Christine Rimpson
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Single Parenting
I heard a lot of young women talk about how hard is to be a single parent, and yet they don’t want to hear from other parents to help them. What I’m about to share is to help other single parents understand that it is hard, but you are not alone, and getting help is not a weakness. I was young about 23-year-old when I had my son and his father promised to stay with us. One day, when we were watching a movie, he told me that he was going out to get some bread for sandwiches and he never returned. I was mad at first, but I was pregnant at the time and made a conscience effort not to have negative feelings towards the father and whomever else got on my nerves. It was hard too, because I was a single woman, a singer in the church who got pregnant out of wedlock and some people were angry. They did not want to hear me sing in church and they went to the pastor to voice this opinion to sit me down. However, the pastor got up on a Sunday morning and rebuked the people who came to him about me, saying " we are people that should forgive like God wants us to forgive instead of condemning the young women, but to embrace her because that is the reason why she went outside church to find love because she couldn't find none is here this church" and he continued saying that he was embarrassed by the lack of love some people have displayed regarding this young women. Then, he preached about forgiveness and the fruit of the spirit. There was no one who said anything that day. Anyway, some of them appeached me with bad comments that I will not mention in this story. I will talk about a memory that I remember to this day that happened to me about one elderly woman who came to me when I was sitting outside the church getting some air. She mocked by saying “ha, ha, that’s what you get” and she physically poked my chest several times as she continued making the statement. I stopped her by putting up my hand to catch her hand, I looked her in the eyes with a share that startled her, I got up and walked away. She never approached me again because I wanted her to understand that I may be young, but I was not one to mess with.
By Christine Rimpson5 years ago in Families
Stroke
Before 2009, I was actively singing in a professional group touring cities, making albums, and loving every minute of the performances because I felt that I wanted to minister to the messes. Plus, I was a mother of a disabled child who I love more than anything on earth. I graduated from college with a degree in social work and I worked in church on several boards like hospitality, decorating, user, and outreach worker.
By Christine Rimpson5 years ago in Longevity
