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A Vote for Women

B r e a k D a i l y B r e a d 2022

ABOUT US

Editor: Bever-leigh Holloway

Bever-leigh is a soldier for Christ that lives outside of the boat and against the current.

After receiving a rejection letter for a writing job at Shondaland, Bever-leigh felt led to start a publication of her own.

Two years later, Break Daily Bread was miraculously birthed This editorial of current events from God's perspective is all encompassing of Bever-leigh's gifts, talents and experiences.

She is humbled that she was chosen to raise awareness around the concerns of God, having experiences in many industries and topics tackled.

Break Daily Bread is a subsidiary of Run by Faith Writer's Network.

"KEEPGROWING,

the best is yet to come " .

Politics? Really God? As a person who has always despised politics because of how cut-throat, backbiting,

and messy it seems to be, after watching the Vice-Presidential Debate between Former Vice President Mike Pence and Madame Vice President Kamala Harris, God began to open my eyes to its dark world.

Can you imagine a country run by young people?

Or men and women of faith that made decisions based on what God wanted for our country?

Though I’m looking forward to the day the political environment lightens up, today is the same song and dance, different party. The same cycles, the same fear projected, same chaos. On June 24, 2022, the day after my birthday, the chaos turned toward women. The most unspoken topic in the world, became the most talked about. Abortion

After the announcement of the overturning of the Roe v Wade decision, a guy friend asked my thoughts. I quickly texted him that, although I was against abortion, if God gave us free will, then who is man to keep us from having a choice?

everywhere except the bible.

When will Supreme Court revisit that ruling?

I digress.

When I sought after God about abortion, I realized that as women, as a nation, as the media, and as ALWAYS, we are focused on the wrong thing. It’s not about our feelings or our rights We must ask ourselves, "what is God asking of women exactly?"

Then I began to look at it from God’s perspective. Society is trained to focus on the wrong thing, always neglecting the actual point in a situation. We can kneel for the StarSpangled Banner to raise awareness around how our justice system does not always reflect that there is “justice for all”, yet the argument somehow incorrectly becomes about the military, deviating from the original intent

It’s the same thing when dealing with most situations. We are trained to see what is going on in the natural, but the spiritual implications that caused the natural to happen in the first place are often overlooked. We are not spiritually trained, and most people wouldn’t recognize spiritual warfare if it hit them in the face because it is not taught in school. Nor is the bible, or the one weapon that would conquer spiritual warfare, prayer. The ruling of Engle vs Vitale of 1962 may have had a lot to do with why we are biblically illiterate and continue to come up with answers to society’s issues

What’s the narrative? What can we control?

God did not heighten our awareness of abortion to fight over who is for or against it. But to simply talk about it from its core The actual issue Sex.

However, before we get physical, we must look at spiritual abortion

What has God placed in you to birth that you are aborting?

An idea?

An invention?

A cure for disease?

A book or business?

A function for your town or community?

A newspaper?

Why are you stopping it before it even has a chance?

Full of doubt?

Think you are too old or it’s too late?

Don’t have the support you think you need?

Don’t think you have the resources or the time?

It’s not relevant or outdated?

Who is keeping you from birthing it? You?

Family or friends? Society?

Where are you going for answers?

Social media?

Your friends?

Google?

I have some suggestions but first, you must seek God for yourself for instructions to get from conception to birth It’s your baby A miracle when it’s all said and done. Do the research and take the first step. You don’t have to know how it’s all going to work at once, just begin and the process will identify itself. Identify the force behind the resistance and PUSH. Most times you’re experiencing spiritual warfare, and to survive you must push back with prayer. Understand that if God is manifesting it, He will provide the resources and the support in His timing if you simply ask, have faith, and obey your instructions. Even when it seems impossible to go full term.

"If God gave us free will, who is man to keep us from having a choice?"

Now…let’s talk about sex. At home.

I didn’t come from a household where sex was talked about and was never told my options in the event I got pregnant outside of marriage. How many of your parents talked to you about sex? Did their parents talk to them about it? Is it a generational thing? Cultural? We need to start talking about sex like it’s normal. While listening to his latest audiobook It takes a Woman, I was shocked to hear how in high school, DeVon Franklin’s great aunts talked to him about sex, but I was relieved to know that I’m not the only one advocating for this push

It starts in the home. Parents should know their options as well in the event they get pregnant outside of the time they intend to, and abortion should NOT be the first resort. At school.

What I remember about sex ed when I took it over two decades ago was the list of sexually transmitted diseases, as well as the free condoms that were available There may have been a short blurb about abstinence in the book, but no emphasis on it.

