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    Carry Me Over
    Carry Me Over
    Carry Me Over
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    Carry Me Over

    By Nadine Burr

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    In Carry Me Over Nadine Burr explains to her readers the importance of self love and being true to oneself through
    adversity. Nadine Burr continues to be an inspiration to her family, close friends and associates.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateAug 29, 2012
    ISBN9781477145005
    Carry Me Over
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    Nadine Burr

    NADINE BURR Author of Infinite Relationships, The Peach Tree, Carry Me Over and Where’s Grandma’s Keys. Nadine is a born and raised resident of Newark New Jersey. She is a proud parent of six children and 10 grandchildren. Nadine Burr spends most of her time caring for one of her sons who is emotionally and physically challenged. After graduating from Catholic Community Service, in 1992, she worked in the medical field as a CNA and a Medical Records Clerk, she was proudly awarded a Certificate in Professional Development from Rutgers State University of Newark New Jersey. She was also employed by Brookville Nursing Home in Irvington, New Jersey. Nadine Burr has been working diligently on several literary aspirations, while continuing her journey to self actualization, she managed to find the time to go back to school to obtain a High School diploma, Nadine received her High School diploma in February, 2015 and in hopes of continuing her education she is presently enrolled in a two year psychology certificate program. Nadine ‘s hobbies are writing cooking, sewing art and chess.

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      Carry Me Over - Nadine Burr

      Copyright © 2012 by Nadine Burr.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 08/15/2020

      Xlibris

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      CONTENTS

      This book is dedicated to my mothers

      Ruth Burr

      Irene Lance

      To my mother for allowing me to find my own way,

      took me a while to figure that one out.

      To my God mother for waking me up on those hot summer sunday

      mornings, to go to church, you knew it would do me some good one day.

      Love you both dearly.

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      APPRECIATION PAGE

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      I GIVE THANKS TO the almighty creator and his son Jesus Christ, in which I could have never completed this book. Thank you GOD for giving me the strength, wisdom and understanding that I needed to go on from day to day. You have blessed me in so many ways. For that I am forever grateful. I trust and believe that you will continue to watch over me and my family. You have been my provider. I will always praise your name because you are worthy to be praised. Amen.

      I would like to thank my daughters, Tuwanna, for all her input, suggestions and patience and Shonda, for being an ear when I needed to vent. Basimah, for taking time out of her busy schedule to proof read and give me computer lessons. I would like to thank my sons Dawone and Tyrone who showed interest in what I believed in and supported me with something that was so dear to my heart and last but not least, Basim, my very special gift from God, for loving me unconditionally. Love you guys so much. All of the names of my children, family and friends in this book has been changed.

      I thank all my FACEBOOK family and friends who supported me with my very first book

      INFINITE RELATIONS may GOD continue to bless you all. Stay safe and stay blessed.

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      PROLOGUE

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      T HE BASIC INSTRUCTION before living earth . . . that is what the BIBLE is and if one live by it, one will live a full peaceful and joyful everlasting life, that is GOD’s promise . . .

      Now, when you try to take your life into your own hands (like I did) and live on your own understandings, your going to run into some bumps, lumps, and powerful thumps. Life will beat you up so bad, until you hit that brick wall and wake up.

      I decided to write this book, which is based on true events, to share with others the story of a young mother with six children who overcame lots of obstacles in her life(me) in hopes that it will change, or help, or touch someone life, or maybe even save a life. I came to realize that, the things I went through was lessons that needed to be shared, and that GOD wanted to use me in order to get a message out. A woman ask me years ago, how can you go through all this and still smile? I said to her while smiling, I’m not alone, GOD is with me and Jesus got my back.

      Through my trials, my struggles, and my pain I learned to love GOD first and then myself, other wise I would not have been able to love or help anyone else. I welcome you into my life, my story, my past and present days that mold me into the person I am today. I hope it would be a blessing to others, enhance someone’s life or give encouragement to those in need, to seek professional help. Thank you for your support.

      With love’

      Nadine Burr

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      INTRODUCTION

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      Y OUR WALKING DOWN the street with your child hand and hand. Talking and laughing and just enjoying a nice long walk. Suddenly you both stop in front of a puddle of water from the rain. You both look at each other, while picking your child up . . . . you say in a protective soft voice. Every things gonna be ok, you don’t have to worry about a thing, I’m gonna carry you over You both continue on with your daily walk. One, feeling secure with parent and the other with God.

