Men, it’s time to do better. I’ve heard of way too many instances lately of men getting lost in their own egos, blinded by false pride and doing significant and permanent damage to their families and marriages. It breaks my heart, and it adds to my sincere desire to help men heal, grow and understand […]
PARADIGM SHIFT! “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” I believed this for many years; I TAUGHT this for many years. It took me through a wonderful journey of learning, experiencing, relating, helping, and most importantly- clarifying. Clarifying what? God’s purpose in my life. You see, before I started this journey to […]
Happy Sabbath, my friends! As many of you know, Gia and I keep the traditional Sabbath, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. The Sabbath is a time set aside from work and busy-ness so that we can rest and recover from our week, and study the Word, praise God in our devotions and prayer, and […]
I want you to think of what being in a relationship with the one you love the most feels like. Your soulmate, your spouse; or maybe who you dream this person to be if you haven’t met them yet. Maybe you are already in this relationship and get to experience the most amazing feelings of […]
I’ve been so quiet online lately. I needed some time away to really focus on my heart and my call, and work through some messy emotions that the old me would have swept under the rug. I would have simply looked beyond the negative feelings and focused on what I love, enjoy and what makes […]
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”’ Matthew 16:24-25 What does full surrender mean? What does […]
Today was a day that I could have created some massive storms, and it could have been really easy to complain about the rain. I slept horribly last night. Woke up sluggish, hard to focus on my morning devotions and routine. Ran a few minutes late for work because I was getting ready to go […]
Remember the movie 8 Mile? Eminem’s character was easily intimidated and had to struggle through a severe lack of confidence. In one of the biggest rap battles of his life, instead of focusing on the other person, he took the other person’s “ammo” away by making fun of himself. He didn’t care about stinging and […]
I can remember many years of trying to fill voids in my life with people who I wanted to be there because they were fun, engaging, attractive, and charismatic. I wanted them there because I saw qualities in them that I wanted for myself; things that I knew I could see in myself but couldn’t […]
Toxic masculinity is a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status and aggression. It’s the cultural ideal of manliness, where strength is everything while emotions are a weakness; where strength and toughness are yardsticks by which men are measured, while supposedly “feminine” traits—which can range from emotional vulnerability […]
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