Tag: authenticity
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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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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #13
That’s it. That’s the post. You reap what you sow, my friend.
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Sometimes honest Christianity looks like the Struggle
confession: I have started a particular post four times. And each time I erased it because I was talking out of my agitation and NOT my anointing. “Human anger does not ever produce the righteousness that God desires.” (James somewhere, my version of it. 🤷🏾♀️) Sometimes, you gotta sit the game out before you sin […]
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Pushing Passed Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome, also called perceived fraudulence, involves feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence that persist despite your education, experience, and accomplishments. Healthline.com This is what the spirit of rejection does to you. Everything you do—every GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT that came from God, the Father of Lights—is made to feel like it is nothing. It […]
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The Folly of Faking It
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:1-2 I had this student who mastered the art of looking busy. You rarely saw him […]
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Learning to Live Authentically
I could write volumes here, but I will save it for other blog posts. I am a woman who has tussled with being herself in a world that has many boxes to stuff you in, in a life that is designed to make you conform. Lucky for me, I finally took to heart those instructions […]