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A Rescued Life: A Story of Secrets and Shame, Hope and Healing

A Rescued Life: A Story of Secrets and Shame, Hope and Healing

By Tamela Turbeville

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Picked up flowers today. It’s been a while. Flow

Picked up flowers today. It’s been a while. Flowers make everything better…
#fallflowers

The Lord helps the fallen and lifts those bent ben

The Lord helps the fallen and lifts those bent beneath their loads. Psalm 145:14 NLT
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The BBC’s nostalgic television series, Call the Midwife, is a favorite binge-watch choice for me. I have lost whole weekends watching hours of nuns and midwives deliver babies and impart wisdom amid the setting of London’s mid-century blue collar suburb.
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When I wrote A Rescued Life, during the pandemic quarantine, there were nine seasons available on Netflix, and I have seen all nine—three times.
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During one weekend binge, one of the character’s dialogue lines pierced me. Speaking with a younger nun of Nonnatus House, the aging nun and midwife, Sister Monica Joan said,
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“When a secret weighs heavily, we imagine it’s our burden alone, but the opposite is true. Once it is spoken, it disappears.”
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When a secret is told, it disappears.
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When the secret is told, the shame diminishes. With no secret, we no longer have anything to hide—no obstacle between us and freedom. No wall between us and knowing how much we are loved by God.
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Do you have a heavy secret to bear?
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You do not have to carry it alone.
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So many women have secrets of abuse, shame, and the consequences of bad choices. And many are telling their secrets and knowing freedom from shame for the first time. God rescued me--them--from the pit of despair so we can comfort you.

Do you need to lighten the heavy load of secrets and shame? Do you need someone to listen to your secret and watch it disappear?
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Please email me or send me a message if you want to share your secret and watch it disappear. I want to hear your precious story.
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You do not need to carry the burden alone.

#ARescuedLifeBook #secretsdisappearing #rescued

Have you ever been asked to name your strengths?

Have you ever been asked to name your strengths?

Perhaps in a job interview?

For me, questions like that feel more like a threat than an opportunity to present my qualifications. It is easier for me to list my faults than my attributes and strengths.

I am not smart enough, pretty enough, tall enough, or intelligent enough. I eat too much. I waste time, and I spend too much money.

Not enough and too much at the same time.

Considering all my faults is easier.

It’s easier than accepting that through Jesus, my list of shortcomings is erased by “the death of Christ in his physical body.” That long list that could go on and on is deleted, gone, blotted out by the blood of Jesus.

Because of Jesus, you and I are “holy and blameless...without a single fault.”

It doesn’t matter that my past is filled with bad decisions and worse consequences.

It is not important that I lived a sin-filled life before God rescued me from the pit of despair. Because of Jesus, God sees you and me as set apart and without fault.

Faultless.

Dear sister, your past does not matter to God. In fact, your past is erased by the death and resurrection of Jesus. Gone. Deleted. No more.

God says you are faultless.

#Youarefaultless #ARescuedLifeBook

Are you struggling to belong to something, to some

Are you struggling to belong to something, to someone?
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Dear friend, rest in the assurance that you already
belong to God.
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He knows your name. You are His, and He is yours.
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God says you belong.

#youbelong #ARescuedLifeBook #livingoneword #7truthsyouneedtoknow

IT'S HERE!!! My deepest appreciation to all of you

IT'S HERE!!!
My deepest appreciation to all of you who purchased the book early and sent your kind words of encouragement!! I needed it more than you know.
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What is A Rescued Life about? Well...
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A Rescued Life is a reluctant memoir about my experience with secrets and shame. I call it reluctant because for over forty years I hid the “secret” of abuse. I told no one--until keeping the secret any longer would have taken my life.
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WHEN…I finally told the secret, I was free—free to know God’s love. Free to live!
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This story is for anyone who knows the power that secrets and shame hold over a person. If that person, is you, this book will show you how God takes the ugly ashes of destruction and sin while clothing you in absolute beauty.
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Beauty for ashes.
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Get your copy today and help spread the news by snapping a picture of you and the book. Then, share it on your social media platforms with the hashtag #arescuedlifebook. Tag me an I'll share it, too.
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Again, thanks for your encouragement. My love to you all.

#ARescuedLifeBook #Youarestrongerthanyouthink

TOMORROW IS THE DAY! . Tomorrow my first book is r

TOMORROW IS THE DAY!
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Tomorrow my first book is released. Please help me spread the word.
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If you already have your copy, please snap a picture of yourself with the book and post to your social media platforms using the hashtag #ARescuedLifeBook. Tag me and I'll share it, too.
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My friend, Cindy, shows us just how to do it. Thanks, Cindy!!
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Thank you for your help. You can find more information and recourses on my website at livingoneword.com.

#ARescuedLifeBook #HeRescues #Youarestrongerthanyouthink

When I was a little girl, family vacations were ra

When I was a little girl, family vacations were rare. I only remember a few, and the one trip I do remember was a stay in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. My parents, siblings, cousins, and grandmother all piled in the family station wagon, and my family drove hundreds of miles to spend a few days away. It was the classic family road trip.

As a kid, the best amenity of the motel where we stayed was a swimming pool in the middle of the parking lot. A clear clean swimming pool was a rare treat for us kids, so it is no surprise that we were excited to try it out. However, not one of us could swim. That did not matter. We were on vacation.

I was young enough that the shallow end was deep, but after a tussle with my brother, I decided to move to another corner of the pool. I was also young enough not to understand pool design and quickly stepped off into the deep end. The pool area was loud, and the sounds of splashing water covered my screams for help.

But my father was watching. Calmly without hesitating, he reached out his strong hand, grabbed my hand, and pulled me from the deep end of the pool. He rescued me.

Our Heavenly Father is watching us, too. He never misses a moment of our lives.

When we step off into the deep water, He hears our fearful cries. He is with us.

When we wade through rivers of shame, regret, pain, and disappointment, He keeps
us from going under. We will not drown or go under.

He is with us.

God will rescue you.

#HeRescues #ARescuedLifeBook

And the countdown begins... . In two days, my firs

And the countdown begins...
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In two days, my first book will be officially be launched.
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Check out the my website--livingoneword.com--for all the resources and downloads you will need to help me get the word out.
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And, please, leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads!!

#arescuedlifebook

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