Love

Let’s talk about this word LOVE…

With the eyes of my mind, taking you line by line, I’ll attempt to describe, the roller coaster ride, that absolutely resides, within this adventurous, sensuous, jealous, audacious, yet gracious word called LOVE

There are so many ways to describe it, relentless, uninhibited, passionate, sexy, HOT!

But yet it can be reckless, treacherous, mischievous and scandalous, LOVE

When it’s put to the test, it can even be a HOT MESS; we might as well confess, concerning this word called…LOVE

 

Although its contains only four letters its meaning is long, we try to explain it in songs, we often fail to verbalize its true authenticity, its propensity, the power that it holds feels like hundreds of letters, like a dictionary, a thesaurus, an information superhighway of expression-filled goodness, joy, excitement, peace and happiness, I’m still talking about LOVE

…This dramatic, emotions consumed, feelings driven word called LOVE, it feels good received and it feels good given; it just fills good. LOVE

But you gotta be careful though, because within the power of LOVE there is also PAIN

Producing crazy emotions, causing all kind of commotion, this lil’ old bitty word called LOVE

 

Tony said LOVE should have brought you home last night, but since it didn’t now we gone have to fight, it’s LOVE, that makes me act some kind of way, saying things I shouldn’t say, doing things I shouldn’t do, because LOVE can sometimes be PAIN.

But on the flip side, I’ve arrived, at the conclusion that love is good for me, it just works for me, a necessity for me, LOVE keeps me in the game, LOVE is always the same, LOVE will never change, its LOVE.

When I want to walk away, Love begs me stay

When I want to give in, love picks me up again

When I want to speak up, love makes me shut up

When I want to shut it down, love keeps me around LOVE

 

…for your spouse, your children, your mom, your dad, your boo, even your Pooki Loo, I don’t know what you call him but love always makes it do, what it do. YAAAS baby, LOVE!

Like a calming Chai tea, like beautiful flowers in the spring

It’s refreshing like the wind on the water, calming like a blue SKY after an evening rain,

But LOVE is also a hard-headed hero, driving me to zero, getting on my nerve, I’m running over curves, chasing him…all because of LOVE.

I can’t describe that feeling that races all over me when someone, the right someone says “I love you”

LOVE, it really means something when it’s not used too loosely, soothing the very heart of my being, making me feel like I am somebody to somebody else; Love always has a way of making us feel wanted, and needed, no other feeling has ever preceded, LOVE.

 

So let me educate you, I’d just like to school you from my point of view, you know just teach you, I want to try and reach you, to get to the very heart of you, I want this word to be a part of you, this four letter word called….Love

This word…it covers a variety of feelings, and if you are willing, to explore, the very core of this word called LOVE

You MUST consider the fact, ignoring the ACT, but knowing that, LOVE is never fully examined or explained, it can’t even be contained, without The man who is our Creator and our Maker…HE IS

LOVE defined

LOVE personified

LOVE magnified

LOVE divine

 

Who could ever know the very essence of everything love is without knowing its birthplace, the origin is not foreign but God is the very embodiment of LOVE.  Never mind what it looks like, contrary to what it feels like, obviously, you can see, that we all need, love

So I want you to trust AND believe

To my heart LOVE holds the key

I need it like vitamin A, B, and D

But be stubborn if you want to be, I ain’t setting you free

You better get yourself together

Cause you gone love ME!

Freedom in Silence

In my silence I hear noise;

The sound in my silence is piercing

The sound in my silence is distracting

I hear four sounds in my silence, in the distance; each one bringing its own level of anxiety ALONG with it

Not a physical attack on my hearing but loud on the inside of me

Although the threat was not physical, my reaction to it, was

In my silence, Sound was loud, so loud that it threatened the very essence of my soul, my sacred expression, my spiritual creativity, my blessed revelation, and my Divine CALL…

In my silence, Sound threatened my peace and stole my stillness

Sound STOLE my calm. While sound infiltrates my silence, I am speechless, unresponsive, expressionless, immobilized by it…

My sound is FEAR

When sound stole my silence I was shaken from the inside because my fear was deep within;

My FEAR exercises some control because he only moves when GOD SPEAKS something new & unfamiliar to me

FEAR jumps, he shakes, he rants and raves, he loses all control concerning MY change & MY transformation wreaking havoc on the very essence of my soul, my sacred expression, my spiritual creativity, my blessed revelation, and my Divine CALL…

In times of unknown, FEAR is awakened from his resting place; so he responds by sending a signal from my inner being up to my physical being telling me, advising me, warning me… to STAND DOWN!