Does the sexual education curriculum in school now emphasize abortion as a “health care” option like they are casually celebrating in the media? Why don’t we normalize abstinence over abortion instead? Is there some sort of curriculum the school can come up with to have students take back home to their parents? After-school programs for students?

At church.

I didn’t grow up going to church, but I heard often that people were told not to have sex out of wedlock, lacking a true explanation of the importance of saving sex for the sanctity of marriage Some were judged and condemned if they were. At first, I was looking for church leaders to rise and perhaps take this opportunity to redeem themselves (as the body of Christ) by shifting the narrative back to God’s original intent A great opportunity to influence society, gracefully shifting it back towards God and away from the things of this world. I didn’t hear much of anything, so I thought maybe they were too worried about cancel culture. We all know women are the number one consumer for most things and church is no different. But I realized that most of the pastors are men and perhaps I’m the church representative that is supposed to speak up so, I’ll be that. My hope is that the church becomes a safe space for women and girls to go for both education and support without fear of judgment and condemnation.

I realized back in 2020 when writing my second book that I was never told when the best time to get pregnant was. Were you?

An excerpt from Chapter 9 “Amazing Grace” from book Eden’s Daughters: Appraised by God, Not Society: “Ideally, we want to wait until marriage, but what if it doesn’t happen that way? When can we get pregnant and still finish school, keep our college scholarships, go for partner at our firm, get that promotion, or fight crime and put out fires? When is the best time to have a child and still be in purpose with our gifts and talents?”

The answer, when we are married The when? After we birth what God put in us as single women.

Ideally

If it doesn’t happen in that order…we will find a way to make it work! But what if we made a conscious effort to do things right?

The law was overturned, but God’s laws remain.

“Thou shall not have any gods before me” Exodus 20:3 Never believe a doctor’s report over God.

I know someone who had had chemotherapy while pregnant The doctor told her the baby wouldn’t survive but she decided to keep it anyway. Not only did she kick cancer in the face, but she birthed a healthy baby.

Women have abortions in and out of marriage for many reasons. Some because they thought they couldn’t afford the baby; they thought it wasn’t the right time. Some because

of the proposed health concerns or the inconvenience of proposed health concerns

Have you done the research? Have you prayed for the babies healing ahead of time?

Have you been proactive in preparing for a child with potential special needs instead of freaking out about it? God will not give you more than you can handle. If he trusted you with a special needs child, it’s because He

knew you would be the best parent for the job, regardless of how difficult it is. When is having a baby ever the right time or convenient? God’s timing is perfect, regardless of how inconvenient it is for you. Just like everything else, God will provide the

resources and make a way out of no way in order for you to be able to raise your children. Regardless of your circumstances. How can I speak so boldly?

Trust me, there is no judgment or any condemnation over here.

The reason why I’m so passionate about this is that in my ignorance, I had an abortion

But not in the way you think. In recent years, I found out that hyperthyroidism is one of the side effects of Plan B, the “morning-after pill.” Three years after taking it in college, I was diagnosed and had my thyroid removed Last year I was in prayer asking God if there was anything that I may have hidden subconsciously from Him that I needed to repent for. I instantly was given a vision of a sonogram in the garbage disposal. My heart sank. I cried. It was in that moment that I realized that in God’s eyes, taking the “morning-after pill” and having an abortion were one and the same. It’s not about the fetus, but the intent. Thou shall not kill.

"God's timing is perfect, regardless of how inconvenient it is for you."

I repented and was convicted to share without shame because there is no condemnation in Christ, but it was a hard pill to swallow. However, if I was better educated, I may have made a different decision 16 years ago. We must continue to shift the conversation and most times it’s going to be as simple as having more education. This election season has been the most cringe-worthy season I’ve ever experienced.

My skin crawls every time I hear the word abortion nonchalantly spoken in a commercial. I just imagined the ears of children who will know more about abortion than they will do about sex if we

continue to neglect the necessary conversations in the home or change the curriculum in our schools. My eyes burned every time I saw social media posts celebrating abortion as “health care” or writing it off literally as sex education! Alternatives to abortion are available and should be spoken about before abortion is ever considered an option

According to the Adoption

Experts estimate that somewhere between 1 to 2 million couples are looking to adopt each year. Every year there are about 1.3 million abortions, and only 4% of women with unwanted pregnancies place their children through adoption.

