Tag: daughters
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Raising girls or Letting them grow up
So, my daughter had lost something valuable to her. I couldn’t find it; I believe someone else took it. My heart was hurting because she was sad when I told her. My black mommy instinct was to fuss, because that is what black parents do. We fuss to hide our frustration, our inability to make…
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Modern day parables: a JEWEL among JEWELS
This is a story about my mother, whose birthday it is today. Anytime I go home back in Mississippi, my mother and father commit them self’s to filling my car with as much stuff as possible. Clothes, shoes, jewelry, food—you name it, it gets jammed into my Cadillac XTS. I have always been a master…
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The Messiness of Motherhood
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed. Nishan Darwar When they say “parenting doesn’t come with an instruction manual,” that’s such an understatement. At least it was for me! Even with the unsolicited but absolutely necessary and exceedingly appreciated advice from my…
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I’m a WRETCH Undone | August 2015 (Nashville Now)
I have not always done a good job of showing my daughters how to demonstrate love and caring the way that God has commanded us. In my pursuit of perfection, I have displayed the ugliest of my character traits: inpatience, anger, frustration, meanness, judgment, and depression. Sometimes, I have gone so far as to behave…
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