PASSIONATE'S CORNER

Letter 1- The world is heavy

The world is heavy, and sometimes my mind doesn’t have the time to process the weight because it’s busy trying to carry it. Time doesn’t make sure that that the world is secure while I’m placing it on my back and hiking up age’s mountain. Time, well time, it just keeps going, and my prayer is that I am able to keep up with its momentum. There are no

short cuts, and there is no fast track to the…

YOU’RE OK…Just remember to tell yourself that

Everyday we’re bombarded with formulas for quick fixes and the keys to success, and everyday we absorb these ideologies as if they are the gospel truth. Our lives will continually suffer these inanimate failures that we thrust upon ourselves only if we feel we are incapable of achieving such things. We do this without taking a wider perspective or viewpoint that this way may not be the blue print…

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PHOTOS FROM FEBRUARY WORKSHOP:

There’s a battle for your attention now, and the strength of your attention will manifest through how focused you are. Focus is an ongoing and daily discipline because the world offers lots of shiny things. Things that are much brighter than the lights on your path. 

Yet, these temptations offer no true sustaining power. They are only distractions to keep you away from the goal ahead. The goal…

They are everywhere once you open your eyes to see them. One may ask, “How will I recognize them?” The answer is, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you (Matt. 7:7).”

“How it will be given to you?” Now, that’s entirely up to you.

“How much will you open your heart up to receive whatever comes?”

One must get rid of all premature…

Our beliefs, values, and convictions shape the way we maneuver through the universe. We are shaped by our experiences, and yet forget that we are perfectly shaped by the Creator. Each evolution we travel through imprints its changes on our lives; however, it’s our perception that determines the destination’s outcome.

We are destined for greatness, to manifest the magic and glory of our heavenly…

Run with me?…

I remember it so vividly like it was yesterday. Our school didn’t have a track team, so one of our head coaches decided to bring the program there. Everyone was inexperienced, but it didn’t matter. We were all excited because is was something new and something that could bring rewards. So, I, with my overachieving self, signed up for triple jump and cross country.

To my surprise, I had a lot of…

I Break My Heart First

I feel it. I always feel it. It’s like the calm before the storm type of feel. It’s an anticipating slow motion wait before a tragedy is about to happen, and you actually see it’s happening, but you act like you don’t and you slowly brace yourself. Waiting…until the crash. I know what the breakdown of a friendship walking away looks like, feels like, and tastes like.

I’m acquainted with it.

It’…

I’m a BROKEN COMPASS #mommythings

They’re magical, and the fact they were created from my moments of love helps me to remember that that same love should resonate through their life span. It is not easy holding their hands and trying to help them navigate through the world because they will do things that I am not pleased with and I do not understand. Yet, I cannot allow my pride to make them feel less than human, less than…

Dance in your Strange Land

     It’s unfamiliar, and I get it. All your life you’ve listened to the familiar voices of your native land telling you which direction to go and exactly how to get there. You’ve always kept their voice of reason at the core of your being whenever facing difficult challenges.

Until today…

You’re in a place where there’s no more direction, no more reliance on your native people because of the…

LIFE LESSON on CONFIDENCE

Confidence is a key component of each and every one of your life’s decisions, but just to know confidence in its definition is not enough. It’s the determining factor of the types of situations you enter into and the ones you exit out of. One must incorporate it into daily practice in order to discipline the mind to follow suit. You must find yourself immersed into its principle for guidance in…