Network, experts estimate that somewhere between 1 to 2 million couples are looking to adopt each year. Every year there are about 1.3 million abortions, and only 4% of women with unwanted pregnancies place their children through adoption For the most part, I knew whom I was going to vote for in Nevada, and it didn’t have anything to do with whether they were pro-choice or pro-life. I spent time over the questions on the ballot and though abortion rights weren’t questioned, I forgot that other issues were going on in the community that deserved the light of day, but probably never got our attention beyond the abortion propaganda. We have to stop looking at politics through our natural eyes and do the research necessary in our own communities to see what changes need to occur

So where do we start? In the spirit. We fight spiritual warfare by putting on the full armor of God and firing our weapon, the Word of God through prayer. We must get prayer back in the homes and schools. We must continue to pray for ourselves, our children, their protection, and their health .

We begin to navigate through the curriculum; create it if we have to. We have to come together as a community to create a safe space to discuss these topics in the home, school and church collectively. We learn and we listen to women. We are the mother of all things. You may disagree, but you will learn something. Whether it’s figurately or literally we sacrifice our lives to give birth. Regardless of how much the enemy fights us through the many systems and laws that try to oppress us,

We Still Run This If God’s entrusted us with it, He will empower us through it

As I went through my ballot trying to decide between judges and other government officials whose names I didn’t recognize, I chose a woman. When all else fails vote life.

Holloway, Bever-leigh Eden’s Daughters: Appraised by God, Not Society Run by Faith LLC, 2021 Franklin, DeVon. It Takes a Woman. Audible Originals, 2022 Adoption Network https://adoptionnetwork com/adoption-myths-facts/domestic-us-statistics/ Britannica com https://www britannica com/topic/Supreme-Court-of-the-United-States, 2022

p r a y e r c l o s e t

GRATEFUL

Lord, please forgive me for complaining. Especially over anything I may have prayed for, or for the things and the opportunities others would die to have. I'm grateful and thankful for all that you've done, continue to do, and most importantly for who you are.

Chirpin' birds while my pane is open a reminder that I’ve been given a token

With the breeze I’m at ease

Another day, don’t move, freeze

Take a moment

This time is spent

Thanking the one above Woke up again, feeling loved

Off to my favorite place

Green pastures, the lake, my space

To write, to pray, to think, to listen

Reflection of the sun as waves glisten

Chasing what’s pure

Blue ripples seem to lure

Peace be still

Hear clearly, your will

peace

Does the water give this feeling?

Or the fact that I come kneeling

So perfect, beyond understanding

Your peace finds me when I’m willing

To ask for it

Especially when storms hit

So hard at times I forget

Even when it seems insignificant

Dark and damp at night’s end a day with you, time well spent

At dew in the morning, I’ll try again

At work, please replicate, Amen

revelations

2022 is not over!! Start now! You still have time! Get to work! Don’t worry about what hasn’t happened in the past 10 months, don’t worry about tomorrow. Win the day. God says don’t worry about tomorrow for today has enough problems of its own If you do what you need to do today, you win!

Then win daily for the next few weeks (however you define a win) and you would have accomplished more this year, than you would have if you just waited until next year to get started. START NOW!

Matthew 6:34

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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s a solopreneur, I'm embarking on a few endeavors at once and it’s allowing me the opportunity to work with people. Which is fine, it's something that I've always done, working in groups at school and work, no biggie. However, I’m finding that when it involves my business, I’m holding people to a higher standard, which in my mind is a bar I set for myself. As someone who has always conducted themselves as a hard-working professional, I guess I just automatically assume the same energy would be reciprocated, but things are not going as I expected.

I want what I want when I want it, and there are times when I'm not receiving at my level of expectation. In some instances, not even on a basic, courteous level. Hell, at times received blatant disrespect.

This is not just a one-off situation. I’m talking about three different endeavors, in three different industries, three different instances. So before pointing the finger, I ask God what I’m doing wrong because this is not how I conduct business and these are the people you wanted me to reach out to or work with.

g r a c e

a m a z i n g

The old me would have swiftly moved on without them, found someone else to partner with, or simply told them about themselves, however, through prayer found that I was yet again being tested by one of the things I recently asked for. Grace. Specifically for God to show me how to be less hard on myself. So initially I was confused when He gave me people, and in my mind thought it may be a challenge to extend grace to others when I’m so tough on myself. (Can you see how it may be a challenge for me? Sometimes I may be self-aware to a fault.) But isn’t it like God to answer tough questions when we are finally ready to hear?

a m a z i n g g r a c e

He revealed that it was not about the people He's connected me to, but about how I'm a reflection of them. Yea, that hurt. Through my evaluation of certain situations, I was actually staring back at, myself and I'm the one to blame. Not so much a direct reflection of their actions, but the "why" behind their actions. Something in me was attracting what I was receiving, and I needed to change. Since I started praying for the mind of Christ, He’s shown more things about myself I either didn't want to know, things I ignored, or just didn’t want to believe. I'd like to say that I’ve mastered how to extend grace, however, I’m still just learning for myself. In the meantime, I can do what I can control, and surrender the rest to God. The thorn in my side is there for me to stay humble and dependent on Him, for His grace, is sufficient, and His power is made perfect in my weakness. I can't do anything without Him and the thorn of accountability is there as a reminder.

