Tag: Songs in the Key of Christ
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Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines: A Kind of Testimony
At the library fumble-writing this chapter 2 of my capstone while also trying to figure out just how GOOD God is. I look back over my life these past few months…God not only took care of me without full time employment, but He also handed me back things I thought were long buried. He is […]
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YOU’ON KNOW NAHL
Subtitle: Real Gs Move in Silence Like Lasagna. Fact: God is the ORIGINAL G. “which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” 1 Corinthians 2:8 KJV Okay so, Check this out: Did you know that nobody knew what God was […]
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He Keeps On Doing Great Things for Me
Triolet– A/B/a/A/a/B/A/B rhyming pattern. Poets.org, https://poets.org/glossary/triolet So I took the #Triolet Challenge as set forth by the blog “We Drink Because We’re Poets” (now defunct, I believe) on August 5, 2013. It is an interesting structure that lends itself to iambic tetrameter–at least for me. It felt natural; though I have always told myself that […]
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A Million Little Miracles
#confession: I used to want to desperately experience miracles and signs and wonders like the old church. It was an entire obsession. I would scour YouTube to watch miraculous healings and people passing out under the “presence.” I would literally pray, “WHY CAN’T THIS BE ME!” And then. The Lord baptized me with the Holy […]
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Get It Ready Ready
Are you ready for what you asked for? The secret expectations of the Kingdom of God that we erroneously have is that getting to and staying in the wealthy place of God means that things will be EASY. We take and run with the idea that Jesus’s yoke is easy and His burden is light, […]
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Irregardless, we still sum headbussas… for the LORD.
It always went like this: “Tell Mr. Jackson I said Hello.”“Red, Kisha said hello, Mr. Jackson.” And I’d hear in the background, “Passa.” If you knew how I recoiled from that one word, that one little dig. Listen. I knew he was being funny and fun—tongue-in-cheek, literarily speaking…and also. He was quietly insistent. Like, all […]
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I’m a… SLAVE 4 U
In the Baptist Church I grew up in, when we stand up to address the crowd, we always say, “Giving honor to God, who is the head of my life” or “To our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”. We say it all the time—so much so that it becomes a rote memory thing. I have […]