{ PREMIER ISSUE 2018 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE
75 had several of those moments where... But I think the last time that I can recall- because, mind you, because of all the trauma that has taken place, I talk about in my book, about polyvictimization, and how you have so many so sometimes for me, processing or timelines, I’ ve lost some of those so its hard for me to put some of that together. To answer your question, I believe the last time was when I went to jail and I got pulled over because they were suspecting that I had drugs on me. something and so she asked me,“ What are you called to? Who are you? What are you called to?” She noticed or felt or seen something in my life. Immediately I could hear God’ s voice say to me,“ I am called to the nations, I am called to the black, the white, the gay, the straight, woman, man, boy, no matter what religion you are, I’ ve been in the greatest... Some of the greatest opportunities that I’ ve had have not been among the people that I know.”
At this time I had a drug house, where I had someone holding drugs for me at his house. They had been watching me and so they pulled me over because of that, then I ended up having a warrant out for my arrest for something else so I went to jail. While I was in jail doing that time, I had a visitation. I saw and felt the presence of God in the cell. This is not the first time I heard his voice say,“ Either you live for Me today or you shall die.” So I said,“ Okay. I don’ t know how to live for You, I don’ t know how to do this.”
Sometimes I think that when our lives are put in pause and sometimes it seems like its in a rough place for us, right? And it seems like, God, why am I here? Sometimes He just slows us down and we think it’ s the devil, we think it’ s because of somebody else. I’ m a believer that sometimes He puts us in a pause-break moment to give us time to re-calculate some things. While I was in jail, that’ s when I heard God’ s voice.
I ended up getting a job two weeks later. I had never had a job really, or anything. That’ s when my life started to move forward for me. I was really afraid because all I knew was the streets and hustling and surviving in that way.
Kharisma: How long were you in jail for?
Sharron: I was in jail for a very short period of time, but it seemed like it was forever because I felt like God was working on me and preparing me.
Kharisma: What kind of impact do you desire to have with your journey, going through the scenes of Human Trafficking and exploitation?
Sharron: I believe that my voice is called to the nations. I had someone who asked me— it was a Muslim lady, she asked me... We never talked about religion. I went into her store to buy
I believe that God has created me not to take from anybody else that helped pave the way for us, but I believe that He is going to use my voice as a movement in itself, to shape the way that we see human trafficking; to shape the voice and the way that we look at how we treat women, how we look at ourselves. I believe that, without apologizing, I am one that... I’ m an advocate, so sometimes I offend people. Sometimes I say things that are contrary to what people think that should come out of my mouth because I’ m a Christian. I am very edgy because this is how He found me.
He didn’ t find me in a place where I was primmed and proper and put together. God put my life back together and so I feel like God is going to use me to be able to shake the foundation of this world, not just our country, but people all over the world.
Kharisma: I know you’ ve found your voice and you’ ve shared that in your book, I Found My Voice. Why do you think it’ s so important for women to find their voice?
Sharron: We must find our voices, we must help each other to find our voices. With my non-profit organization I am creating some avenues so that women all over the world- we can share. When my voice is connected to your voice, it makes us even more powerful. It bothers me, it saddens me to see women individualize themselves, and they stand on their own by themselves and they think that they can do this by themselves. We were created because of the strength that we have as women, the power that we have.
There was a Naomi and a Ruth for a reason, because we need each other. Although you may have come before me, why can’ t I stand on your shoulders so that other’ s can come with me? That’ s why we have to have our voices, that’ s why women have to be raised up to a place where we know who we are. When we don’ t know who we are it robs us from our destiny and our