...waiting...

"He has made everything beautiful in its time." - Ecclesiastes 3:11

There is beauty in the waiting. Like those bulbs waiting patiently until it is their time to shine. He is working in me… in ways I can not see or fully understand. In the quiet and dark times, things are happening. Growing is happening. Changes are happening. Even if we do not see them.

In time, at the right time, in His time, we will see. This gives me comfort and so much hope! I do not have to see to know. I do not have to seek immediate gratification because things are coming.

Yi. B

Obedient Failure: (in)courage

Can you be an obedient failure?

What if you’ve done everything you should and nothing turns out like you thought it would? You don’t even feel or think the way you thought you would after all the hard work.

You start to wonder if you’ve failed.{You sure feel like a failure. Discouraged, disheartened, tired.}
Can those two words be planted next to each other – obedient & failure? Is that even possible as one of God’s daughters?...


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Not my Reflection

One point on which Creflo Dollar and both his daughters agree is that he walked into the kitchen and said, “Why are you crying?” He already knew why. I imagine that he asked his question with a bullying tone; I imagine there was an unspoken threat behind the question, a threat with which too many are familiar: I’ll give you something to cry about.

And to the question with the obvious answer, to the veiled threat, she didn’t give the response Dollar required.....

 
To read the rest of this survivor's reflection, go to her blog The Crunk Feminist Collection