Change Agent

Words to live by

I am a “change agent"

When I walk into a room or a place; the atmospheres most change because I am a “change agent”. Change agents change everything around them that must be changed. Question: what have you changed today?

Marquetta

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A Time of Healing from Spiritual Abuse (part two)

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