Author: kwoyafaginmaples
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Remove Unforgiveness: (Part 7) How to Get it Done
Reader, this is the last part of the series. You may not read beyond this sentence, but I hope you will. No doubt, removing unforgiveness requires taking a risk you may not be willing to take.
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Remove Unforgiveness: the sound of your voice
Your words are truly powerful. You have the ability to speak life or death–negativity– into your life and situation with your voice. This is considered true in pretty much every religious context, but has also been acknowledged in psychology and scientific contexts as well. What we speak out of our mouths matters.
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Remove Unforgiveness: The Enemy (Part 5)
Have you ever been past anger? I mean—virulently and completely livid with someone for something they did? Now here’s the second part of this line of questioning: Have you ever found out later that you were wrong? That you had misdirected your anger? This happened to me just recently. And I really thought I was…
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Remove Unforgiveness: The Evidence (Part 4)
As a creative writer, it’s hard to type this, but imagine yourself as a garden. Because this is the point in the series where the often-used symbols of seeds, plants, and fruits come in.
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Remove Unforgiveness: (Part 3)
Have you written your Kill List? . When I finished writing out my own list, I wrote a brief description of what each offender had done. I looked carefully at the details of the offenses. The verbs of what people had done.
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Remove Unforgiveness: (Part 2) The Kill List
You have a right to be angry. You have a right to protect yourself. You have the right to let anger move through you. You have a right to let it out of your body and spirit so it doesn’t take up deadly residence as unforgiveness.
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Remove Unforgiveness (Part 1)
“Remove Unforgiveness.” God spoke these words to me in February 2020.
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Write Your Book in 2019
If you are afraid of writing something bad, you may never write.
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And Then You’re Holding a Copy of Your First Book
It happens to all of us. Some mornings I wake and immediately shake my head. It’s because before I begin the day, I’m already physically or emotionally exhausted, and I wonder how I’ll do it. How will I get through my to-do list when I already feel so tired and overwhelmed?
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Exercise is to Writing as Writing is to Exercise
Writers write. Writers work-out, too. While we spend a lot of time mulling over ideas, working, and generally adulting, we also workout. I LOVE seeing photos on social media of writers going to the gym.
Kwoya Fagin Maples 