Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts (TML)

(I posted this on my blog this week)

I GIVE UP

No, I have not traded in my pen for my webcam. While I love doing the Tea Time with Tracey video blogs, I am still a writer and it’s days like these…when my heart is heavy and I feel as though I have been forced backwards in time to the vulnerability of my youth…that only words on a page will do. And I guess I’ll start there. This is my truth for today. In these past 8 days since Ash Wednesday, I’ve been feeling a little broken. As t… Continue

I wrote this on my blog during the Inauguration and thought I'd share it with my sistah friends. I encourage you to check out and sign up to follow my blog at http://traceymichaellewis.blogspot.com.

In Him,
Tracey

My View of Change: The Inauguration of Barack Obama

The excitement is palpable as I sit in the Family Life Center of the church of my adulthood. I state it like that because there is a significant difference between the church of my childhood in Louisville, KY where, even in… Continue

Today, in the most unexpected way, I learned that the key to success is not having alot of money, or charisma, or even knowing the scriptures backward and forward. In my head, I think I knew that. But knowing what something is not...is not the same as know what something is. Now I know. In God's economy...in His Kingdom...the key to authentic success is gratefulness.

Strange, right? I thought so, too. I kept thinking, "Isn't gratefulness a product of success and not the other way around?"

As I… Continue

I wrote this on my blog and thought I'd share it with the Sistah's.
TMLG

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Want to control---or even eliminate---selfishness? I have the perfect solution! Get married.

I know that sounds a wee bit like an oxyclean commercial but...it is true nonetheless. Before I was married, I was consumed by my own dreams. Dreams of becoming an internationally respected writer. Owning and sustaining my own business. Being able to bless people in Oprah-like proportions. Every small thing mattered to me bec… Continue

THE MORNING AFTER
by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

Dreams are rarely shortsighted. In fact, they inherently consider not just the immediate impact of their manifestation but the ripple effect that is likely to occur in the hearts and minds of those who originate them as well as though who are blessed enough to see them come to pass.

The very prophetic nature of a dream is what drives the dreamer even when every circumstance and every reality says that what they see is improbable and impossibl… Continue