Being persistent doesn’t always mean you beat it like a hammer. Sometimes you find creative methods to approach something that has been hard. Come at it from a different direction. Just don’t give up.
Bring Your Persistent Game
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Book of the Month
ReCovery
ReCovery from Privateers Series
On her first independent mission, Claire Moss finds herself babysitting a nineteen year old stowaway while looking for La Joya, the object that will change the game she has been playing with pirates.
Claire Moss, a fledgling private consultant, roams through Latin America looking for La Hoya, which her partner guarantees will be a game changer. After a year of peace, Minnie finds herself on the run from the organization she use to work for and partnering with the scariest man she ever met. Even though there is a bounty on her life, she believes God can save her from some very bad people. The organization that Joe works for has hit the hardest time ever, he struggles to keep his key position in the company while some around him want him dead. Joe has a plan that will change the fabric of the company and make him the head. They are all working toward the same end, but who will reach it first, the good ones or the evil ones?
Available on Amazon
Book of the Month
ReCovery from Privateers Series
On her first independent mission, Claire Moss finds herself babysitting a nineteen year old stowaway while looking for La Joya, the object that will change the game she has been playing with pirates.
Claire Moss, a fledgling private consultant, roams through Latin America looking for La Hoya, which her partner guarantees will be a game changer. After a year of peace, Minnie finds herself on the run from the organization she use to work for and partnering with the scariest man she ever met. Even though there is a bounty on her life, she believes God can save her from some very bad people. The organization that Joe works for has hit the hardest time ever, he struggles to keep his key position in the company while some around him want him dead. Joe has a plan that will change the fabric of the company and make him the head. They are all working toward the same end, but who will reach it first, the good ones or the evil ones?
Available on Amazon
Confidence
Sometimes you have to sit in the confidence of knowing who you belong to. For me, Jesus Christ has me on a path and I trust Him to complete it. He has taught me that He knows me well and plans for it.
Book of the Month
ReCovery from Privateers Series
On her first independent mission, Claire Moss finds herself babysitting a nineteen-year-old stowaway while looking for La Joya, the object that will change the game she has been playing with pirates. Claire Moss, a fledgling private consultant, roams through Latin America looking for La Hoya, which her partner guarantees will be a game changer. After a year of peace, Minnie finds herself on the run from the organization she use to work for and partnering with the scariest man she ever met. Even though there is a bounty on her life, she believes God can save her from some very bad people. The organization that Joe works for has hit the hardest time ever, he struggles to keep his key position in the company while some around him want him dead. Joe has a plan that will change the fabric of the company and make him the head. They are all working toward the same end, but who will reach it first, the good ones or the evil ones?Available on Amazon
Curious
The attribute of the week is curious. Defined as eager to know or learn something. In ReCovery, Claire’s curiosity drove her through her mission. This can be the thing that keeps you going. How does it work in your world?
March
Now is the time to march for justice. It is time to peacefully protest injustice.
Book of the Month
Destiny’s Dilemma
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
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Sample Chapter
But Zo’s time back East had given her a greater sense of who she was as a colored person. But Hattie needed to have words with her daughter today.
“Is your sister back?”
Hardy stopped and looked at her mother. Hardy was next to the oldest child for her mother. She was her father’s oldest. Unlike Zo, her skin was a rich creamy brown and her eyes matched. At 26 years old, she was the wife of a husband, John Oliver, who worked at the meat packing plant, mother of two and part time cook for a white Baptist minister. Her days and nights were full, but she also looked after her very sick mother. It was not as difficult since her oldest sister came back home. She only looked in on her mother while Zo went to town. She cooked too, because she didn’t think Zo knew how to.
“Mama, you asked me that ten minutes ago. She is not back yet. You know she has to go get the papers and sashay all over town. She need to get a job with her uppity self. She think she too good to clean and cook. What else can a woman do?”
“She got some education, Hardy. She can teach or nurse. She gonna do better than me.”
Hardy came back in the room.
“Ain’t nobody gonna do better than you, mama. You raised us, sent us to school…”
“I’m not talking about that. I mean she got some real book learning.”
“She smart, but you know that Rev Norris, is really smart too. He helped start a bible college right here in Fort Worth.”
“If I am asleep, you tell Zo to wake me up.”
Hardy knew that tone. She knew someone was going to get a whipping, even if it was just with words.
We Don’t Know
As we stand on this cliff of time and look back at our ancestors we have no idea what they went through. We think we know more than them because we have the benefit of knowing what happened to them, but we don’t really know.
We only know what they showed us. I doubt it can be a true representation of their experience. I think it was more of a code. It was a way of telling a story one way, but meaning something else. Like, she has a smile on her face, but what story does that smile really tell?
Women like Hattie McDaniel made the case for strong women characters who tell others what to do. She portrayed Mammy in Gone With the Wind, a role that won her an Academy Award for best supporting actress. Mammy is a slave who runs the house at a large plantation.
I wonder why she chose to play Mammy the way she did? Writers can write good things, but the actors portrayal is everything. I wonder what message was she sending us with her performance?
This weekend in the podcast, I reposted episode Are You Living Single or Designing Women? Both shows tell stories about women that will make you laugh or cry. They have strong female characters that embody attributes that I admire.
These women run the house. They run their own house. They run their own business. Like McDaniel, they challenge what we believe about our society and ourselves.
Pray
I don’t mean hope. I mean pray like you believe God will do it. Pray according to scripture. Remember you can’t pray curses and blessings from the same heart. If you want to spend your energy cursing someone then you need to go back to 1 and start again.
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