A.D.”Lümkílè”(A. Thomason) MA, Thm, EdD (ABD)

I’M EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE!!! “The editing of your fullest self stops here” Cover reveal for new book.🔥🔥 @artimio.black (penmanship artist) @jaylonashaun (photography & composition) @rawmixter (DP & co director) @david_fassett (cover graphics & style) @redrev (cover visionary & co-director, sound editing) @epidemicsound (track) @ivpress

PSA: Equal Treatment This PSA is in light of my two years as the @atlhawks chaplain and my contribution to Men's Mental Health Month–and beyond. Men are human and deserve the dignity ascribed to them by God, be they millionaires or not. WORDS MATTER!!! What is said to the players in the media and from the crowd does affect their mental health, and what is said to men overall matters. I am here for Equal Treatment; what about you? #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #psa

Book out now Dropping those editorial bars 🤣 (spoken word is riddled through out) “Y’all gone make me cry...” (Lauryn Hill voice) The support is crazy!!! To the moon 🚀🌙 we go.

Genesis 1, separation is sacred architecture. It is the act of making boundaries so life can flourish. Without separation, everything collapses back into indistinction. Without distinction, creation cannot become habitable. So the first thing God calls good, He also separates. LIGHT FROM DARKNESS He separates light from darkness. Waters above from waters below. Sea from dry land. Day from night. Israel from the nations later. Clean from unclean later. Holy from common later. Separation is not automatically rejection. Separation is how order is established.

Healthy parenting isn’t giving your child what you didn’t have; it’s giving them in full what the Lord has for them. But are you consulting your wounds and trauma, or God the Father? 🫣 Excerpt “Most of us are parenting out of reaction, not revelation. We are giving our kids what we did not have instead of asking what a human actually needs to be whole before ADONAI. Those are not the same thing. Giving them opportunities, stability, access, and comfort may soothe something in us, but it does not necessarily form something in them.” Full substack in bio #parenting #kingdom

Oh, y’all thought I would be silent?!? Silly Mothering is showing up even when the applause is silent and frequently not as loud as it should be. When we brought Zipporah home, @thomason_interiors says she had no manual on what to do, but she did one thing and continued to show up, show up in prayer, presence, provision, she shows up and has been for over 18 years, three here, one in heaven. Bless you for showing up, and all the other mothers, whether we say it loud enough, without y’all showing up through birth and life, there would be no life. Bless you, Dawntoya, the mother of my children, whom I’ve grown so much in learning what it means to show up.

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No, Dawntoya isn’t on her second marriage 🤣, but she isn’t married to the same person, neither am I, and 19 years later, I’m grateful for it. Here is what's true: marriage can never be ideal, as Adam and Eve, literal people, are the only ones to experience marriage before sin entered the world. Marriage will always be a faith step because the other person doesn’t know what they need to heal, renounce, repent, confess, and let go of in the future. They don’t know what they truly love, what makes them alive, what hurts them, what makes them sing, what makes them dance, what makes them purposeful. They don’t know how insecure, fearful, wounded, sad, and unloved they were in key moments of the past. ( I'm talking about meeee) But God knows who you needed for the journey. Marriage is a journey, and he arranged in heaven that my journey would be with a woman who saw all the things I hoped for, with no tools to get there, which hurt her in many ways. Ideal marriages still have hurts, and healed marriages have salve. As I celebrate 19 years with @thomason_interiors , I’d say this. Marriage isn’t about sex, the other filling in what mommy or daddy missed, becoming the world or the “ride or die”; it’s about experiencing God’s transformational love through the other in ways you didn’t know. God breaks through not for your preferences but to heal and set each other and the world free, to destroy the devil's work. I was dead in so many ways, thinking I was alive, and God resurrected me. Pain is real, fear is real, but perfect love is a rare gift from the Lord that casts out those real emotions that can’t remain when love is embodied beyond moments. I always say, I'd be Dawntoya’s friend even if we weren't married; she's that fun and special. The Lord gave me a conduit to journey with, and if I never got another day, my life would have been too full with this person to be irate for not having more. Bless you, love. #marriage #love #anniversary

Excerpt… Some people obey Christ the way a dog wears a shock collar. They are technically staying within the perimeter, but they hate the fence. They do not actually love holiness. They resent it. They do not see purity as beautiful. They see it as deprivation. They do not see faithfulness as joyful participation in the life of God. They see it as losing out. They do not see restraint as love. They see it as cosmic frustration management. So when someone else falls, they do not move toward them with tears and towels. They move toward them with the rage of a person who feels they have denied themselves everything and now want somebody else to pay for making their own misery visible. That is why there are so many “unkind Christians.” Most are not joyful in holiness; they hold envy in a church outfit, resentment with a concordance. It is a person whose deepest passions are not actually healed, only fenced. Christ is not their treasure. He is their governor. This is why the New Testament keeps saying the same thing in a hundred ways, because apparently, we are slow learners when our pride has been bruised, and unhealed wounds are touched. “Outdo one another in showing honor” (Romans 12:10). “Owe no one anything, except to love each other” (Romans 13:8). “Love is patient and kind… it is not irritable or resentful” (1 Corinthians 13:4–5). That phrase “resentful” is even stronger than most of us let it be. Love does not keep a ledger. It does not maintain a secret spreadsheet of injuries waiting for the right moment to cash them in. #kingdom

Hebrew: קַוֹּה קִוִּיתִי (qavoh qivviti) This is intense Hebrew repetition. Literally the sense is: “Waiting, I waited” or “I waited and waited.” This is not casual delay. It is stretched hope. The root קוה (qavah) carries the sense of waiting with tension, expectancy, even being drawn tight like a cord. Listener’s ear An ancient hearer would not hear: “I sat around calmly.” They would hear: “I held on in tension. I remained stretched toward YHWH. I did not release my expectancy.” Key phrase: “he inclined to me” Hebrew: וַיֵּט אֵלַי (vayyēt elay) “He bent toward me.” This is intimate. The High God is pictured as stooping down to hear. Not merely “He heard from far away.” But: He bent low toward my pain. Key phrase: “heard my cry” Hebrew: שַׁוְעָתִי (shav‘ati) A cry for help, a desperate plea, not polished liturgy. This is the sound of pressure, not performance. #yeshua

He may not make it to the NBA. I really don't care. But he will remember a Dad who got up at 4:30 am to journey alongside him; the relationship is the result, not the outcome. #wakeup