Category: Identity
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Road Trip With God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water – Full Circle
There’s no way I can completely explain to someone who is “uninitiated”, the things that were ministered to me for the next 19 hours because as it says in 1 Corinthians 2, “ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” …
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Under Pressure
Last week I saw this headline on Yahoo! that these brothers from the UK have done a remix of Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure. I’m in one of my distraction modes, so I click on it. Out comes these twins with these high top hairdos with back up dancer’s straight out of the 90’s. …
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The Business of Being Equal
One of my passions is Diversity and Inclusion. Of all the work available in the world, at this point in my life, I feel like this space is one where I can serve best . My story sounds like something out of a diversity handbook. Born to a multi-cultural family, very early on I dealt with issues that tend to separate…
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Being Who You Are
I remember the first time I heard cuss words. I was seven years old and had just recently moved to a neighborhood called Chesterfield Heights in Norfolk, VA. Until moving there I had been pretty sheltered from children outside of my family and none of us cussed. To this day, unless we are really trying…
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The Life You Were Born To Live
“Nice parking job,” are the first words I say to my friend Russ after not seeing him for almost thirteen years to the day. Several months ago we found each other again thanks to a Facebook Linkedin connection combo and now here we are at the Salt Lake International Airport. Has it really been 13 years? Why does it feel…
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How To Glow In the Dark
It’s creeping on 6AM on Sunday morning. I was hoping that I’d still be sleep until at least 8:30 AM or whenever Calista gets up because I haven’t had much sleep in the past few days. But nature and a flip in my stomach has me up. I need to write. This morning I need…
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I Sing Because I’m Happy
Someone I follow on Twitter posted a quote that said, “Birds don’t sing because they have an answer. They sing because they have a song.” I have never heard that one before, but it struck a chord with me and immediately led me to think about my younger brother Tony. As long as I’ve known…
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Evil Is Laziness
In writing this post, I am making the assumption that most of you who visit this blog have made the choice to deliberately investigate your life and are open to going as deep as possible to know yourself. I will also assume that you believe that it is possible to know yourself as your Creator knows you much the…
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You Are Not Your Thoughts
I’m fat. I’m skinny. I’m pretty. I’m ugly. I’m in style. I’m out of style. No one is looking at me. Everyone is looking at me. I’m special. I’m just like everyone else. I’m popular. I’m unpopular. And the list goes on and on. In fact, it’s been said that the average human brain processes…
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Life Is Who You Are, Not What You Do
How often have you heard the question, “So what do you do?”, when meeting people for the first time? How often do you ask that question yourself? And how would you feel if your answer was, “Oh, nothing right now. I was laid off.”? The fact is you probably would never say that. Even if you…
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