TD Jakes a respected pastor has finally
opened up about some bad spots in her past
and the struggles she had when she got
pregnant at the age of 14.
"I was terrified. You have this idea of
'I'm going to get in trouble,' like 'I'm
going to be grounded forever' because
you have nothing else really at that point
to compare it to.
"My parents were speechless. I mean,
my father was a preacher, who speaks
for a living, and he was speechless. And
that's when it dawned on me that this
was so much bigger than being
grounded. [I was] bringing a life into the
world and while I certainly had other
options, whether abortions or adoptions,
there was something inside of me that
said I could do it."
Sara finally revealed how difficult it was to
break the news of her pregnancy to her
father...
Rather than telling her parents the news, she
left a letter in the family mailbox and her
sister told her parents for her. She says that
their reaction really hit her to the core and
that they were shocked.
Sarah who is married now, wrote a book
called "Lost and Found: Finding HOPE in the
Detours of Life" and she details the troubling
teenage years she had to endure as a young
mother. She says at the time she summoned
courage to talk about her past, her husband
was having a child with another woman.
"I started blogging about three years ago and
at the time, I was married and my husband
was expecting a child from another woman. I
really wasn't sure that I wanted to make the
decision to divorce or to even put that part
of my life out on a blog but I knew I had this
pain and these emotions," Sarah told theGrio.
"I was angry with God, I was bitter, and I just
wanted to write about it."
The African American community are
supporting because they are happy that she is
willing to share her story.
"In my case, you're pregnant at 14, your
stomach is growing, you're sitting in a
church, within service and people want to
know who the father is and how it all
happened. I mean that pressure very much
made me want to hide and I became
comfortable being an introvert," she added.
Sarah says her morality was questioned by
other church-goers who felt she was a
hypocrite for having a child at such a young
age. She says she knows she is going to be
judged but she move forward anyway.
Her father, Bishop TD Jakes tried his best for
the scandal not to affect his career and today
they are all ok.
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