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An Open Letter to Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Read more: An Open Letter to Pastor Sarah Jakes RobertsPlease know that there are women all over the world praying that your strength and sticktoitiveness be renewed. Continue to spread your wings and fly above everything and everyone that may be trying to keep you from soaring. In closing, I leave you with this reminder and nod to one of your father’s books: Soar,…
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Choosing to Love Out Loud
Read more: Choosing to Love Out LoudWith all of the issues happening around us, it is clear that not everyone is focused on engaging in an ethic of love. The irony of it all is that today is the day we are to show “love” to this country. To quote the Black Eyed Peas 2003 song, “Where is the love (Respect…
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It’s time to deal with those messages of self-loathing
Read more: It’s time to deal with those messages of self-loathingWe can love ourselves while holding ourselves accountable for pain and damage we caused when we hated ourselves and exacted that hate into the world. We are blessed by The Loving Creator of our Souls to generate and renew the love that has never left us. However, we have to do the work of uprooting…
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Hold on to THIS Receipt!
Read more: Hold on to THIS Receipt!Excerpt: “May the person named reclaim that they and the generations that are to come are free and can continue to live from a place of liberation, health, love, prosperity and bountiful joy.”
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Poem: She Who Names the Flames
Read more: Poem: She Who Names the FlamesWhat you couldn’t comprehend was the fact that those very same flames were the very exact same ones my Ancestors taught me to tame.
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Poem: Love is Our Reality
Read more: Poem: Love is Our RealityWhat happens when the warmth of a new day, a new joy, a new will emerges? Emerges and re-minds and re-members and re-calls us back to love? Re-news our minds and re-minds us that we are loved?
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What Are the Stories of Your Petals?
Read more: What Are the Stories of Your Petals?As I hear Tupac’s truth through his beautiful metaphor of the rose that grew from concrete, while taking in both Nikki’s associated poem and the quote about change; I am led to the only question I have for us: What are the stories of your petals?
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Poem: She Stays
Read more: Poem: She StaysShe stay creating transforming destruction into art. She stay owning what she does and all that she is and stay giving from her heart.
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Poem: The Me of Now
Read more: Poem: The Me of NowI am becoming more and more clear on who I am becoming. This means I have to be patient with others as they shift their understanding of who I am. This time is not a journey back to me anymore. It is me being introduced to my new self. The Me of Now.
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Poem: The I Am Within
Read more: Poem: The I Am WithinI am more than my feelings. I am more than resentment and bitterness. My timeless smile and unreserved laughter reminds me of that fact. I am every “No” my Mother Ancestors were robbed of uttering. I am an electric spirit. I am love and courage. I am passion and joy. I am the force behind…
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Fire Lit: The More Than Metaphors Podcast
Read more: Fire Lit: The More Than Metaphors PodcastI am excited to announce my new podcast will be launching soon! I have been incubating this idea since summer 2019 with an anticipated launch of November 2019. “More Than Metaphors” is a virtual love space for those poetic and poetic-ish voices to examine the question: What happens when we find the courage to live…
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My Valentine’s Gift to You
Read more: My Valentine’s Gift to You!New Blog Post Alert! My Valentine’s Gift to You May we reclaim this day set aside to celebrate romantic love, as a day to celebrate how much we have overcome in the face of everything that has attempted to destroy our ability to love. All of the hate, delusion, cowardice, complacency, nihilation, corruption, psychosis, neurosis,…
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