 He signals my soul, by sending messages there and finally…In the physical, in the natural, I react by doing NOTHING

 Me…. “I” compromise the very essence of my soul, my sacred expression, my spiritual creativity, my blessed revelation, and my Divine CALL all because of FEAR

 I respond to FEAR as he warns me, taunts me, reminds me that I belong to him…FEAR

How do I break free…

Will you pray for me
I like Timothy, need a Paul to remind me that God has not given me a spirit of fear
And because God didn’t give it to me…I’ve decided that I don’t need it
I’ve decided that I don’t want it

For FEAR only comes to undermine the very essence of my soul, my sacred expression, my spiritual creativity, my blessed revelation, and my Divine CALL

So now, in my silence

I plead the blood of Jesus, over my calm
I plead the blood of Jesus, over my peace
I plead the blood of Jesus, over my deep and innermost parts
I plead the blood of Jesus, over the very essence of my soul, my sacred expression, my spiritual creativity, my blessed revelation, and my Divine CALL!!!!

Your past is not permanent, but it will revisit you...

One of the many things in this life we should really understand is this; what we do throughout our lives as adolescents, teens and adults can and will affect our future.
Both the negative and the positive.
Please believe...
...ladies and gentlemen...
* what we do TODAY affects our future
* what we say TODAY affects our future
* how we RESPOND TODAY affects our future
* how we LIVE TODAY affects our future
...with that being said, please DO NOT be surprised if some of the choices YOU'VE made follow you into your future! 

Know that whatever you sowed yesterday will bear its own personal fruit tomorrow!
Fresh for you to chew, eat, digest and pass if you're smart!!

Here's the kicker though, when your past revisits you, it's OK to complain about, whine about it, you might even get depressed about it (I've done them all!) but the MOST IMPORTANT thing is to find a way to move past it!

You probably won't be able to change it, but you can make a conscious decision as to whether or not you will allow your past to DICTATE or control your future. Most of our mistakes cannot be undone; that's why you have to pay real close attention to life as it happens. 

If you hurt someone, don't waste time by not apologizing. Own your part, apologize!  Prepare yourself for the possibility that your apology may or may not be accepted and move on! Make this your peace.  Allow the fact that you stood up to your past to transform you into your peace; no matter what the situation. Live life past your past, its just better that way.
If you are truly repentant about your wrong, your blessings will follow.

If someone has wronged you in any way...
* spoke disrespectfully to you
* spewed hatred or negativity at you for no reason
* gave you undeserved anger
* mistreated you as a child or an adult
* committed any type of injustice against you

...no matter who it is, please make the choice to forgive and move forward. I cannot discount any of the life experiences that caused you hurt, no one can gauge your hurt or your true feelings except you, but I'm very sure that none of it happened to control your life or your future.

It's important that we find the lesson that LIFE wanted to teach us, in every positive and negative situation and that we CHOOSE to grow from it.

No matter when it happened, if you're still breathing, you can still learn the lesson that was intended for you when you went through that situation!!!!
Its just not worth giving anyone any amount of control over your life.  Release it, learn from it and grow!

In the meantime, while it's very important to live for today, its equally important to make good decisions. Whether you know it or not every decision we make, whether spare of the moment, fast, quick or slowly thought out; they are all still long term decisions.

They will return in some way, shape, form or fashion.  Stop and think before acting.  Be a leader rather than a follower. If you are an influencer, influence yourself as well as others in a positive way rather than a negative way.  Don't add fuel to flames, but work to create an atmosphere of peace wherever you go, these are all fruit of a managed future. We can't stop life from happening around us, but we can control what we do and how we respond.

