THE TONGUE CAN BE YOUR WORSE ENEMY!

I found this in my email dated April 7, 2006 and I still believe these words today...good advice will remain good advice no matter how much time has pass.

THE TONGUE CAN BE YOUR WORSE ENEMY!

Your words, your dreams, and your thoughts have power to create conditions in your life.

What you speak about, you can bring about.

If you keep saying you can't stand your job,

you might lose your job.

If you keep saying you can't stand your body,

your body can become sick.

If you keep saying you can't stand your car,

your car could be stolen or just stop operating.

If you keep saying you're broke, guess what?

You'll always be broke.

If you keep saying you can't trust a man or trust a woman,

 you will always find someone in your life

to hurt and betray you.

If you keep saying you can't find a job, you will

remain unemployed.

If you keep saying you can't find someone to love you or believe in you,

your very thought will attract more experiences to confirm your beliefs.

If you keep talking about a divorce or break up in a relationship,

then you might end up with it.  Turn your thoughts and conversations

around to be more positive and power packed with faith, hope, love and action.

Don't be afraid to believe that you can have

what you want and deserve.

Watch your Thoughts, they become words.

Watch your words, they become actions

Watch your actions, they become habits.

Watch your Habits, they become character.

Watch your Character, for it becomes your Destiny

The minute you settle for less than you deserve,

you get even less than you settle for.

Thought I would share this with you. "In the search for me,

I discovered truth. In the search for truth,

 I discovered love. In the search for love, I discovered God.

And in God,

I have found everything.

...Until Next Time

Am I Big-Eyed?

Am I Big-Eyed?  In life we always seem to want more... a newer car, the most up to date phone or laptop, a bigger house, name brand clothes and the list goes on and on (at least mine does).  So while doing my ‘self check’ inventory I decided it was time to get it together.  

5 Steps to Resolving issues on Self Check Inventory

1.  Realize there is a problem and identify it.  (Evaluate the present state and determine how it is different from the ultimate goal)

2.  Analyze the problem (search beyond the obvious for circumstances surrounding the problem)

3.  Brainstorm for possible resolutions (be creative and consider similar problems and how you have solved them, make changes where necessary)

4.  Evaluate possible solutions (think about the results of each action that could be taken, advantages as well as disadvantages…don’t forget to think long-term as well as immediate results)

5.  Choose a solution and let her rip!!

Journey to Self:  “In which areas of your life do you experience the most discontentment? What would it take for you to be content?”

Until Next Time…

GoodBye Backslidden Condition

Hi, my name is Tasha and I’m a backslider! 

When I say backslider I don’t mean that I’m wilding out... I simply mean that I’m not living my life in a way that is of God.  I’m not reading my bible, going to church and or spending time with God like I should.  When this begins to happen I slowly begin seeing myself become more and more of the flesh and waaaayyy less of the spirit.  Meaning I curse more and I view things in “Tasha Translations” instead of in a positive light.  Don’t get me wrong, I still know that I’m blessed, but I allow small things to overshadow my blessings when it’s more me and less him.  So after a conversation with a good friend of mine and a text from my Uncle whom I love more than he’ll ever know…I woke up this morning and decided that today was the day that I would begin to get back on the right path.

I started my day by reading my ‘Mornings with Jesus’ book and the passage came from Matthew 25:21

  His master replied, "Well done, good and faithful servant!

You have been faithful with a few things;

I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!"  

When things happen to let me know my thoughts are in sync with God’s messages it makes me feel as though confirmation is being sent my way assuring me that I am making the right step. So here I am; AGAIN, ready to take that step in hopes of continuing down a never ending journey of self improvement. Don't be like me and keep overlooking the signs, when God doesn’t get your attention willingly he may force you to pay attention to him...and he always wins!

FAITH STEP: What has Jesus given to you: How can you be more faithful with those “things”?  Pick three of them and work on being more faithful this week.

Today my voices are asking you to join me in this faith step. Let’s say goodbye to the backslidden condition and have a faithful week!

Until Next Time…

Forgive Them Father-Lauryn Hill

“Forgive them father, for they know not what they doooo!” I woke up singing this song this morning for some reason and I have not been able to block it out of my mind… so it was a must that I look up the lyrics. And a few that stick out to me are

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those That trespass against us

Although them again we will Never, Never, Never Trust

Forgive them father, for they know not what they doooo

Beware the false motives of others

Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers

And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you,

They say all the right things to gain their position

Then use your kindness as their ammunition

To shoot you down in the name of ambition,

Forgive them father, for they know not what they doooo

Why every Indian wanna be the chief?

Feed a man 'til he's full and he still want beef

Give me grief, try to thief off my piece

Walk you to the increase, I must decrease?
If I treat you kindly does it mean that I'm weak?

You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets

I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek

But I try to keep it civilized like Menelik

To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition

Even when they comin' gunnin' I stand position

L's known the mission since conception

Let's free the people from deception

If you lookin' for the answers then you gotta ask the questions

Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus

Jesus and Judas, back stabbers do this

Forgive them father, for they know not what they doooo

It took me a little while to discover

Wolves in sheep coats who pretend to be lovers

Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves
A friend once said and I found to be true

That, "Everyday people, they lie to God too

So what makes you think that they won't lie to you"

Forgive them father, for they know not what they doooo

That’s one deep song!! The lyrics are truly speaking volumes to me today.

