Author: esse11e

“Rose”

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Can the son not just melt your leaves into potpourri? Make the scent of your love last two steps closer to forever. Flowers are nice. But the 500 alarm and 1800 hours return home don’t afford me the 62 drips it takes to feed you, and keep your petals erect. Your needs and my time speak with different dialects. They’d frame it lack of trying that in just days you’re dying but I swear it ain’t neglect, so I’m asking. Please. Transform. ‘For a rose by any other name still smells as sweet.’ I beg the scent of your love to last closer to forever. Don’t deny the son’s rise. May He melt your leaves into potpourri.

Blame Game

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It’s not you – My expectations are sky escaping. They stand upon their pointe, tip-toed scraping Disappointment. The lions and tigers I bear in my chest as I realize I’m not high. Feeling every claw clinch upon my breath, I fear the possibility that it’s my breast… …not the hearts in eyes that paint the truest image of who I am inside my chest that holds your interest. IF I could keep my head when all about me tornadoed believing the world is just fine without me, It would be… …But it isn’t. -it’s not me, Either.

Living Single x Tony Evans

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OH! To speak of conviction! This book was just what I  needed. 25 & Single doesn’t have great appeal. It is often looked down upon, as evidenced by the “when are you going to get married?” and “Who’s your +1?” type of questions I hear all the time. I’ve found myself daydreaming about my future, faceless husband, and our “black*ish” kids playing frisbee in our apparently well-groomed, green fenced in backyard!… Ok, it’s never gone that far until just now… but let’s be real. As a woman, there is pressure to become a wife, to be swept off your feet by a knight in shining Ferragamo cap toes, a Skinny Burberry Tie, and a tailored suit to match. Maybe it’s completely different for a man; I mean, how do you “prove” your masculinity in a fallen world? I’ll leave you to answer that. POINT IS, THIS BOOK IS AMAZING! It gives the CHRISTIAN perspective on singlehood, its advantages, and just how to do it the way God intends it to be done. [Thanks to JNC for …

Life’s a Beach, if you let it be.

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We’ve all heard the expression “Life’s a Beach,” but let’s be honest, it isn’t… not unless you believe and work to make it as such. When I turn on the News at night, I’m left with nightmares, photographic memory haunts me at night as I try to conceive things my mind just will not. Life seems to be a desert, thirsty for hope but being fed disappointment. How can we stand in amphitheaters full of people, and still be all alone? Have you placed a seed? Have you watered it, so that it does not dwindle and die like all the other sultry plants around it? Have you loved it, as you might wish that your planter loved you? I challenge you to be better than what the world has to offer, I challenge you to make a difference. Speak to your neighbors. Wait for a response when you ask “how are you”… LISTEN! Have FAITH that things can be different, and work toward it. “There is no greater destruction to the world than the …