Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

Have you ever walked a straight line? I'm talking about walking on a painted on the pavement type straight line here. Unless your balance is tip-top, you waver every once in a while, if you're me, you look like a professional drunk. My internal gyroscope just can't stay centered. Every day we as Christians walk a fine line. Some days we can walk that puppy with no problems, other days, we have toe-dips here, foot faults there, and ultimately we look back and give a sigh of relief that the line you were walking has more than a few scuff marks, and maybe a stray fingernail or two that you bit off, but it is thankfully, part of our past. But consider this. In this world, we walk a fine line every day. Whether it is listening to music that isn't encouraging or uplifting, having a bit of road rage as you are blocked in on all sides, behind someone who is doing ten miles an hour below the speed limit...in the left lane. When you finally get up beside them, you find it was...

Yesterday, a collaboration project that has taken five years finally hit the market. Evelyn is a survivor/abuse victim fictional story, but there's a twist to it. Evelyn, DB, and Sarge are all fictional, created by a woman with an uncanny way of painting a picture for you. The other individuals are all real people, with real abuse backgrounds, and stories of survival. All of their names have been changed, the stories altered for their protection, and you want to know what frustrated me the most? They can't be credited in any way for their contribution. They deserve to have the world know that they are survivors, and have risen above and gone beyond anything they ever thought they could have once upon a time,  but because there is someone out there who put them there in the first place, they can never be revealed, at least by me. The woman who is the main collaborator with me, the one who created the three fictional characters, had to prioritize things because of family...