Encouraging Editorials - [UN-ASSOCIATED]

“Sometimes, God has to break you down to build you back up.”

I say this because I recently learned nothing happens to us without God’s permission. Learning this unexpectedly freed me from …

Keep Showing Up

I realized that’s what life truly is at the end of the day, a compilation of us just “showing up” …

Accept and Expect Favor

If you are diligent with that scripture, then you cannot be fearful of the same things that everyone else is afraid of. You are exempt from …

It Be Like That Sometimes..

God is working on your behalf even when you can’t see it. But if we’re being honest, there are times that it feels as though you’re suffering …

Never Would Have Made It

Through the many trials and worries that I had stacked up against me, I saw the weakness that was me and my limited authority, but I also saw …

Breaking All the Rules

There is something to be said about the rules themselves, as well as who gets to decide what they are and more importantly, why more people, why society as a whole …

“Please take your rest as seriously as your hustle.”

Imagine getting to your purpose – identifying it, reaching it and achieving it, but being exhausted, never having given your mind, body or spirit rest …

New Wine, New Season

Make room for new thoughts, new habits, and new lifestyles. Let the stretch of change allow God to prune you and give a glimpse of the …

There’s Beauty in the Sadness

For the longest time, I kept that Christian smile plastered on to save face when in actuality, I felt horrible. All because I didn’t want to …

Forging On In (Spite of) Fear

If you must do it afraid, I hope at the very core of your heart, you have the boldness to take what comes after your step or leap of faith …

A Bird’s Eye View

I feel that quarantine and COVID-19 have taught many of us that no job or thing will be greater than the preservation of ourselves at the …

Good Grief

At some point, I had to be honest about the roots grief had taken and let God in to pull them out…

UA Archive: “It’s not about the destination but the journey.”

If we stay the course without veering off to the end, where we believe things will be better and easier, we arrive, instead, exactly where God wants us …

Keep Going

The constant guarantee in this life is that we as individuals will go through things. We will face doubt and fear from people and even ourselves. But the biggest weapon we have is …

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

The turtle didn’t dwell on all the previous times he had probably lost to the rabbit. He looked at this challenge with a fresh set of eyes …

Are You Ready for a New Thing?

We are called to wait for His perfect timing for those things to come. The question is, what can we do while we wait?

Working While Single

Being a follower of Christ is understanding that God created you with tasks, and He will equip you to do them. Depending on the task, that may mean a spouse or singleness…

Uncharted Territory

I am walking in a reality not known by generations before me which gives God a lot of room to do a new thing in this uncharted territory…

We Plan, God Laughs

He knows the plans He has for us and when He sees ours, the plans we in our flesh make, they are not nearly as immense or grand as what He …

Bring Your Shield to the Feast

There is no in-between with him – he does not take chances. This destroyer knows only to destroy. He will twist the truth if that is what …

For His Glory

Because again I wondered, why me, Lord?! Is this the payment for sin I have done? The questioning left my mind blank and that’s when a still …