Author: Jada B.
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Chess not Checkers
“To deny pain is to deny process. To deny process is to deny growth.” – random midnight thoughts. One more quote – “God plays the long game.” – Tara Leigh Cobble One of the most consoling feelings I have with God is knowing that He knows. He’s the potter and I am His clay, and…
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The Beauty of Unmarked Graves
For those who do not know, I grew up in the church. (#CertifiedChurchGirlie 😂💕) I stepped up in ministry as a praise and worship leader and then a minister of the Gospel in 2020. HOWEVER- of the Bible studies, vacation Bible school lessons, Sunday morning sermons, MIT classes, revivals, and even in my own personal…
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A Letter to My Friends
Girl. Transparently, I never thought we would meet here again. I stopped believing that I was worthy enough to write to you while feeling like God was ripping my carefully curated storyline apart. Quitting was easier than staying under the pressure. Lol and walking away didn’t stop nothing but those t-shirt sells and these blog…
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Falling in Love with the Fall
“If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying,” Denzel Washington. There is no success without struggle. No fortune without failure. No triumph without tears. While all of this sounds great, no one ever really takes the time to expound on the transition between hardship to harvest. We scream started from the bottom now we here,…
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The Rose & The Bee
“The flower does not dream of the bee. The flower just blossoms, then the bee comes.” – Mark Nepo For so long I spent irreplaceable time dreaming of my bee. The bee I would marry; the bee I would drive; the bee I would live in; the bee I would become in my career field;…
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Dear Young Church Girl
I have a theory. Travel with me. The biggest annoyance in your life is that you are living beneath who God has created you to be. There are areas are in my life that are constant annoyances. Constant frustration. And at the end of every self reflective conversation, the only person to really blame or…
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Dear Young Church Girl: The Ugly Truth
The past. The past shapes us. Builds character. Develops palettes and refines vision. The past can be the birthing place of great pain and beauty as well as serving as a historic foundation in our lives. The past serves as a road map of “how did we get here” when we or even the people…
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Dear Young Church Girl
Let them stare. Let them wonder. Let them whisper. Let them do whatever they deem necessary to make you and your story more digestible for their pallets. The truth is, they don’t matter as much as it feels they do. They don’t have as much pull as they want you to think that they do.…
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May Our Hearts Remember
I believe the thing standing in your way is your hearts inability or even refusal in some cases to remember. One of the things Holy Spirit does for each of us is help us to remember the things that God has told us (reference John 14:26). How many instructions lie at your feet untouched? How…
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Boundaries
Do you really love yourself if you don’t have them? “For God so loved (insert your name), that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perished, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 I’m learning. Above being obedient, above being kindhearted to the people I encounter, above being submissive and…
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