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    My Enemy Is a Coward: Fighting an Enemy That You Can’T See
    My Enemy Is a Coward: Fighting an Enemy That You Can’T See
    My Enemy Is a Coward: Fighting an Enemy That You Can’T See
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    My Enemy Is a Coward: Fighting an Enemy That You Can’T See

    By Hiekaleez

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    My Enemy is a Coward is about struggling with the chronic disease called Multiple Sclerosis. The author, Hiekaleez, was diagnosed with MS just after graduating from college. It was as if his dreams were over! In the very beginning, he didnt know what to do. He decided to get baptized and to seek his lifes purpose. My Enemy is a Coward is about his hunt for answers.
    It has been a life-changing journey that awakened this dreamer. The nightmare of carrying this thing came into his life at a time when he felt like he was on his way to making a positive impact in the world. Having Multiple Sclerosis interrupted his plans and led him to seek God and His plans for his life. This ended up being a great thing really. What the enemy meant for bad, through his Savior Jesus Christ, turned into what will ultimately guide him into being a blessing to someone else. This is just what it took for him to fulfill his purpose!
    His tough exterior was broken down and his true self was exposed to the world, using his pen as my eyes and the ink as my tears.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateApr 19, 2010
    ISBN9781426936661
    My Enemy Is a Coward: Fighting an Enemy That You Can’T See
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    Hiekaleez

    Hiekaleez was born in 1979 to his fifteen-year-old mother. In 1997, he received the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship, a full scholarship to North Carolina Central University. On December 13, 2002, he received a BA in History and on January 5, 2003, he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

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      My Enemy Is a Coward - Hiekaleez

      © Copyright 2010 J. R. Hieke.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

      transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or

      otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in Victoria, BC, Canada.

      isbn: 978-1-4269-2933-5 (soft)

      isbn: 978-1-4269-2934-2 (hard)

      isbn: 978-1-4269-3666-1 (ebook)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010903509

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      Contents

      PROLOGUE

      My Enemy is a Coward: Fighting an Enemy Th at You Can’t See

      The Best is Yet to Come

      Chapter One

      Something Is Happening

      Bottled Up Emotions

      Chapter Two

      Let Go & Let God

      What Happened To All The Dreamers

      Chapter Three

      God’s Not Done

      So I Wait

      Chapter Four

      Things Change; People Change

      I Lunged For You and You Pulled Away

      Chapter Five

      Starting Over

      Are The Eyes Soul’s Window!?

      Chapter Six

      A Place to Call Home

      Invisible

      Chapter Seven

      Stuck

      My World of Isolation

      Chapter Eight

      Rescue Me!!

      Who Got Me!?

      Chapter Nine

      Socially Restored

      Love, Where You At!?

      When it’s All Said and Done

      Chapter Ten

      This Thing

      The Game of Life

      My Enemy is a Coward: Fighting an Enemy That You Can’t See

      —Hiekaleez—

      North Carolina Central University – 1910 – 2010 Soaring on the Legacy Celebrating 100 Years of Truth and Service Founded by James E. Shepard

      PROLOGUE

      We are all born for a reason. We have purpose and potential. The belief in the theory of predestination I have come to develop in my psyche. Predestination is the theory that each one of our lives is already determined. You may live your entire life and never figure out what your purpose for being here is. You may not have even gotten the opportunity to try for it. You can be educated, happy, and successful, but it is still possible that you haven’t fulfilled your destiny. Sometimes life and its circumstances have a way of pulling you away from or pushing you towards fulfilling your purpose here on Earth. There may have been just this feeling that you have always had or maybe there’s something that you were always good at and didn’t know why! Just think. That may be the thing you were born for.

      This is my story about my battle with this coward disease called Multiple Sclerosis. It has been a life changing journey that awakened this dreamer. The nightmare of carrying this thing came into my life at a time that I felt like I was on my way to making a positive impact in the world. Having Multiple Sclerosis (which I refer to as this thing) interrupted my plans and led me to seek God and His plans for my life. This ended up being a great thing really. What the enemy meant for bad, through my Savior Jesus Christ, turned into the thing that will ultimately guide me into being a blessing to someone else. This is just what it took for me to look to fulfill my purpose! This cannot all be kept to myself. I figured out how I will win. By fighting with faith!

