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With fear
The very thought, not to mention the reality of loving you the way I do use to scare me. It unearthed every fear and insecurity of who I’m not but wanted to be and threw in my face how my best attempts failed. Love the way I began to understand it challenged me to hope,…
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Investments
“Early investments grow over a lifetime ” (AntTBri). I believe in planting seeds, making deposits… interpersonal investments of time, talent and treasure. Especially, possibly excessively in terms of our children. It is always my hope that the seeds of love and attention will nurture a solid, stable and steadfast foundation to grow upon. People comment…
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Why Love?
A few weeks ago my nephews treated me to dinner. It was an “intervention ” talk where they shared their concern about me being by myself or alone for so long. Their talk was so much BETTER than coming home to Imani and Jalen with the match. com profile filled out (Thank you Jesus). That…
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LOVE U
Love U Taking care of others, loving them in God’s stead requires we be able to see, support and remain loyal to the purpose of God for their being. When the purpose of God remains your consideration you respond differently to life and love. What you know or think you know about them takes a…
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CAN U
Can You Love Me in God’s stead? Can God trust you to sow into and steward His purpose for me? Will you pray to that accord, care for and nurture me to that accord? Can you be used by God to help grow and groom the gift in me? Even if you wouldn’t get the…
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There
There are some places we go with God that ushers in beautiful tranquility. Life and love feels doable. We enjoy the experience and don’t mind the journey. Those places we expectantly, readily and willingly go with God. There is no resistance or dread…this is where God is, where He is leading and taking me (high…
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AWARE
Part of living and loving AWARE is to be proactive, persistent and passionate in prayer. Purposefully praying God’s Word ensures we’re living and loving in accordance to His Will. Prayer is the best offense against taunts, tricks and traps of the enemy. Live and love AWARE of the enemies tactics. Proactive(ly) pray that you’re not…
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DARE
It is no secret, nor is it a badge of honor that abstinence is my choice of life and love while I’m single. When people ask me “how do you do it” or advise that God understands we have needs” my response always throws them because it is not laden with Scripture although it is…
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First
An early morning revelation…my heart chronicle’s “first”. It’s funny because even though I’ve done these things before without them and enjoyed myself it was so much better with them. Observing the elation on their faces and remembering my own emotion as we shared a number of “first” together has me so appreciative of the time…
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Queen
Having had, displayed, lived and loved from a heart posture likened to Michal (King David’s wife) I’m cognitive of my motive of saying and doing lest bitterness, grudges, hurts, disappointment and entitlement rule me once again. Hers is an example I never again want to set. I never again want to live or love void…
