Author: Herina Ayot

Writer. Woman. Human. I write about the difficult places.

The Single Parent Solution

My 8‑year-old twins have a prob­lem. There are three sides to the sto­ry. The Black Fam­i­ly in Amer­i­ca has suf­fered tremen­dous set­backs since our arrival over 400 years ago. In recent decades, some, like Bill Cos­by in his infa­mous  2004 com­ments and sub­se­quent book “Come On Peo­ple,” have placed the blame on the black com­mu­ni­ty, itself, […]

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Hitler: Before He Met the Devil

     He was 9 years old when the offi­cer brought the news. The knock was strong and hard and his father’s foot­steps were heavy on the wood­en floor­boards. The door swung open and the fog­gy night air brought with it, a dense mois­ture, the thick smell of dying things and the dev­il. Klara […]

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The Single Parent’s Secret

I recent­ly became a con­trib­u­tor to my church’s newslet­ter “The Cal­vary Con­nec­tion”. My col­umn titled Fruit of the Womb will focus on par­ent­ing from a bib­li­cal per­spec­tive and is tak­en from the ref­er­ence to chil­dren in Psalms 127:3. It reads “Behold, chil­dren are a her­itage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a […]

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The Malaysian Plane, Sandy Hook, 9/11 and Haiti Through Another Lens

Opti­cal illu­sions are some­times fun. The pic­ture with a thou­sand dots that at first seem to form noth­ing in par­tic­u­lar until you stare through the pic­ture and not at it, or per­haps at a par­tic­u­lar point on the pic­ture. Your eyes glaze over, and then anoth­er image is evi­dent, one you did not read­i­ly see […]

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Submission Is For Men Too

I loved this lit­tle piece from Chris Kazi Rolle. Thought­ful and Inspir­ing…  Sourced from ConvosWithKazi.com Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, sub­mis­sion is for men too. It’s impos­si­ble to expe­ri­ence love at the deep­est lev­el with­out both par­ties being sub­mis­sive. When two peo­ple give of them­selves it takes the rela­tion­ship high­er. When only one per­son sub­mits, there will always be […]

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God Hears Your Super Bowl Prayers?

Sourced from Chris­tian­i­ty Today NFL fans know it’s near­ly impos­si­ble to get through a foot­ball game with­out ref­er­ence to God. Whether Tebow­ing on the side­lines, giv­ing a shoutout on ESPN, or point­ing to heav­en after a touch­down, plen­ty of play­ers rec­og­nize that God’s a part of the game. Chris­tians need to stop act­ing like that’s a bad […]

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