Stood My Ground and Walked It

Quadriyah

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• Biography
• Ground
• Autobiography
• Burns
• Courage
• Life
• Carmen

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669854678
• Langue: English

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Stood My Ground and Walked It

Story of Hidden Racketeering in the Heart of Washington
 
 
 
 
Quadriyah
 
 
Copyright © 2023 by Quadriyah.
 

Library of Congress Control Number:
2022920982
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978-1-6698-5468-5

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In memory of those who went ahead of me and did not make it.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1
Chapter 1 The Early Years
Chapter 2 The Quest for a Better Life
Chapter 3 The Foundation Shook
Chapter 4 My Special Mommy
Chapter 5 The Broken Life
Section 2: The Travel thru the Camouflage
Chapter 6 The Cover-up and Odd Coincidences
Chapter 7 The Season of Hope
Chapter 8 A New Freedom
Chapter 9 Ruby’s Prayer Line
Chapter 10 Complexities of Problems
Chapter 11 The Battlefield
Chapter 12 The Hard Ground
Chapter 13 Camouflaged Organized Crime
Section 3: While Waiting on the Lord
Chapter 14 The Dawning Light Activity
Chapter 15 While Waiting on the Lord
Chapter 16 Visions of God Exposing Racketeering
Chapter 17 He Secured the Way
Chapter 18 Spiritual Healing and Deliverance
Chapter 19 The Spying Dog Falls
Section 4: Light At the End of the Tunnel
Chapter 20 The Sour Hour
Chapter 21 The States Transition
Section 5: Standing in the Light
Chapter 22 Life Back Home
Chapter 23 God Will Tarry Me No More
Chapter 24 God’s Recovery and Financial Restoration
Chapter 25 The Vision of a New Shelter
Chapter 26 Stand Firm with God
Chapter 27 Prolific Deliverance
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
T hanks to God for bringing me through this trial, and I thank him for giving each individual and organization the heart to support and help.
Thanks to my mommy and grandmommy for a rich life of motherly love.
Thanks to Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church–Tree of Hope Women’s Shelter for the lodging, association, encouragement, prayers, love, and nonjudgment.
Thanks to the YWCA for helping take care of my bare essentials and listening to my complaints about my situation.
Thanks to Ruby’s prayer line for her prayers.
Thanks to Hoover Chambliss for caring so much about me and encouraging me.
Thanks to Damascus Church in Seattle, Washington, for paying my energy bill two times, my phone bill, and transportation.
Thanks to Mount Zion Church for paying my hotel rent for one week.
Thanks to Mount Calvary Christian Center for paying two of my utility bills.
Thanks to Extended Stay Hotel management for working with me and having such luxurious and clean hotels for a cheap price.
Thanks to the Technical Women’s Alliance and the supporting businesses associated with it.
Thanks to the Store House for keeping my belongings and then surrendering my goods to me for a low fee.
Thanks to Mailbox Express for working with me during the very hard times.
Thanks to Jewish Family Services for paying my rent for one month.
Thanks to Peggy J. A. Williams, author of Up Against the Water , for her encouragement and support.
INTRODUCTION
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glori fied.
—Romans 8:28–30
G od calls us according to his purposes. He is the master problem solver. He knows how to get to the very root of problems. Our faith is what moves God into action. During my season of trial, I found God to be right there along with me.
The scripture says, “The Devil is walking about like a roaring lion ready to devour his victims.” The systems here on the earth have layers and layers of evil wrapped in a coating of evil protected by evil. Only God can unravel, remove, disintegrate, and fully clean up the results of the machinations of the devil.
This book is about my personal experiences with financial interruptions and my fight against homelessness as I maneuvered around a very strong financial white-collar racket. The racket slowly brought my middle-class status to that of a pauper. I faced many struggles, pains, and hardships. It was a process of character building, patience, and total reliance on God. Also, in this book, I had many dreams and visions that helped me understand and get through the difficult times. I am an extremely ambitious person and believe strongly in the American justice system and that I can achieve my lifelong, cherished goals no matter what. As I learned, my cherished goals were engineered by God, so he made the way.
Throughout this experience, I have learned to not judge homeless people as inferior. Many homeless people are in their situations due to white-collar racketeering, language barrier, or lack of understanding of the American culture or ravaged by the grips of lack of money, mental illness, or some sort of drug or alcohol dependency.
The rate of homelessness is rising. According to the Wikipedia: Homeless in Seattle Measuring the growth of homelessness in 2004, was about 4232 were homeless; In 2010, there were 8,878 persons on the streets in Seattle per the Seattle PI. In 2022, according to USA facts reports the numbers has risen to 25,211; the loss of life is growing as homelessness increases from year to year. I can see why this problem needs some attention. The Crutchfield House is my way of giving back and helping those in need.
CHAPTER 1
The Early Years
The Formative Years and Life in Or egon
I am originally from Portland, Oregon. I graduated from a small private college. I am a person who enjoys spending money, shopping, dressing up, and fascinating people. My life was a little hectic when I was a kid because there was so much chaos happening around me. Initially, I was raised by my grandmother and grandfather until the age of about four or five years old, and then I moved in with my mom later on.
I was a different type of kid; one of my early memories of myself was when my mother disciplined me. She figured out a way to discipline me by taking away a favorite toy. After I figured that bit of information out, I would always take my less favorite toy and play with that around her. And when she disciplined me, she always took that toy and not my favorite one.
I was a strategist at a young age. After meeting my daddy for the first time at eleven years old, he introduced me to a game called chess. The whole family engaged in this game. My father was very certain that to succeed in life, it is important to have some sort of strategy. As I embraced the game, I became quite good at it. I was unbeatable at thirteen years old. I soon loved to sit there and organize my approaches; I found it to be very relaxing.
In spite of getting to know myself better, I went through critical crossroads as a child. Most of the older generation did not go to college. I always told myself that I would go to college and that my life would be in order.
My Childhood Dreams and Visions
As a child, I always had dreams and visions. And I used to see things that I figured no one else could. One show that I had watched was Ghost Whisperer . As a Christian, I always knew that ghosts were taboo and associated with unacceptable things. But when I was a little girl, I used to see ghosts just like the main character did. I could never speak about the gift around my family and friends.
As a kid, my cousins and brothers and I would explore places, alleyways, abandoned garages, abandoned portable schools, and homes. We went into a home right after it had burned, and I saw a family there sitting at a table two rooms from where I and my relatives were standing. We were scolded by an adult passerby, so we left and went home for our private scolding from our parents.
Time after time, I would always see a ghost. Most times, the ghosts were not harmful. They seemed to be just as normal as any living human being. I learned as a little girl to be quieter than the rest of the crowd. I never wanted to speak out of turn or even convey that I could see something that others couldn’t see because, then, that would make people think that I was crazy.
I had a dream that was so clear that it scared me. Every day I would walk to H