I made a promise to God yesterday. I said, “God, I will read the Bible for one hour today, I promise in the name of Jesus.” As soon as that came out of my mouth I knew that I had just told an untruth, an untruth that would haunt me for the rest of the […]
MARRIAGE & MELANIN
You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. We will make it through this. The words were written in irregular handwriting outside the lines that sought to contain them. They were written in red, scrawled across a page torn haphazardly from a notebook. They were courting words, wooing words – words meant for […]
FINDING JOY APART
In today’s world we have so many options available to help us feel connected. Between our MySpace pages, our Facebook status updates and our tweeting on Twitter, it seems that we can keep track of every moment of our days and our friends’ days as well. Yet with all of this technology designed to keep […]