"If you act the way you want to be, soon, you’ll be the way you act." ~Les Brown
A very powerful statement. Simple. Powerful. And hard to incorporate into one's thinking.
Btw-I know you're like "WOW 3 days in a row!"...yeah there's a lot I have to say...no really I'm not working today so...and while reading up on my blog feeds I came across an interesting post over @ "Why Black Women are Angry" (I have not been reading hers, b/c its like all the way @ the end of the feed and whenever I do get to catch up...I never seem to get that far). So anyways her post entitled "Diary of a Content Black Woman-No. 1" http://whyblackwomenareangry.blogspot.com/2007/05/diary-of-content-black-woman-no-1.html caught my eye! Discussing why she is identifying herself as "Content Black Woman" she quoted some scriptures that I had recently heard @ church and found rather applicable to my life, however I think I have yet to incorporate them.
...the God who gives life to the dead...calls things that are not as though they were. (Romans 4:17)
…for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content. (Philippians 4:11)
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace… (1 Corinthians 14:33)
What do those things mean for me. Simply put God has a plan for my life, and these things are according to his plan. I can either follow the plan willingly or try to follow my own plan and after my failures result in coming back to Him and His. I have a strong faith in God, but lately I can see myself doing things my way, and it’s resulting in quick pleasure and long failure!
You know Trust is a tricky thing, I know this b/c I have a hard time trusting people. I am always weary of their motives (my friends call it "being paranoid") but I think it’s justifiable. In today's world, people are fickle, they are all about self, and they are shallow. God however is none of the above. He is love, and that love encompasses everything I could ever need, want, or desire. I simply have to trust him. I have faith but the trust is what kind of sways. I admit that. I admit that I have hard time trusting myself even...I'm unpredictable @ times.
But I mean really if (and I am) created in God’s image…who am I not to have all I want, need, and desire? Who am I not to be happy? Who am I not to be powerful? Who am I not to be successful? Who am I not to live out my dreams?
I sincerely give myself…surrender to God's perfect will. I choose not to direct my own path b/c I clearly know not what I'm doing. I say all the time I'm just trying to get my life together, when in fact I'm not. I'm really trying to figure out, but why figure it out when it’s already been done. I just have to live it and be happy in doing so...and that's where my prollums lie. The happiness. The contentment. I will be content in God and in due time the happiness will come. Complete happiness. Total happiness. I'm excited. I'm ready. I'm willingly. I'm patient (another tuffie for me) I’m powerful. I’m content.
and I'm out...
Pray for me!
~S. Parks
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