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Webster's Dictionary defines LOVE in three ways: The first is  an intense feeling of deep affection. The second is  a great interest and pleasure in something, such as football. And the third,  definition, which is a verb, is to  feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone.  Wikipedia  says l ove encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. What do you say love is or loves does?  For years I've said Love is a verb! But, here is the thing The Holy Word of God speaks much to what love is and what love does. So today, we taking an up close and personal look at the Key Word LOVE in the Old Testament of the Bible.  Please note, I have included links, so we can focus on the Bible Verses associated with the Key Word LOVE. Tomorrow we will look at Love in the New Testament. 'ahab H157 Strong's Number H157 matches the Hebrew אָהַב

A Legacy of Love

Today, this Granddaughter of a share cropper, born in nineteen hundred and sixty three is up early this morning waving the flag of LOVE. I'm waving it to the left and I'm waving it to the right. I'm waving it to the donkey and I'm waving it to the elephant. And I'm waving it to the  Coronavirus   in the air.  While studying the Prayers of Paul I discovered  New Testament Love . The Key Word LOVE occurs in the Biblical Text over four hundred times. The Song of Solomon uses the Key Word LOVE at least thirty times. The OT contains two hundred and forty occurrences, while the New Testament logs two hundred and two. But what I find most compelling is how we can trace a large usage of the Key Word Love to a person and his name is Paul. We know that Jesus's Sermon on the Mount is found in the New Testament Book of Matthew, but do we realize and this teaching uses the Key Word Love eleven times.  Incidentally  Paul, the writer of the bulk of The New Testament uses The

Today we loaded the artwork on our most active social media sites. Today, we are posturing our heart in the position of LOVE. And tomorrow we will continue steadfast in the direction of LOVE. But for now, we are focusing on graphics. 

Today we are CELEBRATING 150 YEARS of Black People READING & WRITING for the entire month of July! Part of our celebration includes the sharing of 31 Black Women Writers for 31 Days of July! Today is day four and our celebration turns to Ijeoma Oluo, also a recent NYT Best Selling Author! “Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort.”  ― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo

Today we are CELEBRATING 150 YEARS of Black People READING & WRITING for the entire month of July! Part of our celebration includes the sharing of 31 Black Women Writers for 31 Days of July! Today is day four and our celebration turns to Brittney Cooper, also a recent NYT Best Selling Author! “I eat white-lady tears for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”    ― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper

Today we continue CELEBRATING 150 YEARS of Black People READING & WRITING for the entire month of July! Part of our celebration includes the sharing of 31 Black Women Writers for 31 Days of July! Today is day three and our celebration turns to Layla F. Saad, a recent NYT Best Selling Author! “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”   ― Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Layla F. Saad

We are CELEBRATING 150 YEARS of READING & WRITING for the entire month of July! Part of our celebration includes the sharing of 31 Black Women Writers for 31 Days of July! Today our celebration turns to Latasha Morrison, a recent NYT Best Selling Author! “We have to recognize the image of God in one another. We have to love despite, and even because of, our differences.” “Jesus can make beauty from ashes, but the family of God must first see and acknowledge the ashes.”   ― Latasha Morrison, Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation Latasha Morrison

I've been up praying this morning! I'm over the moon EXCITED about CELEBRATING 150 years of Black People READING and WRITING in America! Although we are focusing on THE BLACK WOMAN this month we faithfully acknowledge that many WHITE women and men sacrificed much in the teaching! Note, the KEY WORD slave and or slavery is Biblical and used through out the Holy Word of God. The truth is America did not create or invent Slavery, God did!  But what America and only America created were Anti- Literacy Laws! NO other country has ever constructed a convenant of laws to insure the complete loss of communication amid a community of people.  So here we are one hundred and fifty years later ...  to be continued.

“White people desperately want to believe that only the lonely, isolated “whites only” club members are racist. This is why the word racist offends “nice white people” so deeply. It challenges their self-identification as good people. Sadly, most white people are more worried about being called racist than about whether or not their actions are in fact racist or harmful.”  ―  Austin Channing Brown,  I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Austin Channing Brown