When God led me to start Love Speaks Daily, I was in a dark place. I was recovering from church hurt, relationship hurt, financial hurt and all sorts of hurt. When I took my hurt to God, I was led to 1 John 4:16 and the words, "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in …
Lenten Devotional 2019
Day 40: Jesus, Our Silent Saturday
Before he came Hearts seeking Spirit Minds needing Peace Community health Distributed wealth Truth that tells Justice that rings Were all ignored by Silent treatment Code of silence Conspiracy of silence Deafening silence Wall of silence Heavy silence Consent through silence But While he …
Day 39: Jesus, Our Son of Man, Our Son of God
If someone had told me that it would come to this, I don’t know. Perhaps, I would have asked God to choose someone else. You grow up with all these stories about him, and you get caught up in the excitement and the promise of it all. You never really think that it could be like this, so …
Day 38: Jesus, Our Eternal King
John 9:15 is one of the saddest scenes in the story of Jesus’ arrest and trial, which started in Chapter 18 with the betrayal of Judas. Once again, the children of Israel rejected God’s offer to be their King. It reminds me of another time that the children of Israel rejected God’s offer to be their …
Day 37: Jesus, Our Replacement
For the past six months, I’ve been looking for a copy of a particular book. Because it is out of print, the prices for used copies are exorbitant. For a long time, I kept finding prices ranging from $100-$200. So, I gave up on finding the book at a reasonable price until the publisher decided to put …
Day 36: Jesus, Our Healing Touch
There is a ministry colleague of mine who has the gift of God’s healing touch. She just has a way of making a pat on the shoulder something significant. Recently, she was encouraging me to continue my training as an artist by giving me some pointers on how to improve a set of skills. As soon as she …
Day 35: Jesus, Our Real Love
Yesterday, I found out that someone I trusted lied to me. As I was reflecting on this, I thought about John 13:21, which states, “After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, ‘Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.’” It’s one thing to find out that someone …
Day 34: Jesus, Our Royalty
Ever since I’ve been a little girl, one of the things that all of my friends and I have watched have been royal weddings. Since I’ve been alive there have been four royal weddings in the UK. I don’t think I actually watched the first because I was only five months old, but I imagine that my family, …
Day 33: Jesus, Our Only Opinion That Matters
“You just can’t get everyone to like you, Patrice.” Growing up, those were words that I heard from the adults every time I got my feelings hurt because someone disliked me no matter how well I treated them. Yet, the need to be liked by everyone lingered into my adulthood. This need to …
Day 32: Jesus, Our Community Leader
I love singing and one of my favorite places to sing is in a choir. Early on, I discovered that unless I chose singing over writing, I would not excel in it enough to be a solo artist. To be a soloist in both, one must commit to the rigors of training to stand out from the group when called upon to …
