Month: September 2013

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life

Isolated in a room full of people

You would think that with all the people around you, that profess with their mouths to love JESUS, one would not feel alone. WRONG!

I now feel like I am the only woman around me who feels like you can still go about courting and relationships the way it was designed. It’s hard to abstain in a culture that puts sex before EVERYthing. However, I know in my heart that I’d rather please God than fickle folk.

Men and women seem to believe they have know each other physically to be compatible. I know plenty of sexually active people who don’t know themselves. It’s kind of sad. If you can’t be in a relationship without sex, what do you have left. Is it honestly an eye opener to me. Do we really know the hearts of the people we entertain? What do you know about their aspirations? Their health? Their family? Their past? How can you build a future with someone you don’t know?

I feel like a stranger in a room full of people…but one day… That will be different.

Ivy Out

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life

Not a Name Tag

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So, I was having a conversation tonight with “Pastor Roo”, who is a man of the cloth and Omega Psi Phi, at the 429. It
was invigorating to us both to see a theatre of 20 and 30 something’s on fire for God. Openly. Then this happened:

Me to others: “you sure you know Jesus?”
Them to me: (arms folded in b-boy stance) yup
Me thinking: …you don’t act like it

…while acting all of this out, I said the following, “some people wear “Christian” like the name on their Walgreen’s badge.”

WOW. Seriously. Even as children we are taught to show how we feel. If you’re happy and you know it… (You can probably finish that) clap your hands. If you are Christian and you know it, then you really ought to show it.

Psalms 107:2 – let the REDEEMED of The Lord say so. The bought back. The purchased. We have been claimed by our kinsman redeemer – Jesus- the least we could do is “show some sign”.

A favorite of mine, Matthew 5:16 tells us to let our light shine! Someone is looking for the beacon that will lead them home. Someone is waiting for you to take off the badge and put on the life. What has Christ done for you? Tell someone. Live Redeemed. Not perfect, redeemed.

Ivy Out

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life

Minute clinic

There is a small ounce of peace that comes when you are delivered from people and their uncanny way of ridiculing your past mistakes. Aim to please God, period.