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Alethea Skinner
Sep 11, 20232 min read
Anchored or Drifting
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. (Isaiah 41:13) Just when I needed a verse,...
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Alethea Skinner
Oct 21, 20223 min read
If God...
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (1 John 4:11) Almost immediately, I think to myself, I am not God! There...
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Alethea Skinner
Oct 21, 20223 min read
Patience and Comfort
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour...
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Alethea Skinner
Sep 19, 20228 min read
Caught Between Fear and Desire
“I want to be a photographer.” Again, and again the words echoed through the deep recesses of my mind. Year after year I repeated the...
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Alethea Skinner
Aug 30, 20221 min read
The Question
Poem that reflects how couples respond to the aging process.
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Alethea Skinner
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Whose Opinion Matters?
You've been thrown back You're just too small You're still not good enough. You've been left behind And been closed out You're still not...
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Alethea Skinner
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Freedom Song
(A song for Aaliyah) I watched my momma cry When she saw that I would die Tryin' to be a gangsta thug Live a life she nevva dug Watched...
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Alethea Skinner
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Where Doodlebugs Play
(A Sharecropper’s Life) Dust clouds rise From the paths of clay In the summer sun Where doodlebugs play. Rows to hoe The old folks say...
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Alethea Skinner
Aug 9, 20222 min read
Watch out!
“Brethren, if any man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself...
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Alethea Skinner
Aug 9, 20222 min read
It's Too Much!
“There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that...
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Alethea Skinner
Aug 9, 20222 min read
I am OWNED
For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:...
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Alethea Skinner
Jul 3, 20222 min read
What is light about affliction?
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not...
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