Tag: growing up in grace
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Eye Crusties
The world would be a much better place if we stopped focusing on “tattling” to God about others and focused on receiving healing in our minds, hearts, and bodies through Christ. Matthew 7 says: Keep judging folks and see where that gets you—judged by the SAME MEASUREMENTS you judging with. Uh huh, let’s see if […]
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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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Accountability IS Holiness
Listen. Folks do NOT like being held accountable. But in 2022? We not finna just “do you” all over folks’ BOUNDARIES. I’ve been NOT telling the truth along with the love I already show. What do I mean? I mean to say that I I have used love as an excuse to allow folks to […]
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The Year of “Even The More”
I be the one crying when I pray, tears falling monsoon style as I ask God, “Why? Why does [this one or that one] treat me like [this way and that way]? I don’t ask for much!” I don’t ask for much. Hmph. I be saying that to God like it‘s a badge of honor, […]
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Repentance
We all slip up and hurt folks. It’s just the way of humanity. BUT. Too many “mature Christians” use the Holy Spirit to justify not going to their brother/sister and making things right, talmbout they got to “pray and ask God if they should apologize.” Whatchu MEAN “if”? Jesus said to LEAVE YOUR GIFT AT […]
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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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Giving Freely
If you give freely, God gives freely. Simple as that. What you put out there you get back. That’s why I stay casting my bread. It always floats back. And I NEVER REGRET GIVING OPENLY. Even if regret crosses my mind, I repent and ask for forgiveness IMMEDIATELY. God ain’t never repented about saving me. […]
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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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You gotta learn your own triggers
Lesson learned: the devil has studied you your entire life and your parents before that, so he knows your triggers–the exact things that will get you off track and out of God’s word, that will make you sad, angry, hurt, afraid, and depressed. The things that will stop you in your tracks and have you […]
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