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.

Dust off your dreams...

Its been awhile since I've written on here.

I will admit I stumbled and lost a little faith in my dreams and what I was striving for, and didn't feel I had the right or the courage to motivate others. But, sometimes when we are at our lowest points we can help bring others to their highest points.

We have to remember that by helping others receive their blessings we will in return be blessed. We may not see it right away and it even may take years, but when the time is right and God feels as though we are ready for what we have been praying for and asking to have come into our lives it will happen.

I was watching Tyler Perry's latest play Madea's big happy family, and Mr. Perry became a little sidetrack and off of script, but his words were truthful and needed to be said. He said, "We pray and ask for things and sometimes they do not come when we want them to or things will get in the way and seem as if this is what we asked for, but in reality its not. We have to go through the obstacles and the bad to finally get to what we really want."

Sometimes we ask for our dreams to come true and we get everything but what we were asking for. Hold on just a little longer. You can't always get to point A from Point B without some form of obstacles or traffic jams. Life is something we have to work hard for, so when we get what we have been praying for we can cherish it more and hold onto it longer and appreciate it.

Those goals and dreams you placed on the highest shelf so you didn't have to see them and be reminded that it didn't work out. Take it off the shelf and dust that dream off. You are never to old and should never give up on it. Keep your faith, believe in it and in yourself.

The path we want to happen and be created the way we see it, is not going to always happen. We sometimes have to take a detour, but eventually will get back on track with experiences to help us stay on track and know when we are drifting.

Be patient with yourself and with your dreams.

L.

Here's Where I Stand

Many times in our life we put on different faces to please the people we love or want to love us. In the end when its just ourselves looking in the mirror, we stare at the image and try to see who is the real person behind those beautiful eyes, and many times the answer is, "I don't know", because we have taken so many forms so that people will like us.

But eventually we have to come to the realization that who we are is this person right here and now. Either you love me or you keep moving on in life. We only get one life, and why not live it for yourself. If the people who you call friends truly love you they will take you flaws in all.

I have many passions and one is music. If the lyrics speak to me you really win me over. This song spoke to me and made me realize that this is who I am take it or leave it. Some people left or I left them, because I was tired of pretending to be something I wasn't. Enjoy this song and reflect on it, and if you have time the movie is called "Camp".

Have a wonderful weekend and remember you are wonderful and truly blessed. Good things really do come to those who wait and keep positivity in their mind, heart, spirit and everyday life.

Love Always,

L.

Tell fear to go away

A quick message before heading to bed.

Never give up on you! You are your biggest fan! If someone doubts you and your dreams, let them doubt, but do not let that discourage you from continuing your dreams. So many people let others negativity and fear come in the way of their dreams, and they pack their dreams away and place them on a shelf and forget about it.

I've been a victim of that. We all have, and we need to end that today.

When you begin to believe in you and keep that positive energy going on around you, others will pick up on it and will start believing in you.

Never give up or put your dreams to the side, do not let fear live in your mind or heart. Everyone has a season to shine, you just have to be patient and wait for it and keep believing and have faith in its existence.

L

I can't stop telling you how much I love you!

This week has been a sad one.

Several teens and young adults have committed suicide, because of being bullied or tormented. It truly breaks my heart. I guess I can to some extent relate to them. My high school years were the roughest and hardest. I was teased, tormented, made fun, hated. For no reason. I cried almost everyday, but I just kept praying that life would get better and it did.

I just wish there was more outlets for teens so they can have someone to talk to. A group where they can go and feel loved and cherished and know how beautiful and special they are. I remember when I was in High school there was sort of a group like that, that I was involved in and for 90 mins I felt like I belonged in that school.

I want to create a group for teens and young adults to feel they are loved and can express themselves. I want them to find another outlet maybe through music, writing, drawing instead of cutting and drinking and taking pills. I've known too many people who I love and loved dearly who found the latter part of my previous sentence as an outlet because they felt no one loved them and self-infliction was the only way they could feel something. I don't want that to be an outlet for others.

