Category: Coffee Confessions
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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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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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The Honesty of Almost
My daughter is 17 today. She got her drivers license (the real one with the REAL ID), her first sew in hair style (she had a whole issue cuz she swore the curls were old lady curls— GEN Z), and is currently driving us to Memphis. Meanwhile. My husband is nearly shitting bricks because she […]
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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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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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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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The Prayers of the Righteous
When I was a kid, I wrote a prayer. I prayed this prayer a lot. I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7, but I read the Bible over and over, all the time. And I prayed this prayer. I still have it. It goes: Dear God, I want to Judge like Deborah, fight […]
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