Peace Everyone! Every week I receive emails from Pastor Ray an awesome youth pastor in the Bay Area. These words are always encouraging, empowering, and uplifting to my soul. I just thought I share this word with the World. I pray you all are touched just as I am through the power of Christ.

 

U R in charge of UR attitude, U R in charge of how U react , U R in charge of UR responses, UR response is what U choose to plant in ur own garden, and U will reap UR choices… At the end of the day it’s on U...

U can't control what others do, but you can control UR response to it-

 

-Ray Murray

 

 

 Focus Scripture: Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

 

Question: How many times have you found yourself declaring that it’s just a bad day, or someone ruined your day and sat back and lost a day that God blessed you to see and enjoy?

 

 

Think: The fact that you are alive!  That alone is a blessing. Each day you have the opportunity to prove to God that no mistake was made in allowing you to see another day.   Your response to God for the gift of life, should be to make the most of it!  The only way "they can ruin your day is if YOU let them... the only way the situation can ruin your day is if YOU allow it to! With the power of God in your life, YOU'RE BETTER THAN THAT!

 

Pay Attention: You can’t control everything that happens to you, but the one thing you can control is your response!  Choose to love, to forgive, choose to be patient, to endure…because when you plant these seeds in the garden of your life you will reap the harvest you want!  Stop letting people and bad situations, out of your control, affect your harvest. Be courageous!

 

 

 

 

Strength!!

 

 

Ray Murray

 

 

 **hit me back and let me know how this has helped!  God Bless you this WEEK!

 

 

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Natural Hair. Black Girls Rock.

To all my Girls who is rocking the Natural Hair.
Power to ya.
It takes much courage, power, and strength to rock Natural Hair.
Natural Hair like all..Perm, Relaxed, and Treated hair need our attention.
Rather you are rocking a fro, locs, braids, or even to step out and shave it all off!
You must keep your hair treated.
Love yourself and you will love your hair.
Black Women!!!
We are versatile, We are Vibrant!
So many women not of African decent (white women, need I say more) would love to have our hair.
Our hair come in so many textures, colors, lengths.
Our hair grows upwards towards the sun.
Our hair is meant to be nappy and all the above.
Embrace it, embrace all we are blessed with.
We are Queens.
Nubian Black.
Our hair is a prize possession of who we are as Africans.
I say let your hair be affirmation of who you are as a true African.
Rock your NATURAL HAIR.

BLACK GIRLS ROCK!!!

**Side Note: I have posted a video for a friend dear to me. You know who you are. Watch it be blessed. Take this style run with it, utilize it to the fullest. You will be amazed of the results. I love you!

Black Power

Re Post if your Black. Light skin, Dark skin, doesn’t matter. We’re all Black.

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the sun love my blackness.

I am a driven person and only through Christ, family, school, children, and my art sums my feelings up as a true reason. I often thirst/embrace the “new” life have to offer me. Constantly inhaling and exhaling positive energy around me. Always motivated by black thought and the tons of beautiful people around me activates me a woman. If there is anything around me I can’t inspire (yet change) it brings about a challenge. Knowing I am one easily to inspire, move, and excite.

 I am a firm believer obstacles come to make you stronger, and I believe Walls in your life should not be a barrier holding you back from a blessing. Those who stay inspired inspire. And if there is anything around you that can’t be inspired, as I once heard stated "Anything you (they) didn't like about this (your) presentation is evidence of our (your) flaws."

This summer I have really been finding myself and my niche. God has blessed me to meet brilliant, positive, driven black folk who are all about Black Love. Having a likeness, heart, and concern for our own Black community. It is interesting to find myself become more aware each day about the Black community when we as human live in a society where everything is everything. Everything, issue is accepted and embraced.

This past weekend I met the sweetest woman named Angela. She is a Black (African American) woman who has a heart for the brothas, Black Men. As she says "I have a heart for our Kings." She also has a heart for being the black woman, wife, mother, friend etc... She is. She made my heart smile because she stated the truth about the Black community. "The Black Man can have any woman he wants" but it is our obligation as black men and women to teach and foster Black Love amongst ourselves. And leave our professions outside our homes when catering to one another.

**Wondering how all this intertwines:

At the beginning of my post I stated how I am inspired through various things. How I am easily inspired. Well in a nut shell Mrs. Angela truly inspired me to keep the flow of Black Love flowing through the Black Community. Not only to teach it but to foster it. I want to see it every day amongst my people. I want to see Black families. Black couples. All striving thriving to be a better BLACK!

It's all love!

random BLACK thoughts/finds/pictures

I'm BLACK and literate therefore society labels me as acting WHITE! That's an issue if you ask me. BLACK girl/woman decides to go NATURAL or cut or hair and everyone acts like you've lost your MIND. It is hard to TRUST those who don't LOVE the skin their in. It is a BLESSING from GOD. By the way SOCIETY idea of BEAUTY is dis respectful. I don’t see why everybody gotta tell me how to live my life. Let me live baby, let me live. I like being BLACK. It is the best feeling. I don't wear heels. I love my BROTHAS. Black men are pretty beings. I am a WOMAN...yes I am HUMAN. "Aint I a Woman."

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Wow! It is amazing to be disattached from Facebook. Not knowing what is going on in the "Facebook" world has given me the opportunity not only examine myself, but it has allowed me to mobilize my thoughts in action. Meaning I am now able to dedicate much of my time to books, research, and focus my precious energy to issues affecting my life positvely and negatively.

Peace