Family and Friend Relationships

Silence, Correction, and Hope

We’re three weeks in and we’re both struggling with interacting with each other in close proximity. She has a lot of expectations and judgements. And I have basic understandings and sense.

Hmm, sixty-five years ago today,You entered this world.Twenty-nine years agoyou left far too soon.Up ’til then, I knew you my entire lifeyet, I’m still learning you more each year.This last year, I dug up painful,crushing information.Confirmed details.Connected dots.Formed a picture of a childhood that wasn’t.Saw the end of a truncated adolescence.Now I’m speculating,wondering when thoseContinueContinue reading “Poem: 65 Years Ago Today”

Video: Self-loathers don’t know what love is (Pt 2)

I’m repeatedly reminded that people who don’t love themselves are incapable of giving, receiving or showing love. They are sometimes good at faking it, but fakers always expose themselves out of frustration.

Be Your Own Best Present

2020 year-end reflection and message for those of us used to putting everyone else first and feeding into situations that don’t nourish us. Just as we try to be available supportive and our best selves for others, we should be equally, if not more so, for ourselves. https://youtu.be/ul6kG–Bc-o Related posts: Everything I Thought IContinueContinue reading “Be Your Own Best Present”

Poem: Sister, Sister II

She avoided me for eleven years. Whatever her reasons, no rejection has ever hurt more. Most of those absent years she called me on my birthday to let me know she was still alive. Quite honestly, her voice was the best present every time. **Read full post.**

Sermon: Family Matters – Present

Family Matters – Present
Has there ever been an ideal Biblical family?

The First Family: Adam and Eve raised a murderer
God eventually had a do-over with humanity
The Second First Family: Noah’s son, Ham, raped his mother while his father was passed out drunk next to her

Poem: The Weirdest Dream

I could see
you so clearly, feel you, even, and smell
all your scents – you know, the natural ones;
the perfumed ones; your hands – so warm, so strong
and comforting (all, your essence) – so missed.

Sermon: Family Matters – Future

Family Matters – Future
You can still have the family you envisioned. Just becauae you’ve suffered loss doesn’t mean all is lost. Its never too late to go back and grieve something you didn’t grieve before and move forward from there.

Thank You for Peewee

Woman Be Restored Spending my day at the Woman Be Restored Conference at Times Square Church. This year it started with a two hour morning break out session. I chose the Relationship Restoration breakout teaching. I missed most of the first hour – I thought there would be a warm of singing before we gotContinueContinue reading “Thank You for Peewee”

Song & Verse: Piece by Piece

by Kelly Clarkson I first heard the last couple of bars of this song on an overhead speaker in a gym earlier this week. The emotion was so palpable, I had to find it and listen to it fully. The song pretty much says it all; nothing to add from me. Piece by Piece byContinueContinue reading “Song & Verse: Piece by Piece”