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    Faith

    Disappointment Sucks!

    12/18/2015

    “Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and my God!”
    ‭‭Psalms ‭42:11‬ ‭NLT‬‬

    Finally, this was it!  My big breakthrough moment!

    I’d been praying and asking God for this for a long time. And finally, the door of opportunity was swinging open.

    That is, until I got a phone call that abruptly slammed the door shut on my dreams.

    In an instance I went from planning a victory party to having an unexpected invitation to another pity party.

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    Motherhood

    The Facebook Challenge I Wanted to Ignore

    11/03/2015

    It was a simple challenge on a friend’s page:

    “Single mothers, call your children’s father and share with them one thing you appreciate about him as a father.”

    I chuckled, sensing this wasn’t going to end well.

    I knew my friend had good intentions. Being a single dad of three boys himself, he simply wanted to spark a healthy conversation to try to boost the image of fathers.

    The responses however were not good.

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    Faith

    That One Scripture I Wanted to Delete from the Bible

    09/26/2015

    I know. You’re probably looking at your screen like that has to be a typo. But, it’s not, and yes, I’m still repenting for feeling that way.

    Of course I do feel terrible for even admitting it, but it’s true. And since I promised I would tell you the truth – the good, the bad and the ugly – here’s some of my ugly truth.

    Every time I heard this scripture my eyes would immediately twitch and roll. It was like my body was having an allergic reaction to this verse.  I kept hearing this scripture so much it was like God was playing a joke on me.

    No exaggeration, these are how my prayers would go: Continue reading