Reaching out

Great morning,

Have you told someone that you love, care, or is just thinking about him or her today?

I know that most people know that you care but telling them can brighten their whole day. I know that when I get unexpected texts, e-mails, or phone calls expressing that I am being thought about it makes me feel uberly special. In college, my mom would send me notes that said, “I Love you” and you would have thought that I received a million dollars. Those three words said that she loved me and I was on her mind at all times. To this day, I still mail notes to people just to let them know that I am thinking about them. I think we sometimes get so busy with our lives we expect people to know how we feel. Being busy can sometimes appear that you don’t care anymore or that you may not feel the same. It doesn’t mean that you don’t but since we are not mind readers how do we know? I actually feel like this is one of the easiest ways to make someone feel special. I have never heard anyone say, “I hate when I get thinking about you messages”. It’s free and it doesn’t need a specific date or time. My primary love language is Quality Time but there will always be times when it’s just not an option to see someone. Therefore, to get a message still makes me feel good. I love when my aunts call out of the blue just to say that they love me. We don’t live in the same city and so It’s like a verbal hug….lol. I also get text messages from friends and that always makes me smile. Life can really get busy but it’s the little things that maintain your relationships in between the big things.

I hope that today you reach out to someone just to show them that they are on your mind.

AND remember your heart doesn’t have a mouth so in order for people to know what it feels you must speak for it.

MAKE IT GREAT

E

It's ok....... got you covered.

Cheerful Morning!!!!!!

Now playing Stephanie Mills’ “I Feel Good All Over”………………..

I am in a much happier place today and for that, I’m grateful.

I read something this morning that really expresses how I feel this morning. “Faith is not believing that GOD will do what you want, but believing that GOD will do what is right”.  I have requests but I am open to better ways of doing things. Go ahead and push the easy button on my life. Last night I had to detox. I disconnected myself from the world and watched some Disney (Tangled is the bomb). Did some breathing exercises and told myself to get it together. In life, I have stumble and fall but as long I keep getting up the road has always been there for me to continue the journey. Failure is when one decides not to get back up. Not only will I continue to get up but also all negative vibes will be shaken off. My not so great moments show me how strong I really am and that just makes me come out swinging. I ONLY WANT HAPPY and I have been known to get what I want. My unhappy is a moment and not my lifestyle. It’s ok to have moments but we have to make sure they are just moments. Seriously, emotions are not rational. They are reactions to something that has happened. I have to keep in mind that I need to stay in alignment with my GOD and I will fine. For I Walk By Faith and Not By Sight because you can’t always believe what you see. Yesterday I only saw not so great things and my emotions reacted off of those thoughts. Yes, some things have happened that look unfavorable. I had to look deeper and think about what was happening and the outcome is really not that bad. We are losing someone in our family. It hurts because you never want to see someone go but in the reality of it is that they are in pain. So, it’s like we are being selfish to want them to stay when they are in pain. What I am doing is staying prayed up, sending love to my family, and thanking GOD for allowing that person to be a part of my life. I filled my mind with the times we shared and the good things about my family. I thought about all of the love and how in times like this the love blossoms to cover all of us. That thought alone makes it all better. This is why it is so important to see the bigger picture.

Today I want you to know that your best interests are being taken into consideration at all times. Stop getting in the way of your happy.

AND remember happiness is a part of who we are…… JOY is the feeling.

MAKE IT GREAT

E

So Why Ask?

Special Morning.

I have so many things on my mind this morning. I did not want to be preachy but everything that I have thought about this morning leads me back to this one thought.

Why do we ask and pray for help but do what we want to do anyway?

I mean if we are not going to wait, why ask? It’s not just us. The Old Testament is straight up gangsta. God tells them what to do and then they do what they want. God makes promises but because they are impatient, they complain and do something else. Then when GOD puts the smack down, they get scared…. For a minute anyway. They only call out to GOD so that HE can fix the mess they made. No wonder he is angry. They constantly pluck HIS last nerve.

