Tag: growth
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Uncomfortable Growth
When people are uncomfortable with your growth, eventually they’ll go. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve known them or the capacity in which you’ve known them, people will scatter once they see you climbing the ladder. As long as you’re equal you’re not any competition, because neither is ahead, but once the accolades and promotions…
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Who I became
I find it rather funny at times, how I’ve always willingly asked God to use me to help others, until it started to hurt me. Some people have proclaimed the very statement as I had done, not because it sounded good, but it made them look good. While I didn’t do it for likes or…
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Magnitude
5 months ago, I considered myself losing. I didn’t have a 9-5, I was depressed, stressed, I’d exhausted my savings, and I prayed that God would save me. Honestly, I was struggling in all areas: mentally, financially, spiritually, and emotionally. I questioned God and whether or not I should continue to pray, considering my prayers…
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Scattered seeds
I’m a lot of things! However, what I am not, is a Horticulturist, farmer, gardener, florist, or green thumb. I know nothing about plants, other than the fact that I absolutely love them! If you want to make me smile, happy, or are in need of a favor, buy me some roses or give me…
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Freed
I used to be a b****, and a bad one at that! I used to have a sharp attitude, and when I spoke, everyone got cut. I used to hurt people because I was hurt, but I only did it, because my misery desperately needed the company. I used to not be happy of others…
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Grow Up
If you’re reading this, you’re blessed! A lot of people aren’t able to, because they’re either blind or dead, but thank God you’re neither. Too often, we take the day and time for granted, because we feel it’s a guarantee, when it’s not even a promise. We go for days, weeks, months and years even,…
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Caterpillars and Butterflies
Before you ever learned to walk, you had to once crawl. Although many of us have reached adulthood, a number of us are still stuck in the infancy stage. Some are fearful of getting up, because they don’t know whether they’ll stand or fall. Others are simply lazy, and don’t want anything out of life,…
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I used to love you, but…..
I used to love you, but…..you’ve changed! I’m not saying that isn’t a good thing, but it just isn’t good for me You’ve taken away all of my benefits and have left me to fend for myself Now who am I going to use? I can’t make it without you, and even if I tried,…
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Just “Ripe” (You’ve been planted) The Conclusion
Now is the time to reap the harvest! You have blossomed into what God has created you to be! You should be very appreciative that He made you “take the scenic” route, and didn’t allow you to take any shortcuts. Had you taken the “quick and easy” route, you may have not ended up at…
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The Emergence (You’ve been planted) Pt. IV
It’s exposure time! You’ve been planted, watered and nurtured, now it’s time for you to rise and start the process of becoming exactly what you were created to do….BLOSSOM! You’re in God’s garden, planted amongst some of His finest creations! Everyone is looking at you and admiring your beauty, because they’ve never seen anything like…
Notes by La'Rue 