Category: Let’s Be Real
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The Spirit of Delay and other lies I’ve told myself
Is this YOU? It has been me until recently. Lots of people experience failure. But there’s also something to say about avoiding success. The idea that you aren’t good enough—aren’t worthy enough—creeps into the strangest spaces in your life. It shows up in your thinking, your patterns, and your inability to even start a thing—or […]
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Late Posts are the BEST posts: A Saturday Stop-by becomes Sunday’s What’s Up
Okay yo. So this past week, my GOD.😭 Talk about exhausted! Cuz I was. I was thoroughly exhausted in ways you can never really understand. The new job, crazy and conflicting schedules, and then the turmoil in house? I wanted to fall over and die when I realized Tuesday night that it wasn’t Wednesday night. […]
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
The greatest mistake a woman can make is to listen to the voice of a man who doesn’t listen to the voice of God. He will be insecure and spend his time sabotaging you because it’s the only way he knows how to shine. He will always need you to hold him up while simultaneously […]
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Acting with Integrity, an act of obedience
Walking in Integrity: A change in real time I am uncomfortably honest these days. My mother constantly says to me, “Stop telling so much of your business on Facebook.” I am always puzzled, because I rarely share the ways in which I share here; those posts are vague and God-laden. These posts are detail rich […]
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Learning to Lead While I Follow
All my life I have been a process person who taught processes to people because I can make any process make sense to any person willing to engage in a process (note I said ENGAGE—can’t make anybody do anything, your kids at school included). It is what has made me effective as an educator. Not […]
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The Year of “Even The More”
I be the one crying when I pray, tears falling monsoon style as I ask God, “Why? Why does [this one or that one] treat me like [this way and that way]? I don’t ask for much!” I don’t ask for much. Hmph. I be saying that to God like it‘s a badge of honor, […]
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Bitter Whispers
confession: I received a text this morning that prayed over me—which would have been WONDERFUL, except the prayer was 39 years too late. I immediately felt triggered; the thought came to my mind, “If you had been here to pray this prayer over me when I was little, maybe I’d not have suffered so in […]
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The Arc of Grace: Vulnerability
Vulnerability is a precious gift that we hide away when we are abused. I pray that we are all able to occupy that safe space fully and in love. confession: I am still very afraid of sharing my feelings. I hate being rejected, and I have had too many people who supposedly love me tell […]
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It doesn’t hurt but I am hurting: The Start of My CHASING After God
On August 19, 2016, I wrote this on Facebook: It doesn’t hurt but I am hurting. Disclosure: Sometimes the mask slips, and the feelings I contain to preserve peace come into view, riding waves of tears and sadness and shame. The older I get the harder it becomes to affix the mask. The contours of […]
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I been in the storm too long
I’ve been in the storm too long. And you know when storms last and last, we start looking for answers and reasons like Job. Job, whose storms lasted in such a devastating way, looked up to God for answers that were simply not forthcoming; then while he was waiting on God to say something he […]
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