To my husband, David who God created just for me; thanks for being my constant support and rock. Thank you for understanding the importance of this project and being ever so patient through out this experience. Thank you for single handedly taking care of the family, preparing meals and cleaning the house while I was occupied working on this project. Thank you for every meal and beverage you brought to me while I worked at the computer. Thank you for allowing and encouraging me to tell our stories in the truth and love of them. Thank you for editing the book and every moment you spent aiding, comforting and encouraging me through this journey.  I love you more than words can express. Your love for me makes me glow.  Never stop loving me the way you do.

To my children, Joey, David and Kaylin, who were such good and patient kids while I worked on this book.

To my mother:  Frankie Wilson, who raised me to be the woman I am today.  Mom, I thank you for your constant support, protection, imparted wisdom, guidance, patience, perseverance, friendship and belief in me. Thank you for sharing the truth of your heart even when it hurt. Thank you for bringing me back, when I sometimes have gotten lost in the process.  I hope that I make you proud even in the nakedness of this book. Mama, know that it is all for HIS glory.  I love you so much.

To my only sister, Yvonne Wilson, for encouraging me to keep up the God work. Thank you for your ability to share the truth of your thoughts and heart, no matter what.  I love you.

To my aunt, Juanita Douglas, thank you for being so exceptionally encouraging and complimentary.

To my cousin, Ta-Tanisha Hall, affectionately referred to as Ta-Ta; thank you for editing the book, for being my confidant and biggest cheerleader.  I love you with a sisterly love.

To Joseph Washington, thank you for blessing me with my first-born son and for loving me enough to ultimately let me go.

To my girl friends: Oleatha Alexander, Tia Burgess, Tiffany Harlston, Valerie Hill, Etrenda Jones, Janet Mattocks, Karen Miller, Tamekie Moore, Nikki Murray, and Maryse Theodule.  Thanks to each of you for being the best friends a girl could have and allowing God to use you to be a blessing to me. Each of you has blessed me in your own unique way, that only you could have provided and that is why God placed you so perfectly in my life. Through your encouragement, understanding, prayer, listening, reasoning, supporting, believing, arguing, repeating, correcting and loving me through this process, I thank you. Each of you is irreplaceable.  Know that your expressed words and ongoing belief in God’s need to write this book through me helped me gather the strength to complete this project. Know that I love each of you and you all have been a value added to my life.

Thanks to every person that I met in my lifetime and especially to those I met during this specific journey and the creation of this book. Thank you for encouraging me in anyway to complete this assignment. Thank you for your expressed excitement about the release of the book.