by Brie | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog Post, Devotional, Faith, Stories
“Let no one despise your youth but be an example to believers in faith, in speech, in conduct, in love and in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12 Anyone who has been a part of our Black Girls with Purpose community knows I’m very candid when it comes to being a...
by Brie | Nov 6, 2017 | Feature, Identity, Purpose, Relationships, Self-Love, Stories
Queen Smith is a storyteller and the founder of OpenSeat – a movement designed to gather women together to share meals and share stories. A West African native married to a natural born Texan, Queen grew up in a polygamous home where her father had six wives and...
by Brie | Oct 30, 2017 | Faith, Fear, Stories
In July of this year (2017) I attended the Pinky Promise Conference and it changed my life. They had phenomenal speakers, delicious food and fantastic fellowship. Out of all the phenomenal things that happened, however, one takeaway superseded the rest. Cornelius...
by Brie | Oct 27, 2017 | Faith, Fear, Stories, Trials
Immediately Jesus reached out His hand, caught hold of him and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” Matthew 14:31 The irony of Matthew 14:31 is striking. Two verses prior, Jesus tells Peter to climb out of a boat and Peter becomes the only man other...
by Brie | Sep 18, 2017 | Faith, Fear, motivation, Purpose, Stories
I wasn’t looking for a publisher one Tuesday morning when I received a phone call from Covenant Books. Nevertheless, I knew the call wasn’t an accident because I’d just started a fast about my devotional two days prior. “Hi this is *Barbara with Covenant Books. I was...
by Brie | Sep 11, 2017 | Faith, Stories
Have you ever done something crazy? Something you had second thoughts about even while you were in the process of doing it? You talked about it out loud to make it real but something inside you still said – you must be joking. That’s how I felt the night I stopped...