T h e I m p o s s i b l e b u r r i t o b o w l w a s a h i t ! W h a t m a k e s t h i s m y g o - t o o v e r C h i p o t l e , o t h e r t h a n t h e o p t i o n o f a d d i n g p l a n t - b a s e d m e a t , w a s t h e f l a v o r f u l a d d i t i o n s o f t h e j a l a p e n o V e r d e a n d h a b a n e r o s a l s a , a l l t o p p e d w i t h m y f a v o r i t e … p i c k l e d o n i o n s !

FAST FOOD FAVORITES

Vegan

A s l o n g a s i t ' s f r e s h , y o u a r e i n g r e a t h a n d s ! ( I w a s c r a v i n g r i c e t h i s p a r t i c u l a r d a y a n d f o r g o t i t

h a d e g g i n i t . ) B e s u r e t o g e t t h e

n o o d l e s a n d a d d t h e s u p e r g r e e n s t o g o w i t h t h i s c r u n c h y , g o o e y , B e y o n d t h e O r i g i n a l O r a n g e

C h i c k e n . Y o u w o u l d n ’ t b e l i e v e i t ’ s p l a n t - b a s e d !

O n e o f m y f a v o r i t e f o o d s h a s a l w a y s b e e n a C a l i f o r n i a B u r r i t o . W h o t u r n s d o w n f r i e s i n a s t e a k b u r r i t o ? S o , i m a g i n e m y p a i n w h e n I s t o p p e d e a t i n g m e a t , u n t i l I f o u n d t h i s d e l i c i o u s a l t e r n a t i v e ! D r i z z l e t h e i r f r e s h g r e e n s a l s a o n t o p o f e v e r y

b i t e !

A s a b o n u s , I h a d t o i n c l u d e t h i s s o f t , b u t t e r y , s w e e t g o o d n e s s ! G e t t h e " O L D

S K O O L " … d o n ’ t p u t t h a t e x t r a s t u f f o n t h e r e .

K e e p i t s i m p l e !

I typically cook most of my meals, however I recently started to branch out and try vegan foods at both vegan and non-vegan restaurants. I was surprised to find three of my favorite fast-food dishes at non-vegan restaurants! Check them out the next time you’re out searching for a quick bite.

Vegan, Again

Vegan, Again

In early 2020, I was struggling to get excess weight off. I hired a trainer for the first time in my life to help stay accountable and I still struggled to be consistent in the gym. Then the pandemic hit. Talk about a wake-up call! I vowed to never take the gym for granted again since I no longer had it at my disposal.

After a few months of being stuck inside, I gained even more weight! By the summer it got to the point where I was sick of how I was feeling and looking, and thankfully the gyms in Las Vegas started to open back up. I began working out consistently, but the weight still didn’t go anywhere. I figured I better start looking into different ways to eat. Though my eating habits weren’t bad, I knew something had to change because the weight wouldn’t budge.

As I searched through YouTube for inspiration, I came across a video of a woman of faith named Tabitha Brown. She went on a vegan diet for 30 days and then it became her lifestyle. It got rid of a sickness she was dealing with for several years. In the same video, she mentioned a documentary called What the Health.

That was the first time I knew of Tabitha and after listening to her story I was intrigued to watch the documentary right away. Sure enough, after watching the documentary I instantly knew that I would become a vegan. How I was led to the video by the grace of God was a sign to move forward with it

I initially set out for it to become my new normal since I was already living a fasting lifestyle. I figured going from a Daniel fast, to a vegan diet wouldn’t be much of a transition. Plus, I received great tips after watching several vegan influencers cook plant-based alternatives to some of their favorite foods. I figured if I had any cravings I could either cook or find an alternative at a vegan restaurant. It was refreshing to know that there were many more options than just a salad.

September 1, 2020 was my first day. In the beginning, I was happy to try the new dishes I was cooking, and the vegan options I found in fast food restaurants and was surprised to see how 14 pounds easily fell off during the first 3 weeks! I even started craving vegetables! The cravings for meat left me, in fact, the very thought of meat disgusted me.

