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The Mass Exodus is NOW
Now more than ever, people are seeking out ways to make income on their own terms. Perks such as flexibility in scheduling, being your...

Marquita Garmon
Sep 31 min read


CAN YOU HAVE GOD'S PROMISE?
Exodus chapter 33 has always been a favorite of mine. It speaks of the children of Israel in the wilderness freshly delivered from Egypt,...

Marquita Garmon
Sep 33 min read


You Are Enough
I want to share a small testimony it may bless someone. Lately with everything I've been dealing with being a parent to growing and...

Marquita Garmon
Sep 32 min read


"Hakuna Matata" Parenting the Wild Child
I often tell my 16 year old son that I am going to write a book about him because someone needs to hear my story! I say this in jest,...

Marquita Garmon
Apr 20, 20216 min read


My Love, You Have Dove's Eyes
My mother has told me that when she was pregnant with me, she asked God to give me my dad’s eyes. Well, God gave my mom what she...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Aug 29, 20203 min read


Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Lately my spirit has been crying out for the new. My heart is saying, “All things new, All things new!” The frustrating part is that...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Aug 29, 20205 min read


People of God, Receive Your Marching Orders!!
If you follow the Hebraic calendar, you know we are at the culmination of Purim and approaching the next Jewish new year (the Hebraic...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Mar 13, 20203 min read


I Get to Sleep Late, Drink Coffee, Read Books, Journal/Blog, &Make Jewelry All Day…. I Hope This
Earlier this year, I was in a very bad place mentally and emotionally. I was hanging by a thread. Burned out from hoping and waiting for...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Dec 17, 20194 min read


It’s A Woman’s Prerogative To Change Her Mind
In my 35 years of living, I’ve started and stopped lots of things. Some I finished, some it would seem I left undone. One friend of mine...
~ A Kept Woman
Dec 6, 20194 min read


A Mother's Perspective; Raising A Black Son in America
As a mother of a black son, every day I am more and more aware of his plight in this world and it breaks my heart. I was 19 when I gave...

Marquita Garmon
Mar 27, 20196 min read


Whatsoever Things Are TRUE
What's your relationship like with TRUTH? We know everyone cannot handle truth because it places a requirement on us. It holds us...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Mar 25, 20191 min read


Why I KEPT My Braces
So, today was my removal day for my braces, BUT I walked in with my braces and walked back out with them still intact! Here's why: In the...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Mar 25, 20194 min read


Cell Phones and Coffee?
Cell phones and Coffee together in one shop? A weird concept? Well, not if you break it down to the basics. The two share a common...

Marquita Garmon
Mar 20, 20191 min read


1Kept Woman, 3 Small Businesses
I began my first business officially in August of 2008, Kept Women, a non profit organization dedicated to destroying the negative...

Marquita Garmon
Mar 20, 20191 min read


The Pain of Being Female
Why did you make me this way? Am I the lesser? Carrying the weight of creation yet you call me the weaker vessel? Is my existence only...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Jun 25, 20183 min read


God Bless the Child That's Got His Own
"Them that's got shall get, them that's not shall lose, So the bible says and it's still news. Mama may have, Papa may have, but God...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Jun 21, 20185 min read


My "People Fast" and Mental Detox Journal
Friday 2/23/18 8:30pm Less than an hour in to my “people fast” and mental detox, here I am writing about it of course. How could I not? I...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Mar 2, 20186 min read


A Word To The Body
The key to obtaining and rightly managing the manifested promises of God is operating in the spirit by faith. Being trained in the spirit...
Marquita Garmon ~ A Kept Woman
Nov 16, 20172 min read


BE The Ram In The Bush
Through the past few months I have learned some hard lessons and gained new insight into what’s required to spiritually develop in this...
Marquita Garmon ~A Kept Woman
Nov 7, 20176 min read


EMBRACE THE PROCESS
My twelve-year-old son is a basketball player. He has been playing since he was five or six years old. Over the years he has played...
~ A Kept Woman
Jan 22, 20175 min read
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