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Something’s Missing…
Sometimes in our lives we feel this incredible void inside our chest. Like something is missing. As women, many of us feel this inherent need to be with someone who will fill this void, whether it be a spouse or just a partner. But it is a void deep inside our chests that never seem… Continue reading
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He is our Support
I was driving to work and I noticed that the powder lines were supported with beams made out wood. Interestingly enough I had never made attention to their shape…A Cross. How is that I pass the same cross shaped supports every day and I never “pay attention”. I go day after day on the same… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
ROOTED RENEGADE 