My friend Suzie always says, “I am blessed to be a blessing.” She loves to shop and when she finds something she likes, she’ll often buy one for someone else, too. Or if someone mentions they like something she has, she’ll sometimes just give it to them. My friend Zoe is known for this kind […]
Bless It Forward
I pray you are (or will soon be) having a blessed day. If you linked here from my devotion The Power of Encouraging Words, I’m so glad you stopped by! I’m amazed at what God can do with encouraging words. They can literally change the course of someone’s life. I know because they have mine. […]
Sankofa – Looking Back, Walking Forward
Friday night, Oct 10th, was the big event: Sankofa – Looking Back, Walking Forward – a Fashion Narrative. It was indescribable! One thousand women filled the sanctuary, enthralled by the women’s beauty and captivated by their stories. Here are the two directors introducing the show, Mary from Kenya and Rachel from DC. Three women gave […]
Cliff hanging…
So sorry to leave you with a cliff hanger from my last post. I was going to continue the story on Thursday but life swallowed me whole that day and I didn’t get to before I left on Friday to go out of town. I was speaking this weekend at a women’s retreat in the […]
Just Where I Needed to Be
God’s plans for my time with the Amani women unfolded in ways that I couldn’t have planned. It was abundantly more than I had asked for or imagined. I had originally only signed up to be a hostess. I thought it would be great to meet some women from Africa and invite them to stay […]