      That situation was applied to my life when I stumbled into darkness. Not knowing where I was or how I got there. Not knowing whether I was ever going to see the sunlight ever again, I slipped into a world of emotional pain and sadness. I constantly tried to make sense out of this unfamiliar state of mind. I thought life, as I knew it, was over for me. I couldn’t get anyone to understand what I was experiencing, it was a scary place to be but because I was there almost every day, I tried hard to be strong enough to face the fear just to make it to the next day. It was a struggle and the hardest thing I ever had to face.

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      CHAPTER ONE

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      Stumbling into darkness

      T HEY CALLED IT, going through a tough turn in life. When life forces you to grow up from thinking that your an adult and handling adult situations at a young age, to actually growing up. When you are forced to look at yourself for who you really are and except the life that was given to you or the life you make for yourself. So many of us can live through adversity and come out strong. So many of us can live with stress with no problem. I heard that, if it don’t break you, it’ll make you stronger. Going through a tough turn in life was all they could say about what tried to break me down. Later, I found out that it was depression. A clinical postpartum depression. A depression that can occur right after child birth. A person know when their not normal or what we think is normal. As soon as I was aware of what the problem was, the first thing I did was researched in every area of the subject for understanding.

      With having a family to raise, I had no time for that foolishness. Staying at home moping wasn’t making my situation better. I had to get up and do something about it. I read every chance I got. I would read so much that I would forget to eat. I remember having stacks of books all over my bed and I would read until I fell off the sleep.

      The day I stumbled into darkness could have been the best thing for me, because that was when I found Christ. The way my life was going just wasn’t working and I had no clue. I met so many wonderful people who opened up to me about their lives while going through depression. I excepted Christ in my life and so glad it did. I can’t say what will work for others but having GOD in my life surely worked for me.

      I have been so blessed since I excepted Jesus Christ as my savior and acted responsibly on the situation to make my life better for myself and my children.

      I remember riding the bus downtown Newark one day. The bus was jammed packed and the conversations on the bus was so loud. It seem to me that all the words were thrown together in one big ball and just thrown at me. I couldn’t make sense out of anything that was being said and I really didn’t want to, I just wanted to hurry up and get downtown. It was painful for me, I wanted to cover my ears. Suddenly I had the urge to jump off the bus, all those stops and all that noise was really getting next to me. Months earlier crowded places started bothering me, especially department stores. I didn’t know why, I just did my shopping quick and got out of there.

      I stood up and walked to the front of the bus and waited for the driver to stop. The voices got louder and louder. It seem like it was taking forever for that bus to stop. When it did, I was right there at the bottom step ready to jump off before the driver even opened the door. My heart pounded so hard and loud, I started getting the feeling that I wasn’t familiar with my whereabouts.

      The tall buildings against the sky looked like huge monsters and seemed scary to me, it was an awful feeling. What I couldn’t understand was, it didn’t happen all the time, the sadness was always there but, the life breathing feeling and the fear would just sneak up on me. It wasn’t easy for others like friends or family members to catch on to what was wrong with me. I didn’t want to say anything until I knew what it was for sure.

      I stood on the corner of a busy intersection on Central Ave in Newark, and looked both ways, wondering what to do next. When I looked over to the other side of the street, I saw St. Micheals Hospital and as I waited for the light to change, I looked up the street of Central Ave and thought about the day the ambulance carried me to this hospital. It was below zero with a sheet of black ice in the streets. January 31st 1980. We slid on that black ice from 9th ave to Martin Luther king blvd. which was about a mile give or take a little. I was in labor with my third child. There was lots of bleeding but no labor pain. That was the strangest and quickest delivery, it was over so fast I don’t recall having any pain at all. Unfortunately we didn’t make the New year deadline Donald was born at 11:53, but the delivery was successful and he was a healthy baby with all fingers and toes and that was enough for me.

      A young lady who shared a room with me did make the deadline and they made a big fuss over her. She received lots of attention. There was lots of picture taking, the news paper people were there. I congratulated her on her new arrival, I was happy for her and her baby boy. I just wanted to get home and into my own bed to get some good sleep. I was never able to sleep in a hospital, especially with all the nurses in and out taking vitals. We had to stay for a total of three days. Donald was circumcised on the third day and we were on our way home.

      I looked around to be sure all the traffic was

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