So my voices are literally singing…”FORGIVE THEM FATHER FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DOOOOOOO!” Realize and accept things and people as they are not how you want them to be, when and if things change THEN and only then should you change your perception. Leave the judging to God and focus on the way you live your life.

…Until Next time

Shooting in Connecticut

There was a shooting today at an Elementary school in Connecticut. It’s been reported that at least 26 people are dead and more are reported to be injured and in the hospital.  It was stated that a man went in one of the kindergarten classes and started shooting.  When I hear stories of people “randomly” killing others I’m instantly filled with so many emotions…confusion, anger, love, pain, compassion..and the list goes on and on. 

Of those thoughts my mind went back to how every morning when I drop the kids off at the bus stop, my baby runs behind the car with the biggest smile on his face. I was just thinking yesterday “this is one of those moments you never forget” the sparkle in his eye and joy in his heart as he playfully does something that brightens my morning is priceless.  This very same morning it was cold so my oldest child made me some hot cocoa to “help me have a good day”. This gesture did not only warm me physically it touched my heart and soul and let me know that what I do for him does not go unnoticed. 

I can’t imagine sending my children off to school and never seeing them again.  I can’t imagine my last encounters with them being at the age of 12 & 8. Of all the thoughts currently running through my mind, the one thing that gives me comfort is knowing every day I tell them I love them, have a good day and I make them hug me (if they like it or not).

When I started writing, I thought this would be about my anger towards the man who committed this heinous crime, but it’s not.

Today, My Voices are Praying…praying for the parents that have lost their children, praying for the students that have witnessed such tragedy, praying for the survivors of this disaster.  I pray that the parents’ thoughts of time with their child are full of precious memories and no regrets. I pray that the students that witnessed the tragedy realize the severity of the situation and know that they are blessed to still be here. I pray for the survivors, that they know they were not spared to waist away but their life should serve a purpose because they were spared. 

…Until Next Time

The Special Encounters

The last couple of months I have allowed the worries of the world to interfere with my spiritual growth.  About a week ago I got a tweet from a new follower named Stephanie and it read: “Hey lady! How is God treating you today?”  I literally stopped what I was doing because it caught me off guard. I was just tweeting random craziness and out of nowhere here was someone asking how God was treating me.  I instantly felt condemned about my recent actions, words and thoughts.  I responded “Hi, he’s been great to me, what about you?” I replied but you know, sometimes we go through the motions and say what we feel people expect us to say or we answer with truth not really pondering the significance of the words we speak.  Later that week Stephanie tweeted Everyone has something they feel strongly about.  But the question becomes are you going to do anything about it.

Yesterday I went to the track to walk and I had the pleasure of accompanying a beautiful young lady around my age that I knew while growing up.  It was my first time really talking to her and her spirit was AH-MAY-ZING! She spoke with such grace and conviction about her love for God and all he’s done and is doing in her life.  I saw in her what I need to see in myself.  She truly inspired me and spoke to my heart and made me do inventory of my spiritual characteristics.  After leaving the track, I felt like God put us on the track at the same time for a reason.  I thought back to the tweet Everyone has something they feel strongly about.  But the question becomes are you going to do anything about it. And it meant something totally different at that moment.  I ‘claim’ to have such a Fear Of and Love For God, yet I do nothing about it.  It’s not in my everyday talk or my walk and definitely not in my tweets LOL. I’m not saying that it should be all that I talk about, but it should be evident when coming into contact with me.

So Today my Voices are Praying: praying for forgiveness of my transgressions, strength in my never ending journey of being a better person, awareness of my actions both good and bad, control to guard my tongue from the things that are unlike him and I pray most of all for a more profound voice to speak of his greatness!

In the words of Stephanie How is God treating you today? And what are you going to do about it?

…Until Next Time

Moments of Stillness

I started a book called “Mornings with JESUS” it is 365 devotions to start each day with. It was recommended by one of my twitter followers.  It’s very similar to what I had in mind when I started my blog.  It includes short inserts that don’t take up much of your time but it’s always a good message.  Reading the book made me question my blogs because somewhere along the way of my blogs, God starting giving me more information that needed to be related so my blogs got a little longer.  A few people mentioned the long blogs, but I would never want the acceptance of what I’m doing to overpower the message that God wants delivered… so I continued to write as the sprit led me. 

About a week or 2 ago my church and book club member wrote a response on a blog saying that it’s ok to be still. In the introduction of “Mornings with Jesus” it reads “Stillness is a word and concept that is foreign to our modern, scheduled ears.  But Jesus is all about stillness..”  This served as confirmation that I was being led by the spirit and doing the right thing.

Today my voices are saying even if you do not take time out to read my blogs daily, make sure to put aside some time to spend with God.  I am also guilty of feeling as though there isn’t enough time for me to fit it in...but whenever I go too long without giving God his quality time he reminds me that it’s only because of him that I’m able to accomplish all that I do.

Freely give God your time daily, before you have nowhere to go but down on your knees and pray! Moments of stillness can save you a lifetime of heartache.

..Until Next Time