24th June

24th of June is always a day I won't forget
It's the day my grandma died
She passed on the day I planned to give her a surprise visit
We lived in different countries

She was just an outstanding lady
A well-admired woman of God
She thought me alot about life at a tender age
She contributed to the person I am today

Just writing this bring
So many memories are 'flashing back'
Oh how I miss her so.

Love you dearly my Grandma Coley
Even though you left me 3 years ago
It feels like it was just yesterday.

P.S. Back in those days when she was alive
Cameras were around .. lol. 

How I miss her so
More than you ever know
How I love her so
More than you ever know
The memories, laughs
Will always keep you alive in my heart

Nothing like hymns

I love my hymns

They are just different from the contemporary songs we hear now 

Mark you, I don't listen hymns everyday 

Nothing is wrong with variety

But when I do listen them 

I go hard and done!

Even research the verses and what makes the song writer pen this song,

Where their mind was at .. all these things!! :) #Research

Sometimes just the chorus, sometimes just the verse or even one line

Gzzzz ... its like it takes me way in!!!

Just shut me away from the cares of this world 

And puts me in a different zone

'Crazy' eeeh .. 

BUT music does that

Thank God for it.

So today I'm sharing one of my favorite hymns with ya'll entitled 

"'Whatever it takes"

Verse 1:: There's a voice calling me, from an old rugged tree
And He whispers draw closer to me
Leave this world far behind,
There are new heights to climb
And a new place in Me you will find

Chorus::: And whatever it takes, to draw closer to You Lord
That's what I'd be wiling to do
And whatever it takes, to be more like you
That's what I'd be willing to do

Verse 2::: Take my houses and lands,
Take my dreams and my plans.
I place my whole life in Your hands.
And if you call me someday,
To a land far away,
Lord, I'll go and Your will obey. 

Verse 3::: Take the dearest things to me,

If that's how it must be

To draw closer to Thee

Let the disappointments come

Lonely days without the sun

If through sorrow more like You I'll become

Bridge::: I'll trade sunshine for rain

Comfort for pain

That's what I'll be willing to do

For whatever it takes for my will to break,

That's what I'll be willing to do

Now you tell me if this ain't some serious words!

Sometimes we have to be very careful of the songs we sing so 'loosely'

Because this to me sounds like a promise

I could be wrong

Just my thoughts though!

It's mid-week,

Itttttt's Wednzdayyyyyy ya'll!!!!!!! :)

Spill-over

Today, I'm having a 'spill-over' from church yesterday
The sermon was very encouraging
Thought I would share it with you

If you can't watch it
Plug in your ear piece and listen it
Enjoy and be blest! :)

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" 

PS.. I've been trying from morning to put the Youtube video here .. But it ain't working. So for now, I'll work with the link!  

Sunday Morning June 9, 2013 - Faith Chapel service

Strength like no other

Have you ever been so weak you don't feel like you can last for another second,
But somehow you find inner strength to push ahead?

Maybe it is that you have been feeling so down and out
Falling apart and crying uncontrollably inside
But you hide it so well with a smile
You deceive many?

I don't know how many persons do it
99.9% of their life you see them smiling
It's as though they never have a dull moment

Are they hypocrites if they pretend to be feeling happy when they are not?
Or do they do it because growing up they were always told to 'Put your best foot forward'?
Maybe it is that because they are having a bad day, they want to impact someone with their smile so they can be happy.

Hmmmm *thinks thinks*
Some questions may never be answered.
What do you think?

2 Corinthians 12:9

 

                                                                   

Desiderata

A friend of mine shared this with me this morning
Its a bit lengthy but its worth the read :) 
It was written by Max Ehrmann, a poet and writer 

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.


Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.


With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Hello June :)

Its the month of June ya'lll!!!! :)
We have reached the middle of the year
God has kept us not just one more day
But He has afforded us to live to see
The third day of the sixth month of 2013

I'm expecting great things!
God is good!!
Him good cya done!

Toodles May

I can count on one hand
The posts I made for the month of May
But then again
It's not the quantity that's important on a blog

But moreso the quality of what is posted on the blog :)

So pardon me my readers
For my absence but I'll be back
With daily posts on Monday in June!!!

Toodles May ... Hello June!! :)

Have a blessed Friday and even greater weekend
For those experiencing heavy rains in your hometown
Don't leave home without your raincoat and/or umbrella
Stay dry till next time. Peace.

       [saw this picture online and its so fitting for my post] - borrowed pic

Fan the fly!

Watch your ears
Watch your ears
What they hear
[as a child I sang.. Don't hear .. lol]
For there's a Father up above
Looking down with tender love
Watch your ears
Watch your ears
What they hear

We as adults, adolescence and pre-teens
Have to be careful of the little things we let enter our ears
Can't allow for the gossips and rumors that go around
To fall on our ears

They can cause envy, animosity and strife
Among our family friends and love ones
Even those we haven't even met before.

Let us fan the fly
Fly representing the person who comes to tear down another person
Fan the fly before the sound [message, information]
gets to the brain

Fan the fly before it pitches
and decides to take seat
Don't entertain it!!

No red eye!!

Not everything that glitters is gold 

The grass may be greener on the other side

But do you know what it took to get it greener?

Satisfy with the little you have

After all, little is much when God is in it.

Don't envy your neighbour's benz

Even though you drive a lada

Humble yourself as a little child 

And accept and appreciate what is before you

Red eye and envy gets you no where

Just causes hatred and strife

Late post ...

But wanted to say what's on my heart

Till I see you next time ...

Sleep good!