I am just praying to God, that he gives me an answer on how to start this program. I have others things I want to do and keep bouncing back and forth between my ideas, but I feel this needs to be done. We are losing love and gaining hate. We are so quick to judge someone because they are a little "quirky" or funny looking. We throw out hateful words quicker than we do words of love, kindness and reassurance.

I started this blog and post-it messages to let people see that someone does love them and we need to spread that word. LOVE its four letters but it packs a lot of force behind it.

So know this as you finish reading this blog. Whoever you are, wherever you are... I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, and I need you here in this life. Do not give up, do not let them win. You are never given more that you can endure. Through all the rain a rainbow eventually comes out of it, so endure the rain for the beauty that will come after it. Again I say, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU and want you to love your beautiful body you were give do not damage it with scars to feel some type of feeling, do not take your life because others do not like you, because there are more people out here in the world that LOVE You, some of us you haven't met yet. If anything take me with you in your heart along with God and know that you are loved beyond knowing.

-L

Don't get discourage, continue to dream and love

So yesterday I posted several around Barnes and Nobles in North Wales, Pa and the Micheals near by it. My sister also helped out and did her part posting some around Montco community college.

A few people have sent in telling me they found them. I am glad I could make someone's day and in return that makes me happy.

I will admit last night I was a little discouraged because a few people were like oh that ideas been done before. Ok, yes someone else may have done it but why can't I. I am not doing the same exact thing far as the message I am trying to send. Maybe the delivery is similar, but please stop crushing other dreams to try to make a little difference in someone's day. Plus those ideas were sparked from others ideas.

I am just glad people are enjoying it and doing their share, that is all that matters. There should not be a copyright on love and how its should be displayed or distributed amongst people.

I am still going to do my part and you should too. Take out a sharpie and post-it and tell someone you love them!

(also make sure to put the website at the bottom of the post-it or whatever you use so people can share their story).

Spread notes of love all around today and everyday!

Placed 37 post-its around today!

So I placed about 37 post-its all around. Not bad for day one. Tomorrow I will post more. Here are some photos from the ones I got a chance to take photos of. Can't wait to post more around tomorrow. Don't forget you can join in too! I can't do this alone.

Day 1

So today is day one of the you are loved project. Before I fell asleep last night I created 15 posted to stick around. Today when i get home I am going to be creating more for day two.

This is a project I am putting all my love into and want to go strong with it for a year and many other years after that. They say the first year is the hardest, but long as I have God on my side I can do it!

So grab a pen, marker, post it, paper, tape and start spreading words of love. People do not realize this, but words have a powerful impact!

So lets tag the world with love!

L.

1 set of love messages

What is you are loved

I've had this idea in my head for a LONG time now and finally had the courage to start my dreams and goals.

You are Loved is along the lines a random act of kindness creating messages on index cards, computer, post-its, envelops whatever you can find and leaving them for people to find. It can be a story, quote, personal message, to let someone know that out there in the world someone cares.

There is so much in society telling us if we do this people will like us more, or we change that we will be accepted more as beautiful. We are forgetting to tell one another we love them. Sometime just a smile or thank you goes along way.

Maybe if someone finds while sitting on the train a message on the seat next them that states, "Believe in your dreams and one day they shall become a reality," and "you don't know me, but I love you." That might help raise there self-esteem or maybe even something bigger.

This world is a lot of pressure and just simply telling someone, even if you do not know them, that they are loved can help lighten the load.

So please create a message and make copies of it give them to your friends and each of you leave it someone where for it to be found. Leave it in a tip jar at a local coffee shop, or a bathroom stall, or in a library book, or on a step, mirror, be creative!

So take a picture of where you posted your message of love and if you find one please post it on here and let us know how you felt when finding it and how you felt when you created one and left it for someone.

Let's give the gift of love!

email: youarelovedxox@gmail.com

email photos and stories to this address and they will be posted on the website.