She’s A Brown Eyed Girl Truly Kissed By The Sun, Beauty Beyond Pearls And All The Porcelain Dolls

God taught me this through tears, pain, arguments and sleepless nights. Crack open proverbs and you'll discover how to be kind and generous whilst still maintaining your character.

People will take you for a fool if you try to be nice to everyone. In this life you need to learn to put your foot down and be decisive about the things you won't tolerate in your life, regardless of who likes it or not. Trying to be a people pleaser will only leave you drained and taken advantage of. Once you uphold an image of someone of malliable character it's much easier for others to expect certain things from you without having in consideration your integrity and beliefs, to treat you any kind of way they desire and take advantage of your weak demeanor. Trying to people please is peasant behavior, you don't owe such treatment to anyone who doesn't deserve it, don't lower yourself to that. To hell what they think of you, they aren't paying your rent or bills.

ashley murphy and nardia boodoo backstage for sleeping beauty

“Someday someone won’t be afraid of how much you love. They won’t stay on the shore; they’ll meet you in the depths.”

— you weren’t made for shallow waters, your heart is an ocean // (via breanna-lynn)

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Von Goethe

Too much of God's love 💗

Song of Solomon 8:4

Take the warning seriously about love. (Songs of Solomon 8:4)

God wants you to enjoy love with the one He has given you. He wants to enjoy love with you. He wants you to enjoy love with the one He has given you. He wants you to enjoy it in a proper fashion. This is the reason God warns THREE times in the Song about stirring up or awakening love before its time.

“Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time.” (Song of Solomon 8:4, HCSB

The Song even acknowledges how hard it is to be this patient.

“Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick.” (Song of Solomon 5:8, HCSB)

Many times, we want to strike the spark of love before we are ready. God warns us to be patient. Of course, it doesn’t help that we live a society that pushes that on us. Society pressures us. Whether it is the pressure of giving gifts and cards on Valentine’s Day, or selling us sex in a movie like Fifty Shades of Grey, society wants to tell you how to love. We must remember Who our source of love is.

“The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8, HCSB)

God is love and He is our Source of love. We will not get the most satisfaction of love without Him. So we need to take God’s warning here seriously about romantic love. At the same time, we need to learn to be faithful and enjoy the one God gives us to express our love.

- from biblehub.com

I hope more Black women learn that we do NOT have to die on every hill. I hope more of us are selective in where we put our energy. I hope more of us become unwavering in our standards. I hope more of us realize that we have options even if we have preferences. I hope more of us realize that a happy, healthy, successful, carefree life can be protest enough. I want to see more of us unapologetically living well. I’m tired of being seen as a mule.

favourite films: The Prince of Egypt (1998)

“And there shall be a great cry in all of Egypt, such as there never has been or ever will be again!”