Tag: marriage
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Tuesday Motivation: Appreciate the Lessons…
I remind myself of this daily, especially when I encounter disappointments. My best friend always says everything happens for a reason and it truly does. You may not like the lesson that you learned from a hurtful situation but it is God’s way of shaping and molding you into the…
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Mara Prose Monday: What Does It Hurt?
Picture courtesy of Mom’s Inspired One of my biggest pet peeves has always been ‘know-it-alls’. I used to abhor people who felt the need to tell me what to do and how to do it because their way was supposedly superior to my own. It would burn me up inside…
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Friday Frankness: SweetSexySavage Intro ‘Understand Me Better’ Lyrics by Kehlani
Don’t you just love when song lyrics speak to you and touch your soul? I decided to listen to a recommendation sent to me by Spotify. The following Intro is from the artist Kehlani’s new album, SweetSexySavage. I had never heard of her before today but I feel as if…
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Thursday Thoughts: I can’t, I don’t, I won’t (A Mara Prose Poem)…
Picture courtesy of PerfectCloud I could heal you, but I won’t I could fight for you, but I don’t I could make you love me, but I can’t Mostly because it’s unnecessary work, so save your rants Your insecurities are not my responsibility Your emotional baggage will not be my testimony…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Impress Yourself
We spend a good part of life focusing on impressing others. We are saturated with information that tells us how to make lasting first impressions in everything from dates to interviews. You then have those who like to keep up with the jones and they are all about impressions –…
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Mara Prose Monday! What You Can’t Afford…
This meme spoke volumes to me when I first saw it on my Facebook timeline. It made me think of all the things in life we truly cannot afford. Generally, we think in terms of money and materialism when we discuss what we can and cannot afford. However, there are so…
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Tuesday Thoughts: In my feelings…(A Mara Prose Poem)
I’m sitting here feeling some kind of way I’m wondering why you couldn’t stay? Does everyone want the opposite of me? Can’t we all just let things be? So I am sitting here feeling some kind of way I don’t quite recognize myself yet But most importantly, we just met…
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Dating Tales: Mr. Imitator and His Shirtless Intruder
Today’s tale happened back in college for my family member. Loving our dating tales segment, she felt this would be a good tale to share with my Prosers. Enjoy! Back in college, Mia met a nice guy from the Kappa fraternity at a step show she was attending with a…
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Friday Frankness: When Someone Shows You Who They Are, PLEASE BELIEVE IT!
I cannot tell you how many people I have come across who always ignore the signs of someone’s true nature. Then they have the audacity to be shocked when things blow up, all because they never accepted who that person really was to begin with. Why do we think we…
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Thursday Motivation: Enjoy the Journey
Yesterday as I was heading home from work, it suddenly came to me to post the following on Facebook: All I want to say to everyone is please just enjoy the journey! Stop overthinking, stop trying to label everything, stop trying to understand everything and just learn to coast!…
