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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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There is no “new year, new me”
I have not waited to begin the slow and steady process of being myself. I’ve shed all the people, shed all the things, shed the need for validation, shed every tear I could muster, shed broken belief systems, shed expecting anything from ANYBODY but God, shed expecting miracles to fall from the sky. I have […]
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What Unworthy Looks Like: A Meditation
Humility and unworthiness look dangerously similar. Isabella Masada Perusing my Facebook memories one morning, I came across this post I shared. One thing I’ve learned from the men who have loved me is that they never questioned whether they deserved what they wanted. I on the other hand, would negotiate and plead, as if loving […]
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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 […]
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I’ve Become So Numb
I know what it is like to live in pain. For 34 years I lived with so much hurt and pain and misery that I went numb. I lived what looked like a normal life-I excelled at school, had jobs, got married, had babies, did all the things successful people do-yet I walked around DEAD […]
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Don’t Abort The Process
Chrysalis to Completion. Butterfly caterpillars create something called a “Chrysalis” – a hardened exoskeleton that protects it whilst it changes. It’s cellular structure has already prepared it for the changes to come, and once the process has ended successfully? You have a butterfly! But if you cut the chrysalis open before the transformation is complete? […]
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Hold Onto Yourself, Honey
Some days it is harder than others. The loneliness and regret overwhelm you with their weightiness, locking you into sadness so complete that you conjure story lines of sandy beaches and distant locales to steel yourself. To keep from losing it completely. You burrow down deep into your secret self, mantras meaningless and tears abundant […]
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Are You REALLY Under Godly Construction or Hiding Behind Fleshly Excuse?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Romans 6:1-2
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