Author: Sherry Boykin

Honoring Dr. King By Honoring His Mother

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• Post published:January 17, 2022
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The Day I Learned to Fish, For Real

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:January 15, 2022
• Post category:Peruvian Amazon Jungle
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Several of us from the Peruvian Amazon village of Grau took a trip one day in a long, tall, peke-peke canoe to visit a friend about an hour away. About…

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What a Black Woman in Brooklyn Has in Common with a Jewish Woman in Antiquity

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:January 6, 2022
• Post category:Biblical Narratives/Overcoming Obstacles/Personal Development/Personal Stories of Faith
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At six-years old, I overheard someone say my father was dead. I did not yet fully understand the finality of dead, but I sort of understood that after that day,…

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At What Point Does Your Gratefulness Start to Look Unseemly?

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:August 6, 2021
• Post category:Christian Lifestyle/Epilogues
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I stood still and stared at this sculpted masterpiece in New York City’s Battery Park this week. Something about it made me want to cry and something about it made…

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Learning to Live in Your Epilogue

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:July 29, 2021
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When God moves, He moves. And I'm so very grateful for that--a little stuck, perhaps, but grateful just the same.Every woman in Scripture I've ever spoken about eventually comes to…

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How Epilogues Keep You in the Game When You Feel Like Giving Up

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:May 25, 2021
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When I was seven years old, I heard the word epilogue for the very first time. I remember it so clearly because we were all at my great-grandparents’ house where…

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Sometimes You Just Mess Up

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:February 19, 2021
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I was so proud of myself that I straightened my posture until I was a full six inches taller than normal. I was on my first Amazon River trip to…

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How to Get Your Kids to Remember What God Has Done

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:September 18, 2020
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Here's an easy way you and your kids can remember what Dod has done--on purpose! Build an altar! (I did this with our daughter and now you can, too!) To celebrate…

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Does Speaking the Truth in Love Have to Sound Mousy?

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• Post published:April 30, 2018
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Why Speaking the Truth in Love Might Be the Same as a Tongue-Lashing

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How to Get Over That One Big Thing

• Post author:Sherry Boykin
• Post published:March 25, 2017
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Ten years ago this month I stood on the kitchen chairs, sang, and did "The Chicken Dance" after seeing double lines darken on my Dollar Tree-brand pregnancy test. Two years earlier…

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