Author: Higher Up IDEALS
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The Sin of Overprotection
“Thou shalt not protect. Said No One Ever As I’ve been doing the work of intentionally reshaping my ministerial calling to becoming a non-anxious presence, a lot of things have been coming up for me—areas of tension that I want to surrender to the “Non-anxious Way”. For example, recently, I’ve been wondering what my life…
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Juneteenth – Liberation Takes a Holiday
“What do you mean there’s no Juneteenth Festival here?” Like ignoring Daylight Savings Time and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it seemed like Arizona was on its own page once again. Growing up with festivals that celebrated African African Heritage such as Juneteenth and Umoja Festivals in the Hampton Roads area of VA, I was…
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Chronophobia: Escaping the Prison of Time
For the person who wants to live forever, Time is not your friend. I don’t mean to sound morose. But if we’re being real—as it relates to time—if life were a prison, we’re all on death row and Time is the warden and executioner. It doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have, how long…
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Strong Too Long
…Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but God said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,…
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God’s Plan
Originally posted on It's All In Me – Poetry Blog: it started in the beginning it ended in the beginning the Peace and the war the losing and the Winning the time we have to wait the weight that comes with time the Word and the verse the pentameter and the rhyme the Hope for…
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Transformed by Thank You
The words “Thank you” are some of the most transformative words in any language. When we say, “Thank You”, we are acknowledging the presence of a positive and fruitful relationship between ourselves and the being toward whom our gratitude is extended.
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The Spirit of Aloha: A Silva Linings Conversation
We met under the most auspicious of circumstances when, unbeknownst to us, an earthquake was on the horizon and threat of a tsunami was looming. But, God saw it coming before any of the world’s most sensitive instruments and prepared us to meet just about 8 hours prior to the earthquake in Chile and subsequent…
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Looking For A “Change of Seen?
Originally posted on The Roofless Church: In a post I wrote recently, I talked about my desire to live into the Realm of Flow–aka willing surrender–perpetually. I expressed how over the past few months, I’ve been feeling deeply that the best contribution I can be to the communities of which I am a part is…
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Do Children Owe Their Parents? (My Black Perspective)
This is a question that was raised in a Black parenting group that I’m a part of. When I thought about the question, I recalled this scene from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner I saw when I was a child that changed my perspective on the parent/child relationship. The parent I lived with constantly reminded…
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Going With the Flow:The Way of the Mind
The first thing to know about the mind is that it is not a container that holds your thoughts like some kind of cerebral cookie jar. It is more like a stream upon which thoughts might float and dissolve into. You are not your thoughts. Nor are you simply your mind. The essential and incorruptible…
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