Sharing Words and Songs! - May!

 

Jesus Be The Name - Elevation

Helpless and Hopeless - Doug Williams

He Took Away My Pain - Sounds of Blackness

Just Another Day - Tessie Hill

 So Will I - Hillsong

He's Been Good - Carneal Overton

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0IWZSkhioo (Hold On. Change is coming - Sounds of Blackness)

Sharing Words & Songs - April!

 

The Resurrection of Jesus! (click link)

"Your nervous system doesn't heal by understanding the past.  It heals through enough safe and loving experiences that contradict the past" - unknown

(Click here for song) Searching - The Canton Spirituals

".....healing starts when you remove yourself from what keeps hurting you. Not when you keep trying to understand it" - J J D

March Sharing Words & Songs!

WORDS

Above quotes shared by Rikki

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln" (shared by Wallace)

Rev Jasper Williams' Prayer

SONGS

He Will Rescue Me - We The Kingdom

Captain of my Ship - Oleta Adams

Old Landmark - Dottie Peoples

He's a Battle Axe - Florida Mass Choir

I Got Saved - Elevation (Chris Brown)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt98BwxrM54

Old Gospel Medley

Chris Burney Old School Medley

Power - Mattie Hunter

Worthy - Cece Winans

Jesus Is My Rock! - Rev. Gerald Thompson

Homegoing - Victoria Hawking

 

Links of Interest

Rev Jesse Jackson's Funeral on ABC

Rev Jesse Jackson 1988 Convention Speech

Jesse Jackson reads "Sam I Am" on SNL

About Pullman Porters

Racism!

Palm Sunday - Scene from The Chosen

December Sharing! Words! Songs!

 

Songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EAUk0NkyfU Song: Find Your Rest (This song is AI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH74DWyJZAo Jesus Is Coming - Jeff Berry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuz3TcfBBoA Heal - Jamal Roberts (shared by Ursula)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61jFyY4ogRU Down through the years, the Lord's been good to me

A WORD:

October Sharing! Words! Songs!

 

A God Who Restores Monday, October 06 | Zechariah 1:1–20 On the Go? Listen Now! Most people are deeply shaped by their upbringing. They embody patterns of behavior they saw in their parents and pass that down to their children. It is difficult to break patterns of generational sin and dysfunction. Yet, this is exactly what the Lord called Israel to do in the first prophetic message of Zechariah. The idolatry, oppression, and unfaithfulness of Israel’s ancestors led to their exile and destruction. In Zechariah 1, the Lord warned Israel, “Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed” (v. 4). Instead, He called them to change their ways. The Lord had miraculously allowed Israel to return from exile. He now gave them a chance to start over. The people of Israel resolved to get it right this time (v. 6). Shortly after the first message, the Lord came again to Zechariah. The message is carefully dated by the reign of a Persian king (v. 7). This reminded Israel that they were still under the thumb of a foreign empire. Yet, the message is hopeful. Zechariah saw angels mounted on horses roaming the earth (v. 10). These angelic beings reported back what they discovered—a world at peace (v. 11). This peace was a contrast to the ruin of Jerusalem. The angel of the Lord pleaded on behalf of Judah and Jerusalem (v. 12). The Lord responded by promising a future for Jerusalem in which, “My towns will again overflow with prosperity” (v. 17). This promise looks forward to the time when the Messiah Jesus will return and rule from Jerusalem (Jer. 31:38–40; Isa. 60:4–9). The call to believers today is the same as it was to Israel, “Come near to God and he will come near to you” (James 4:8). Go Deeper What negative patterns were the people of Israel repeating? What patterns do you need to break in your family or your own history? We can be thankful to serve a God who restores. Pray with Us Father, we believe that You can restore all things. Help us to rely on You to change our lives. Redeem us from the patterns of sin in our families and communities and grant us hope for the future.

Above shared by Wallace  - from "Today In The Word" 

 

Quotes below shared by Wallace:

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today."

"The appetite grows by what it feeds on."

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted."

"Blessed is the one who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." (shared by Wallace)

Sharing Songs!

New Wine - Hillsong Worship

Order My Steps - GMWA Women of Worship  

My Soul Loves Jesus - Holiness Hymn

Good News - Vanessa Bell Armstrong (shared by Wallace)   

 

It Won't Be A Storm Always - Melvin Williams & Harvey Watkins       

 

March Sharing!

Spring forward tonight - March 9th

https://www.webmd.com/interaction-checker/default.htm (Drug Interactions Checker)

From Who Knew?:

To unstick stuck photographs, place them in the freezer for 1/2 hour and gently break apart with a butter knife. 

"The power of the Word will always fulfill the promise of the Word."

"My worth to God in public is what I am in private."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him." 

David Brinkley

"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere." 

Frank Clark

(Above shared by Wallace)

I love using YouVersion, and I think you will, too. You can study God’s Word, read and watch daily devotionals, pray with friends, and more! Get it here:

https://www.bible.com/app (by Rikki)

"In order for your dream to come true you must have a dream!" (shared by Wallace)

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/?cam=bourbonstreet  

Earthcam - New Orleans

"Faith is not hindered by delays. It is built by them."  Pastor Rich

"When you understand that God is never late, you wait differently."  Quinn Kelly (shared by Rikki)

"Just because you're afraid doesn't get you off the hook from obeying God." - Joyce Meyer (Rikki)

"The stories we tell ourselves about other people are up to us." - YouVersion (Rikki)

"Change will only occur when the fear of staying the same is greater than the fear of change" - Tony Robbins (Rikki)

Family Links Below: 

https://www.zola.com/wedding/oddanswer/registry (link for Wynton & Ashley's Registry)

(Kenan's Link below)

Here is the website stayfresh.co (candles) 

Here is a 20% OFF code, specifically for the Bell Family.

