Tag: God loves you
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Self Love
A theme I’ve been contemplating—or rather one that has arrested me—is the notion of self. How we conflate our self with our flesh…to concepts quite related yet very much different. The soul has an option, to do what it wills to do and follow the flesh; or, to do as God wills it to do […]
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Always Stay Gracious: The Best Revenge? It’s Your Savior.
I’m writing you from a position of perfecting. See, I’m in process, being stripped down to my bearings like a rusty bicycle. Rust lingers and builds up on itself—even after you’ve taken a metal like iron or basic steel out of the elements, the rust doesn’t magically disappear. It has to be CLEANED OFF. And […]
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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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I Ate the Weight Instead of Casting the Care
Confession: I have carried a lot of weight on me because I have had to carry the weight of my testimony by myself. I have found out the hard way that not everybody (especially the so called SAVED FOLKS) can handle your story. So I ate it. Now, some people drink it, smoke it, drug […]
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Cry your last tears
“You keep track of all my sorrows.You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” Psalm 56:8 NLT I cry. A lot. When I am full of any emotion: joy, frustration, sorrow, weariness, anger, despair, happiness. I even weep when I am in the presence of God. […]
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A message about Grace: The call to love
Grace really is a hard thing to give when you have spent your life judging and comparing yourself to others and others to yourself. Because you know what you’ve been through, you are so much more inclined to give yourself grace and others judgment. You have no empathy for anybody else because you don’t want […]
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How Deep Is Your Love?
I wonder if folks realize this? 🤔 Jesus said to love God with all that you got. EERTHANG, as they say in the Lou. Then to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Easy, yeah? We usually like our neighbors well enough. 🤷🏾♀️ But then Jesus dug down in there and said, “I mean, you […]
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You Were Made For This
imposter syndrome: “a psychological term referring to a pattern of behavior where people doubt their accomplishments and have a persistent, often internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud.” Merriam Webster 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 […]
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I’ve Got “Godfidence”
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. Em Jeremiah 1:10 confession. As I got up this morning, I started thinking about how proud I am of my students. It […]
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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 […]