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Don't Eat There!

Plates covered in cemented beans, spaghetti, dried up gravy, and/or something green you can't quite identify. A cup of soured milk. Glasses containing black hardened residue. The surface covered in a thick dark brown, sticky substance containing trapped baby roaches and flies. A bowl with some kind of nose wrinkling white liquid and a huge cockroach floating on the surface...  Would you willingly sit and eat 🍽 at this table?  We sit and eat at the table to maintain our strength, to get nourishment, for fellowship, to help each other, to build relationships, for comfort, for encouragement, and to maintain the family unit.  But...would you sit and eat at THIS table?  This table is filthy and messy! It's a bacteria breeding ground...a toxic nightmare. 🤮  If you eat at this table, you may very well pick up something that will make you severely ill or even kill you.  Again, would you sit and eat at this table?  I believe the answer to my question is a res...
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There Are Days...

Let's lay the halo to the side for a few. I promise it'll still be there at the end of the post, then you can put it back on.😁 You're saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost and that with a mighty burning fire 🙌🏾 (that's my COGIC upbringing right there), but there are days...😁 Be honest. Those days when your patience is runnin' on fumes and someone walks toward you with foolishness written on their forehead, so you start praying "Jesus, take the wheel!" and "Keep me, Jesus!" 😁 The entire time all of that is going on, "Don't come here today with that mess...NOT TODAY!" is tremblin' on your tongue and tryin' to push through the barrier of your teeth. Your finger☝🏽twitches to rise and your neck muscles tense to snake. 😁 It happens! No? Maybe, it's just me. 🤷🏾‍♀️ Sometimes, I yield to the help for which I prayed...Sometimes, I choose not to. I could say, "They made me...." but in all honesty, it ...
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Got Common Sense?

Statistical Analysts are saying that educational levels are being reflected in the guy in the White House's approval/disapproval ratings. True? I don't know. I DO know there's also high disapproval among folk who don't have degrees as well. Personally, I'd find it more interesting to see a Christian poll that shows the approval/disapproval ratings based upon the application of biblical precepts.  I grew up hearing stories from my mom’s friends and one of her teachers about how smart she was in school. I've often wondered what it would've been like if she could've nurtured that and not have to quit school to work in the fields like many others of her generation.  As I've seen posted many times, having a degree or education doesn't mean you have common sense. I TOTALLY agree with that. There are folk who are very smart and savvy and don't have a formal or higher education.  On the other hand, I also believe majoring in ignorance, mastering in w...
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Perspective Can Be Blinding

After the super bowl half-time show, I read so many complaints about how bad the show was.  Young folk loved it and laughed at the older folk who didn't get it. They decided to help their fellow Americans who didn't get it and sent around crypt notes. 😁 After the performance, the artist's sales soared, reels of the performance, reels of folk (all races, ages, and walks of life) dancing to "They Not Like Us" are everywhere. I saw a reel this morning of the reaction of the super bowl crowd during the performance and they were VERY engaged--singing along and dancing. I didn't watch the half-time show. I heard about it on FB.  If I hadn't sought and been open to receiving additional--and different--information, I'd have the same exact perspective as my FB friends because they would've been my only source.  Hmm...there's a lesson there. 🤔 Just keepin' it real...
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A Reservation to Dine With the Beasts

King Nebuchadnezzar did some awful things and was proud of his awful accomplishments. The Lord stripped him of that pride in the most embarrassing and demeaning way.  The source--the kingdom that he'd built through ruthlessness and cruelty--of his arrogance and pride was taken away from him. The Lord stripped him of his sanity and made him live with the beasts of the field for 7 years. This prideful and awful man ate grass like oxen and looked like a beast himself. What he didn't know was you can do whatever you think you're big enough and bad enough to do, thinking you're "winning" and are untouchable but there is One greater who sits high and looks low. One Word from Him can instantly topple man-made kingdoms and restore that which was taken. There are consequences when we willingly put our hope in false gods and clay rulers/kings. Israel was in exile 70 years! The number coincides with the number of violations the people of Judah committed against God's...
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Relationship Is Essential And Should Be Recognizable

Relationship is essential and should be recognizable. Through the years and varied relationships with people, I have come to the conclusion that there's a difference between Christians and born-again, Bible believing Christians.  I grew up in an old-fashioned COGIC sanctified church where there was an expected standard of living of anyone who said they were saved and any who knowingly dropped that standard were directed to the alter for repentance and renewal/refreshing. After I left home, I was able to differentiate between Church rules established for the good of the congregation and Bible teachings, but I'm SO grateful for the foundational teachings. In my experience, some Christians live like anything-goes-as-long-as-it-feels-good. It's a permissive way of living. You have no idea they're a Christian until they flip "the Christian here" switch.  On the other hand, born-again, Bible believing Christians have a relationship with Christ that permeates their e...
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They're Spinnin'

"Spinning in the grave" is a saying that means if a deceased person were alive, they would be extremely upset or angry about something currently happening. It implies they'd be so disturbed they would practically be "turning over" in their grave due to the situation.  In light of that, I wonder who's spinning 🔁 the hardest Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, the Apostle Paul, John of Patmos, or America's Founding Fathers.🤔 Just keepin' it real...
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