It’s been too long since I allowed myself to sit and write something that is not an academic assignment. Putting words to paper, erhm typing words on a screen, is my therapy. It has been since an English teacher in 9th grade encouraged me to keep writing after reading a paper my angry self had […]
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I have said it before, I don’t do “new year resolutions” there will not be “new year new me”. I was already made new when I accepted Jesus and got baptized. I have been redeemed, and He has reshaped the unique traits that I have. New year resolutions don’t last. They are hyped, and like
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There was once a time when I acted without thinking. I spoke without first praying. I did and said whatever in the name of free speech, free world, free thinking. I mean, it is America, it is 2025-we get to do that, right? Sure, if you want to stay emotionally dysregulated and immature. If you
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I have a heavy heart tonight. Things in life have been changing, and I don’t always care for change. I gave my testimony recently and, in my preparation, I was thinking about a lot of my life. And I have felt stirred for some time since. When I was younger, I told my dad I
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Many years ago, there were bad seeds planted in my heart that not only grew deep roots, but those roots wrapped themselves around my entire being. I tried to ignore it. I tried to medicate it. I tried to fake it. The thing about deep roots, if you don’t dig them up all the way
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