstances. In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of every race, and in order to treat people equally we must first treat them differently. There is a proven discrimination as well as racism. Minority representation was less than 40 percent the last time I checked with the Census Bureau. The last time I checked in the business field was ten years ago and it may be up a little. In order of adjustments, let’s make stronger efforts to recruit, hire, and promote minority group leaders and counselors. When the change takes place, it must start within us all. I will pray to God and will allow my circumstance to change with prayer. I will pray that the difference of our racial difference will change one day. As we look around, the change will come. There will be a black president. One day our kids will grow up together, black and white; they will stand in the voting lines and vote together. One day all people of color will be created equal. This is a paraphrase from the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One day we will stop looking at the color of the skin and look at the character of each individual. Our president not only ran the race but also won the race with dignity and stamina—a potential hero for some and a leader, in my book. I’m just an ordinary person living life on life turns. Who am I? I am a mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, aunt, and cousin. I am somebody. These are our genetic elements. This is not who you are, but what you are. I am a teacher, preacher, lawyer, prophet, or an evangelist or bishop. These are what you and I become. You say that I am what I am. But God says you are a child of the highest God. We are joint heirs of Jesus the Christ. We are an enemy of Satan. We are made in God’s likeness and in his image. Who you are doesn’t make what you are, nor does it make you who folks say that you are. My God has shined on me his mercy and his grace. I went from the path of straight and narrow to the drama of sorrows and alcohol and drugs. I’d been in the storm for so long, I felt like giving up. Perhaps your life has been a disappointment or, for some, a sorrow and a heartache. Maybe your life was of happiness and peace, wealth and fame. But for my life and me it’s been a journey. I wouldn’t take anything for it. My only regret is that I put those who love me through hard times, as well as myself. I didn’t understand what I do … for what I do is not the good I want to do; nor the evil I do. I do not want to do, this I keep doing. (Romans 7:15–19). I chose to live in sin. I committed sin. Over time I tried to do right, but I would do wrong anyway.

      I’ve Tried and Tried and Tried

      I would like to talk to you and tell you what I have learned, and how my family and I went through hell and back. I want to explain how my life was disrupted, and changed, all because of the choices I made and the choices others begrudged upon me. I believed that some of these choices were forced on me. We have a society that allows the democracy to lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want. In this world, the law will change if you or I make a case that’s unheard of. A law will be implemented to match whatever it is you created, so that you will know that the next time it will not occur again. I know this because I have done it several times. When they created the law, I had not broken it because there was no such law—if you get my drift. When it was found out that this shouldn’t occur, then a law was implemented so that it wouldn’t occur again or with anyone else.

      I would never have made the choices I made if I wasn’t in

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