Hide and Go Seek was a common game played among me and my cousins. Every time we would get together, we would have to play. Playing in the dark was our favorite. There was nothing like the mystery and difficulty of finding someone on a dark night. Add in the factor the woods that sloped … Continue reading Thorns In Your Side?
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No Bag Policy
Take Off the Negativity
Double for Your Trouble
Have you been going through a storm? Having a bad season, month, year or even decade? Have you been in the storm for so long you are beginning to think the storm is your new normal? Do I have good news for you. Job was a man who lost almost everything. He lost his children … Continue reading Double for Your Trouble
Blessing the Mistreaters
If we suffer mistreatment for doing what is right, we will receive blessings from our Father. If we bless them according to the calling which God has called us to bless, God will bless us, and I believe in the same manner, as we bless them. God wants to bless you with supernatural favor upon … Continue reading Blessing the Mistreaters
Tooth for Tooth?
When I was in second grade, there was a girl named Natosha who was the classroom bully. She was loud and obnoxious. She was also the teacher’s pet. When the teacher had to leave the room, Natosha was the one who was asked to take names and when the opportunity came her claws would come … Continue reading Tooth for Tooth?
Double for Your Trouble
Have you been going through a storm? Having a bad season, month, year or even decade? Have you been in the storm for so long you are beginning to think the storm is your new normal? Do I have good news for you. Job was a man who lost almost everything. He lost his children … Continue reading Double for Your Trouble
A Hard Challenge for the Hurt to the Hurtful
In our families, in our marriages, in our careers and in the work place, it has happened to us. We have all been mistreated and felt the emotions that come with the feelings of being mistreated. How do we rid ourselves of these emotions? Some of us hang out with friends to get it all … Continue reading A Hard Challenge for the Hurt to the Hurtful
The Art of Our Adoption(s): Pain
Artist say there is nothing more exhilarating than a fresh white canvas. Creativity is fertilized with possibilities. Vision becomes a reality as the artist picks up his brushes, dabs them in the paint, and begins making purposeful strokes. Strokes are abstract until more are added. A masterpiece eventually is fulfilled.
When God Wants to be Second
Place God first.
A phrase heard over and over.
Place God first.
Yet, is there a time God desires to be second? Maybe even third?