Category: Let’s Be Real
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Early Morning Stress Stream
I’ve been writing almost every day to give my mind something to do. I’ve spent the last 5-6 years working on my emotional intelligence, recognizing (or rather having friends and mentors alike point out) that I do not engage my emotions as a normal person of my age should. I’m real good at shoving things […]
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Grief Exhaustion
One of the things we don’t talk about enough publicly, regularly, is the physical taxation of grief. And no, I’m not talking about my emotions or the exhaustion from crying or whatever. My body is literally tired. My muscles are sore, and I feel like I should be taking an NSAID or something. It hurts […]
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This ain’t the time to turn back now.
One time, I found myself driving around Chicago on a mission not my own. As I drove into the city, I found myself both happy and heavy—excited to be back in a place where I felt most comfortable and happy as an adult, yet heavier and sadder as I passed landmarks that I’d not seen […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 7: IMANI
True believers understand that salvation is a deed-less experience, that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. That we find redemption in receiving the forgiveness purchased by the blood shed on the cross. But there IS another step thereafter. That same faith, when fully formed through the hearing of the word, produces […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 6: KUUMBA
The creative mind of God is immeasurable—something that mankind has spent its existence investigating in an ongoing attempt to extricate the source and replicate the perfection thereof. From DNA strands and quarks, to particle accelerators and space missions, to the Tower of Babel and astrology and the so-called ascended masters, we’ve been trying to reproduce […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #5: NIA
When God created mankind God did so with intention, making man in His own image and taking time to shape the form of man with His own hands and breathe into man life. Within the breath of God is a portion of God’s character, and that is PURPOSE. We are shaped in it, born with […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #4: UJAMAA
One of the things that I love about Jesus that He held no punches. He had a lot to say about people and their hearts regarding money, one being this: show me what you spend money on and I’ll show you where that person’s heart is at. (Matthew 6:21 Kisha’s version). Many of us have […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #3: Ujima
One of the great mysteries of the believer’s walk of faith is the belief that God exists in a plural state of oneness. This is no theology lesson on today; but I want to point out to you that from the very beginning, God has modeled for us the perfection of the collective. In Genesis […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 2: Kujichagulia
A critical missing piece of my personal puzzle has been understanding and accepting without fear and uncertainty “who I am”. And not only “who I am” but am I being all that I have been created, called, and purposed to be? The excessively outward living that we have always done in this nation—white-ward, heavenward, money-ward, […]
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Depression ADHD: When my soul gets overwhelmed
That “A” in ADHD should also include anxiety and that “D”? Well at least one of them ought to mean depression cuz mines be on its RIHANNA, like “Baby! This is what you came forrrrr.” Here’s how it goes: I become overwhelmed trying to manage my tasks and times in a reasonable way but then […]
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