Tag Archive | love

These Three Words

Dec14

Life begins and it ends, the words spoken (or unspoken) during that time can create a life filled with regret or happiness ~ the choice is ours to make.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014, Philadelphia lost its first female firefighter in the line of duty. Leaving home that day to work overtime, I am sure she didn’t think that it would be the last time she would see her 16-year-old son or 16 month old daughter, yet it was. I can’t imagine what the family is experiencing; do they regret not saying or doing something.

Stevie Wonder has a song called ‘These Three Words’; the words I Love You. A couple of lines in the song: These three words, Sweet and simple, These three words short and kind, These three words always kindles an aching heart to smile inside.

Three simple words that hold such power, creates hope in times of despair and loneliness. Those simple words can be the start to healing a broken relationship or the last words spoken to someone.

During this holiday season, give the greatest gift of all, your love. Give the gift that is spoken, don’t hold it in even if you think the person already knows it, make sure whoever it is knows that you love them. Don’t let the giving of this gift end on December 31st, give it freely throughout the year – it is the gift that cost you nothing but may hold tremendous value to the receiver.

Tomorrow is not promised, send your love today!

What’s In Your Wallet

Nov30

We have all seen the commercials that has the tagline: What’s In Your Wallet.  That tagline has been running through my head for the past couple of months which not a coincidently aligns with the start of a new position a couple of months ago.   For me starting a new position or any other venture for the first time can be a scary yet exciting time, a time filled with nervousness and  sometimes a little self-doubt.  In the past the scary and self-doubting voices would be so loud that it would overshadow the feelings of excitement and nervousness; I believe that nervousness is a great thing (that will be expounded upon in a future post).

Over the past 6 -8 months my meditation and prayer time has been focused on me gearing up for this new phase of my life and equipping me with the tools for this journey.  This has been purposeful journey, where based on God’s direction I have been equipping myself with what is needed to  allow me to embrace this exciting time and not allow my alter ego who I call Ms. Critical to steal this time.  Ms. Critical is my self-doubting voice, the voice that echoes that I am not good enough to succeed at this task or that I am destined to fail.  It is a daily struggle to move Ms. Critical to the background; it is not something accomplished overnight but day by day I see the improvement.

I personally interpret What’s in Your Wallet to mean what are the tools I equip myself with each day, it is my choice to equip myself with negative or positive tools.  Continue reading →