No Promises

Forgiveness Is Gift

The reason why most have a hard time forgiving others is because they to have a hard time forgiving themselves. True forgiveness comes with a chance to make things right. Forgiveness and prayer both do the work that we as humans cannot do.

Forgiveness is a learned behavior that's why it has no price and isn't sold in stores. Once you learn how to forgive yourself you then find it easy to forgive someone else, you also then have the knowledge of what is important enough to fight for.

Forgiveness has an impact on the choices that we make, the chances that we take and the relationships that we form. I say this because so many times we run right back to the very things that hurt us before and choose not to recognize it simply because the pain has a new face. I urge those of you who haven't leaned or discovered this unique gift to truly show yourself some love and give yourself the priceless gift of forgiveness.
~ penman notes

This Heart (Freestyle)

You put a gun to my head

Asking me to choose

Between you and my pride

And because I didn't know

Which one I wanted to lose

You pulled the trigger thus

Blowing God into my head

I sat in darkness while

He worked on my heart

At the end of those seven days

I had a funeral for my pride

My excuses and all the other chicks 

That I once chose over you

I then crawled back home asking

You to take me back but all

You saw was the shell of who

I used to be and because the word wasn't strong enough within me

I retreated to search out and find

The inner me while I was grinding

My heart was whining crying out

For you the Lord heard it's plea

And said enough was enough

Then released me to come home

But all you could still see was

The man I once was and all

I could see was my need for you

So I didn't let my light shine

Well here I am again trapped 

Between the threshold one foot out

While my heart is saying no way

You shouldn't leave so with

Nothing left to lose I'm going to

Show you what you stand to lose

Not just a poet, a lover or a husband

But a man crowded from God

Simply because of the work that

The Lord has done on this heart.

The Storm

I have yet to let it be seen who I am not just a poet or a man but something much, much more not because I said so but because God told me so.

~ penman notes

It's Your Choice

A Real Man

A Real Man

Will choose to forgive, love his wife like Christ loves the church, raise his children with structure based upon the Bible and give the advantage to his wife out of love instead of out force.

A Real Man

Will cover his wife's faults and stick by her side because he knows that sttubborn pride won't help his marriage survive.

A Real Man

Will pray for their wife without ceasing, remains ever hopeful despite the odds that he may face, become the example for those whom he leads and above all else allows God to set the standard for his house.

A Real Man

Isn't afraid to seek help if he sees that he needs it, accepts correction when he knows he's wrong, he accept responsibility for his actions and he learns how to deal with his problems instead of run away from them.

A Real Man

Will strive to produce fruits that helps his wife to see that he is willing to become who God called him to be.

A Real Man

Understands that it is love and prayer alone that can cause his wife to change, honors his promise to God and his wife, plus shows by his actions alone that he's willing to fight In order to protect the investment that they have both made.

A Real Man

Know that these qualities don't make him “soft”, but instead shows that he is willing to allow God to control his heart.

S.T.O.P.