Here in Southern California, we have trash day each week. Each city has a designated waste pick-up day in which these automated trucks come and empty our black cans (regular waste), green cans (yard waste), and blue cans (recyclables). Now the waste department doesn’t bear all of the responsibility Read more…
A few years ago, I was multi-tasking. I was straightening up my bedroom, reading a romance novel and had Pastor Jamal Bryant’s television broadcast playing in the background. He said something so provoking that I was immediately snatched out of the romance and tuned in to his message. This man Read more…
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The nation was not ready for the changes his activism supported. The gaining of civil rights for an American underclass was scary to the societal upperclass. To see a marginalized group of people with a legal ability to achieve to the Read more…
Almost every Sunday morning I wake up to the Food Network. In my sleep, I can identify the time by the airing of the show that is breaking into my subconscious. Shortly after I open an eyelid, I grab my phone and go to my TD Jakes Bible App. This Read more…
John Gray just spit some fire on the Breakfast Club Morning Show. The entire interview with John and his lovely wife, Aventer, was incredible, but about three minutes into the clip I was already shouting and grabbing my notepad. The hosts mentioned the unbelieving state of young people today. This Read more…
If someone walks away from you, then they were not critical to your destiny. Now this statement here…is reminiscent of old-school wisdom learned at a grandparent’s knee. Back in the late 1990s/early 2000s I became an avid watcher of cable Christian programming. I encountered many men and women who spoke to Read more…
We are located by our words; let’s choose them with care. I was visiting a blog site a few years ago during a research-intensive about Heaven, modern-day revelators, and their experiences with the supernatural realm. In addition to reading about the near-death experiences, I also read the comments from the blog’s subscribers. Read more…
I was on a recent Delta flight from Southern California to Florida. I usually fly Southwest Airlines but found a much cheaper flight to spend the 3-day weekend with my best gal pals from high school. As I sat in my seat and greeted my seatmates, I looked around and Read more…
Hey there! I’m Colin. Most days, I’m absolutely loving life in Southern California. With a husband, 4 kiddos and a job as an educator, I’ve got my hands full. Lots of ‘wifing’, mothering (which-by the way-doesn’t end once children become legal-just saying/warning/advising), teaching, mentoring, daughtering, sistering and did I say Read more…