On the cool, we should all stop what we are doing and say “Thank you” for GOD sending Jesus to die for our sins. If it weren’t for that, GOD would have shook and erased us like an Etch A Sketch. It is inevitable that will sin. That is why HE gave all of those directions on what to do to get back on the right track. They still couldn’t get it together. It’s like your mom saying, “If you ask me one more time you are not going to get it” and they didn’t.

Today, instead of focusing on the bumps on my road I am thinking about the scenery. Appreciating the bigger picture is what it’s all about in my life. How can I make things better? I stay prayed up and I find that once I let go of it and focus on something else the answer appears in my life. Waiting is hard but there are so many other things that you could be doing. We have a tendency to want to find a way to make the waiting time shorter. Just because you turn, the temperature up on that cake doesn’t mean that it’s going to cook any faster. What’s going to happen is the outside will cook really fast but the inside will not. You are going to mess it up. There is a wait time so that things will be done correctly and the final product will be exactly what you desire.

Don’t ask for things that you are not willing to wait for. Do your part, keep an eye on it, and then wait! It’s said that anything worth having is worth waiting for….. Repeat that to yourself when waiting becomes difficult.

And remember if you pray about it don’t worry about it. If you’re going to worry about it don’t pray about it…….

MAKE IT GREAT

E

New Glasses...............

Grand Morning.

So yesterday, I was punched in the face by something that happened to someone else. I was so hurt as if it had happened to me. I just didn’t know where to place my feelings. I was instantly shocked, then mad, next sad, and finally lost. After thinking about it most of the night, I realized that I needed to focus on the person that was hurt. For every hurt there needs to be two or more moments of JOY. I think the reason the main reason it bothered me is because it has happened to me and I hate to see this other person go through all that I went through. I want to take the hurt away because I have been through it and can handle it better. They shouldn’t have to spend their life trying to figure out something that they can never change. Now I can’t change what has happened my goal now is to switch that person’s focus.

We cannot allow one hurt to overshadow all of the Joy we have in our lives. If someone doesn’t want to be in your life then that’s their bad. If you are a wonderful person then they will be missing out on your greatness. In many situations, it’s just that they can’t accept you because of something inside of them. People can change but it has to be them that makes the change. Things can happen in their lives to help with that change but again it’s up to them to make the change. All we need to do is love life. Allow the people that do care about you to fill you up with love. When we continuously put our love into someone whose love tank is empty, we deplete the love in our own tank. This leaves you venerable for pain when that person is not able to give you that love back.

I believe that most people will accept pain over love because they know hurt. You pretty much know how it feels and what to do continue with the pain. Love is unknown. You never know where love can take you. Think about it…. In my chapter reading this morning GOD is still attempting to work with these crazy people. HE has said that they are his people and he will take care of them but because it’s taking some time, they have doubts and at times want to go back to Egypt. Even though they were miserable, they at least knew what was going to happen. They couldn’t even appreciate that GOD loved them so much that he not only took them out of a horrible place but promised land so that they may live in peace. We have peace in our lives but we will allow ourselves to revisit hurt. The thought that you can do something different to make another person love you is irrational. It is what it is. Appreciate the happy that’s already in your life right now!

Let’s not miss out on a wonderful life attempting to prove to someone that you are great. If they can’t see it oh well…. That doesn’t change the fact that you are awesome. If everyone else can see it and they can’t then what does that say. I will continue to pray that we all focus on all the good surrounding us. Let that love embrace us and lift us up.  

Look at your love today.

