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Isaiah 64:8 Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. In partial continuation of my last post  Broken Bricks and dabbing fists with my post Diamonds & Pearls , I'm inclined to remain transparent with you all in order to prove my point.  So after my love life handed me a bag of stale crushed Flamin' Hots and slapped my freeze pop out of my hands, I hated myself.  I did not like anything about me.  I became my worst enemy.  (And I'm a poet and don't even know it ha!)  Not only that, my self-esteem was shot and my self-worth was at a critical all time low. No longer stewing in the thoughts of revenge, I was left with cleaning up the mess that I'd played a part in creating. But, I was like a baby playing in doo-doo. I was somewhat disinterested in really taking inventory and assessing my funk, because I didn't believe that it was actually a necessity.  What I ended up doi...

   Romans 12:19  Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. Doesn't it seem like Hollywood makes revenge look so good? Some of the greatest box office hits involve people who took matters into their own hands to avenge a wrong or even the death of someone close to them. I have too many of these movies old and new to name that are actually on my personal list of favorites. It's just something about watching the bad guy get what he deserves! Ha!  I believe it was the summer of 2008 when a friends with benefits relationship blew all the way up in my face. This on again, off again situationship had already taken it's toll on me emotionally anyway but I was holding on to it for dear life because in my naivete I was hoping it would work. Welp, this particular night I got hit in the face with a stop sign and the plug to this dying relationship was pulled. I...

Luke 6:37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.  After God created the heavens and the earth, since the earth was without form and void, and darkness looked upon the face of the deep, God had to JUDGE it in order to say out of His mouth, "Let there be light!"  God made an assessment about the state of the earth and saw that it needed light, then commanded that it be.  I find that all too often because people have been unfairly judged by others, that whenever God uses one of His chosen vessels to make a fair assessment of their behavior or character issue(s), they immediately clutch their pearls and cry foul by responding, "Don't judge me!" On the flip side, so many people have prematurely authorized themselves as judges going off of improper suppositions, automatically sending people to HELL!  A lot of these people are not even in good standing themselves wit...

Psalm 105:15  Saying, touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.  Though I would consider myself now, to be a full blown believer, that wasn't always the case for me. Before I cared anything about God, I was straight hood. Listen, BabyPhat used to be my favorite brand. #DontJudgeMe On top of that, I was very flip at the lip. I used to curse my girlfriends out in public. Me and their boyfriends stayed beefing. You couldn't tell me anything. When the rapper Lil Scrappy came out with No Problems and Triville with Neva Eva, I personally made both of them my anthem songs. This was my attitude, "Come for me and mines, OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!"  When I got saved, this mentality never really changed. My salvation simply added garnishments to my crappy attitude problem. I was still getting into it with people but they were fellow Christians, like senior saints, (I even ran up in a mother's face one time.), as well as sisters and brothers in Christ...

Genesis 2:21  So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.  Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. " According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%." -USGS Water Science School  Of all the miraculous episodes in this grand saga called the Bible, the creation of man and woman and their subsequent introduction to one another, has to be one of the most amazing accounts to me because it was the first recorded marriage among other things.  First, God took the dusts of the earth and created man. I personally would not just associate this dust with that of what you would find resting on a win...