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God's promises

Just something that someone sent me a while back, that I keep with me everyday as a reminder that the road may not always be as smooth and easy.  There will always be tough and hard times, but God will always be there and give you the strentgh you need to make it through those times, if you just believe and have faith.  Much love and God bless.

God has not promised skies always blue

Flower strewn pathways, all our lives through;

God has not promised sun without rain,

Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.



God has not promised we shall not know

Toil and temptations, trouble and woe;

He has not told us we shall not bear

Many a burden, many a care.



God has not promised smooth roads and wide,

Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;

Never a mountain, rocky and steep,

Never a river turbid and deep.



But God has promised strength for the day,

Rest for the labour, light for the way,

Grace for the trials, help from above,

Unfailing kindness and undying love..

We wear the Mask

One of my favorite poems from Paul Laurence Dunbar "We Wear The Mask". Much love and God Blesss.

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man [Official Audio]

Let it GO- Bishop TD Jakes

A real powerful message by Bishop TD Jakes about letting go and forgiveness.  I've included the video it's taken from at the bottom of the page.  The video is 2 hrs long, but every word is worth listening too. Much love and be Blessed. Enjoy:

There are people who can walk away from you. 

And hear me when I tell you this! 

When people can walk away from you: let them walk. 

I don’t want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, 

loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, 

staying attached to you. 

I mean hang up the phone. 

When people can walk away from you let them walk. 

Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. 

The bible said that, 

They came out from us that it might be made manifest 

that they were not for us. 

For had they been of us, 

no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] 

People leave you because they are not joined to you. 

And if they are not joined to you, 

you can’t make them stay. 

Let them go. 

And it doesn’t mean that they are a bad person, 

it just means that their part in the story is over. 

And you’ve got to know when people’s 

part in your story is over so that you 

don’t keep trying to raise the dead. 

You’ve got to know when it’s dead. 

You’ve got to know when it’s over. 

Let me tell you something. 

I’ve got the gift of good-bye. 

It’s the tenth spiritual gift, 

I believe in good-bye. 

It’s not that I’m hateful, it’s that I’m faithful, 

and I know whatever God means for me to have 

He’ll give it to me. 

And if it takes too much sweat I don’t need it. 

Stop begging people to stay. 

Let them go!! 

If you are holding on to something 

that doesn’t belong to you and was never intended for your life, 

then you need to ..LET IT GO!!! 

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains … 

LET IT GO!!! 

If someone can’t treat you right, love you back, and see your worth… 

LET IT GO!!! 

If someone has angered you … 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge .. 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction … 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or 

talents .. 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you have a bad attitude… 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better… 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you’re stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new 

level in Him… 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship…. 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you keep trying to help someone who won’t even try to help 

themselves.. 

LET IT GO!!! 

If you’re feeling depressed and stressed …. 

LET IT GO!!! 

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling 

yourself and God is saying “take your hands off of it,” then you need to… 

LET IT GO!!! 

Let the past be the past. 

Forget the former things. 

GOD has new plans for 2009 !!! 

LET IT GO!!! 

Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then 

LET IT GO!!! 

“The Battle is the Lord’s!”

Everything happens for a reason

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were
meant to be there.  To serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or
help figure out who you are or who you want to become.

You never know who these people may be but when you lock eyes with them, you
know that very moment that they will affect your life in some profound way.
And sometimes things happen to you at the time that may seem horrible,
painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming
those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, will
power or heart.

Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of
good luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer
stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small
tests, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. 
Safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet affect your life. The successes and downfalls that you
experience can create who you are, and the bad experiences can be learned
from. In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones.

If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them because
they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious
to whom you open your heart.

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they
love you, but because they are teaching you to love and to open your heart
and eyes to little things. Make every day count.

Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can,
for you may never be able to experience it again.

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let
yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high.

Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a
great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in
yourself, no one else will believe in you. Create your own life and then go
out and live it.

Love's Deceit

Poem heard at the end of the movie ATL. You can see where it came from in the video clip after the poem. Much Love and God Bless. Enjoy:


pleasure turns to the pain 
lessons learned from the strain 
questions burned in my brain.. 
about whether love is humane 
in its touch. 
these thoughts are like salmon swimming upstream 
in the tears of your deceit. 
fighting the current hurt that kills more than is created by the chaos 
of our intertwined emotions. 
chaotic because the anchor of Erros' arrow has been plucked 
from the vessel of my undying infatuation 
separation not as simple as the distance between us 
my mind no longer possessed by demons 
that have been the overseers of my enslavement to your lies 
the seeds of these lies rooted so deeply 
they have cracked the foundation of what we once shared 
allowing the faith in us i had sealed inside 
to gush out like a river 
ripping the image of our future together from my thoughts 
as violently and as brutally as if it were a child 
being taken from its mothers arms 
i'm left surrounded in darkness 
but i refuse to be swallowed by it 
my loneliness like the night air 
invisible to the eye 
obvious to the touch 
it is cold uncomfortableness 
yet if i could do it all over again 
i'd do it in the same skin i'm in 
to lay down and let love die 
just stay down and let love lie? 
no, no.. not i 
id stay around and let love fly 
even though i have seen its darkest form 
deceit 
nothing else could taste this warm
or feel this sweet.

Our deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Endless Love

Always has been and always will be.

Acceptance

Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
When I am disturbed,
It is because I find some person, place, thing, situation
Some fact of my life unacceptable to me,
And I can find no serenity until I accept
That person, place, thing, or situation
As being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake.
Unless I accept life completely on life's terms, 
I cannot be happy.
I need to concentrate not so much
On what needs to be changed in the world
As on what needs to be changed in ME and in MY attitudes.