My ministry I am a product of a single parent, dysfunctional, physically, emotionally and verbally abusive household... Rape did enter into the house, but thank GOD, HE protected me from that. I have seen many things. In my youth, I watched friends die in front of my eyes right on the street from gun shot wounds. I have run through “shoot-outs” as a kid trying to get into the church doors. To be a child dealing with all of this was not really a huge problem for me, because I thought that everyone lived with these issues. But, not having a daddy, and living with an abusive mother, who, I believe, blamed me for the sins of my daddy, I thought, I felt, forgotten... BUT MY FATHER! HE NEVER LEAVES... NEVER FORSAKES... AND NEVER FORGETS... I JUST RECENTLY RELEASED MY FIRST CD...I am looking to encourage as many people as I can to be inspired and better themselves... My poetry is intended to inspire the common man to keep pushing and to be, forever, grateful... http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-am-blessed/id484802912?i=484802924 HERE IS A FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD... http://apps.facebook.com/reverbnation_ap/jelizabethhardges_762796_323354 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJuilB4AoSU