Pouring My Love In Broken Vessels: The Relationship Reference Guide
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Pouring My Love In Broken Vessels - Kimberly W. Massey
Dedication
To my husband—John Michael, the beauty of your love inspires and completes me.
To my children—Gene and Abrae’, you are my life support.
To my daddy—Bobby Gleaton, you are the foundation that anchors me.
Copyright © 2013 Authored By Kimberly W. Massey
All rights reserved.
Gebrae Publishing Group: Charlotte, NC
Contents
Chapter 1: I Am a Gallon; He Is a Shot Glass
Chapter 2: The Shattered-Glass Man
Chapter 3: The Gaping-Hole Man—What Goes In Come Right Back Out
Chapter 4: The Cracked-Pot Man
Chapter 5: Paper or Plastic, Ma’am?
Chapter 6: The Untempered-Glass Man
Chapter 7: Flesh and Boner
Chapter 8: The Honorable Vessel
Chapter 9: You Pay Dearly for Your Learning
Foreword
For so long, I have prayed that God would send a clear and concise word to help our women succeed in identifying their potential mate. Church women, corporate women, and women of all ethnicities, cultures, ages, and class systems needed a tool for discernment apart from emotional and sexual attachments. They needed factual data that is Biblically sound so that when decisions are being made concerning their mate, they are being made using the intellect of the Spirit and not the frailties of our flesh. As a Pastor, I daily counsel those who fail in love
instead of falling in love,
so it has always been my desire to find a handbook to assist our sisters in Christ. They needed a manual, a tour guide if you will, to help them critically assess and analyze their potential mate before they even consider committing themselves in the covenant relationship of marriage. Fortunately for us, God has answered my prayers and has written through the pen of Pastor Kimberly Massey. Pouring My Love In Broken Vessels The Relationship Reference Guide is rightful access to the insight of heaven itself. Pastor Massey has created relatable characters; characters that compel all of us to reflect on our own past relationships. This book is a masterful way of pulling together all those Biblical nuggets we learned throughout our church experiences and placing them into a narrative that is easily read and easily received. If you are ready to take the limitations off of your life, I suggest you keep reading. You can enjoy this read because it will empower and equip you, ensuring that you are never again the victim of another broken vessel.
Pastor Ronald Godbee
The River Church
Durham, North Carolina
CHAPTER 1
I Am a Gallon; He Is a Shot Glass
The simplicity of just being me has often proven to be too much
for many of the male suitors who I have engaged.
There is something so very special about the first date. Although it is exhilarating, it is equally debilitating. It brings with it a mixed bag of hopeful possibilities and the anticipation of yet another rejection. As women, we go through the painstaking rituals of presenting our best. After all, everyone knows that first impressions are often lasting ones. We also take into account that we feel the competition of every female who has endeared herself to him in the past. On top of that, at dinner the overly friendly, nicely shaped hostess switches her five-times-a-week-at-the-gym derriere to guide us to our table.
We fiercely battle the images that are craftily airbrushed across magazines; they do not accurately depict the beauty of a real woman with real curves and acceptable flaws.
Our credit card debts are reflections of our increasing desire to have the fashion savvy of the current starlet, with our savings accounts bearing the burden of sheer nothingness. We quickly race to our hairstylist, nail technician, favorite boutique, and for some, local lingerie store just to get the goggle-eyed compliment of this potential love interest. All of this only to find out that he has already determined in his mind he is not spending any more on this date than what is necessary to get a sip of our happy juice.
I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates. Song of Solomon 8:2
The expenditures that both parties invested in the first date are typically the barometer for the remainder of the relationship. Why? Because what happens then can show that, although I am a gallon, he is a shot glass. I have the capacity to love a whole lot more than he does!