We’re called to please God. One of the indicators of pleasing God is our interactions with other. Pleasing God also means not pleasing people.

Three Iconic Words ,,, Just Do It,

Teach me to be restored and strengthened in the silence that heals, so that I can be empowered to fight against the silence that kills.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt you.

A familiar phrase we’ve known and heard that I’ve found not to be true.

“But I realized in order to prepare to preach, I would have to channel the persistence of the woman in the text. She was a woman who didn't want to stay in her condition.”