Pretty in Pearls

I've had a blog on my heart and I have been going back and forth about how to word it. I don't ever want my blog to be one sided or for someone to feel like my blog is not for them. I understand everyone won't relate to every single post but I don't want to re-direct a reader from my blog either. So, I have decided to just go with it. This blog is about SUPPORT. Specifically, women supporting other women. Supporting each other and not making quick judgements and assumptions about someone you barely know. Over the years I have noticed that women find it really hard to support other women. When I see a female in a supervisor role, particularly for me, an African American female, instead of judging, turning my nose the other way, or jumping on the bandwagon with others that don't believe she is capable, I applaud her. I congratulate her. I let her success motivate me to do better. I SUPPORT HER. It's the crabs in a bucket mentality that I cannot understand. There...

Welcome back readers! I'm just going to jump right in to this one. I can deal with many things as a woman, as a sister, as a daughter, and as a wife. I recently had an encounter where someone said something and their words were only meant for evil. At that moment I had to trust what God told me to do. Filled with anger I wanted to respond SO bad...with every fiber of my being I wanted to use my words to cause just as much pain that had been spewed our way. BUT, sometimes silence is golden. (This is one of those meaningless relationships I spoke of in my last blog but it is also one I can't avoid completely. It's complicated).  Instead of responding I was the "bigger person" and said very little. I realize eventually being the bigger person gets old and I am almost at my breaking point with taking the high road with this person. I know this because it took me a while to accept that I did the "right" thing in this instance. I now know when you'...