Tag: faith
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What advice would you give to your teenage self?-Writing Prompt
My teenage years were intense. We moved from Bethel Baptist to Fellowship the year I turned a teenager. Music was my life and I very briefly experienced being a solo singer as a teenager at Bethel Baptist and was excited to do more, but at that time there was some conflict. Then we walked up…
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Who are your favorite people to be around?-Writing Prompt
Granted my family has changed over the years. Life is constantly changing my circles of family, work, and church community. I have only one grandparent left and two uncles and one aunt are now with Christ as well as one first cousin. Yet my church family is still growing and my family continues to grow.…
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Surveillance
Do you remember how Covid felt being watched and having to account for your time and what you were doing to someone from the health department? The mandates that were so conveniently and easily placed on American citizens… Do you remember how belittling that felt? Last night I just finished a chapter in Jill Eileen…
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Thinking About Eve Again
Maybe it’s because I had that childlike faith growing up in a God-fearing family and church family or just because this is a story from the beginning of time in Genesis. I thought Cain and Abel were more of the age of children when this event happened. Sometimes age doesn’t always factor into the stories…
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Sunday Night Thoughts
It has been quite the weekend. Most of my Saturday was working on the other part of my special project. However, it seems like when it rains it pours and lately it is pouring down cats and dogs around here. We somehow still have stink bugs around here and bugs that we have sprayed and sprayed…
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An American Music Legend
Not two weeks ago I saw on my you-tube feed something about Toby Keith’s cancer diagnosis in an interview. I had to keep looking at the photo of him I couldn’t see him… it took a good while and actually watching the video to see it was in fact him. Although it was very seriously…
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Challenges
This word has been in my head and been typed many times in articles. It was a challenge for me even as I tried to focus hard and prepare this WordPress Site for what at the time I was hoping to do copywriting or copyediting, of course that didn’t happen. Life happened to me… again.…
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The Power of Fear and Doubts
Christ told us not to fear in the New Testament over and over again. So why do we continue to forget to not fear and worry ourselves into something we don’t recognize? For about a week a couple of things have piled on and each time doubts and worries multiplied. Sometimes they take up so…
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Devotional Thoughts
Fortunately, I have had some time to read some extra chapters recently. I admit reading about Eve and Adam’s travails after the horrendous decision was made due to a prostrate looking Lucifer. It was after the harrowing decision that God cursed all of the future in this species to be slithering reptiles. Yet for the…
Jewells of Thought 