Trials...

Trials only come to make you stronger... don't try to fight them, hide from them or do away with them because it is through this process that we learn more about ourselves, our God and our faith in God.

This builds character, strengthens our heart, our skin and our walk. It also gives us courage to move forward or forces us to dig down deep within for courage and confidence... either way when you come out...and you will come out...you will have grown tremendously-if you stay the course.

So buckle down and ride out the storm, the trial and the tribulation for there is a light at the end of the tunnel and blessings abound THERE!  

Stepping Out... Seriously...

God is my shield and my protection. He is my provider and my comforter and I trust in His plans for me.

I have had many "genius" ideas; but I have been a chicken when it comes to stepping out and putting them into motion. The Bible says "Faith without works is dead" which means that I (I'm making it personal but "you") I can believe in God all I want, I can believe in His plan for me and I can believe that everything will come into play as I am praying that they will BUT...if I don't step out on my faith and put my faith into action nothing will come from nothing.

So here I am, 31 and 1/2 longing to own my own business, longing for my degree, longing to step out and impact not only my life but the lives of the people around me. But what am I doing about it? Until now, NOTHING!!! absolutely NOTHING!

If you haven't noticed yet, I have come across some hard realizations and now its time to walk in them.

1. I am drawn to reality TV for a reason-I don't watch the drunken junk, I watch people living out their dream while I am sitting at home admiring them. Watching them so much that I make their dreams mine...

2. What ever business I want to start, I am going to have to be willing to get down and dirty and make MY business something out of nothing!

3. God is my rock and my shield and it is His plan that I branch out to spread my love and knowledge touching lives along the way.

4. My life has a purpose! I need to put it to use!

5. It's My Time To SHINE!


So this is it. I have had "genus" ideas and have done nothing with them... I am dusting them off the shelf and bringing them to life.

Be with me Lord as you always are and as you have promised that you would always be.

Coping in a relationship...

It’s tough to be in a full time relationship where everyone has opinions and think that their opinions are right. Especially when those opinions result to a fight/quarell/ argument...whatever you want to call it. Everyone is on the defense, no one wants to back down and everything leads to another argument...

So what to do in a situation like this?

Well the wanna be-psychologist side of my brain says keep the peace, exist until you can make a mends or make peace if you were wrong. Be cautious of the way you approach any type of communication because the defense mechanism in the other person will make them automatically assume that they need to get ready for war.

However, as the other person on the other side of this war, I feel ready to fight...ready to load my verbal guns, arm my general with fiery sentences that will pierce and dagger at my opponent physically and emotionally just as they have done me! But will there be a victor? or will this end in more hurt and maybe in shame for me or the opponent that I obviously care about.

And with every confrontation, the decision we make in these moments is how we decide to cope in a relationship...

So pray in these times and FOR these times that you need to make the right decision; because as we all know, the wrong decision could end the relationship that before this confrontation ment so much to us...Good LUCK!

YADA... YADAH...

The definition of YADA is "to know intimately". This could refer to ones self, another person or God.

The definition of YADAH is "a form of praise. To throw up your hands and outwardly praise God."

This subject line comes from my love of a newly discovered book and author... The Yada Yada Prayer Group written by Neta Jackson. I was introduced to this book by mere accident. In the library, I had researched a different book on the computer, wrote the information down as to where I should be able to find it only to arrive there and it wasn't there. I skimmed the shelves looking for the information that I had wrote down only to decide that again, it wasn't there. As I turned away in a huff, I decided not to allow my now half hour search for a book that wasn't there be in vain. So I skimmed the shelf one last time when a pink book caught my eye and that introduced me into the world of Ms. Neta Jackson and the Yada Yada Prayer Group.

This book was inspiring, funny, sad, and I couldn't put the thing down. And I liked it so much that I spied a book right next to it with the same title, same author but with a subtitle... So yes I will be reading the next book. One thing I hate, absolutely despise is when I get into a book, like the way the author writes and then cant find anything else that the person has written... So on the library's website, I went to place a hold on the book that I saw next to it but couldn't remember the subtitle. Without a second thought I typed in the authors name. Pages of books written by the same author appeared under The YYPG title with more subtitles. I even googled it and found the authors website to search for the order that the books were written in. To my surprise, there are at least 8 books. Six under the YYPG with subtitles; but reading the authors website I found that there are now YYPG spin offs... I am excited and will attempt to read them all! I will keep you updated!

i'm so inspired

Although a hobby, blogging is a serious feat. I enjoy sharing my thoughts and expertise (some may disagree to that) with whom ever will read/listen. But a true hobby and a sure fire thought provoking avenue is when I choose to follow a blog. I don’t have to know the person personally, but there was something that caught my eye on their blogs that invited me to follow it. And every now and again, I read on or two that truly inspire me in some area of my life. So to all of my note worthy bloggers, people are watching and we are talking. Thanks for the inspiration and I only hope to inspire someone like you have inspired me today! “ummmm-ummm”-cyber hug!

Dreams...the unknown thoughts...

It is said that dreams are nighttime thoughts. Supposedly your brain is still thinking as you sleep...I have no idea. But I do know that when I dream, I dream in very vivid, very real scenes and unfortunately I don't remember most of what I dream. But I went through a period of time when I didn’t dream and I knew that this was a problem. I don’t know what the problem was but it is fixed.

So, before I forget let me tell you about my dream. I had several...

In the first one I was at a sink, in a school washing dishes and a girl was standing next to me. I noticed that she was pregnant but wearing clothes that were big to hide it. I whispered to her "so how far along are you" and before she spoke she began to pee, on the floor. She then whispered "my water broke but no one can know" so I grabbed he hand and told her to come with me and just act like you hurt your ankle; and her and I headed off her limping and me helping. Then I woke up...

In the second one (that I remember) I was pregnant riding in my van-yes I still have the van. I got out to go somewhere and a little kid walked by and hit me in my stomach. I called 911 and when they came we went to talk to the child's parent. It was his mother. The police and the mother accused me of trying to sue them but I wanted to teach the child that actions have consequences. I didn’t want anything from them. The mother got angry and went to the opening of the sewer. I saw her doing this so I headed to the van. She pulled out this huge rat and began to chase me. I jumped in the van but I couldn’t pull off because my keys were down in my purse and I couldn’t find them. Just as I found them and stuck them in the ignition, she was trying to stick the rat in the crack I left in the driver side window. I turned the van on and rolled up the window as fast as I could. She then jumped on top of the van, busted the window on the very top and dropped the rat down in the van. It was crawling on the inside ceiling of the van coming right towards me just as I woke up.

I have no idea what these dreams mean. If you can interpret them please do!

A Spring Clean...

Spring is a time for growth (and maturity), reaping from your sowing and enjoying the fruits of your labor...or recognizing that there is no fruit because there wasn't any labor.

Well, thats precisly me and my cognitive state right now. As you can see, I have changed the look of my blog, declutterized it and I am happy with that. But I am also recognizing that there is no fruit for me to enjoy because I have not labored in this particular area. So now the labor begins.

New thoughts,
Different Topics,

are the on the to do list roaming in my head. So please look forward to them! Thank you for your support!