      When a boy is very young, he might dream about things like being a policeman, a lawyer, a professional athlete, a musician, and the list goes on and on. As he grows older and reality sets in, his dreams may begin to change a little. He may begin to narrow down what he dreamed when younger- realizing his possibilities as well as his impossibilities. With faith all things are possible through Jesus Christ is what I believe. The concept that learning was just something a person must do while in this place called Earth was taught to me very early. You see for me early on in life I had this feeling that this wasn’t my home. My physical address was known, but that’s not the address I’m talking about. For some reason things always felt as if I was in a dream or something. Life just didn’t seem real to me. As one grows older these things begin to look different to some people. You see, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 13:11 that when a child you speak, think, and act as a child, but as you become of age you put away such childish things. Well, some of us don’t.

      For me that was the case. My dream of becoming a professional athlete changed to maybe becoming a professor or at least an educator of some kind. Growing up it was being an athlete and student that had begun to shape my identity. Playing little league baseball started the athlete in me up and it was my family that let me know early in life that being a good student came first. For me not doing my best wasn’t an option. When I was about three years old, I saw my mom graduate from high school. Witnessing this led me to conclude that later in my life, that would be me. Being a good student would one day pay off for me. Now all the Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, my grandma reading to me at night, and the buying of all this learning stuff began to make sense. Not even to mention all the cartoons and toys I fell in love with to help feed my imagination, which is healthy for a little child. I grew up in the housing projects of Scotland Neck, North Carolina. It was back then that the decision that this was not all that life has to offer dawned on me. Even as a little boy my dreams were big. There had to be more! This was the way I thought in the past when I was just a child.

      I went from this little boy into a well polished dreamer and still dream to this day! Because of circumstances, some beyond my control, life for me would become somewhat bittersweet. In my high school, Southeast Halifax High School, there was somewhat of a town rivalry between two towns; Enfield, North Carolina and the town in which I am from Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Most of the people that were involved didn’t even realize that they were probably related to half of their foes, but some of my best friends to this day are from the town of Enfield. The bond between us began the summer before even starting high school in football training. From then on we all found our common ground and never became involved with all of the fighting, well most of us anyway. What kept us focused were our academics and athletics.

      Participating in athletics alone wasn’t enough for me. I was fortunate enough to become an exceptional student-athlete. I never wanted to be just average. This fact would help me become a man later. Until this day those two things, athletics and school, are what we talk about all the time. Our coaches did tell us that would be the case for most of us. We depended on each other for a lot of things. Our friendships extended past the football field. In high school I played varsity football for three out of the four years there. For three years straight, beginning sophomore year, the prestigious opportunity to be named all-conference in football was bestowed upon me. In my senior year the class elected me to represent them as class president with my best female friend at the time being the vice-president. Honestly, to me she would have been better for the president job though. It was to my surprise that a 1070 was what my S.A.T score was after taking the test only once. Maybe it was the S.A.T Prep Class taken under Mrs. V. Robinson that year? Or it could have been all of those books read throughout my life that played a major role in all of this. That S.A.T score along with other skills earned me a full scholarship. It was a tough process, but in my senior year the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship to North Carolina Central University was awarded to me. I became an N.C.C.U high flying Eagle. Right then it should have been evident to me that I was blessed.

      Like lots of people in a new environment, I had to adapt. It was taught to me in school somewhere that man will adapt to their environment. We somewhat have to or we miss out or get left behind. College for me was difficult. It wasn’t the class work. But it was just everything else that was part of being a college student. Most of the time money was an issue for me. Semester refund checks were my main source of income, so lots of fun things that some of my friends did I couldn’t do. Doing the best that you can with the little you got was how things always went with me anyway.

      That meant sacrificing a lot of fun college experiences to make it through. There were two times that I fell in love and dealt the best I could with that, being that there wasn’t a dad around to teach me better. My pockets wouldn’t allow me to do lots of things with or for them. Those girls must have loved

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