Two months later, on faith, I moved to Los Angeles with very little money as a full-time entrepreneur. I was no longer working for a steady paycheck and worried about my rent and car note at the same time (Yes, I was being tested at the time because you clearly can't worry and have faith. That's another story for another time) The gyms were shut down and my life took a slow, drastic turn in that season. It was a season of growth and change, and with that came eating whatever I could afford at that moment. I thank God that I was able to eat predominately vegan or even vegetarian meals at that time, however, I ate what could stretch It continued for a year; however, I kept losing weight. Not because I changed my diet, but at one point I wasn’t eating much of anything at all. When I got back home to my parent's house in Las Vegas, I got back to eating meat regularly and didn’t care about my diet at all. I slowly felt a tug to take my fasting to another level.

DISCIPLINE

Sometimes the duration of the fast would be longer than usual, other times they would be short but needed to happen more frequently.

During these fasts, I realized that it got more challenging to complete them! The hunger would unusually become unbearable, and I couldn’t finish a fast to save my life Or maybe it was that I wouldn’t. My emotions may have pushed

me to the point where I needed comfort with the food I just so managed to train my feelings to crave. Within that short period of time that I was back in my mother’s kitchen, I had been used to eating whatever and whenever I wanted.

Nevertheless, it wasn’t what God wanted, and I was paying for it, twice I wasn’t faithful in my fast, or with my vegan lifestyle. From the beginning of 2022, it's taken

10 months to finally complete a fast without breaking I guess fortunately and unfortunately, it was with some help from the Holy Spirit that convicted me. I was on what was supposed to be day three of a fast. The two prior days I broke my fast early and had to start over again. However, that night in prayer God told me, “I didn’t give you the spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind." He then

began to say “a double-minded man is unstable in all His ways ” Big gulp It scared me That He gave me a sound mind, yet I was being double-minded by asking in prayer for Him to give me wisdom and understanding, yet I couldn’t be faithful long enough in a fast to receive what I was asking for I straightened up real quick. I restarted and finished that fast without an ounce of the hunger I was used to having during a fast and have not only completed my fasts, but I’ve remained vegan since. But the cravings came back I continued to ask God why He wanted me to be vegan in the first place. Why is starting over again so tough? The first time around I became vegan, cold turkey, with no issues!

Up to the point of this article, I kept justifying that maybe being vegan is just helping my body adjust to all the fasting. Then, I was reminded of how it all started…so, I decided to watch Tabitha’s video, again.

Sometimes you must go back and visit your why Especially in times when you are starting over. When doing things for the first or even the second time around, you must revisit where you came from. Revisit your prayer journals. There are so many or

Tabitha Brown's Video

What The Health

I’m reminded now that it’s safer for my body to consume fruits and vegetables without meat. Listening to Tabitha’s testimony got me right back to where I was 2 years ago when I first watched the video, eager again to create recipes and share them with the world. Not just vegan recipes, but recipes for those who fast.

It took a past revelation to remind me of why I was doing this in the first place. I was reminded that we don’t put new wine into old wineskins. As I began to look up this scripture in Matthew 9(verses14-17), it just so happened to be in reference to fasting! God is always going to bring His point full circle!

In all that I’ve been through in the last two years, I have become a new person. In the best way possible, despite the setbacks, I am truly living my best full spiritual life up to this point I can no longer take the old me into the new world I’m co-creating with God. I must renew myself from the inside out for Holy Spirit to completely flow through me without any blockages. As an intercessor and for everything else I’m called to do, there’s too much at stake If it means I must clean up my eating habits, it’s the least I can do. If you are feeling led to change your eating habits and it is contrary to what you want to do, at least take the first step while you seek God for answers You never know, changing the way you eat now, may cure or prevent a disease later.

I find that when my body is clean from the inside out, the rest follows. More focused, fewer distractions, more production, and new wine!

Sweet Christmas'16

Ilove cozy spaces! A space where people feel comfortable and never want to leave. Yes, you read thatcorrectly.Believeitornot,whenpeoplecame over,Iwantedthemtostayaslongaspossible!Asa person who lived alone for a while… company, comradery and competition (with game nights) felt likehome.

WhenIdecidedtodecoratemyhouseforChristmas a few years ago, I had no idea what to expect. I certainly didn’t think I’d pay almost $200 for a tree, that’sforsure!

But once I started buying decorations I couldn’t stop. I started off at Home Goods, Hobby Lobby and World Market, then ended up getting a whole new sectional from Living Spaces! I even found a few pieces on Etsy and ended up with the most beautiful wrapping paper from TJ Maxx The pillows were found all over from Pottery Barn to Target, which is where I also found my beautiful tree! It was the most fun I’ve ever had decorating. Though I haven’t had the opportunity lately, when the opportunity PRESENTS IT"S A WRAP!

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