Wanted by God

Lisa Sharon Harper shares a powerful testimony in her book, The Very Good Gospel.

Her story is that she grew up the child of a single mother after her parents divorced. After the divorce she and her mother moved from Philadelphia to a small community near Cape May where she was the only African-American child in her school.

She was teased, bullied, betrayed by friends, and internalized a deep sense of shame and unworthiness that haunted her, shadowing her life.

Twenty years later, still struggling with the wounds inflicted in her childhood, she felt led to ask for healing…