My beautiful niece, Keely Greene, authored this following poem… (Rest in Him baby). She gifted her poems to me. She said “Aunt Val, you pushed me because you believed in me. I am who I am because you loved me just as I was. I loved her with every single fiber in my body. This

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I Heard this poem for the first time when I was sitting in a group at the House of Ruth. I do not know who wrote it and the orator never told us. She just wanted us to hear the poem. She read it twice. I was there in the room, but I was the

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Do you ever feel like you are on a Hamster’s Wheel? Moving but not going anywhere? This can happen when we don’t get out of our way. How do you know when you are a Hamster’s Wheel? When you keep re-learning things. Remember, the teaching is not over until the lesson is learned.

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No is a sentence. It does not require an explanation of any sort. No is a powerful word that carries strength that some people don’t acknowledge. No means “not in any degree, not at all, not ever. Though it is a short word with only two letters, People do not seem to understand how powerful

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“Verbal abuse is a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of oral language, gestured language and written language directed to a victim.” Verbal abuse can be worse than physical abuse. Scars heals but words stay with us. Hearing someone that loves you (at least say they love you) berate you and make you

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