Tag: real love
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The Honesty of Almost
My daughter is 17 today. She got her drivers license (the real one with the REAL ID), her first sew in hair style (she had a whole issue cuz she swore the curls were old lady curls— GEN Z), and is currently driving us to Memphis. Meanwhile. My husband is nearly shitting bricks because she…
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God’s Love is for YOU: a reminder
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV For years, I isolated and separated myself from people who loved me because I thought that I wasn’t good enough, that I didn’t measure up, and that…
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Love Languages: Limping Passed Trauma-based Love
The older I get, the more I see how little capacity that people have to receive love beyond what their trauma has informed. Folks literally out here refusing REAL AGAPE LOVE cuz it don’t look like the struggle love that trauma produces. Make It Make Sense. Beloved: Until you allow God to heal your heart…
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #9
Stop trying to figure out what you did wrong. Sometimes, it isn’t what you coulda done; it’s who they couldn’t be. How can two walk together unless they agree?
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As I Am
Tell me I’m the best, I am I’ll be feelin’ like, yes, I am, I am You know I’m the best, ah yeah You’d be a fool to not take me as I am H.E.R., “As I Am” We always want the things we were never meant to have, giving more weight to what if…
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Friendly Reminder: God Loves You
So I was reading the word today, and I read John 17. It was like reading it for the first time, cuz that how the Holy Ghost will do you. I cried, because first off Jesus was praying for us before He even went to the cross. But also, because He said something so intense…
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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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What Is in a Name
I wrote this one on behalf of people who are tired of arguing with that one person whom you love very much but who never seems to “get it.” Who likes to pick fights then play the victim. Who has zero self reflection skills, so every problem they encounter is someone else’s fault. They are…
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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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Sacrificial Giving
“give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” Luke 6:38 KJV A friend of mine made a post on Facebook that incorporated this…