Selfish

When you have been everything to everyone and you have been nothing to yourself, is it someone’s right to call you selfish?  I had to take time to reflect on my years of tears and time of growth that being not everything to yourself will leave you empty and destitute.  There is a time to share, a time to give, a time to reflect and a time to realize that life and its uncertainty had been brought on by one’s own ability to enable others. People will come dependent on you, only if you allow it to continue.  How do you expect for people to grow without you, if you keep over watering the plant? You’ll drown it and then decide to save it once more. It makes no sense to relive situations when it becomes recurrent. If your word is good once then saying it twice makes it redundant. You’re not selfish if you make yourself a priority. There is a time for your restoration and it comes when you finally understand when the time comes for you to live for you, because no one else will be able to follow if you fall behind.

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Right Place

We’re willing to give thanks where it is due, but every so often were not willing to do where the need may be. We offer selfish reasons to justify our own actions behind helping ourselves first. We enlist others to participate when it’s benefiting but never enlisting others when it unfavorable. The rewards come when you don’t look for them. Accolades are given when extensive work has been put to the test. Requests are granted when you’re willing to give up something to give to someone else. Generosity comes from the heart which is the template to sharing and caring. It’s the gateway to helping those that need the help. If your heart is in it then it’s in the right place. It’s a dangerous combination if you never take notice of anyone else besides yourself. Putting pride aside will teach you humility. It can work to your advantage to be willing to serve at all levels regardless if meaningful or trivial. Apply what your worth to the work that is needed then you’ll be in the right place at the right time giving and receiving.

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He Didn’t Leave Us

“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” Hebrews 13:5

The feeling of being alone is simultaneously relatable to a bottomless pit. The place is dark and cold with a sign that says “no way out, but up”. We realize that when we are in the pit we see how easy it was for us to fall in and how hard it is to get out. We desire to be rescued but we don’t desire the need to be ‘saved’. And we wonder why the conditions of the pit are so harsh. It’s because the pit is where our mind goes to lock itself out from the world at hand. No one wants to deal with the harsh realities of life when life doesn’t ease up from the pain. The one who has come to save us all from the pit is the one who has been redeemed from the grave. He has been restored from death to life for us all to live again. I am amazed how we can leave the one we love and chase after another, in terms of conditions when he gives us unconditional love. We don’t have to pay for something we already have access to and we certainly don’t have to be reassured of the love that he gives. In every occasion he guarantees security and safety in him. He gives us his word and it stands on truth. How viable is our word and how can he stand on truth if it isn’t in us.

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Useful Thinking

Our minds are set on an axis to process, acquire and to conceive. Without useful ways to process a thought, acquire what we've learned, and conceive what we've heard, we won't be capable to do all that our minds are set to do. Emotions are connected to our heart. That's why it’s difficult to rationalize emotions when our minds can't feel. Stay away from allowing your mind to take on feelings that it's not adapt to handle. We have to use useful thinking and ways when it comes to our heart and the soul of our passions. Our passions align themselves with the way we process our thoughts. It is the hub to how we will eventually view and see ourselves in present and future tense.  Be wise in all that you wish to behold. Those that are unwise will use wishful thinking while those that are wise will use wisdom.

 

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Remain Connected

It is not about what you have done or what you have accomplished it is all about who you are connected to. Your network has to be made up of people that can benefit you in the short and long run. We are acquainted with people that have benefits but we’re the ones who don’t take them up on any offer. You can’t make a bid until you know your own purchase price. This is one of the reasons why we miss out on golden opportunities that come our way. We’re too busy to see what is in front of us because we're to busy looking over. 

"Assess your assets and if you calculate right you may not come up empty"

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Well of Water

There is no need to expect the unexpected when you have an idea of what's to come. Look forward to a life changing experience when you change something about yourself or do something you have yet to do. When you are ready to process what you want to receive the "Well of Water" springs forth the well of life and living it more abundantly. It's sad to encounter new possibilities when we have yet to understand the concept behind the experience. Experience is the well of water and it is ever flowing. The flow is consistent because of the current. Stay afloat and you will stay always moving.

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Congested

For the last few weeks I've been trying to figure out, how I made my life so confusing. I was distracted by what I thought I needed. The need couldn't fulfill my wants because my desire required so much more. I was unlike myself. Unsure of what step to make and if I took the step would it put me in jeopardy. My future was mapped out. It was detailed and orchestrated so that there was no deviation. I wrestled with the thought of uncertainty and in that became doubt which unrivaled fear. The greatest of all challenges a person will have to face head on will be to conquer fear. Fear does not adhere to reasoning, because fear only answers to those who feed into it.  And if I had allowed myself to feed my fear it would have grown into an adult size image of what I didn't want to become. I realized that I had to starve fear in order for it to die. I feed it with the things I knew it hated and despised. I gave it "Love and Peace" as an appetizer. I gave it "Faith" as the main course. And I gave it "Hope" as the desert. These ingredients are what we all need to survive and kill fear for good.  We can't overcome it unless we give it something that it doesn't want but what we all need.


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