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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question: “Do I believe my life is getting better? I used to live with the conviction that life included pain and suffering. I didn’t know how to get beyond that. Addiction stiffled me enough to get through but I had a…
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“Why didn’t you tell somebody if your abuse was so bad?” These clever folks speak to you about something they know nothing of. Do they not understand the fear that was instilled into my little being? Not only was my body pierced by the blunt force trauma of rape at three, I was ruled through…
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Come into my home with me today, join me in my prayer life, and my daily reading. Welcome! A Jewel: If my life were not changed, I’d have nothing to write about. The truth: my life is forever changed. I should NOT be who I am. I am a walking, talking, breathing miracle of the…
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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question: “What do I honor in life? As a verb honor means “regard with great respect.” I honor God for who He is. I honor you, the reader, by stopping my day and remembering you. What are you honoring today? What…
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Come into my home with me today, join me in my prayer life, and my daily reading. Welcome! A Jewel: There are days when my soul feels that God has forgotten me. That somehow in His busyness, He doesn’t have time to see my dreams. Then, I am reminded that most dreams that live in…
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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question: “What is this dull ache I feel inside? Many of us are prisoners by crimes we did not commit. After those crimes, you bet we do things that keep us in prison but the first blood was often drawn by…
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I miss something I never had. That is the cruel math of it. A man stood in the doorway. He shared my blood, my last name, the air in the house. He existed. But he was not there. He was a storm that learned my name and used it. I grieve not a man, but…
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Daughter, little lamb, soft as dawnlight— the world is a hungry thing, its hands are thieves, its tongue dripping honey, laced with thorns. Once, you were nothing but lullabies and milky breath, your body a temple of baby fat and unbruised trust. Now the wolves call you darling, the merchants weigh your worth in flesh.…
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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question:“Where do you need justice in your life? Justice is an elusive thing. “The process or result of using laws to fairly judge cases, redress wrongs, and punish crimes.” Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Similar words are fairness, equitableness, integrity and virtue. Who in…
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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question:“Where do you find solace? This is something that has elluded me for most of my life. In these last few years, I have sought solace in God and he has taught me so many things. I was drawn out of…