Tag: God’s grace
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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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The Pressure to Perform
I don’t know when it happened or how but… I found myself stuck like chuck a few months ago. Like, on complete and utter pause trying to figure out why I was so miserable, so tapped out. I wanted to tear my hair out! But the Lord is nothing if not merciful and kind, so […]
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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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Stay in Your Lane: A Sunday Reflection
There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. Proverbs 19:21 KJV I had a crazy week last week. I couldn’t pull it together. I called myself managing it and instead was making messes left and right. I found myself falling into the old comfortably traumatizing habit […]
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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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(Wo)man in the Mirror
Straightened my hair one day (as much as I could…) and while the style itself was a complete and epic fail (we will talk above it the tools another day), I got to see where my hair was at. I could have just walked away from the mirror and marveled at my growth, ignoring the […]
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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 […]
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314 Day: a Sunday Recitative
When I moved to the Midwest, to what felt like the lock on the chain of slave states, I was convinced that I had NOTHING in common with these people—black or white or in between. Everything felt and sounded foreign to me. Until I got to know the routine. Then I realized that everything that […]
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My Husband’s Stroke; My Reflections
Here’s the GIST OF MY LAST 72 hours: Bill had a major stroke on Tuesday. Bill is going home today. Let me put that into a bit of perspective for you who might feel like, “Oh it’s just a minor stroke and now he’s fine!” Nah. The right side of his brain was dead from […]
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God’s love is for you
The generations before mine knew God like the Israelites who came out of Egypt—He was the Master, to be served as well as possible for fear of heavenly retribution and eternity in hell. God was to be feared, to be held far away from them so that the stench of their humanness would not compel […]
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