Declare It...

Today is the day to make your declaration...to speak into the atmosphere and claim your destiny! To live the life you have been called to live! Today is the day to speak, to open your mouth and with a loud, boisterous voice, call out your Future, Your Dreams, Goals, and set a standard for excellence!

Stop walking with that dark cloud over your head, come from up under what looks familiar and step out into the unfamiliar. LEAP OUT from amongst the crowd and LIVE!!!!!!!

Live like never before...create a new walk, talk; change your surroundings, and command the atmosphere. Become a World Changer, Trend-setter, Life Speaker, Spirit Lifter, Prayer Warrior, Mood Changer, Peace Maker, Goal Setter!

Speak over yourself, make moves towards greatness and leave mediocrity behind. DARE TO WANT MORE! To be different, unlike the rest. Be God-fearing, Bold, Courageous, and determined that come hell or high water you will live the life that God has for you!

Remove yourself from those who do not believe and  can not perceive what greatness is and what it looks like, even when its staring them in the face.

God has given us this beautiful, amazing life...and we wont live! I heard someone say I would hate to die and never do what I was born to do...

I dare you to posts your declarations on this page, to start living, and begin to declare your life in your walk and in your talk...LIVE!

Love & Joy

Inspirational ME

Dear God,
What is it about me that you love so much? I have been tried and tested, loved and lost...what makes you continue to let me be the one to pay the cost? I pray everyday, I read my bible, I've served in church and didn't care about the title. I continue to pray for others, more than I pray for myself, always inspiring them to do their best, yet I haven't passed this test? I am now working on me,  running my own race, living life at my own pace. God what is it about me that you love so much? I feel like I'm failing...and I can't do enough. My heart continuously in pain, even while I'm calling out your name.....I've lost my since of me and who I am supposed to be. The trials seem more than I can bare, and it seems so unfair. God what is it about me that you love so much, I didn't know the road would be this rough....

Dear My Child,
I love you so much that I allow you to go through. I knew you could handle these battles that "seem" to have overtaken you. I knew you wouldn't stop fighting, no matter how hard it got, that you would find a way to break through, I knew you wouldn't stop! You have a heart so big, that pain couldn't stay for long. I made you just for me, so the enemy had it all wrong. All the tests your going through I sent them your way, I needed you to be challenged, to prepare you for this next phase! It hurts, I know it does, but I love you nonetheless. You didn't have to be perfect you just had to pass the test. You are my inspirational me, tried and true, I only pick the best to go through. I know it hasn't been easy, but I promise you this, the BEST is just around the corner, so don't fix your eyes on this. I love you because your you, but sometimes we ALL have to go through. Remember your testimony because this one is going to BIG!  These tests were meant to stretch you and help pave your way. This is not your destination so don't be quick to stay! Faith is going to be essential, never let it go. Know that I love you, and this is just the beginning of the show. Remember I have great plans for you, and I am on your side, just let me control this ride. Use this time to get strong, to build your spirit man, I promise you that you will WIN!


Love & Joy

The Purpose of the Process

How exciting it is when you get something NEW! Whether it's NEW clothes, NEW shoes, a NEW job, or a NEW car, NEW is somehow always better?!?! As we enter a new year, I wonder the path we all had to take just to get to the NEW part. I'm sure there were some sacrificies made, some things lost, and some found, all for us to get to this day.

The road probably got rough, uncomfortable, uneasy, quite painful, yet we stayed the course and we were rewarded. A new year, a new day, for us to do it all over again. I've come to understand that through this process called life, there is a purpose. There is a reason for my joy, my tears, my triumph, and even my failures. The key is to go through the process. That's the tough part. You have to purposely decide that whatever you are going through, I will by any means necessary go through it, around it, under it, over it, and come out victorious!

See I believe the New part is the icing on the cake, because I just may be tried with some old stuff, BUT because of God's grace, his mercy, his umerited favor, we have already conquered anything that comes our way. It doesn't have to be a New Year, for you  to walk into a NEW season, a NEW blessing, a NEW you... just be willing to go through the process.

This year, purposely decide to let God do the driving, strive to reach your goals, dream bigger than you have ever dreamed before, reach for the unreachable, and watch the Newness of God overtake you!

May you have a blessed and prosperous New Year!

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Pieces of Me

So when you look at my face. You got to know that I'm made. Of everything love and pain, these are the pieces of me. Like every woman I know, I complicated for sure, but when I love I love to there's no love no more, these are the pieces of me ~Ledisi~


How complicated are we, "women"? Pretty complicated I think many would say, but what amazing beings God created. I met this amazing women yesterday, and it made me have a moment of reflection, of just how resilient God made us. The time he must have spent crafting us. He truly knew that we would have to be so different and so very special. This women, we'll call her "Angel", came into my office and when she approached the front desk she had this illuminating glow about her and an unforgettable personality. She had been recommended to one of the practices in our offices by another doctor. As she was talking she mentioned that she had just finished a bout with cancer(ovarian) stage 3. She recently went back to the doctor, only to find out that it had spread to her liver. The whole time she was telling this story she was smiling and laughing. She mentioned she was going to Zumba at 10am, Yoga at 3pm, and she would finish her day off with Spin Class at 6pm. I looked at her and I was astonished that she had so much energy and pizazz! She mentioned the doctors said she needed to slow down, but this women looked as though she was in the best health and shape that I could possibly imagine. Still smiling, still excited about life, and most importantly unaffected by cancer. Her "piece" was resiliency. 


