Sometimes our past can be so messy. Mistakes, misunderstandings or even mistreatment can scar us severely. As we start this year, let’s dig deep. Ask yourself these questions. Is there anyone who disappointed me that I’m holding resentment for in my heart? Have I been holding on to painful memories for days or even decades?Continue reading “Let it Go: Mistakes & Mistreatments”
Category Archives: CHRISTIANITY, PROVERBS 31, WOMEN
Hold your head up
You are stronger than you think
Put your mask on first
NEGATIVITY IS POISON TO THE MIND AND A PERSON’S ESSENCE. It can become a 2-way channel, it enters by who we listen to before we make decisions, and then it’s cemented when we act based on the advice. It is really easy to become a host of negativity and not realize it. With so muchContinue reading “Put your mask on first”
Two Worlds… One Country
It. Is. July! Half the year is behind us. Can you believe we made it? We’re still here my people, alive! January, February, March, April, May, June, went by slowly. Here comes July 2020. What a whirlwind! First, the world went on lockdown. Now America feels like it’s going through a metamorphosis. The racial divide,Continue reading “Two Worlds… One Country”
The Burden of Blackness
DARKNESS Can I be brutally honest? These past few weeks have had me in the lowest place of my life. First, the pandemic hit, it is still here by the way so let’s not be fooled by your favorite restaurant or even your job opening up. There has not been one day where the numberContinue reading “The Burden of Blackness”
A YEAR AGO, RACISM RAGED & moms must still pray for God’s protection of our black men and boys
These past few weeks of back to back killings and arrests of black men, has been weighing on me. Today, after a reporter got arrested for doing his job, and it shocked some people… It broke me! All morning I cried for my children, my husband and many black women across the diaspora are cryingContinue reading “A YEAR AGO, RACISM RAGED & moms must still pray for God’s protection of our black men and boys”
An abnormal new norm
A monster pandemic has been unleashed upon the world. Weeks of quarantine. School, work, everything… from home. Hospitals overwhelmed. Loved ones overran by a virus, resulting in virtual or drive by funerals from the sidewalk. For me, the new norm is like an animated horror movie in slo-mo. Does anyone else feel like we’re stuckContinue reading “An abnormal new norm”
LIFE’S ROLLERCOASTERS (Climbing through fear)
Welcome back. Today I’m thankful for a new day. A day, I’ve never seen before or will ever see again. In the book, The Secret Door to Success, by Florence Scovel Shinn, she tells this story. Shinn went to visit her friend in Brooklyn. Her friend loved to do strange things and asked her toContinue reading “LIFE’S ROLLERCOASTERS (Climbing through fear)”
Cancer Action Month
No matter how much of a planner you are, no one is ever ready for these words, “You have cancer.” When Cancer Strikes This year I had two different experiences, an aunt battling cancer announced in a WhatsApp family group chat that she had been suffering with cancer and woke up daily with intense pain.Continue reading “Cancer Action Month”
Lonely Girl?
Sometimes we can feel completely alone. Abandoned, Broken and Confused— because a father is not close by and mother has to work all the time. Why am I alone you ask? Why did he turn his back on us, why me? That place of why— So dark So deep So painful In that place asContinue reading “Lonely Girl?”