Posts from ‘July, 2008’

The United States of America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world but not immune to the consequences of poverty. Nearly 37 million U.S. citizens were living or below the poverty line in 2006- 7.8 million families. I was reading Rise Up, there was a feature about Lisa Gray-Garcia founder of Poor Magazine. [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I did post about Honor your parents. Now I am reading the book of Proverbs. In St. Louis we recently had scandal involving the police chief’s daughter misuse of impounded vehicles. Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is his father’s ruin, …… When I was a teenager my dad worked for [...]

This morning I was reading a news article One homeless man’s life: A Tale of Woe, I after reading the story I wanted to advocate for the homeless. Before I became homeless the last time, I felt for the homeless and I wished somebody would help them, but after my last experience I felt people [...]

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I was reading one of my favorite blogs today. They were talking about being a Good Samaritan to a woman that was having car trouble. I thought about how many times God has sent a Good Samaritan to help me. The Samaritan he sent were all different from me just like in the text there [...]

Upon arriving in Atlanta with my children and the clothes on my back, I thought about the children of Israel fleeing from the Egyptians. Manna is the food God provided for the Israelites while they were in the wilderness. I visited a church in Lithonia, Georgia and the banner in the church said “Out of [...]

In high school I first had the desire to write. I applied for the school newspaper, but I was not accepted. My church allowed me to write for their newsletter. The staff encouraged me to pursue a career in writing. I planned to go a community college with an emphasis in print. Then I got [...]

In a previous post   Rags to Riches, I talked about how when I was in college Professor Wilgers asked the class could a homeless person become a millionaire, Achieve the American Dream. I thought the question was crazy. My answer was no. After listening to the discussion for a while. I explained to the [...]

Yesterday I went to a 5linx meeting. The meeting was very crowded and the presenters asked the men to get up and let the women sit down. My Mother said why is he asking the men to give up there seats. A woman can stand just as good as a man. I told her remember [...]

I went to church Sunday and the Rev. Joan S. Parrot preached about Joseph’s family. She shared that despite being a blessed and highly favored family Joseph’s family ( Genesis) still had issues. In her sermon she exmained how his  family dealt with favoritism, polygmay and dishonest.   She explained  about how polygamy had a negative [...]