Those who have lost their way, will always find it again

It has been almost 2 years since I have used this blog. Or blogged in general.

I think it is because I became lost as a person. I gave up on myself and gave up on the faith that others had for me. I began to think Why should I live my life to the fullest potential, when it seems no one cares. I started to go through life as if it was a chore. Get up, go to work, do the minimal socializing I can and then repeat. I let friendships slip and just felt like they didn't need me in their life.

Then I WOKE UP! I realized I need to be present in my life. This is the only life I receive and it is a present from God. There are so many people who did not wake this morning or even make it through the day. I had to step back and ask myself what did I lose to make me feel this way, and the answer was right there and always there. I lost my FAITH.

As long as you have a mustard seed of faith you can go from there and grow, but my mustard seed of faith was gone. I thought to myself what did I do before to help myself spiritually grow, to stay positive, to attract like minded people in my direction. The answer, I nurtured myself as if I was a flower. Prayer was my water, Positive people was my sunlight and the continuation of learning to be spiritual (meditating) and release negativity was my soil.

That night I prayed and talked to God. Asked him to help me get back on my journey. To give me a stronger armour to make it through the days unscathed and help others be the best they can be. Within 24 hours it was such a big turn around. Friends who I thought I lost were still there, everyone I encountered as a retail pharmacy tech were such sweethearts (even the most nasty and difficult of people), the air around me was different.  My faith was back and stronger than ever.

I ask those who feel like they are down and out and feel like nothing is going right for them to write down what they want to see in their life. Then pray. It does not have to be the traditional prayer, but you can have a conversation with God. If you work better with writing, grab a cup of tea and sit down with you pen and paper or electrical device and write a letter to God. You will be so surprised what you discover. You allow all the things that were dormant in your life to come out and be at the forefront and have their voice heard.

My ultimate goal in life is to shed and keep off all the layers of negativity, help others see the potential that is within, and to let people know you can create your own happiness without spending any money.

So let's all regain our mustard seed of faith again.

I am putting in prayer and meditation that I continue this blog with my life journey and to give helpful advice and stories to others along this journey.

Namaste,
L.

You are beautiful

I just want to remind women of all ages, race, creed, and size. WE and I repeat WE ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL, and if people have negative things to say, let them, but know in your heart and mind each time you look in the mirror that you are beautiful.

Tell yourself that you are beautiful before you leave the bathroom. Every time you catch a glimpse of your reflection remind yourself how beautiful you are. Let it be to the point that as long as you remind yourself that you are beautiful your opinion is the only one that matters.

So all my ladies, do the pretty girl rock and enjoy your day.

Namaste,

L.

God Gave Me You

When you pray on it and visualize it, God and the universe will give unto everything you ask for.

So be careful with what you put out there. Ask for what you want and do not add onto it what you don't want. Be positive and in time your prayers will be answered.

If you are looking for someone wonderful and special to come into your life, prayer and ask for what you want. God will give it to you 10 folds. It may not come when you ask for it, but when it is felt that you are ready for it and everything that comes with it.

Dave Barnes is a wonderful guy who lets us in on his prayer to God and what God gave him, through this song. Enjoy!

Sometime you just gotta...smile

Sometimes the world may give you so many obstacles and you fell like you are being pressed in-between two walls and no matter what you do you can not get from between them.

You have to remain calm and patient that God will lift you from the situation.

Stay positive and keep Faith, Hope, and Love close to your heart and remember to smile once in awhile. The storm clouds do not always last forever.

L.

A lesson forgiveness

Found this while looking on StumbleUpon very good lesson to read and ponder about. I think I needed to read this after the day I had today. Read look at the link and pass it on.

A lesson on Forgiveness

The Buddha was sitting under a tree talking to his disciples when a man came and spit on his face. He wiped it off, and he asked the man, “What next? What do you want to say next?” The man was a little puzzled because he himself never expected that when you spit on somebody’s face, he will ask, “What next?” He had no such experience in his past. He had insulted people and they had become angry and they had reacted. Or if they were cowards and weaklings, they had smiled, trying to bribe the man. But Buddha was like neither, he was not angry nor in any way offended, nor in any way cowardly. But just matter-of-factly he said, “What next?” There was no reaction on his part.

Buddha’s disciples became angry, they reacted. His closest disciple, Ananda, said, “This is too much, and we cannot tolerate it. He has to be punished for it. Otherwise everybody will start doing things like this.”

Buddha said, “You keep silent. He has not offended me, but you are offending me. He is new, a stranger. He must have heard from people something about me, that this man is an atheist, a dangerous man who is throwing people off their track, a revolutionary, a corrupter. And he may have formed some idea, a notion of me. He has not spit on me, he has spit on his notion. He has spit on his idea of me because he does not know me at all, so how can he spit on me?

