ROOTED RENEGADE

Prophetic Words, Testimonies of Grace, & Stories of Hope

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  • Black High Heeled Shoes

    Night after night she goes home alone Sometimes the memories plague her mind Of all the things in her life gone awry. People consistently telling her to stop just surviving Time to thrive Time to shine Because they can only see her scars in black and white. They don’t see the courage she begs God… Continue reading

  • Gripped by Fear

    Leaving Wal-Mart for the second time this week and all I see is fear, paranoia, lack of empathy, loneliness, and the weight of the world on every shoulder I try my best to follow the social distancing guidelines to stay away from. Funny, the first time I went for work for paint. This time I… Continue reading

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  • Such a Time as This…

    For the first time in my life I am stunned. Not because of what is happening around me, a virus. Because of how my fellow neighbors are responding to a threat. Taking more than what they need, because of uncertainty. Fighting each other, offering money to strangers for the food in the grocery carts, stealing… Continue reading

  • March On…

    “We may speak, if we will, of the ‘wanderings of the children of Israel,’ but we must not think them purposeless strayings; they were in reality a well-arranged and well considered march.” (Spurgeon) I had never really put too much thought into the wanderings of the Israelites before beyond what I read in the Bible. I… Continue reading

  • All in the Name of Self-Care

    As I sat tonight in the bathtub, soaking, holding a dark purple bath bomb called “Galaxy”, while it fizzed in my hand.  I was reminded of the few times I actually allow myself to just sit in a tub full of water.  Be still.  Soak.  Submerse.  Let my nostrils be full of the smells of various fragrances.  This being the second… Continue reading

  • Hey you! Yea..the Woman in the Mirror!

    https://jooinn.com/img/get Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up each day and say to yourself “I love you girl!”… Many of us don’t do that do we? We wake up sleepy eyed, yawning, sometimes grumpy from restless sleep, with a thousand thoughts running through our minds of the day or days before. People, places, things, etc.… Continue reading

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  • New Clothes

    Often times we don’t understand what it’s like to wear ‘new clothes’ in a spiritual sense. Many of us know that in a physical sense, new clothing can take on various meaning, both good and bad. For instance, when I used to work at a massage parlor in my late teens, after a friend’s mom… Continue reading

  • Hey mom…

    Mom,You would be so proud of me I finally used my voice todayTo speak on behalf of those just like meGod really worked a miracle you see… I am no longer the same I held my head high No longer ashamed I may still carry the scars Yea, truly they are somewhere inside But I… Continue reading

  • Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

    In any Christian bookstore you can find the verse (or at least part of it) Psalm 139:14 “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” I wonder though, how many of us have actually stopped and really thought about what that verse means. Sure… Continue reading

  • But for One Man & Jesus

    Some of us need to hear you spit out the lyrics of your pain Then tell us how Jesus came to save A broken person just like you So for us it can be true. You see from the trap to the prison Most of us have been livin’ So when it came down to… Continue reading