Mama

It's an honor to be a mom
Not everyone can/will be a mom
Being a mom isn't easy [ha, I speak like I know right? lol]

It takes courage, patience, time, energy
And most of all love
To care for and grow a child

So to all the mommy's out there
All around the world reading this post
Who stuck by their child(ren) through thick and thin
Through days of can't even finding money to send the child to school
Through days of wondering what your child is gonna eat
And days of seeing your child achieving great things 

Just wanna talk the time out
[I don't usually post on a Sunday]
To say a big
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO YA!!

Happy Mother's Day to ma mommeeee
Happy Mothers day to ma blood sis Sandy-loo
Happy Mamma's Day to the sissy Tee-Jhay!! :)

Happy Mother's Day to those expecting
Happy Mother's Day to those thunder mothers in Zion
Happy Mother's Day to those ladies who have been a mother to the motherless children

Thank you!

Some throwback oldies pic .. But still goodies :)

 

These are my favorite 'to mom with love' songs.

BUT God ...

My situation could have been worst
BUT God .....

You could have been dead
BUT God .......

You could have been homeless,
With no food, no clothes
BUT God .........

Could have lost my mind
BUT God ......

Could have no friends, no family, no one to call my own
BUT God .......

 I have so many 'BUT GOD' in my life
'BUT GOD' made a difference in my situation

I thought God was late in delivering me from my situation
BUT He (God) came RIGHT IN TIME

What is your 'BUT God' testimony?

Have a fantastic weekend
Till we meet again
God's willing on Monday :)

No Greater Love

Can you find any greater love than this

That a man would lay down His life for His friend?

For God so love(d) the world 

That He gave His Only (one) Begotten Son

That Whosoever (anyone that) believeth (believe) in Him

Should NOT perish 

BUT have everlasting life!

Tell me which of your friend, spouse, family

Could love you so much

Enough to die for you

It's the day before Friday ya'll

Its Thursday!!!! :)

Have a blessed evening 

Click here for the lyrics

Fear not ...

Fear thou not 

For I [God] am with thee: 

Be not dismayed; 

For I am thy God: 

I [God] will strengthen thee [you]; 

yea, I [God] will help thee; 

Yea, I [God] will uphold thee [you]

with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41:10 NKJV

Naturalista .. I'm Proud

I loving this era where everywhere I turn
I see most people going natural
Embracing their natural hair
And finding different ways to look beautiful
Without adding anything

I think its the new appreciation of  being 'Proud to be me'
Or maybe its just a phase
Another season in the fashion/hair world


But I'm really glad for this season
Because now, I can get unlimited ideas of how to care and not care my hair
How to wrap or do an up-do to my hair
Or even tips of caring my twist-outs

Here are a few ideas from my pinterest Hairstyle board:

 And my all time favorite (below) ... Up -do bun! :)

For more hair ideas .. Check out my Pinterest Hairstyles.
You can browse and join and follow me
I follow you back .. And we share ideas!!!!!!! :D

Have a fantastic weekend!!!!!!!!!!
**doing the Friday dance**

What's your favorite hairstyle?

Quotes ...

You may not control all the events that happen to you

But you can decide not to be reduced by them. 

Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud

 Do not complain. 

Make every effort to change things you do not like. 

If you cannot make a change, 

change the way you have been thinking. 

You might find a new solution.” 

Quotes taken from 'Letter to my Daughter'

by Maya Angelou

Are you a Maya Angelou fan?

Still I Rise

This is one of my favorite pieces from Maya Angelou ..
A woman's poet I so admire and love.
Yet 'Still I Rise"

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise .... I rise ... I rise

Be Salt, Be Light ... Be Salyte!

In your going out and coming in

In your grocery shopping and market trips

In your attending church and washing the vehicle

In cleaning the house and planting trees outside

Let Jesus be seen in ALL your doings

Let the light of Jesus shine so brightly from within

Be salt and light of the earth

Be Salyte! 

Check out Salyte's wear

Matt 5:16-17

Be Salt ....

Be Light ....

Be Salyte!

Have a great weekend everybody! :)

That feeling ....

This is how I'm feeling today
I'm super duperly Hoppily Happy!! :D

How has your day been going?

He will supply

That really speaks to me.
This reading is taken from
Matthew 6: 25-34
Enjoy :) 

Therefore I say unto you, 
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; 
nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. 
Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?




Behold the fowls of the air: 
for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; 
yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. 
Are ye not much better than they?

Which of you by taking thought 
can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? 
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

And yet I say unto you, 
That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, 
which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven,
shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought, saying, 
What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? 
or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) 
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.




But seek ye first the kingdom of God, 
and his righteousness; 
and all these things shall be added unto you.
  
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: 
for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. 
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

These verses give assurance to me
That whatever I have need of
My God will supply!

Its Bible Study Night!!! :)
Its mid-week already  .. It's Wednesday!

The way of Love

I ain't no Love guru 

But its been on my heart 

To share this with you.

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy 

but don’t love, I’m nothing 

but the creaking of a rusty gate.

~  

If I speak God’s Word with power, 

revealing all His mysteries and making everything plain as day, 

and if I have faith that says to a mountain, 

“Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

~

If I give everything I own to the poor 

and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, 

but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere.

So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, 

I’m bankrupt without love.

 ~

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut (definition of strut),
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

~

Love never dies. 

Inspired speech will be over some day; 

praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. 

We know only a portion of the truth, 

and what we say about God is always incomplete. 

But when the Complete arrives, our incomplete(s) will be canceled.

~

When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, 

I gurgled and cooed like any infant. 

When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

~

We don’t yet see things clearly. 

We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. 

But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! 

We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, 

knowing him directly just as he knows us!

 ~

But for right now, until that completeness, 

we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: 

Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. 

And the best of the three is LOVE.

Readings taken from 1 Corinthians 13 'The Message Translation'

Have a loving Tuesday! :)

Please remember to pray for the families in Boston