Given Thanks...

Our lives are shaped by the experiences we have. These experiences we have attribute itself to the development of our inner core. Our inner core is how other people will define us. More importantly, our inner core is what will make us, us. For these experience, we are thankful.

Here is a story.

"From the clouds to the water to the garbage in the street, everything is absolutely beautiful."

"People are really calm and live life to enjoy it, despite any hardships."

"Hardships are redefined."

"I think there is a lot of hope".

"One of Gods CHildren."

"I have also seen alot of beautiful souls that I will appreciate forever."

"Key to success: ability to understand people".

"You learn the most when your losing".

YO SOY UN GUARDIAN.

I have grown so much from this trip. Before, I took alot for granted. I realize I live life with alot of assumptions. I automatically thought life was good for everyone and that most of my problems were monumental. In reality, people in the world have problems: death, starvation, parent-less, on a daily basis.

"Passions, People, Pisses you off (what), Purpose, Prayer. "

"TO know thyself, always be true".

"Commitment and Passions can diverge each other".

"Struggle is Mandatory". "Misery is optional".

"Regardless to stature, treat everyone like a king."

"Eliminate pre-conceived notions about whose going to help you."

God puts things and people in your life for a reason. To either curtail you from your wholeness or to ripen that wholeness up. HE is living. Fear is nothing when theres a true love, perfect love, for GOD. Its real. He is real. HE is living.

3 Levels of Human experience:

Competence

Excellence

Mastery

Give yourself that extra push.

Navigate your own course. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

In Conclusion, be ready to hug the world and infect it with your drive, your ambition, your god given talent, to connect leadership with hearty intelligence and understanding. Those who you are suppose to be around will allow you to grow with them.

Be Blessed. Happy thanksgiving. Be thankful.

SLjr.

Seasonal Ending???

Seasonal ending

I have already established (or at least attempted to establish) that life comes in seasons. What I failed to consider was whether or not life’s seasons come to an end. When leaves crumble, should there be hope that the snow will fall again; that rains will come and flowers will bloom again; until its time for the leaves to crumble and fall again.

I once read this short story in elementary school that I will never forget. It talked about this lady who was severely ill; laying in her bed of affliction. When she realized that things in life weren’t changing, when seasons seemed to stop their course of behavior, she assumed that her life was congruent to it.

There was this tree just outside her window and the condition of the leaves gave off the impression that she was in her fall season going into winter. She told her herself that she would remain alive for as long as the leaves would remain on the tree.  Time passed and she noticed that this one leaf refused to fall off. She remained alive for a long time, through different cycles of seasons, just as the leaf remained on the tree; or so she thought.

When nurses came to clean the room after her passing, they realized that the leaf on the tree was no leaf on the tree, but rather the most astonishing painting of a leaf on a window they had ever seen.

In life, all we have is hope and faith. Faith that our steps are ordered, even if our temperamental happiness is sacrificed. And Hope. Hope that there is always a new but recognizable season.

Be prayerful. Be Hopeful. Be humble. Be sought in understanding. Be sought in knowledge. Be sought in faith.

Amen.