#FORGIVEN#: PART ONE

Family tragedy makes news headlines...it's May 1995, Montell Jordan's hit-This is How we Do It- just topped the charts. Only thing higher on the charts were the men and women on every street corner intoxicated by the crack cocaine epidemic that had just plagued the city of Chicago. This is where LaTasha's story unfolds-a true Westside story. Her very own family tragically plastered on channels 2, 5, 7, 9, and 32 news headlines. Drugs. Murder. Recklessness. Danger. Violence. LaTasha faced so much as a child and especially as a teen growing up with a family deeply affected by the horrific grips of drug abuse, and unstable life being passed around to various relatives. The trauma she faced caused ongoing feelings of guilt, and self hate for the things she wished she could have prevented and changed. The aftermath of living a lifestyle of abandonment, rejection, self-hate, while paranoia was in place, carried into her adulthood along with many bad decisions that almost caused her, her very own life. Things changed drastically once she realized that even God could FORGIVE who she was, how she felt, how she was viewed, and how life itself received her. This is LaTasha Sharp's two part series entitled #Forgiven# LaTasha's story is one of hope to overcome the greatest losses of life, self-forgiveness as well as healing towards those who have harmed you, inner-healing, and courage to embrace the life you didn't even know would be possible. LaTasha's story of hope to overcome is for anyone who has felt: -Unforgivable -Unworthy -Fearful of having good to come into your life -Unable to forgive or move past loss or tragedy -Any individuals or families affected by addiction This book is for you if you need to know that you as well are #FORGIVEN#