Ok God, I Hear You

I'm baaaaack!  I swear when I break from work, I break from everything...


Last night I went to bed with something on my mind.  I swear God sent me the answers through Bishop TD Jakes today.  For the first time, I watched The Potter's House with some of my desert friends.  These were the points that hit home for me:

-You can't expect progress without respecting the process.  This goes with every aspect of life, including marriage.  Last night I was browsing Instagram (social media isn't good for you sometimes) and thinking about all of my friends that have families, and how at 32 I am so far behind.  I was forgetting that I have to learn to be content with where I am before I can get to where I am going.  Bishop Jakes preached that so many people are concerned with tomorrow that they forget about today.  I have to learn to be content with my today so that I am ready for my tomorrow.

-We are made in the likeness of God, and God is what he is today, yesterday, and forevermore.  So whatever you are is always in you.  If you were creative before, you are still creative.  If you were supportive before, you are supportive today.  It's always in you.  At times I feel like I changed so much over the years and have lost parts of who I am.  But if I am made in the image of God, those things are not lost, I have just lost sight of them.  I am who I am today, yesterday, and forevermore.

-Your future and your past are related (or "kin" as Bishop Jakes put it).  What you will be in the future is directly linked to what you are today.

-You can be a great you or a poor someone else.  You can't be a great someone else.  To me that said, "Stay out of people's lives on Instagram.  Let those people be great.  It's not your turn to shine in that way."

Not to sound like a sinner, but I rarely go to church and definitely have never watched church.  Today, I was in the right place at the right time.  I needed a word.  I was slowly sliding into a place that I didn't want to be.



I am sleepy tonight, but America and Barcelona pictures and updates will be in the next post.  Then, I will get this thing back on track.....until the next break!