Tag: evolving soul
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Failure and success
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Failure has given me some of the most defining experiences of my life. It made me pause in my tracks, question my direction, and challenge the beliefs I once held with certainty. In those moments of disappointment, I was forced to confront what I thought I…
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#8 Travel diary: Fascination around my hair
The stories of beauty, variations, pain, time, struggles, and adventures, traumas, angsts surrounding black hair have been around for ages. Now with technology and evolving standards of beauty, no one can possibly exhaust the complexity surrounding this topic. Many people have attempted to make easier the life of women and girls like of my skin…
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#5 Travel diary: The shouting black man
Their feet are swift, their bodies light, save for the old stiff-jointed grannies wheeling walkers. They walk like ants in many lines except they are not together. They are unaware of the other person and each person seems completely disconnected from the human environment around them. It is not in a mistrusting way; it is…
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#6 Travel diary: Heaven in the South
I often times marvel at the works of God’s hands but in the case of the south of Bavaria, I am mesmerized. When God expresses Himself in the beauty of creation, you can’t help but adore. On this sunny summer day, I gazed at the sea of green fields and stretched my view beyond them…
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Face to face
Face to face and my tongue is tied. My racing heart and puzzled mind in utter wonder at how in their universe they deserve my meek smile, and I their cruelity. The only image in mind is that of their shouts when they say, “Smear some more… If it the image you have painted is…
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The opposite of love could be fear
Sounds strange, right ? But indulge my rambling ponder for three minutes: I once heard Trevor Noah say he kept his circle very small and didn’t make friends easily because he fears to put someone in a position where they could fail him; and that he in turn didn’t want to put himself in that…
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I see you.
Maybe it’s not all of you, but I see a lot of you, more of you than you purpose to give. The joy, the smiles, the depth. I see the fire, the zeal, the intellect, the wisdom, the hustle, the grind, the power of your will. I see how you knock down walls, how you…
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Lamp unto my feet
Guide every step, every mile, every milestone On this journey, never trodden, For it is only mine to take, and The destination is you To think of my frail knees, ever dwindling and faltering as they stride These feet never sure of their direction Between the messages of the mind, spirit, and body; Align them…
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Take a pause
Life can move so fast; sometimes at my busiest, I don’t remember on Friday what happened on Monday. There have been too many microevents. It’s better to take a pause. Stop and look around before you miss life as it is unfolding. The world as it is today seems to have different settings in this…
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Tender souls
Gazing into the dark, holding gentle hands, I know not to let my mind wander because golden moments are simply what they are, and that’s what I’ll take this for. I don’t know what love is. I only know that I want you well. Your joy is my joy, your hurt pains me. Your touch…
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On the good days
There won’t always be good days, but on the good days, I’ll be eternally grateful that I am on this beautiful journey. Every bit and piece, every stop and turn, every encounter is what makes it worthwhile. It’s like the strokes of the artist’s brush, painting the best work of art. It is what makes…
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Everyone has a story
Everyone has a story, Everyone has been through something (things) that changed them Everyone is hopefully evolving daily and even through moments And hopefully changing in all the ways that make us better and not bitter. So, don’t judge people by the chapter you walked in on
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Happiness in moments
If happy should be a destination, an aspiration, a goal, then what happens after and beyond happy? For something as fleeting, happy should only be enjoyed in moments; small and big ones alike. Like wind, moments sip through our hands. There is no constant grand pristine state of being or existence, unless you should be…
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Thank you Lord for…
Reciprocated love, the embrace of loved ones, the smiles of strangers, the cloth on my back, the resilience of my body, the strength and courage in my spirit, the roof that shelters me, the warmth of the sun, the promise it gives when it sets on the horizon before dusk, the promise fulfilled when it…
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Take care of yourself
” Take care of yourself so that when the people you love fall, your arms will be strong” Jennifer Laurence You should be self full to the point of overflowing in order to reach, touch and bless others. I used to fear self love because I mistook it for selfishness. There is a difference between…
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Love and Nurture
It’s often said that one shouldn’t speak about children and raising them unless they have had children of their own to raise. And yes, I absolutely believe that. I know nothing about raising one but I know a few things about being raised. Today I randomly came across a conversation between TD Jakes and Steve…
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Make mistakes …
“Make mistakes but don’t regret them. Regret is the hardest thing to carry when you get older.” This is the best advice I have heard today. Recently I had a huge imposter syndrome moment which is largely attributable to a period in which I had a long spell of fails and losses. I had lost…
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Love yourself with tenderness.
When you love yourself, be deliberate and tender. You are uniquely you and no one can be a better you. You are God’s gift to the world; His masterpiece. When you look at yourself, say those same sweet things to you that you’d say to the person you love. Be unconditional while at it. Invest…
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Do You Cry Too?
I admit it: I’m a “crier.” I sometimes cry during the national anthem; I’ve sometimes cried at an airshow when I feel the power and agility and precision of fighter jets. I cry during movies. Just last night I was watching a series of the history of Southeastern Conference Football, and I found myself […]…