Just Because I’m Christian Does Not Mean I Won’t Cuss You
Ahem 😌 She lives and loves to kill them with kindness. But she also has the ability to to have you grasping your chest with the truth of it all. Now I am quite the meek one, quiet, likes to fade into the background. I’m also not the best at standing up…
I am a Woman and I am Scared
Blessing Olusegun. Sarah Everard. The thoughts that come to mind when I say their names… Horrible. Scary. Why her? Could it have been me? My blood runs cold because it could have been any one of us. I get scared all over again. As a woman, I have…
Ode to Mothers on Mother’s Day
Truly I tell you Motherhood has to be the single most hardest, yet rewarding roles undertaken. I’m no Mother, but I am arguably a fruit reaped from the Mothering I have experienced. I am grateful and blessed to have had the parenting that’s brought me to…
Melanin in this Skin
Do you know what it’s like to have melanin in your skin? To be degraded and labelled as “less than”? To be sidelined, bullied and harassed? For some people, these are not the first things that come to mind when we think about melanated skin. Most people…
Singleness in Church
Anyone else feel like being single in church is an almost-sin? I swear it’s treated like a disease we need to be cured from or something. Now I know a lot of Christians aspire to marriage, but let’s not make marriage a goal, rather a preferred part of…
How You Make Me Feel
My favourite thing about you is definitely your smile and second is your laugh – what a blesséd sound To be able to look at you and see the authenticity of your heart – what a loving spirit you hold Being a part of your life, I know I’m…
Church Hurt- Bible College Edition
How does one even begin? I’ll be honest, this has taken a good while to process and there is still a ways to go. But I’ve definitely come a long way. My relationship with church life has always been touch and go, not helped by my frequent…
Strength in Weakness
Anyone else feel like this lockdown is hitting harder the third time around? I do. It tires me out just to think about how it’s affecting me. Here’s the “sitch”: I prayed to God on the way to work in March (the day before I got sent home with a laptop to…
Sometimes a Phone Call isn’t Enough
It’s Saturday and I’m currently cooking some Jamaican Curry Chicken (if you know you know!) I woke up this morning and did seven hours of overtime 6-1 I felt proud of myself, ate some food then watched “This Is Us” (which is the best show I’ve seen in a…
He Gave Me Life
Sorrow, misery, hurt and despair Is this all that life has to offer? Dead ends, rejection and doors slammed in my face Again and again, never-ending. Feeling lost and alone in this dark, dark world No one to turn to, just me, myself and I. My only…