Answering The Call

About the Book

Answering The Call is a true story of a young girl growing up in the South who loved God and who wanted to be shown love from her father who was domineering and who did not know how to express his love for her. It tells how her feelings of rejection and low self-esteem led her into relationships that were self-destructive. It also tells about family jealousy, suspicion of sexual abuse and when she was only eleven years old, being given a norcotic for menstral cramps by a family member. The reader will come to understand how easy it was, for the girl who became a woman, to be manipulated because she lacked love of self and how she develeped into a follower or "yes woman" rather than to stand up for herself. This book is self revealing about a past filled with criminal behavior, getting high, selling drugs, partying, traveling, casual sex that had become a way of life for over thirty years. The reader will follow my spiritual journey and the miracles that followed my recovery and how God transformed me into the person I am today.

About the Author

Born in Birmingham Alabama to parents, James and Gladys Scarver on March 9, 1947 and graduated from A.H.Parker High School in 1965. Attended Kentucky State University as a freshman and Miles College in Alabama as a sophomore in 1966. Mother of two sons and five grandchildren, one stepdaughter and one stepgrandson. Began rehabilitation from substance abuse in 1994 and has eleven years clean time. Has worked in the field of Social Services since 1995, providing support services for female substance abusers and their children, adult mental health patients and victims of spousal abuse. Accepted Islam in 1995 and continues to work in Social Services in the state of Georgia.