When a Mother Sees Something Greater I came across an argument that Tupac Shakur and Jesus can be understood through a similar archetype, and at first that comparison sounded almost too heavy to touch. I am not saying Tupac was Jesus, divine, or some modern-day Messiah. I am talking about the recurring human story of
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The Mind Can Get Stuck One of the most important things I have learned about the mind is that thinking about a problem is not always the same as solving it. Sometimes we convince ourselves that if we keep turning something over in our heads, eventually we will find the answer. We replay what happened,
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The Fish Does Not Need Swimming Lessons I heard somebody say that God created fish to swim, and a fish does not need swimming lessons because the ability is already inside it. That simple thought stayed with me because there is something beautiful about creation functioning according to its nature. A fish enters the water
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When Life Stops Looking Familiar There have been times in my life when everything that once felt settled suddenly started moving around. Relationships changed, friendships became distant, familiar routines stopped satisfying me, and things I once depended upon no longer felt like they belonged. When that happens, the first thought can be that something has
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The Need to Be Understood One of the hardest lessons I have had to learn is that everybody is not going to understand my heart. I can explain my intentions carefully, choose my words wisely, and still have somebody walk away believing something about me that simply is not true. That can be frustrating because
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When Manifesting Turns Into Obsessing One reason people feel like nothing is moving may have less to do with manifestation and more to do with what happens after they take action. You submit the application, post the video, send the proposal, say the prayer, launch the product, and then start checking every five minutes. At
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When the Present Moment Becomes Everything I have heard people say there is no real continuity of time and that everything exists only in this present moment. I understand why that idea can feel powerful, especially when somebody is trying to escape regret about yesterday or anxiety about tomorrow. There is something liberating about realizing
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When a Spiritual Teaching Makes Me Stop I recently came across a teaching from Derek Prince that made me stop and think because it touched directly on Black Christians, slavery, and spiritual freedom. Prince argued that Black Americans had been politically emancipated from slavery but had never fully experienced what he called spiritual emancipation. He
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Twenty Years of Manifestation in Plain Language I have listened to enough conversations about manifestation to understand why the idea attracts so many people. At its simplest, manifestation says that what we repeatedly think about can influence how we approach our lives. Some teachers call it the Law of Attraction, while others connect it to
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When Faith Meets Disappointment I was riding around one Sunday, thinking about life, faith, and the people who have been hurt by religious leaders they once trusted. There is a particular kind of pain that comes when somebody disappoints you after you have placed spiritual confidence in them. You may have trusted their words, respected
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