I just wanted to stop by this spot to thank GOD for blessing me to have found a few of my closest friends and to have been found by a few. Talk about a blast from the past. It's all worth it when you reconnect with the people you use to love and hang with as youngins. Now that we're all adults and have moved on in our lives, to be found again is such a blessing. Now I can introduce them to the people I love most in the world, my family and allow them to be blessed by what they can bring to their lives.
GOD IS GOOD, ALL THE TIME!
Showing posts with label Spiritual Blessings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spiritual Blessings. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
"A Message from Tyler Perry - Pray!"
" Hey Everybody,
Thank you all for the encouragement and letting me know what really
matters. Reading your words really helps me to keep focus, so thanks. I
needed it.
I was running my three miles this morning and was trying to clear my head,
that's usually the time when I get to be quiet and still and commune with
God and just say thank you. I'm out here in the desert. I come here to
rejuvenate and write. Well anyway, this morning I was thinking about how
God answers prayers and I wanted to share this with you.
When I was about 6 or 7 years old I used to watch TV, and as I would watch
I thought that the people on TV actually lived inside the TV set (We had
the big floor model, all my 30 and over people remember that one). I
would try to reach in and get them but I never could. So, I remember
praying to God and asking him to send me some little people to take care
of. I know that this sounds like an impossible prayer to answer but He
did, in a way. My neighbor across the street was moving away and she and
her husband couldn't take their pet parakeets with them. So, she asked me
if I would take them. I was so happy. God had answered my prayers. I had
little people to take care of. And they even talked! That was a good day
in my young life.
It's funny how a child's mind works. But that experience taught me about
prayer. From that time on I would always pray. NO matter how crazy or
wild I got I would always pray. The first 28 years of my life were filled
with anger, bitterness and confusion. I was a boy trying to become a man
and also a fool trying to get some sense (In your 20's you think you know
it all--but even then I would still pray). I prayed in the bad times and
in the good.
I know that you're wondering where I'm going with this but what I wanted
to say to you today is this. Simply pray. Just pray and believe. I know
that many of us are going through things right now with this
administration of ours, with the country being at war for so long, with
the job market being what it is, and people losing their homes everyday.
Gas is high as hell, while oil companies make record profits. Children are
running wild. Grandparents are raising yet another generation and single
mothers are trying to do it all alone. With all of that, I still say,
"Pray!" In my darkest days, in my most frustrated times, times when I
didn't want to live another day, times when I thought that God had left me
in darkness, there was always something in me that would make me pray.
Sometimes my prayer was short, all I could get out was GOD HELP ME, or
JESUS PLEASE. Sometimes I cried out for hours.
Looking back on my life now, I see that every one of those prayers was
heard and answered. Maybe not in the way that I wanted them to be, but he
did answer. My prayer most days now is, "God, let Your will be done.
Amen."
Life gets better. Trust me, I know. If there is nobody around you that
you see it getting better for, then look at me, look at my life. God did
it, and I'm no different from any other person on this earth. I'm not
perfect. I make mistakes often. I have to repent often, I fall short, but
what I know more than anything is that God is a loving, forgiving God and
I'm so glad that He doesn't give us what we deserve. If He did, I
wouldn't be here. But He gives us what He desires for our lives. Hold on,
life gets better. I don't know who this is for today but I hope whoever
it's for that it gives you a little strength to hold on a little longer.
Pray for me, as I am praying for you.
God bless,
Tyler P."
Thank you all for the encouragement and letting me know what really
matters. Reading your words really helps me to keep focus, so thanks. I
needed it.
I was running my three miles this morning and was trying to clear my head,
that's usually the time when I get to be quiet and still and commune with
God and just say thank you. I'm out here in the desert. I come here to
rejuvenate and write. Well anyway, this morning I was thinking about how
God answers prayers and I wanted to share this with you.
When I was about 6 or 7 years old I used to watch TV, and as I would watch
I thought that the people on TV actually lived inside the TV set (We had
the big floor model, all my 30 and over people remember that one). I
would try to reach in and get them but I never could. So, I remember
praying to God and asking him to send me some little people to take care
of. I know that this sounds like an impossible prayer to answer but He
did, in a way. My neighbor across the street was moving away and she and
her husband couldn't take their pet parakeets with them. So, she asked me
if I would take them. I was so happy. God had answered my prayers. I had
little people to take care of. And they even talked! That was a good day
in my young life.
It's funny how a child's mind works. But that experience taught me about
prayer. From that time on I would always pray. NO matter how crazy or
wild I got I would always pray. The first 28 years of my life were filled
with anger, bitterness and confusion. I was a boy trying to become a man
and also a fool trying to get some sense (In your 20's you think you know
it all--but even then I would still pray). I prayed in the bad times and
in the good.
