relationships

FAMILY: The Single Most Important Action That Will Change Your Family Life Forever, If You Let It

Return to Sender (Creation Conversation) Most of the time you can’t send your family back. And although fifty percent of American married couples routinely divorce each other, has anyone every successfully divorced their family. I mean really, it’s not that easy when it’s the one you where born into. Even if you ignore them all [...]

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This Love Thing 2

LOVE (what is love?)

They wore their masks with absolute commitment and dedication to the facade. He thought to himself an idea that was so deeply buried he could not even hear the thought, but it was there. A very real and telling part of him, “If I can make her think that I’m the man, then maybe when [...]

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Getting to the Business of Living

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

“I have these yesterdays that creep into my future. I try to walk in new dreams but I have this old pain that just gets in the way. I seek after new moments but it seems to be the old me when I get there. I’m looking for something new but it never seems to [...]

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My Heart, My Love 2

LOVE (what is love?)

continued from My Heart, My Love . . . Watching a woman face the truth can make you want to run or get real too. One of the women at the table said that she wasn’t pretending any more either. Another one said that she would only want him for sex right now, so until [...]

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My Heart, My Love

LOVE (what is love?)

I can’t seem to get around this subject. As I build my dream life, it occurs to me that I can not and should not get away from love. A friend of mine confronted a group of us with the truth of our dreams and desires for love and romance . . . It was [...]

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Johari’s Window

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

There is a window that my mother told us about years ago. We were at Women of Faith and she was sharing it with a room full of females, though it is relevant for everyone who wants to learn something about themselves. It stuck with me, Johari’s Window: This a psychological tool that basically consist [...]

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That’s Bull & Crap, & You Know It

LOVE (what is love?)

If we never let go of the dysfunction, and hold onto the wrong men and the wrong women in our lives, just so we can say, “I got a man” “I’m not alone” then we never make room to become something more, someone whole who is worthy of a real love. Shot, if we keep [...]

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Hold Up! Wait A Minute!

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

You remember that phrase, “Anything worth having at all is worth working and waiting for?” I think I first heard it in a song. We can and will have the lives we want, but it does take time and painful effort, as Solomon puts it. In other words, ‘making haste to be rich’ can mess [...]

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Rejection 2: Men

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

Rejection from the opposite sex some how feels more painful, as if it cuts into a deeper part of us. I have watched girls turn that pain into songs, poems, and paintings, as well as depression, seclusion and suicidal attempts. I learned a few things facing my own sense of rejection. We are more likely [...]

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Freedom 11: my summary

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

my face my hands my smile my laughter my hope on some days, they all seem to hinge on my freedom beauty reflected in the face that God gave me sometimes makes me free my hands dancing or swinging in front of me sometimes makes me feel free unexpected smiles imitating the light in the [...]