Why is everything in my life so exasperatingly difficult? I bemoaned as I stood on the streetcorner by the university, waiting to cross the intersection. I envied the drivers whizzing by whileI walked two miles to pick up my seven-month-old daughter from the sitter’s house. I can’t even afford to take the city bus, I reminded…
As an island girl (read more about my story here), one of my favorite forms of relaxation is sitting in direct sunlight. I love the sun’s rays on my face. I love the warmth that permeates to my insides. I love feeling like I’m in the Caribbean no matter where I am geographically.Sunlight can be…
(That’s me pictured above!) Yay!!!!! It’s less than a week away! The release of my first book. The publication of my memoir entitledDivine Reversal. As I have read and reviewed the page proofs over the past few weeks, I have revisited my story again and again. My emotions have run the gamut, but mostly I am overwhelmed.Overcome….
Again, for the umpteenth time, I was paralyzed with fear, downcast with discouragement, and riddled with doubt. Cognitively, I knew I should not be afraid. Emotionally, I realized I had sunk to a low place. Spiritually, I recognized I needed to trust God and not doubt. But mental reasoning did not change my reality; I…
I wish I could say that I awoke this morning with a songin my heart. Or a spring in my step. Or a sense of excitement about the day.But the truth is that I lingered in bed far longer than I should have, with a sense of overwhelm threatening to latch on before I had…
Cinderella. Beauty and the Beast. A Christmas Carol. These are stories I never tire of hearing. What enchants my heart, time after time, is the possibility of radical transformation: A “spit upon” servant girl is the one the prince chooses as his bride in Cinderella. A gruesome beast becomes a dashing prince in Beauty and…