Holiday Grief

Grief will make you curse and hate the holidays. Grief will have you contemplating staying in bed. Grief will make you feel guilty about enjoying the holidays, you love.

Grief – a deep feeling of sorrow.

Grief is heavy enough on its own without you adding anything to it.

Instead, think about your loved ones who are no longer here. How did they spend the holidays? Truly think about it. How would they have celebrated? Have you thought about it? Good. Now ask yourself, is this (crying, depressed, despondent, angry, cussing, snapping off, not eating, attitude…) how they’d want me to be?

No. So, as hard as this will be, don’t allow grief to rob you of the moments you still have. Yes, you grieve, but you can also live.

If you need ways to handle grief, tune into last week’s Bible study. We gave ways to help make the weight of grief lighter.

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Praying for you. 💚

“Cast your burden on the Lord [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail).” Psalms‬ ‭55‬:‭22‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Are you grieving properly?

Last night, we continued our Bible Study Series, Weigh-In. The topic is grief because I’ve found that grief, when not managed properly, can become a weight.

In John 16, Jesus was preparing the disciples for His death, but they missed it. Sometimes, our loved ones can be preparing us too, but we’ll miss the preparation being focused on losing the person.

Are you grieving properly, especially during this holiday season?

Go back and watch the study as I have 6 ways to help you grieve.

Click the link to watch it on Facebook or YouTube.

Always know, I’m praying for you.

Pastor Kisha 💚

Conform vs Transform

I shared this to my #DearSis Vlog, but I felt the need to share part of it here.

Romans 12:2 tells us, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

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Here’s the thing. We are in the world, which means we already look like the world. Yet, it doesn’t mean we have to talk, act, live, think, and believe like the world.

Take the Transformers movie. They were not of this world, yet they had to conform to look like they were, to fit in. However, they couldn’t fight and win, in their conformed state because it held no power. The only way for them to fight and win, they had to transform into their rightful being.

Many of us are stuck, fighting, and losing because we conform when we should transform. Beloved, be free today by transforming into your rightful being. How do you do this? By renewing your mind.

Renewing, biblically, means a renovation, a complete change for the better.

Somebody’s testimony is going to being with, “Pardon the dust, I’m under construction!”

Catch the full message from Bible Study, by clicking this link: Bible Study with Pastor Kisha

Happy Friday! 💚

For Richer and For Poorer

Hey! Hey!

If you’ve been following the When the Vows Break Series, Book 3 is now available!

For Richer and For Poorer

Reginald and Georgia Harden have been enjoying their life together. From dating to proposal to marriage then designing and building their first home to finding out they were having a baby, things were great.

Until Reginald loses his job and all of his 401k savings on the same day.

Now, the happy life they’ve been creating is overshadowed by arguing, anger, debt, and misplaced blame.

In Book 3 of the What Did You Vow Series, find out if this marriage survives when part of the promise they vowed, “For Richer and For Poorer,” is put to the test.

For Richer and For Poorer

Hope!!

Today, someone is celebrating a birth while someone is grieving a death. Someone is celebrating the remission of cancer while someone is being diagnosed. Someone is dying while someone will live from the donation of their organs. Someone is contemplating suicide while someone else is celebrating this being the best time of their life. Someone is closing the doors of their worship center and a new one is opening. Someone is being fired while someone else is being hired. Someone is looking at the darkness of despair while someone is enjoying the light of happiness.

It’s called life and it’s hard.

Some days it’s harder than you think you can handle. Some days, life makes it hard to breathe.

But it’s life.

Does it make it easier when we still have questions like, why children die, why the innocent perish, why bad things happen, why can’t cancer be cured, etc.. NO!

Yet, here’s what I know. We must hold on to hope. The hope that tells us, it won’t always be like this. Hope that confirms God has us, cares about our wellbeing and He loves us.

Until then, while we have to scuffle with this thing called life, “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13”

Dear God, give us strength to hope. Give us strength to hope in expectancy of the day when all of our troubles will be over. Give us strength to hope even when it doesn’t seem like it’ll work out. Give us strength to hope even when it doesn’t work out the way we thought. For we know if we place our hope in you, there has to be joy that overflows. Hold and comfort us, letting us know we are not alone. Therefore, we will live, walk, run, stand, sit, sleep, and wait in hope. Amen.