Tag: journey
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Keep living for grace unfiltered!
These days, whenever anyone asks how we are coping, I say with joy, with grace, with fortitude, with light. I share that those who know they belong to a higher power, can never cower when trouble comes. This is how they begin, in the middle of chaos. They know to get their wings ready, know…
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Keep communities!
In loving communities, my Nnem would say, you enter always to learn, but depart serving others. Keep this!
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Keep looking up!
If I had the right words, the right tone, the right answers, or the right feelings about the past week, it would seem as if things were indeed right. Nothing about these times we find ourselves in is right. More and more, are understanding that this isn’t a sprint and elections have consequences. Yet there…
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Keep things slow!
We wondered whether the colors that pass through the skies, some blue, some white, and some grey on occasion are the songs hearts that know grace sing. If so, we are singing and the skies are blazing at the sight of the evening sun, at the thought of things being slow…
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Keep naming your dreams!
In the middle of the chaos that was unfolding in the country yesterday, my team and I submitted a grant called Dreams. We had two choices. We could either go down the rabbit hole of what was unfolding yesterday or we could dream, stellar dreams of building communities that matter. We choose to build communities…
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Keep joy even in these moments!
We are being mandated to worship despair, being asked to choose chaos, being told confusion matters, all the while our healing and wellness declines. As a public health researcher passionate about healing my community and all those that love, love, I ask you to remember that choosing despair now, more than ever is pointless. It…
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Keep each day!
Night ends and though this day won’t happen again, we know where we stand, and see the light that shines, and the way we opened and reopened our heart, the way we knew the call was his for his sake, the way these words flow like a lake, is the reason why a day should…
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Keep the possibilities of dreams
If you ever find yourself spending days in glorious celebration of a cause, those that birthed dreams, even if the tip of your head, or the warmth of your soul, basks in moments full of grace, I hope they fill you still with memories full of possibilities.
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Keep sleeping in peace until we meet again!
They say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. With your family, you took the greatest step and we will forever be thankful that you were our first love. Continue to sleep well Papa until we meet again. Ps. These times of uneasiness are when you lean in to all…
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Keep this gift of light!
Light’s colorful tint, brightens everyday, reminding us to repeatedly fill our minds with light. Everything about these days make us live for these days, those days too when Papa first named us light. Keep it.
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Keep the delight of failures!
To my failures, those recent and those over a decade ago, those big and small, all of you bold yet with no hope, know that you are my delight, my highest degree of satisfaction, my pleasure, to all the ways you make me feel content, to all the struggles and joy you bring, to all…
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Keep grants for self-recovery!
bell hooks in Sisters of the yam, talked about the need for black women to engage in self-recovery. She was writing from the space of the continued devaluation of black womanhood, the extreme difficulties that make it hard for us to even develop a positive outlook of ourselves. Not only are we pitted against each…
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