And Your God Shall Be My God

Since the beginning of time prayers and poems have always been the manner in which people express their feelings and emotions. In this book, “And Your God Shall Be My God,” mothers and daughters came together to take us on an intimate journey expressing their love, hurt, pain, and forgiveness through poems and sharing their prayers for each other.

Yet, this book is not just for biological moms. Although, that mom may have given birth; it takes a special person to love, raise, influence, and help create and/or start the life for that daughter that she can call her own. No matter the situation or circumstance mothers and daughters share an unconventional or a personal bond.

Acclaimed black educator and college advocate Telashay Swope-Farr offers a glimpse into her life as an unforeseen mathematician and her passionate desire to obtain a doctorate someday. She takes her readers on a journey of how her stepfather’s dream of her attending college to be an engineer transformed into earning two graduate degrees and finally becoming the doctor she had always dreamed of as a little girl. 

Telabee is a self-motivated student who always works hard to achieve her goals and help others. Although she loved drawing and dreamed of becoming an artist and Dr. Swope, her plans were interrupted and altered, leaving her to question her undiscovered gift as a mathematician. Enduring many obstacles, Telabee finally achieves one of her dreams, becoming Dr. Swope.