Saturday, June 11, 2011

I Challenge Me

I challenge me to be what I was created to be. I challenge me to be more than others thought I could be. I challenge me. I rise to that challenge. Then I exceed my every expectation!

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Put Me in the Number

We are always obsessed with being first. We want to be the best. No one wants to be rejected. No one wants to be last. But one blessing of last-ness is that you can't sink any lower... and truth about it is at least the last person is still a winner because he did finish without giving up.


I just want to be in the number!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Ever Suffered Abuse? An Except

Chances are that many of the people who purchase this book will have been raped or molested, or they know someone who has been. It isn’t as uncommon as we would like to believe.

Molestation happens across cultural lines. It happens across racial lines. It isn’t based upon intelligence. It isn’t based upon financial health. It may seem to happen more in poverty-stricken communities, but I can assure you that most of it just goes unreported. 

I found out the hard way that molestation isn’t just a black thing or a poor thing. It is a perversion thing. It happens to God’s called and chosen people, and it happens to the average Jane Doe in an average home. God created each of us with purpose. I don’t believe the enemy would waste his time tempting people to molest or rape a person who has no destiny and no call upon their life. Because of the very nature of the crime, it can be nothing less than a device of the enemy, one of his strongest weapons. 

Someone reading this book may think that they have never been molested when indeed they have been. A molester is a molester long before he touches his first victim. He is first guilty in his thoughts. Some men never actually touch their victims. They just think and fantasize about touching. They rent the videos of children with adults engaging in sex acts. Some molesters do it with the words of their mouths. They talk filth to children. They take advantage of their positions in those children’s lives. They open a door that should not be opened by planting filthy word images in young minds. Some of you haven’t actually been touched, but you have been molested. 



(An excerpt from Lacresha Hayes' bestseller, THE RAPE OF INNOCENCE: TAKING CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE. See the book blog.)

Saturday, May 7, 2011

The Break Up

He told me she was his friend. I knew differently. But how do you control your heart and make peace with your mind? I stayed and I stayed and I ignored and ignored. I lost myself and my esteem because I didn't want to lose him. Now, he's gone.

She has him now, probably because I never had him at all. My desperation, that ugly side, pushed him away. My clingy ways drove a wedge that my ultimatum couldn't remove. And so the woman with the most self-respect got the "prize" but in the end, I won. Now I know how to love me.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Carolyn Carroll, My Personal Prayer Warrior

This is one of the most important women in my life and I've never met her in person. She has taught me things I would have never imagined about the love of God and the staying power of man. I love you, Care, for posting the scriptures, the encouragement, and all the prayers.

If you're on Facebook, link to Carolyn Carroll and you'll see your own life change too.