AND remember love is the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

MAKE IT GREAT

E

Thankful

Soothing morning,

So, this weekend I saw the movie “Good Deeds” and I enjoyed it. While watching the movie I found myself whispering “Thank you” to GOD for my own blessings.  I’m so grateful to have the things that I do have and I realize that those blessings could have easily been given to someone else. We are conditioned to look at the big things when appreciating life. I want to be mindful of the small things that happen on a daily basis. I’m thankful for being able to care for myself. I get happy just thinking about being able to afford to buy bananas. I’m thankful that my good always outweighs my bad. Yolanda Adams sings in a song, “It doesn’t have to be as good as it is right now” and she is so right. Right now I have a sweet life and anything positive that happens is just extra. I mean really, what is the point of complaining. It doesn’t get you closer to your goal. After a while, it also begins to pluck on people’s nerves. It’s like having your dream house built. Complaining that it’s taking too long might rush the builders to get it done quicker but that doesn’t guarantee that the house will be built well. Keep your eye on the goal but prepare yourself. Get your own house in order for the future move.

I don’t have much to say today and I apologize. Be very appreciative for the things you have and for the people in your life. You never want to look back and regret not taking the time to smell the roses.

AND remember you fall, you rise, you make mistakes, you live, you learn, you’ve been hurt but you are still alive. You’re human and not perfect but you are thankful.

MAKE IT GREAT

E

Back on track..............

Awesome Morning!

I am in the best mood this morning. I just woke up happy and as I took a moment to appreciate the fact that I was happy, I just got happier. Considering that, I was battling with my emotions this week makes today even sweeter! I got all jazzed up to make my outside look like my inside. *SPRINKLE*

This week I was off task and was focused on how I was feeling instead of paying attention to what was happening around me. I really had to get my mind right. I wrote, prayed, and verbally listed the blessings in my life. I told myself that this is only for a minute. I got active in some things, addressed some things, and created some new things in my life. I made some plans. I did anything I could do to get my mind right. I will not allow pity parties because they are unproductive. I am better than that and I told myself that. We are human and we will have storms in life but it’s not the storm that dictates how your life will be. It’s how you handle the storms that will mold your life. Whether it’s a storm or a rainbow if you are not able to handle things properly then you will never be happy. We all know that rain never lasts forever but when the storm comes, we act as if it’s never going to end. How many times do we need things to happen before we get it?

Stop handing your life over to the negative. It’s yours but you are handing it over to fear and doubt as if they are in the business of making things better.  YOU need to get into the business of being better. GOD has given us free will but we will gladly give our happiness away. Now that just doesn’t make sense……..AND THEN we have the audacity to ask for more happiness. Really? Really? Keep some happy and it will be easier to get back to 100%.

Start with being grateful for today.

AND remember never get frustrated that you can’t see the flowers if you haven’t planted the seeds…..

MAKE IT GREAT

E

It's being processed.........

Good morning.

Someone told me that you should never pray for patience. He said this because you never know what will be placed in your life to help you with your patience. Just think about it whatever it is in your life that you need patience for may get worse before it gets better. So just pray for things to get better and you work on patience yourself. Patience is sorta like a tax refund. You know it’s coming but you have to wait on it. We treat life like it’s never going to happen but we are still asking for something to happen. Then there is a panic and non-rational decisions are made. It’s like running towards a well-decorated hole in the ground. IT’S STILL A HOLE! Our prayers, wants, desires, and needs are being processed and they are on their way we just have to just relax. The answer or solution is always better than anything you could think of. Sometimes we don’t reach high enough and we shortchange ourselves. Work with what you have right now and before you know it, things will change. Have you ever had something happen in your life and you were like “WOO HOO, I’m so thankful and blessed. This came right on time.” Well it’s because it was planned that way. You have to let your requests be processed before you get them. When have you ever gone somewhere, placed and order, and before you could close your mouth it was in front of you? If that happens to you all the time then Hi-five because you may be the only person in the world. (Insert side eye) I know they say you shouldn’t talk to yourself because it makes you look crazy but you have to remind yourself that what you want is being processed and the harder you push for it to happen the more time it will take. Pushing harder may even mess the whole thing up and you have to start over. Get out of your own way!

Rest today……. It’s being processed

And remember if we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking……………

MAKE IT GREAT

E