JOY

About the Book

It’s like a part of my being was tearing away from my body and Innocense was leaving!  I was begging her to please stay.  She had a sweet smile and that one little tear sliding down her beautiful face and she said (not using words) that she had to go and that she loved me with all her heart!  About that time the knocking at the door penetrated my ears and I got up to open the door.  A cold draft swept through the room and they told me they couldn’t save my baby though they tried!  All I could do is smile* yes with tears in my eyes* and say, “Thank You Lord” “She’s yours and I thank you for her!”  They shook me and asked did I understand what they said!  I said, “Yes, but she was a precious gift from God and I have to thank Him for her!”  Even in the bleakest hour I had JOY!

About the Author

Shellene Anne Coleman   was born in St. Paul, Minnesota August 26, 1949 to Levi & Marcella Martin weighing in at 3 lbs. 4 oz.  The doctor’s said she wouldn’t live a year, and because she was a colored baby born to a white woman they were unable to stay together at the same hospital and she had to be transferred to a hospital that would accept her; separating her from her mother all because of racism.  This is her first book to be published.  She is determined to share God’s Joy with the world.