Toni V. Lee

Buckle up... After studying the preponderance of the evidence, I have come to the conclusion that people need to get over themselves.  If you think the absence of your presence or footprint, stops the show or impacts the significance and validity of the show, you are sadly mistaken. Why? You are important...but not THAT important.  I mean, it's not about you. It's bigger than you. Your participation is welcomed...but not needed. Why? Sweetie, you can't stop the show. Why? You are just not THAT important. What made you have such an over inflated view of the importance and impactfulness of YOU that you think you can stop the show by doing or not doing...whatever?  See, you ARE important...but your are NOT crucial. The show WILL go on with you...or without you.  Communities would be stronger, families would be more cohesive, churches would be operating on a higher level, relationships would be more enduring, friendships would last...if people would...just...get...over.....

It cuts deep when someone confides their heart tears to clergy or other church leadership, then the next time they attend service, they overhear the congregation whispering about their business or they catch folk swallowing their words mid-sentence because the sentence was about them.  During that same service, the Pastor will preach his heart out, the congregation will praise and worship enthusiastically, all while the person sits in their midst with a broken and bleeding heart. The person who was broken is not the problem. No, it's not them. 🙅🏾‍♀️The problem is every single tongue that participated in the breaking/slashing. That's called church hurt. It happens...a lot.  There is no perfect church. I agree 💯. BUT that is no excuse for operating in the flesh and hurting people in a place that should be a REFUGE from pain and heartache. Don't be that church. Just keepin' it real...

Make it make sense! 🤯  Let's talk about it...☕☕☕ It was disclosed that Bill Clinton got up to shenanigans with grown women who were not his wife, then lied about it. Evangelicals said his actions demonstrated a lack of moral character that made him unfit to serve as president. They emphasized the importance of fidelity and honesty in public officials. They rallied for his impeachment.  At that time, it was perfectly correct and Biblical to call out the wrongdoings of the President for the Bible informs us in Acts 5 we should submit to authority but be prepared to obey God, not man. An aside 👩🏾‍🏫: That word "submit" deserves a thorough study and break-down all on its own. It's being used by some as a tool to say, "Authority is given by God, those in authority can do/say whatever they want and it's right", "Do what I say with no questions asked", "I'm the law around here and what I say goes", "Check your brains and your Bib...

When you can see/read people, you want to let them know they're not gettin' over and that you're not stupid. There are times you can't because you're being checked and aren't allowed to say what you really really REALLY want to say 🤐. As blunt as I can be, I also swallow words. I'm not allowed to unsheathe the word knife from my mouth. 😁 But that doesn't stop my mental side-eye 👀 and silent, "Hmmph, they really think I don't know, don't they..." Maybe, it's just me. 🤷🏾‍♀️ I've said it many times before and I'm sayin' it again: People are somethin' ELSE...Christian people too. Sometimes, we're the absolute worse because we sanctimoniously wrap our ugly and "sometimey" behavior in scripture.  If being accepted by people is crucial to your self-worth, you will always wrestle with feeling you're not good enough or always at fault when really you're the victim of someone being messy, their proje...

Lord, deliver us from evil! Dear Lord, stay the hand of the enemy! Lord, please come and see about us! Dear God, help us! Lord, save us from...! These are "small" prayers 🙏🏽 that tumble around in my heart daily. My small world is comparatively ok, but I'm very aware that the hand of evil is reaching and touching. I see the hurt, lawlessness, and injustice and it's heartbreaking. 💔 SO heartbreaking. 💔😢 Some nights, my heart is so heavy because of events, I pray for a personal God encounter. I crave and need a personal, rejuvenating encounter with Him. A "I'm here...I've got you," kind of encounter. I had a dream Sunday night that was so vivid. Some of the scenes still replay in my mind. I'll share one here.  I was riding in a car with a Christian powerhouse --the sho' nuf born-again, Bible believin' kind. I looked out the window and stared at the clouds. The longer I looked up, a huge shape took on more  definition.  The Christian rid...

"We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian."                       - Adolf Hitler, October 27, 1928 Yes, Hitler really did say that. Let's talk about it... 👩🏾‍🏫 This was part of his tactics to deceive the German's Christian majority and gain their  support.  I wonder how many Christians called him a "Man of God" or "The Second Christ" during that time and got fightin' mad when someone pointed out the contradictions they'd seen...or perceived. 🤔 👩🏾‍🏫  Anywhoo...Hitler's tactic worked: Many Christians believed, received, and doggedly supported. 👩🏾‍🏫 After he used them to gain power and stopped playing Christian, the Christian reaction was mixed:   * Some resisted in any way they could.  * Some aided the oppressed and persecuted.  * Some continued to doggedly support Hitler.  * Some became Nazi informants (snitches) to aid his evil ...