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    The Positive Effects of Change, I have a Different Attitude!

    November 4, 2013 /

    I think one of the most powerful things that have had to happen due to my relocation, is the need for me to start over in a number of areas of my life. I actually have no other choice but to if I am to succeed moving forward in any assignment God places in my responsibility to steward. The Lord has given me fresh eyes, and revelation. I am being stretched and have moved away from my comfort zone, New York, home. During this season, God has humbled me on so many levels, and I am still being humbled and pruned. I love this season I am in. Though there…

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    Happy New Year! Hello to More Uncharted Waters!

    January 2, 2014

    Chapter Two | Lord Don’t You Care? | Day Nine

    August 25, 2009

    Book Release: A Perfect Recipe by Heather Lindsey

    August 12, 2013
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    It’s Me Oh Lord, Standing in Need of Prayer

    November 1, 2013 /

    “Don’t focus on your weaknesses; focus on your God.” – Pastor Joel Osteen Yesterday, I received a report about my health that essentially shook my world.  The news even came with pictures!  I am still trying to wrap my head around it. In a sense, I honestly can’t because if I do I will open a door for fear to enter in rather than let my faith to grow from within. I think I can actually list what I am experiencing in the natural as the physical manifestation of things I know that have been going on in the spirit.  There are dreams and things that I was supposed to…

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    5 Funny Things That Happened During & After Our Wedding Ceremony

    June 6, 2014

    His Day is Done – A Tribute Poem for Nelson Mandela by Dr. Maya Angelou

    December 8, 2013
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    There’s Joy in Repetition – A Patience Lesson Learned

    June 19, 2013 /

    I should have known better after reading a book on having a “Patient Attitude” I would be confronted with a patience test. I think I got a 65. However, I might have aced it if I remembered the chorus and name of one of my favorite Prince songs from back in the day… “Joy in Repetition…There’s Joy in Repetition.” Not everyone thinks, learns or reacts at the same rate or how you do. Don’t blame the pupil if your teaching methods are not garnering the results you desire. Take a step back, analyze the situation. Find what works for them and be patient and loving; you both will eventually get it……

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    5 Funny Things That Happened During & After Our Wedding Ceremony

    June 6, 2014

    Four Ladies I am Currently Crushing On

    May 9, 2014

    Chapter One | A Tale of Two Sisters | Day Four

    August 5, 2009
  • ..."but with God." Declaring it OUT LOUD cancels out EVERYTHING the enemy may be trying to whisper in your ear. - Lela Jefferson Fagan
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    Say it. Believe it. Receive it. Achieve it. @LelaJefferson

    May 29, 2013 /

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    Chapter Two | Lord Don’t You Care? | Day Eight

    August 18, 2009

    Making that Necessary 180 Degree Turn

    April 26, 2014

    Chapter One | A Tale of Two Sisters | Day Seven

    August 14, 2009
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    “Right Heart. Right Attitude.” By Joyce Meyer is jacking me UP (in a good way)!

    May 29, 2013 /

      “Right Heart. Right Attitude.”; by Joyce Meyer is the book I am currently reading or should I say is reading me.  I was introduced to the book after watching a series of episodes on the subject of “Attitudes” on Joyce Meyer’s “Enjoying Everyday Life” broadcast.  Auntie Joyce’s (what I affectionately call her) program is one of the word-based ones I record on my DVR.  I watch it and others during my devotional time. When I first watched the episodes, it was shortly after moving to Texas to live with my husband, Oji.  We had lived nearly 9 months separately after getting married!  We were/are in that delicate yet beautiful…

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    I Just Want To Go Home!

    February 24, 2014
    PRAY First. Proceed with God.

    STOP! PRAY First. Proceed With God. @LelaJefferson

    June 3, 2013

    Chapter Two | Lord Don’t You Care? | Day Thirteen

    October 7, 2009
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    How many times have you asked GOD to USE you in prayer?

    April 17, 2013 /

    Question…”How many times have you asked GOD to USE you in prayer? Yet, when HE actually calls you into service you run from HIS heavenly urging like a draft dodger… CHECK your HEART is it MOTIVES DRIVEN or SPIRIT LED?” Definition: USE (Verb) – Take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing a purpose or achieving a result; employ. The other day the above inquiry was one of my Facebook statuses. It was as much a question to me as it was to my network.  After recently relocating to Houston, I was confronted with having to ask myself this exact question on a number of topics:  From experiencing…

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    Chapter One | A Tale of Two Sisters | Day Six

    August 11, 2009

    Why I have a Personal Attitude Adjustment Plan

    July 11, 2013

    It’s Your Time by Joel Osteen (In Progress Book Review)

    August 9, 2013
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    P4CM Presents COUNTERFEIT GODS by Featured RHETORIC Poet Jefferson Bethke @JeffersonBethke

    April 12, 2013 /

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    Blackberry and Raspberry Bread (Dessert Recipe)

    October 10, 2013

    Reconnecting with the Family for the Holidays and Beyond

    December 28, 2013

    I Must Respectfully Disagree

    April 10, 2014
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    3 years, 2 months, and 13 days – This Girl is On Fire

    March 11, 2013 /

    Saturday marked 9 months since I said “I Do” to my husband and almost a month since my relocation to Texas to be with him.  3 years, 2 months, and 13 days since we began our courtship… It feels as if I have known him forever. Actually, it has been more than half my life.  The last time I saw him before we re-connected in early 2009; I was a young girl-woman heading out into the world with fire in my eyes.  I was ready to change the world. Now I am a married woman.  Still with fire in my eyes, yet now with a new purpose… God’s.  It’s still…

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    My 2013 Year-end Book Reading Schedule

    December 10, 2013

    Introducing the MommyWriter | Dominique Rambert

    September 9, 2009

    Book Release: Conquering Christian: Christian Conquers Superpower by Valerie Lenon-Reed

    August 12, 2013
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    I fail forward… Never backwards. Every experience has a moral/lesson attached to it.

    July 20, 2012 /

    What is an excuse?  My pastor regularly uses this quote “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”  ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin I took my driver’s road test today and failed.  I could use the excuse that it was raining cats and dogs here in New York.  Or the fact that the other student scheduled with me was talkative and nervous and overly excitable. Or that my DMV inspector decided to take a break just as we were preparing for our test. I could actually use any of those excuses however they would not be pointing the finger to who really was at fault …me. Spiritually,…

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    Happy New Year! Hello to More Uncharted Waters!

    January 2, 2014

    This may seem random… You were on my heart.

    June 5, 2014

    Book Release: A Perfect Recipe by Heather Lindsey

    August 12, 2013
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    What a Life Changing Experience… My First Visit to Linda

    March 18, 2012 /

    Hello Ladies! I just had to share this… highly personal experience with you.  Before preparing for my wedding, I had never thought of going to get professionally fitted for a bra.  I thought I was still the measurements I was when I first went bra shopping as a teenager with my older sister/cousin.  I thought when I began to see marking on my shoulders; it just meant I needed to replace my bra, not that it was poorly fitted. Or even with weight gains or losses my bra size had not changed so much.  I was so wrong! Last month, I went wedding dress shopping.  At the bridal shop, I…

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    March 26, 2014

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    August 12, 2013

    Introducing the MommyWriter | Dominique Rambert

    September 9, 2009
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