Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts's Blog, page 8
July 13, 2015
Bless Her Heart: Turning 40 as the Mother of a Preschooler
I remember thinking it even if I was too polite to say it aloud. When I graduated from high school in 1993 and a few of the girls who were graduating with me were pregnant with their first child or would be within a couple of years, I remember thinking, Why would they do that?…
July 6, 2015
What White Christians and Churches Can Do About Racism
So I guess I should have expected it. I did, in a way. After my last two blog posts about the Black Church burnings in the South and the mass murder in Charleston, the response was massive. On one extreme was the support and high fives of those who had been waiting for someone to…
July 1, 2015
Church, Your Legs Are Burning!
The outrage that is bubbling just under my skin, in my heart…is near boiling. Like Jeremiah, “…his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.” (Jeremiah 20:9) Only now…aliteral fire. Arson. 7 churches in the South. 7 predominantly…
June 30, 2015
Of Mountains and FlagPoles: The Courage to Scale and Risk it All
“I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” -Matthew 17:20b, NLT All paths come with obstacles. All roads will eventually lead through roadblocks and tollbooths, construction and detours.…
June 22, 2015
No Elsas (or Rachels) Here: Teaching My Daughter to “Identify” as Her Own Beautiful Self
Check this scene: K: *ties a blue towel around her neck and flips her ponytail over her shoulder* Look Mommy! I’m Elsa. Mommy: Ummm no. You’re K. K: *looks at me like I’m dumb* But I want to be Elsa! Mommy: Why, K? K: Because Elsa has pretty hair and dresses. Mommy: Well you have…
June 19, 2015
#Charleston. #Baltimore. #Ferguson. Hey Church! Where in the HELL are YOU?
Yes, I meant that. No, the title was not a mistake. I’m really asking. Church, where in all. this. hell. are you? Because when Black bodies that look scarily similar to my child’s, my husband’s, and mine are regularly burned and broken, it feels like a raging, unholy hell to me. So let’s not mince…
June 16, 2015
#DontforgetMcKinney – The Not-So-Special Case of a Black Girl in Suburbia (Guest Post)
By Shara D. Taylor I hated middle school. Most of my teachers hated me. Let me count the ways. I was called a disgrace to my race by a music teacher. I was told I’d become a drug-dealing jailbird by another music teacher. That lady was a former narcotics agent who probably shouldn’t have had…
May 26, 2015
The Kids (and We) Are All Right
Sometimes I worry. Scratch that. Most of the time I worry. I worry about whether my daughter is getting all she needs from me as her mother. Whether, as a freelance/entrepreneurial household, the bills will get paid. Whether hubby and I will survive the storms that inevitably come to most marriages. Whether I will ever…
May 22, 2015
Everything Christians Need to Know about the Duggar “Mistake”
I have friends who are/were fans of the show, “19 Kids and Counting…” And while I found so much of the show problematic, I never really judged them for liking it. Joked with them about it? Absolutely. Judged? No. And I still don’t. Howsomeever, in light of the recent admission by Josh Duggar (of TLC’s…
May 19, 2015
In God (and Mommy/Daddy) She Trusts
“Saw these at the bank today and was instantly transported to the back seat of my Daddy’s car, where my mother, brother and I would sit, waiting for Daddy to finish cleaning banks. A red or orange sucker was always in his big, beautiful hands when he finished—the perfect thank you to us for…
