Infinite possibilities

Where do you see yourself in five years? I’m sure you bought into the same short-term life-planning pit at some point or several points of your life too. In my youth, I always had an idea or a hope of where I would be in five years’ time in some area of my life – education, work, or relationship. Today I don’t. **Follow the link to read the full article.**

Sermon: WHY THE CHURCH WILL TRIUMPH IN THE DARKEST OF TIMES

I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore — it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.

Song & Verse: ALL OF ME by John Legend

Recently, I heard John Legend sing his new single, All of Me, live on David Letterman. The song took me away. A beautiful and emotionally eloquent expression of love. I rewound my TV twice to hear the song again and again. I haven't bought popular music in years - at least I can't remember theContinue reading "Song & Verse: ALL OF ME by John Legend"

Perserverance & Endurance

People in your circle may give you platitudes (empty words) meant to lift you up, but if those words don't line up with the Word of God, you will soon fall flat again. No where in God's Word are we told to give up when we are confronted with opposition. No where. But in all things we are to count the cost of our pursuit to make sure it's something we can sustain and succeed in.

Song & Verse: Show me how big your brave is.

This summer, I have learned and shared boldly this jem: A person's inabilty to accept who I am is not my problem. I don't need to make excuses for the woman I am. I don't need to subjugate the person I am to accomodate another person's sense of who they are. If I can't be who I am in any given interaction with another person, then they don't need to be interacting with me. ** Follow the link to read the full article.**

FOR WHITES (LIKE ME): on white kids

A good read on race relations in America from the point of view of parenting white children.

~ Shawnda

Jennifer Harvey's avatarformations. // living at the intersections of self, social, spirit.

Dear parents of white children,

I vote that we strike the following from our parental lexicon:

  1. “Everybody is equal.”
  2. “We’re all the same underneath our skin.”

I realize this is counterintuitive. But I’m completely serious.

These statements are so abstract they’re mostly meaningless when handed to a seven (or even seventeen) year-old. That’s at best. At worst, they’re empty filler—stand-ins for the actual conversations about race, racial difference and racism we need to be having with our kids.

Sugar when our kids need protein.

Yet, if white college students are to be believed, these statements are standard in many white households.

My students write racial autobiography papers. It’s a pretty straightforward assignment: describe the impact of racial identity in your life—not race generally but your race, significant experiences/teachings/thoughts pertaining to that identity at various life stages. Interview two family members about their experiences of and beliefs about being ‘x.’

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