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Thanks! Kenan

                                                  Kenan - Stay Fresh Radio 01 (music)

Macellina & Wayne Odd's Registry Link for King Lynnox

Baby Registry: https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/macellina-amonoo-wayne-odd-february-2025-sacramento/2RE7PZYUC259N

https://www.punkkidsfilm.com/ (Available on Amazon Prime starring Wynton Odd)

 (Click here) for Macellina's Book

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August Sharing!

 

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever would."

Suzy Kassem

"Those that dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

John F. Kennedy

(Quotes above from Wallace)

"Funny thing about decisions. You don't seem to have to talk yourself into the right ones." - Blue Bloods

"We are trained to hide so many things from others;  fear, loneliness, doubt. 

The less we speak of our faults to others, the louder they roar in our own ears. Our flaws are a work in progress between ourselves and God." - Sister Monica Joan

 

(Quotes above from Rikki)

 

Let's Go, Family!!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/health/masks-covid-surge-wellness/index.html (from Wallace)

https://www.youtube.com/ocbfchurch (Added Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Church Links) Thanks to Sharon

https://www.aol.com/record-heat-recorded-dallas-scorching-151547623.html

 

Sharing Family Links Below

Feel free to contact Charisse to support Restored By His Grace. Amazon link no longer applies. 

(Kenan's Link below)

Here is the website stayfresh.co  

Here is a 20% OFF code, specifically for the Bell Family.

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100% all-natural soy wax candles hand poured into 100% recycled glass. 8 total scents available in 2 sizes: 10 oz. and 4.4 oz

Please share the link with any candle lovers in your extended families also.

Thanks! Kenan

Macellina's Book!

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(Journey's Dance Team)

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www.temu.com (Great prices on a variety of items. Be careful. Even people who don't like to shop can get reeled in. :))

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February Sharing!

"Sometimes we make choices in life, and sometimes choices make us."

Gayle Forman 

"We interpret what we see in light of what we believe."

Oswald Chambers

"You can never be betrayed by a stranger. It must be someone close to you!"

(above quotes from Wallace)

"If you can't fly then run,

ify you can't run then walk,

if you can't walk then crawl,

but whatever you do you have 

to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

On our last day of Black History month this year. 

(above from Billie)

https://www.covid.gov/tests (good link - even if you've already received tests in the past)

https://nutritionfacts.org/ (good link for nutrition questions)

Black History Links from National Archives

• Guide to Black History 
• NARA’s African American History subject portals, including Black Power, Migrations, Voting Rights, and World War I.
• African American Heritage web page
• African American records community on History Hub
• Records of the Black Experience in DocsTeach
• People in Black History

List of the 50 Greatest Books by Benjamin McElvoy (Classic Literature)

Authors and titles: 

1. Proust, Marcel – In Search of Lost Time 

2. Joyce, James - Ulysses 

3. Cervantes, Miguel de – Don Quixote 

4. García Márquez, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude 

5. Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby 

6. Melville, Herman – Moby Dick 

7. Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace 

8. Shakespeare, William - Hamlet 

9. Homer - The Odyssey 

10. Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary 

11. Alighieri, Dante – The Divine Comedy 

12. Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita 

13. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov 

14. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment 

15. Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights 

16. Salinger, J. D. – The Catcher in the Rye 

17. Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice 

18. Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

19. Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina 

20. Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 

21. Homer – The Iliad 

22. Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse 

23. Heller, Joseph – Catch-22 

24. Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness 

25. Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury 

26. Orwell, George - 1984 

27. Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations 

28. India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt – One Thousand and One Nights 

29. Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath 

30. Faulkner, William – Absalom, Absalom! 

31. Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man 

32. Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird 

33. Kafka, Franz – The Trial 

34. Stendhal – The Red and the Black 

35. Eliot, George – Middlemarch 

36. Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels 

37. Morrison, Toni - Beloved 

38. Woolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway 

39. Chekhov, Anton – The Stories of Anton Chekhov 

40. Camus, Albert - The Stranger 

41. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre 

42. Virgil – The Aeneid 

43. Borges, Jorge Luis – Collected Fiction 

44. Hemmingway, Ernest – The Sun Also Rises 

45. Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield 

46. Sterne, Laurence - Tristram Shandy 

47. Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass 

48. Mann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain 

49. Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 

50. Rushdie, Salmon – Midnight’s Children 

 

Sharing Family Links Below

https://smile.amazon.com/ (Use this link when shopping on Amazon to support Restored By His Grace 

(Above link from Charisse) 

Here is the website stayfresh.co  

Here is a 20% OFF code, specifically for the Bell Family.

Promo Code: BELLFAM

100% all-natural soy wax candles hand poured into 100% recycled glass. 8 total scents available in 2 sizes: 10 oz. and 4.4 oz

Please share the link with any candle lovers in your extended families also.

Thanks! Kenan

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