So often I wonder how many pieces God designed us with. Which piece is the one that holds us together in times of trouble and triumph....


Her testimony touched my heart. My realtor told me that we as women have something called, "presence"! And even on our worst day we are still the best(LR)! We have all these pieces that make us up and some how we find a way to keep them all together, even when we want to pull the covers over our head and cry. We have an innate ability to PRESS, to keep going, to still smile, to still love, to still give, to still be a wife, mother, daughter, counselor. Complicated, yes. But what amazing attributes we have. What is your piece???


Love & Joy

My Season is Changing

I started this blog some months ago, and I don't think I really knew what I was saying when I signed each posting as "My Season is Changing". Often times we speak things not truly understanding what we are saying. It's been a year of Summer, Winter, Fall, & Spring. I can truly say I have experienced all seasons. However, if I look at it from a spiritual perspective, I can see that in each season, I-DID-CHANGE. I grew. I became more knowledgeable in Winter, than in Summer. More courageous in Fall, and more transparent in Spring.

Your season is a learning tool for life. It is not a place for you to become comfortable, and complacent, but a time for you to go through the stages, and levels needed for your METAMORPHOSIS! The year is not over yet, but I have grown so much, and I am not the quiet little girl anymore. I don't walk in defeat, but I live to be victorious. The life lessons that I have learned, the tears, fears, heart-breaking trials and tests that I have had to face, have made me a woman. We sometimes think that our age makes us grown, but in this time of reflection, I beg to differ. Life, being an overcomer, your testimony, makes you grown. It's not your age, but your attributes.

I'm getting closer to my dreams, to my destiny, the more God stretches me. I love me. I love that I have been tried, and I'm still standing. I am living a colorful life; full of red, yellow, green, purple, orange, and sometimes black. But it's in the darkness where I find my light, where I have found me! My Season will always be changing, isn't that a beautiful thing!


Love & Joy.

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I'm a Hustler!

This title may not be the most feminine, but it sure is fitting for how I feel this morning. It is in me to strive toward greatness. Even in my pitfalls, stumbles, trials and tribulations I want to reach the land of milk and honey. I want the best that God has for me. Even in my loneliness, tears, and fears, I still go hard everyday. Even in my days when my faith is not as strong as it should be, something on the inside keeps me pressing and reaching and moving towards my destiny. I am a hustler. I work 3 jobs, provide for my family, and I am still creating and inventing ways to do and be more than just what no matter what things may look like.  I want to be an example for every woman, man, girl or boy that wants more out of life.  That example for those few who truly want to take theirGod given place in this world! You may not see it but I wear a crown, and I place on the top of my head everyday. I am royalty, and when you are royalty you make things happen. You command and demand what is yours.  I'm a hustler just like my father! He calmed the Storm. Parted the Red Sea. Walked on water, & He has done miracles after miracles! So I hustle everyday, because it is in me. A hustler is: Hardworking-Unique-Steadfast-Talented-Leader-Enticing-Relevant.

Find the hustler in you....

In spite of it All

Every morning I get up, get my daughter Hallie together, wash her face brush her teeth, get her dressed, comb her hair, and make sure she eats breakfast. Get myself together, and off with our day. It's not always in that order, but some how we get it done. Wednesday we were leaving home, rushing I should say, we get on the elevator,  I have my purse in one hand, my bag of "things" in the other hand, Hallie right by me, and I had just enough time to take a deep breath on the ride down from the 9th floor to the 3rd. We stopped on the 6th floor for someone to get on, the lady steps in and smiles. I smile back, with that uncomfortable elevator smile! Before we get to the 3rd floor, she says, "Busy morning"? I replied yes. She says, " I don't have kids but my girlfriends do, and they always seem to be rushing or busy, but some how they manage." I said that's an understatement.

I got in the car and on the drive I'm listening to 99.1 and the radio personality on there Ebonie is discussing how she was just recognized as one of the top 30 radio/television personalities and she shared the list with women of great influence. She begin crying, and she mentioned how grateful and humbled she was by the recognition. She talked about how hard she works, gives back to the community, allot of times with no recognition or acknowledgement, a simple thank you. The most powerful thing she said though, was, "As long as God sees my hard work, as long as he is pleased when I get to Heaven, then that is what matter's most."

I found myself in the car crying, fighting back the tears as I drove my daughter to school. Reflecting on the many things I juggle and struggle with, being a mother, career women, entrepreneur, and ministry. Wondering if anyone sees or even knows how hard it is, the days when I want to scream, give up, or throw in the towel. But I am reminded of 2 Timothy v:3 as I paraphrase it says, "I thank God whom I serve as my forefathers did with a clear conscience. Timothy who was in jail at the time, was basically saying, I've been through allot, but I have no regrets and I would do it all over again.

When I think of the things I've been through, the days when I  simply didn't want to do the routine, this passage always pops into my mind. Because surely if Timothy who was in jail at the time could still give God the praise in spite of what his circumstances were, surely I can do the same. Daily I remind myself that God has not forgotten about me, that he sees all and knows all, and my work is not in vein. He is a mind regulator, a heart fixer, and he'll give you peace that won't go to pieces. I love him so much. Yes, it gets hard, but I continue to press, I continue to fight the fight of faith, pray without ceasing, and serve, because it's not over until I win!