“If you think on it deeply,” Buddha said, “he has spit on his own mind. I am not part of it, and I can see that this poor man must have something else to say because this is a way of saying something. Spitting is a way of saying something. There are moments when you feel that language is impotent: in deep love, in intense anger, in hate, in prayer. There are intense moments when language is impotent. Then you have to do something. When you are angry, intensely angry, you hit the person, you spit on him, you are saying something. I can understand him. He must have something more to say, that’s why I’m asking, “What next?”

The man was even more puzzled! And Buddha said to his disciples, “I am more offended by you because you know me, and you have lived for years with me, and still you react.”

Puzzled, confused, the man returned home. He could not sleep the whole night. When you see a Buddha, it is difficult, impossible to sleep again the way you used to sleep before. Again and again he was haunted by the experience. He could not explain it to himself, what had happened. He was trembling all over and perspiring. He had never come across such a man; he shattered his whole mind and his whole pattern, his whole past.

The next morning he was back there. He threw himself at Buddha’s feet. Buddha asked him again, “What next? This, too, is a way of saying something that cannot be said in language. When you come and touch my feet, you are saying something that cannot be said ordinarily, for which all words are a little narrow; it cannot be contained in them.” Buddha said, “Look, Ananda, this man is again here, he is saying something. This man is a man of deep emotions.”

The man looked at Buddha and said, “Forgive me for what I did yesterday.”

Buddha said, “Forgive? But I am not the same man to whom you did it. The Ganges goes on flowing, it is never the same Ganges again. Every man is a river. The man you spit upon is no longer here. I look just like him, but I am not the same, much has happened in these twenty-four hours! The river has flowed so much. So I cannot forgive you because I have no grudge against you.”

“And you also are new. I can see you are not the same man who came yesterday because that man was angry and he spit, whereas you are bowing at my feet, touching my feet. How can you be the same man? You are not the same man, so let us forget about it. Those two people, the man who spit and the man on whom he spit, both are no more. Come closer. Let us talk of something else.”

Link where I found this article:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1o6mDB/www.globalone.tv/profiles/blogs/a-lesson-on-forgiveness

A good cause, with Love in the foreground

It's been awhile since I've blogged. By now I wanted this blog to have a flowing abundance of positive messages for people to read and to inspire. Unfortunately, my family went through a difficulty period in our life and still trying to learn to heal.

On March 12, 2011 my step-father, Wendell James Sawyer Jr. Lost his battle to brain cancer. He was only diagnosed a year ago. The months leading up to his passing were very challenge for my family. If anyone has had someone very close to them deal or dealing with cancer then you know what I am talking about.

My step-father even though he was apart of our lives for a short period of time was very proud of me. He was always pushing me to do great things, and to believe in myself, to do away with all the doubting.

I told him once about this one project I wanted to create when he was first diagnosed. I called it Stitches of Love. What this project and hopefully later organization would do is knit scraves, blankets or other things and donate it to cancer patients. He liked the idea a lot and kept pushing me to do it. I started working on it, but later put it to the side.

This past week I've been dreaming about this project and want to start it back up. This time I would sell the scraves, blankets and etc and donate the proceeds to Brain cancer or to a family who is in turmoil and has to deal with medication and hospital bills.

I know with God on my side and meeting wonderful people this can be a glorious thing. I want to give to people. I want to inspire and send love and positivity to people along with help.

Cancer does not just hurt those who are going through it, but the family too. Esp. if that person was taken away. For its been two months and reality is finally starting to hit and it stings so bad.

So in honor of him I want to do this. I would of course need help. I want to try to contact craft stores and people to see if they would donate material or items they have created and sell them and give the proceeds to people who need it. I don't know how I am going to do this, but I am praying on it and thinking positive. And opening the door for people to help or send information.

Please tell people about this and if you want to help out that would be wonderful. I want to get this rolling before this winter.

L.

I placed on here a video I created for my step father's funeral. He was only 40 years old. He was a creative person who loved to produce music.

The song is titled, 'Giving Thanks', this is one of the many things he wrote and produced.

We are favored by a higher power.

There will always be people in your life who are going to dislike you for the silliest reasons. I always say if people are hating me I must be doing something right. Never change who you are because people dislike you, there are more people out there that love you for you. I just ask God to give me the strength to forgive them and their ignorance.

Enjoy this song, that my friend shared with me, and I listen to everyday before I go to work. It gives me strength for I am encounter people who are jealous of me for being given better opportunities at my job and people seeing that I am a hard worker and can do anything put before me.

L.