the Constant Reader: A Mother’s Cry…

A Mother’s Cry – He’s Still My Child is my therapy through trails and tribulations. I was empowered to pen my thoughts so they wouldn’t be bottled up inside of me.

This work allows others to travel MY journey and feel some of the things I felt and sometimes still feel. It’s an in-the-moment book; and I am finding it is the unwritten journey of many others.

Have you wondered how it feels to hear your son being labeled as a thug, dope dealer, dead-beat dad of seven children, or a crack head? The truth is in that point and time, the actions he displayed fit the description. However, we are working on changing some things. It didn’t feel good to see his rejection over and over again. It didn’t feel good to see him give up on himself, but he was still my child…the child that God has loaned me.



I
had started writing another book, Remove the Masks, but was led to put
that on hold. With pain and humility, it took me seven years to bring
this book together. I argued within myself and prayed about releasing A
Mother’s Cry…but deep down in my spirit, my conscious would not allow
me NOT to! Therefore I stepped out in the spirit of boldness, but
humbleness. I have, physically dedicated this book back to God for his
purpose and glory.


I truly feel
that this was all part of God’s plan from the very beginning… before he
created me. He wanted to use this vessel to expose deceitfulness and
the effects of it. He wanted to send a message about choices and how
it’s not all about the person making the choice. Therefore, I
was allowed the real experiences in my own son, and granted the
boldness for me to ‘Remove the Masks’ and write about it. In doing so I
had to look at myself, to see where I played a part in his
self-destructive choices. It also gave me strength to endure, power to
overcome, and the ability to help him and others deal with these types
of issues. 


The specific
personal message to any and all who read A Mother’s Cry-He’s Still My
Child, I can’t say. As I revisited my journey, it is one of emotional
hurt – wounded from words, deceitfulness, rejection, misuse or abuse…
and how it affects the whole family


WE need to do
better by our children, especially in the early stages of their lives,
for they are the future. WE need to do more teaching of social
skills, how to deal with life’s issues, and build self-esteem and
pride. Where there is no mother or father, we should be stepping in the
gap (like the elders did)? When a parent is going through these
tribulations, we need to embrace and encourage them. For so long we
have been focusing on what we see, but little time has been spent in
focusing on the cause and a solution.


Life is like a
spider’s web – we’re all connected. No matter where the web is touched,
the whole of it trembles! It’s time to stop looking down on others;
unless you are reaching down to pull up our fallen sons, daughters,
sisters and brothers. It’s time to reconnect, come together, let go of
the Willie Lynch curse of division… no one wins! We need to show more
compassion, concern, and love for one another… lift someone up!


It’s time for us to all come together and make a change!


Come Meet the Author!


Priscilla
Robinson-Ndiaye will hold a book signing for A Mother’s Cry –- He’s
Still My Child on Sunday, March 11, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Historic
YMII Cultural Center, Drug Store Gallery, 39 S. Market Street in
Asheville.