Some of you won’t believe me, but yes, there is a gospel according to MJB! The gospel she sing comes from heartaches, failures and comebacks. The MJB gospel will dance with you, dry your tears, and tell you that you are “Just fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, oooh! ”
Listen, the MBJ gospel got me through the worse time in my life. I felt like I had the sister riding with me, each time I put the “No More Drama” CD in my car stereo. Each time I felt I couldn’t go home to a husband who greeted me with abuse, Queen Mary, reminded me “Not to Cry” no more!
Yes, there is a gospel according to the truthful Mary J. Blige. Ask any Black woman who has experience pain and triumph; that’s why she moves with a bounce in her hips!
Hello! Welcome to my personal blog. I write to express love, acceptance with inviting readers to see God in their spaces and hopefully see the image of God in themselves. I am an ordained minister in the Methodist tradition. I was ordained in 2009 and have served a various churches as an assistant and youth pastor. I am mother to a terrific young woman who I admire for her boldness with sticking with her passion of film making. I am a wife of a guy who loves and fight for social and economic justice all God's people.
I started this blog when I was 58 years old. My mother had just died, I retired from a job, not career, of over 37 years and moved to a new strange location. I didn't know what to do or how to be next. This soft sweet voice in my head says, why not just be yourself, authentic and unapologetic. I've been scared most of my life to live freely because of what others thought and even how the church told me I was suppose to be. But I don't ever want to be what others expect me to be, I want to be what God gifted inside of me. So with that, I open myself up to all of you. This is who I am.
Thank you for dropping in!
Rev. Jacqueline Pinkney
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