One more thing though, be diligent, consistent, disciplined and hard-working. No one ever really got anything by doing nothing!  Not anything worth having/keeping anyway...

Remember, there are some things in our lives (especially as children) that we just couldn't control; but once we are at an accountable age where we're able to make good common sense decisions regardless of where we lived, how we were raised or how much we have, we're still accountable for what we say, what we do, and how we react.  Don't blame others...don't be a victim.

If God allows you to open your eyes to see another day, you have been given another chance to create hundreds of thousands of stepping stones that will lead you to your lovely, divinely inspired, bright future!!!!

Pave it wisely!!!!
Anna

One Man, One Woman

When someone decides to make public their preference to marry someone of the same gender/sex, I have that same freedom (to make public my preference). Just like I'm free to believe God and His Word, so am I free to voice what His word says anywhere I choose and whenever I please, in Love of course.

Its funny how everyone can say what they want, how they feel and give their opinions on the events of the day, but as soon as a person of Faith, a believer in God and Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Holy Spirit and the Bible speaks up, there's a problem.

The church don't have to stand up, but I will STAND for what I believe is truth and that is, in this case, marriage between ONE man and ONE woman. If that offends anyone, sorry, I didn't write it, but I do agree with it and will speak up for it, that's what I'm called to do as a believer.

I DO NOT stand DIVIDED or UNDECIDED, but I stand in total ASSURANCE that God's word is TRUE! Please know, I am not judging anybody, that's not my place, but it is my place to promote prayer for what's right.

http://txvalues.org/marriage-family/

Mr "Not Right Now"

Single Ladies don't ignore the red flags! He may not be Mr. Wrong, but he may be Mr. Not Right Now. Give him time to clean up some of his mess before you PUSH him down the aisle or you'll end stuck with a Hot Mess on your hands! Oh, and clean up some your mess while you're waiting!

When My Comfort Zone Is Killing My Vision

In my comfort zone, although I feel safe I’m

afraid of what’s ahead of me…

afraid to move forward…

afraid to let go of what’s familiar to me…

people who are familiar to me…

places that are familiar to me.

When moving forward seems like too much…

when it seems like more than I’m able to process…

more than I can handle…

more often than not…

surprisingly enough…

I choose to stay in my comfort zone.

So I say to God, just leave me here to my own thoughts & plans. Although in my heart I want to move forward into what God has for me, my lack of faith won’t let me believe that God’s got it all under control. As much as I want to trust Him and submit to His will, I can’t do that in my comfort zone because there is no faith here.

What about you?  Has God ever shown you something about yourself that you thought was so amazing, but you still said;

No God, not me!

Who’s going to do that?

Who’s going to go there?

Who’s going to have that?

Certainly, not me! 

That’s when you know your comfort zone is killing your vision.

Faith calls me to believe forward...it calls me to believe what I cannot see.

(Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.)

The word “substance”  means ‘that which is Foundation’ – so the foundation, the very beginning of anything God has shown us about ourselves is faith, if there is none (faith), there is nothing else.

While in a comfort zone experience, one can only see what’s comfortable, easy, and familiar. In this stagnant place we're not required to trust in anybody except ourselves.

The only living things that exists in this place is fear, complacency and faithlessness. Not life-giving ‘living’ but ‘life-taking’ living! Comfort zones diminish & destroy dreams, visions, relationships, progress, excellence and growth!

 In order for us to move from a place of comfort to a place of faith, we must trust in God and keep Him as our primary focus.  We must remove ourselves from sin and disorder and quiet ourselves with the peace of God’s spirit in order to receive His direction. We must not refuse the process that we must go through in order to receive what God has promised us.

 

And finally, we must not be lazy and rebellious in our responses to God and His prompting for us to move forward, to let go of the baggage of our past or people we should have left in our past. He is simply calling us to faith and trust in Him to bring what He has shown us to pass!

 

 

Please be patient with me

Stop forcing Your PROCESS on your friends & loved-ones!

While there is love behind your intentions, people will only change when they want to change.
Their change is not about your convenience but its about their desire for it. Keep praying for them, loving them & encouraging them & it will happen in God's good time!
Remember, Holy Spirit Convicts, so don't nobody need you to Condemn!