Life, Faith &Love™

Valentine's day is right around the corner and everyone is making plans to get booed up. I'm all for finding love, but sometimes we try really hard to get someone to like us, that we have no business talking to. I am a woman and I can only speak from a ladies perspective, but sometimes women try so hard to gain a man's attention, that we can make ourselves an option, instead of his number one selection. You send the text messages, buy the gifts, try to initiate hanging out, but the guy is not reciprocating? Or maybe he's reciprocating, but just enough to keep you interested in him because he likes the attention you give him, but he's just not 100% clear with his intentions for you? If this is your situation, sis I advice you to let go. Quick story time: there was a time I was interested in a man. I'm typically very old fashion and I believe the man should pursue the woman, but I found myself trying to shoot my shot at this guy. I told him that I was catc...

Hello everyone! I hope you all were safe, yet had fun breaking into the new year. Wow, it's still crazy to me how fast 2018 went by. Time definitely does fly by. I want to start off my first blog of 2019, by saying welcome to 2019. I know New Year's resolutions are a big deal when a new year begins. I am all for change, but last year during the New Year I proposed saying NO to New Year resolutions and saying YES to life time solutions. If you're interested in that blog, click on  Lifestyle Solution . This year I want to encourage you to start of the new year by intentionally choosing to TRUST God. Choosing to trust God can be easier said than done. I walked through a really hard season in 2018, things have dramatically improved, but to be honest at times I still struggle with this. There was something I was praying and asking God for in 2018. Y'all I asked God numerous times. I prayed, fasted, told friends about it for corporate prayer, I tried to do everything ...

We live in times where social media deems having money, success and fame equates to happiness. The purpose of this blog is not to deem money as a bad thing nor to portray money as evil. The purpose of this blog is search for the deeper meaning of happiness. Material possessions can not give us peace of mind. Material possessions can provide temporal joy, but not permanent joy. If you don't believe me, read below for quoted statements from celebrities (who have A LOT of money, fame and success) and their stand point on money and happiness. -Cardi B:  Interviewer: " You had put an Instagram video where you had an iced out Patek Philippe watch and you seemed like the happiest person in that moment."  Cardi: "It wasn't like... I was happy like, who don't be happy when they get new stuff? But the thing is, I was happy cuz a lot of people stay trying to play me. I was happy cuz, yeah I talk about ssshhmonneyy, like I love ssshhmmoney, but I don't show...

First off, I want to start this blog by saying no matter what season you walk through in life, you are never alone. It might feel like you are, but you're not. If you believe in God, such as I do, He will never leave you nor forsake you. No matter how deep the valley or how high the mountain, He will never leave you. My purpose for this blog is to provide 3 practical tips on how to walk through seasons where you might feel isolated. 1. Find the Root Cause of Isolation Before anything can be fixed or before any healing can begin the root cause must be known. For example when pharmacies run into problems or medication errors they use root cause analysis or fish bone diagrams to identify the root of the problem. Once the root is identified, then we can take steps to fixing the problem. Ask yourself, "Why do I feel alone? What led/contributed to this feeling of isolation?" Maybe you recently ended a close friendship, someone close to you passed away, or you recently exp...

This morning when I was processing offense, that quote came to me. I've come to realize that lately I've been taking offense to LITTLE things. My quote can be taken in many ways, but my purpose was to reveal how God can use conflict/offense to reveal the state of our hearts. In the quote I refer to God as the Reference. The google definition of reference is the use of a source of information in order to ascertain something.   God is the ultimate source of all references, He is the God of ALL truth. In the mist of conflict when I find myself getting offended, I've learned to pause and ask myself if this conflict/offense is intentional to reveal the state of my heart. Before we are quick to point the finger on others, let us first look within.We can't control others, but we can control ourselves.

So I love avocados. I can eat avocados for breakfast, a snack, lunch and even incorporate avocados in my dinner. I love avocados so much that sometimes I get inpatient for them to get ripe. The other day I grabbed an avocado from the kitchen. I knew the avocado was still hard, but I wanted it so bad that I started to cut into it. As I was trying to clean and cut the avocado, I was struggling to peel off the skin because it was not ripe yet. I forced the avocado peel off and lied to myself that I was enjoying the unripe avocado. If I would have waited a couple more days, that avocado would have been ripe, not as difficult to clean and perfect for me to eat. I feel like sometimes in life we want certain things so bad, that we are willing to force it, even when we know it's not the right time. If we learn to be a bit more patient for what we want there will be an ease that will come when it's the right season.  In this blog I will provide 3 tips on how to be patient and...

Guest Blogger/Writer Margaret Olat: A few years after I graduated from college, I was faced with the enormous responsibility of having to actually act like an adult. I could no longer sleep in till 12:30 pm and survive on ramen noodles. I had to wake up early to be at my internship by 8am, attend weekly worship rehearsals at church, and continue to nurture the audience I was building online. This became really overwhelming at one point as I was starting to feel uninspired at work and at church. I knew something had to happen because I wasn’t about to give up blogging for work. Neither did I want to give up my weekly rehearsals for being bright and sunny at work.   So, I discovered the structure to getting all these done while actually saving more time in the process. But before I share it with you, I have to warn you; this isn’t perfect. But it works because I continually have to assess how effective the system is. This is for you if you nurse the ambition to follow y...