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The family poem

Every home has a family And every family has a home But some people live in broken homes And some homes have broken people Ultimately, what makes a home a home is us And what makes a family a family is really... love.

Work on it!

Mercy is a priority Forgiveness is the only way to maintain a pure heart Improvement is my standard There are no rules where anger and rage are concerned Stories are responsibilities - they have to be told If you want to be remembered for anything, be remembered for your worship Don't backslide - frontslide! Transformation starts from the heart. I need to reformat my heart. Life is not a competition - it is a race. Authority comes from submission With submission comes authority

Proverbs for the ministry

There is no glamour in full time ministry - it's all hard work, labour and toil and I love it. Ministry is when people use you, mock you, make fun of you, spit at you, push you around and hate you - that is true ministry.

Twisted Truth

I've never heard my husband been so passionate about anything in his life. But he was so expressive and raw and open about it. "That's why I hate you!" And "I'm so angry!". He said them twice just to confirm. I felt liberated. The truth had set me free. He was no more pretending to love me. He could finally sincerely and genuinely express his true feelings for me, after all these years.  I heard myself reply, "I want a divorce." It was mere illusion. I muttered not a word. I did the Christian thing -- I kept silent. I guess that was a good thing and that this tells us apart from the non-Christians. Others would have called it quits. What marriage is there when the underlying truth is that it was founded on hate? The whole point of marriage is love. Supposedly. But now we're dangling on covenant -- a contract, the law. And utter pretense. I saw unforgiveness as a sort of barrier. A protection. Like if I harbored it, it would protect me from ...