I know that you're wondering where I'm going with this but what I wanted
to say to you today is this. Simply pray. Just pray and believe. I know
that many of us are going through things right now with this
administration of ours, with the country being at war for so long, with
the job market being what it is, and people losing their homes everyday.
Gas is high as hell, while oil companies make record profits. Children are
running wild. Grandparents are raising yet another generation and single
mothers are trying to do it all alone. With all of that, I still say,
"Pray!" In my darkest days, in my most frustrated times, times when I
didn't want to live another day, times when I thought that God had left me
in darkness, there was always something in me that would make me pray.
Sometimes my prayer was short, all I could get out was GOD HELP ME, or
JESUS PLEASE. Sometimes I cried out for hours.
Looking back on my life now, I see that every one of those prayers was
heard and answered. Maybe not in the way that I wanted them to be, but he
did answer. My prayer most days now is, "God, let Your will be done.
Amen."
Life gets better. Trust me, I know. If there is nobody around you that
you see it getting better for, then look at me, look at my life. God did
it, and I'm no different from any other person on this earth. I'm not
perfect. I make mistakes often. I have to repent often, I fall short, but
what I know more than anything is that God is a loving, forgiving God and
I'm so glad that He doesn't give us what we deserve. If He did, I
wouldn't be here. But He gives us what He desires for our lives. Hold on,
life gets better. I don't know who this is for today but I hope whoever
it's for that it gives you a little strength to hold on a little longer.
Pray for me, as I am praying for you.
God bless,
Tyler P."
Friday, February 29, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Raising Chefs - NBCi5
I just wanted to stop in to post an up coming event we want each of you to be on the look out for. Raising Chefs has been booked for our first major appearance this coming Saturday and Sunday @ the Dallas Convention Center. Yes Raising Chefs was booked for both days at the NBC5 Health and Fitness Expo 2008. We are so excited and if you come out make sure you stop by the kitchen booth and say hello! You may be able to try some of the tasty goodies we have planned for this event. Peace, Love and Sweet Treats!
Sunday, December 23, 2007
"The Grinch Stole Our Christmas" said Tyanna! :-(
My husband and I allowed some friends that we had only known for a little while to move it with us. They lost their home and needed a place to stay for them and their 14-year-old son, dog and 16-year-old daughter who only came every other weekend. (she lost custody and those were her visitation times) In a nutshell, it didn't work out. They didn't pay their half of the bills for a month and a half. My husband was laid off his job and filed for unemployment. No money for us was coming in so I withdrew my book from my publisher and my husband closed out his 401K so we could pay our bills, they’re half and ours. Once that ran out unemployment took forever. And when they finally started paying their half we could only come up with our half of the bills but couldn't buy food. They brought freezer full of food plus canned goods and other things, so we pretty much only had to replenish the small things like milk, eggs...etc. Needless to say we couldn't even do that some weeks.
We cleaned out our garage to make some room for some of their things. Trying to make them as comfortable as possible. They had a storage unit and told us we could store some of our things there free of charge and could get them back whenever. Well, things had been going down hill when their dog started biting all three of our kids. The baby in her face, my son on his cheek and my oldest daughter on her cheek and chin. They never said anything except the kids shouldn't be in his face which they weren't on several occasions. Things got a lot worse when they let their rental car go back and we agreed to let them borrow ours when we weren't using it. This went on for several weeks and they finally bought their car and left ours in Lewisville, Tx at the dealership about 45 minutes for where we live. My husband had it at that point and let her (Mrs. C) have it. She called her husband (Mr. C) at is job and he got off early and they packed and left.
They left us high and dry with no notice and bills due that were accumulated while they were here. So bills needed to be paid and THANK GOD the unemployment came through. We had to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid for the kiddos. Don't get me wrong, all of that is truly a blessing. I'm so trying to not need those services, as you’ve seen!!! Anyway, they will not give us back our belongings in their storage unit. Which includes our Christmas tree, lights, ornaments, our winter clothes (most of the kids, and my husbands'), family photos (our oldest daughter who past, and her birthday is coming up on the 29th), toys...etc.
It's almost 24 hours until Christmas. I made them a tree out of lights with tacks holding it up in its shape. They asked if Santa would skip over our house since we didn't have a real tree. We had to break down and tell them we were Santa and we just didn't have any money to do any Christmas. We helped our church hand out presents to kids in the park yesterday and they wanted to get in the line themselves to get a gift, but we were there to help others. The little one said "Mrs. C & Mr. C, are like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas". However, I truly believe for me this is the worse, and the best Christmas ever, because this situation has brought my little family much closer. I just really needed to vent. God Bless and Merry Christmas, God loves you! - Happy Birthday Brianna ANGEL!!!!!
