This past weekend we just experienced the ultimate in caring. Some of us celebrated Resurrection Sunday that remembers the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He laid down his life so that we can have a personal relationship with God. He did this because He cared. He lived a life to show us what caring looked like.
He left us with the message to go and do likewise…
Some of us are the throes of Spring, while some of us are still waiting. These are roses from my Mother’s Rose Bushes.
Connections
In this adventure thriller, Connections, Sandy and her best friend found missing relatives, spied on cheating spouses and caught a few bail jumpers. This private investigator never imagined the bad guys would chase her.
Running for her life, Sandy Herrick discovered that God was the only one with her who wasn’t talking smack, trying to kill her or get into her pants. As she and her friends try to figure out who framed them, they all discover that there was more to each other than they thought they knew.
As evil forces closed in on them, they have to determine who they trust and what they believe about each other. Would this be enough to save them?
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The 1960s was a world turned upside down. From 1967 to 1969 the chaos of politics and war left people finding solace in television and music. The Sistas talk about the shows and the music that were part of the revolution. Their special guest, Brenda Derrick gives them insight into what the time was really like.
Listen Decades Episode 3
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My faith is shown in serving hands
My Cultural Beauty in those beautiful girls
A shower curtain.
A Clock.
Coasters or so much more. Black Gyrl Art
Dr. Maya Angelou
As African kingdoms begin to rise and fall, outsiders begin to creep in with eyes on the treasures throughout the land.
In 1200 Mali Empire rises under Sunjata Keita and after 1250 expands to the Atlantic coast.
In 1324 Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, pilgrimages to Mecca
In 1413 Portuguese voyagers landed on the African Coast.
By 1444 the first African captives were sold in Europe.
Toby Green in Fistful of Shells wrote that medieval Europeans named African regions based on “commodities on offer for exchange…Ivory Coast, Grain Coast (modern Liberia) and the Slave Coast (between modern Benin and southwestern Nigeria).” Green said it became a continent thought of in terms of what could be extracted or consumed. Europeans were not the only ones who thought of the continent in that way, because trade routes to the middle east existed before the Europeans came.
Caring looks like compassion.
This week I heard a teacher say God wants us to care.
She pointed out that one of the first ways He introduces Himself to man in Exodus 34:6 is that he is Compassionate.
He is cares. We should care too.
Here is more from my Mother’s Rose Bushes. Again we focus on the blooms.
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