Page 71 of the unfolding is the story of Stephanie Cockrell.

And so on the outside, I was holding things together, and in the inside I was dying.

I remember wanting to die because of everything I was going through.

God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time.

He invites you to be a part of it another page in the unfolding

hi this is Meredith Foster. The trauma and abuse Stephanie Cockrell experienced as a child

left her with a deep-seated, all-consuming anger. She moved through life ready to fight anyone

that crossed her path. But at the same time, she was desperately

looking for hope and love. She wanted to believe that somehow all of those traumatic experiences

could be redeemed, that she could be free from the prison of anger and maybe even help others

find freedom too. I was born in Shelby, Mississippi.

My family moved to Springfield, Illinois.

And my mother was a very young mother, so we lived with my grandmother.

My grandmother was really like my mom.

My mom was more like my sister as a young child.

And as we grew up, many things happened that traumatized me as a child.

My mother became addicted to alcohol and drugs. And we lived a very challenging life,

myself and my siblings, myself being the oldest child, oldest grandchild, very poor. And I grew up an angry child with all the trauma that went on in my home, in my family. There were drug parties that happened in our house sometimes where there were men who were connected to my stepfather who abused me.

And things like that happened in my life.

And I remember just being angry.

I wanted, I wanted out.

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