We cleaned out our garage to make some room for some of their things. Trying to make them as comfortable as possible. They had a storage unit and told us we could store some of our things there free of charge and could get them back whenever. Well, things had been going down hill when their dog started biting all three of our kids. The baby in her face, my son on his cheek and my oldest daughter on her cheek and chin. They never said anything except the kids shouldn't be in his face which they weren't on several occasions. Things got a lot worse when they let their rental car go back and we agreed to let them borrow ours when we weren't using it. This went on for several weeks and they finally bought their car and left ours in Lewisville, Tx at the dealership about 45 minutes for where we live. My husband had it at that point and let her (Mrs. C) have it. She called her husband (Mr. C) at is job and he got off early and they packed and left.
They left us high and dry with no notice and bills due that were accumulated while they were here. So bills needed to be paid and THANK GOD the unemployment came through. We had to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid for the kiddos. Don't get me wrong, all of that is truly a blessing. I'm so trying to not need those services, as you’ve seen!!! Anyway, they will not give us back our belongings in their storage unit. Which includes our Christmas tree, lights, ornaments, our winter clothes (most of the kids, and my husbands'), family photos (our oldest daughter who past, and her birthday is coming up on the 29th), toys...etc.
It's almost 24 hours until Christmas. I made them a tree out of lights with tacks holding it up in its shape. They asked if Santa would skip over our house since we didn't have a real tree. We had to break down and tell them we were Santa and we just didn't have any money to do any Christmas. We helped our church hand out presents to kids in the park yesterday and they wanted to get in the line themselves to get a gift, but we were there to help others. The little one said "Mrs. C & Mr. C, are like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas". However, I truly believe for me this is the worse, and the best Christmas ever, because this situation has brought my little family much closer. I just really needed to vent. God Bless and Merry Christmas, God loves you! - Happy Birthday Brianna ANGEL!!!!!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Self - Exposed
One of the reasons I wanted to keep this particular blog going was to allow you to see the real me. I wanted to be that example so that as good things happen to my family and I, there are still set-backs, ups and downs, and every now and then depression comes knocking at the door. Most times it's ignored but some times the door is left cracked and it gets in.
This weekend I truly had a very surprising wake-up call. I really do focus a lot on how people see me and what that ultimately think of me and what I'm trying to do with me life. Last night my mom and I had girls night at her house (just the two of us) and while I was in the bathroom I looked in the mirror and was very disgusted at how I've let go of myself.
I'll be promoting my book soon nationally and I'm not sure if I'm at all ready for the limelight. My face use to be clear and now I have black spots all over the chin area. My teeth could use a cleaning and whitening, and I've totally neglected my hair. I told my husband that a lot of why my appearance isn't up to par is mainly because I've redirected my depression and that's been the result. There are so many other things going on and sometimes I feel as if I have no one to turn to. I know "this too shall pass" and this is advice I give others who are feeling down about things. I just needed to vent and get it out so it won't be buried.
This weekend I truly had a very surprising wake-up call. I really do focus a lot on how people see me and what that ultimately think of me and what I'm trying to do with me life. Last night my mom and I had girls night at her house (just the two of us) and while I was in the bathroom I looked in the mirror and was very disgusted at how I've let go of myself.
I'll be promoting my book soon nationally and I'm not sure if I'm at all ready for the limelight. My face use to be clear and now I have black spots all over the chin area. My teeth could use a cleaning and whitening, and I've totally neglected my hair. I told my husband that a lot of why my appearance isn't up to par is mainly because I've redirected my depression and that's been the result. There are so many other things going on and sometimes I feel as if I have no one to turn to. I know "this too shall pass" and this is advice I give others who are feeling down about things. I just needed to vent and get it out so it won't be buried.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Finding Your Niche
I was talking with my sister-in-law today and she was telling me that she heard my radio interview on KGCM Radio. She told me that she thought I'd found my niche and that she wished she could find hers. I told her and I'm going to tell you, find something you love and believe in it. And throw out the notion that it's too late for your dream to come true. I met a very inspirational women today named LaToya Brown the author of "Borrowed Water" and she shared with us, and I'm paraphrasing, It's not over until you give up!
That is so so true. I was near the end of a very tiny lifeline, and I looked at my family and what their life could be without me and I didn't even want that, so I got up and gave God the wheel!!!!! Let him have it, and see the blessing he wanted for your life along!
That is so so true. I was near the end of a very tiny lifeline, and I looked at my family and what their life could be without me and I didn't even want that, so I got up and gave God the wheel!!!!! Let him have it, and see the blessing he wanted for your life along!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Tyler Perry said it best...
WHAT WILL YOU BELIEVE GOD FOR?
I can honestly say, I believe God for his word. I believe that through him all things are possible, because he says they are. I believe that if I ask him for it, he will provide for me, because he said he would. So I ask you...WHAT WILL YOU BELIEVE GOD FOR?
I can honestly say, I believe God for his word. I believe that through him all things are possible, because he says they are. I believe that if I ask him for it, he will provide for me, because he said he would. So I ask you...WHAT WILL YOU BELIEVE GOD FOR?
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