The Story...What Happened?!

3/9/2020

My Life was forever altered, my home, my family. My husband of almost 20 years was shot in the back with an assault rifle, left to die in the street.

This is My Story, this was recorded a year after the storm that came to destroy our lives, to destroy generations.

This was Recorded Sharing Freely, not a script, or words written down, a flow of the heart, and there are two parts.

For me, this is taking what disrupted my life and "choosing" to make a difference
in the lives of others...that is "fulfillment" for the remainder of my journey.

Note: I considered recording a short version but it is better shared just how it was felt a year after and my heart a this time just doesn't want to share those words.

~ Thank you for traveling this unfamiliar path with me ~
"No One Said Easy"

The Story...What Happened?!
The Day my Husband Died
Part One

The Story...What Happened?!
The Day my Husband Died
Part Two

The Predator who shot my husband has been sentenced, the link of the sentencing
is shared below, on a prior post on this page.

My sons and I, our lives forever changed.
That day changed numerous lives extended beyond our Home
a ripple effect in the lives of many.

For me, "Victim is not my name, my punch back was and is
"Making Pain Pay Dividends"

I can't control the winds...but I can adjust the sails.
My Sons will know that flowers can grow out of ashes.

In an instant...Life is forever altered, a chair is now missing at the table.
"Victim" is not my name and after praying through, walking through, the only question is how to Make Pain Pay Dividends. How to make flowers grow out of ashes?! This is not just about me, this is about flowers out of ashes for my sons, for Todd's boys.
This is about those who "right now" are in a dark room and or are sharing a similar experience that is a sucker punch to the heart.
That a moment, in an instant "life changed" forever altered.

Grieving Process after death, of a spouse, a child, any loved one is very real and
post-travel of that is a continual journey.
A journey that I would never tell anyone how to live or how to grieve.

My healing ointment by the Grace of God, is the work, is my eagle call, it is finding
out that Encouraging multiplies, returns and encourages me.

"No One Said Easy" and I live that, the question I asked myself is now that I know,
what can I do with that?!

#MakingGratitudeContagious is always the intent

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Yvette
aka
Donyale

September 7th, 2016
My Life Shifted, Altered.
I recognize that I don't Have Control over Tomorrow, BUT, I Now Know What to Do with the Tragic,Evil Event that Invited ME to the Table.

My Intent is to Share My Experience with the Hope that it can be a Rope for someone else who may have been Invited to a Similar Event. An Event that Shatters Your Heart, that Delivers a Sucker Punch without Notice.

I really don't know where this all will Lead, however,
"My Intent" is to share,
What Changed My View
What Changed my Direction
because I'm Impressed To and My Plan is that this will BE
My Punch Delivered Back

My Husband of
19 years, Todd Terry.
We Lived Life Loving on each other, raising 2 sons, whom He Adored and Adored Him. He was Priceless to our family.
He Was Murdered, shot in the Back by a 17 year old Predator, with an Assault Rifle. Left to die
on the street.

Our Sons
By the Grace of God
will know
that Flowers
Can Grow from Ashes

LIVING IN MY TRUTH