"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to
do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful
experience behind him." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"How was your growing up like?", someone would pause, think a bit and probably ask "in what aspect?", because that no doubt is a bogus question. It contains many parts and many dimensions to it. So in order to adequately answer that question, one would need to be specific as to what part of one's growing up experience is being examined.
I don't want to be all educational this morning, or anything like that; but to bring to your attention something I consider vital. Most of us live our lives not aware, or rarely talking about this fact. Ironically its an enormous problem, as it were. Someone said, "at some point in your life you'll have to face your father's demons."
Many years ago, his father had a janitorial business. Started it at a time when not many people were going into business. His father worked at it, dedicating time, energy and everything into the business just to make it work. After a while in the business he became ill and died form high blood pressure and and swollen feet. Many years later, T.D Jakes, started strong and after awhile he started to experience the same symptoms his father did, high blood pressure, and his feet started to swell. He started a workout program, started to diet and do things his father never had the privilege to do. Today, he's healthy and strong. But by the time he started to notice the same symptoms, as his dad. The devil tried to make him believe that he was going to die the same way his father.
