“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance…” Galatians 5:22-23

This is the list every Christian is charged to achieve, to offer fresh fruit so others can receive of the Spirit of God, His salvation and refreshing. But the ripeness of my longsuffering has been suspect. In fact, sometimes my patience is just rotten and stinks. So as I teach my sons to be strong black biblical men I’m learning alongside them to consistently cease from taking charge in my strong black woman strength and allow God’s strength to empower me to walk in patience. I thank God for that opportunity. Read more about this in my latest EEW Magazine column.

My One Thousand Gifts List

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Tabitha watching the boys
Serving with Flynn at my first funeral
The smoothness of the funeral services
The thought-provoking and Christ-centered message of the eulogy
Witnessing the lover of the Tucker family
Janice Tucker inspiring me to be a loving mom
Having a deeper love for my family and seeing how the demonstration of it has caused them to demonstrate more love to me and each other and given the children more confidence
Nate and Justus being overjoyed to see me return from the funeral
Flynn picking Joshua up from school
Leftover meatloaf and hot water cornbread