Trapped in a cycle of endless hurt -- longing for affection that is never to come -- standing alone when no one seems to understand your pain and wishing you could just fade away.
These are the feelings commonly connected with childhood pain. Whether you were abandoned when you were young or struggling with life altering decisions; maybe you have aborted a child, had suicidal thoughts or have been in and out of sexual relationships; or even fighting for your life against one or more addictions (i.e. food alcohol, shopping, etc.). If this sounds like you, or you know of someone suffering from these hurtful issues, pick up this book and read one woman’s testimony of being RESCUED.
Let this book begin a healing movement that spreads like wildfires for women all across the nation. Join the movement – it’s already started . . . Read what these women have to say about Rescued: A testimony of God's saving power.
“Each chapter tells a true story, a story that many women will relate to regarding hurt and suffering. The difference is that Ateba is able to offer the woman who is going through these agonizing troubles the answer that they need. She directs them to the truth – to our Lord! This book needs to be in every battered women shelter and abortion clinic across the country, and then translated for other countries as well!”
Sally Buckner- Virginia
“Ateba Crocker is a woman who has gone through the pain and abandonment that many of us have experienced and has come out victorious. She went from a prostitute to a professor in a prestigious university. Now she has become the “Harriet Tubman” for women in bondage to the agony of their past.”
Shanita Williams- New York
Ateba Crocker is happily married to a wonderful husband named Tyrone and has three beautiful children (Maleek, Jeremiah and Jewel). She resides in Virginia where she continues to write motivational books for women. She is working towards her PhD and serving as a full time faculty member at a prestigious university.
Rescued from Abandonment
The room is dark and lonely. No light, no air, and no signs of human touch. Loneliness lurks in every corner. The room is abandoned except for a porcelain doll, in the far corner. It has been left behind, orphaned; longing for attention . . . it waited for love, which never came.
This room represents the oppressive spirit of abandonment in a child who has never known the unconditional love of a parent, or one whose innocence has been taken by earthly forces, leaving the woman as an adult in a lifeless “doll” state. The darkness and loneliness lingers in every corner of the room creating an atmosphere of isolation and dread. This cloud of oppression existed long before this room was built and has been floating from generation to generation, but the cloud can be lifted.
The God who created us freely holds in His hands gifts of love, life and restoration. He desires to come into the dreary room of our soul and substitute the darkness. He desires to pick up the porcelain doll (woman) and hold her close. When I was a little girl I remember taking a trip to Macy’s and seeing a beautiful, very expensive porcelain doll on the top rack. I loved the doll, but I knew that it cost too much for me to buy. Someone I knew saw from a distance that I admired the doll and bought it for me. I remember being so happy when I took the doll home, but something happened when I got home, and the doll shattered. This illustrates us - the abandoned. Our parents were so happy to take us home but when we were carried through the doors our spirit began to shatter because of the pain and abuse within the four walls.
Nonetheless, our worth as a porcelain doll never changed in the eyes of the Doll Maker. He still remembered and sent His Son to the cross that we might be redeemed (bought back) to Him one day so that He could restore the damage that was done to us by our parents. The Word says that when your father and mother forsake you that God will step in. He waits, my friend, patiently in anticipation for the moment to step in. His heart breaks, for He didn’t want your value and beauty to be shattered the way it was. He wanted you to be loved and cherished, not neglected and abused. Believe it!
I was shattered, redeemed (bought back), and then put back together by the hand of the Father. I have seen His power and compassion firsthand, so get ready to visit the Doll Maker as you journey with me. I promise -He will treat you so well that you will never want to leave His presence again. Abba Father (the Doll Maker) longs to love us completely without hesitation. Galatians 4:6 discuss how God sent His Son to touch the hearts of the abandoned, so that one day our hearts would call him Abba- Father. This is love.