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June 3, 2009

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to me ... Happy Birthday to me ... Happy Birthday!!!

It's my birthday, my birthday.... Thank you Lord for letting me see another year of life!

24 looks good on me...
~~~ time to set some year goals and accomplish greatness!!!

LOVE, LIVE, LAUGH

May 31, 2009

Sunday Sunshine

Happy Sunday!

Since, it's Pentecost ~ a day filled with praise why not listen to Shekinah Glory's Praise is What I Do this song really moves in my spirit.

Hope your Sunday was filled with joy ...

May 27, 2009

It's Like Algebra...

Talking with one of my BFF's last night I came to this realization.

commitment
--------------- = marriage
love

I believe that this equates to a strong, understanding, not ever boastful version of marriage. You and your spouse or significant other have to come to some kind of understand on how you want your relationship to be and where you want it to go. This equation of sorts, is meant for the times when you need a little more than just love. What I mean by that is love is an emotion and we all know emotions can go up and down depending on our mood and sometimes they are not as strong as they were the day before. It's the commitment coupled with love and sometimes over love that brings you through the bumpy patches in the roller coaster ride.

You can have all the love in the world but with out commitment you have nothing.

May 26, 2009

I am...

feeling blessed and highly favored...

Phenomenal Women by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud. I say, It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care. 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

marriage 101:

A praying woman...
In any relationship someone needs to be grounded at all times. Our spouses tend to think they are the grounded ones because they don't shop as often or wear their emotions on their sleeves. Being grounded has nothing to do with the physical, emotional or mental sense of the word. It has everything to do with the fact that the woman, whether she wants to be or not, is the backbone of the family from the moment she says 'I do'. Yes! this is a large role to partake in but with faith and prayer anything is possible. Instead of praying for your needs, you find yourself praying for the needs of those in your family and asking for the strength to be able to provide them. I was told recently, that being a wife requires a lot of prayer, fasting, and patients. I believe this 100%. If your a wife, or in a committed a relationship toward the aisle you know what I mean.

The Serenity Prayer ~~
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

May 25, 2009

Memorial Day!


A big thanks to all the men and women who have and are currently fearlessly and tirelessly protecting our country. THANK YOU!!!

May 24, 2009

Sunday Sunshine

I'm thanking God for a great and blessed week, for continuing to bless my marriage, my family, and friends.
~~ this week, I plan on over coming fears in my business... because fear and faith do no belong together at all.

This is my mantra and I am starting to say it every morning to get me motivated and pumped for a blessed day:

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 is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
~ Marianne Williamson

Along with my mantra, I was at the Gloria Mayfield Banks - Cadillac Workshop on Friday and Gloria re-sited the poem above by Marianne Williamson and her DJ played Mary Mary 'God in Me' and I realized that, that song needs to be my theme song.