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How Can I Change My Life for the Better?

Leave a Comment / Inspiration, Self-Improvement / By Jacqueline

God knows you work hard daily. You desire a better life and are ready for a change. Tired. Exhausted. And, get little to no results. The tasks can feel daunting and overwhelming. Here's a reality when nothing works where you are, it's time to move to another area. This area may mean a physical move …

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[PODCAST] Why Pursuing Your Happyness Matters

Leave a Comment / Inspiration, Self-Improvement, Writing / By Jacqueline

Pursue your happyness no matter what Your happyness (Yes, spelled with a "Why") matters. It is vital to your health and well-being. Often times people lose themselves in others, wrong relationships, toxic people and places. I've seen folk get so wrapped up and tangled up in stuff till they don't know how to get out or remember …

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Black Woman Proves Successful with Structured Writing Model for Low-Performing Students & Adult Learner Drop-Outs

Leave a Comment / Inspiration, Writing / By Jacqueline

Jacqueline T. Hill, the Writer Arlington, TX — Another teacher exits the classroom. But, it’s not because of the stresses, classroom behaviors and loads of paperwork. Teachers have 50 minutes to teach your 8th grader or high school child how to write. This is not enough time to prepare struggling writers for various careers and college. …

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Why It's Time To Leave Unhealthy Friendships

Leave a Comment / Inspiration, Self-Improvement / By Jacqueline

Healthy is when your mental and physical conditions are free from infection and (abusive) control. Friendships are sacred and beautiful. Providing all persons understand boundaries and respect one another's temperaments, real friendships will last. Do not call EVERYONE you meet a friend. Sadly, we have to add adjectives like "true" or "real" or "bad" …

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Compassion

Leave a Comment / Inspiration, Self-Improvement / By Jacqueline

“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, …

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Us to a Flower

Leave a Comment / Inspiration / By Jacqueline

From one of my favorite Christian thinkers, Henri Nouwen: Us to a flower: "Why can't you be useful? Can't you get busy someway?" Flower: ‘I am sorry, sir, but I am just here to be beautiful.’" In other words, the teacher’s role is first to help a person realize who he/she is in Christ, and …

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…More about Love

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“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like …

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Feeling Prophetically Poetic

Leave a Comment / Inspiration / By Jacqueline

Rethinking Shakespeare's Sonnet 18-Line 1, in Particular Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? I'm in a space of prayer, where asking Abba to baptize me with fire daily is bitter sweet. While I enjoy waking to the Son's-light-and-sweetness, His rays are yet tenderly and potently burning within me. This prophetic sensation …

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It seems like

Leave a Comment / Inspiration / By Jacqueline

the more the Scorpions sting me, I love them deeper. It has to be Abba. Yet, as I die, Christ lives in me wanting to love them beyond the pain. I feel it with every fiber of my being. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Fear. Fearful. Fearless. Righteous Fear.

Leave a Comment / Inspiration / By Jacqueline

My fiance texted a small portion of Nelson Mandela's speech to me the other day. While I was preparing my classroom, the words mandated a pause. The sun became still that instant. The Lord whispered, "watch, pray and listen." Many truths unfolded the remainder of this week. I can feel Abba pushing me to run, …

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