Wonderfully Made

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:4

REVIEW: A BELLE IN BROOKLYN

This book will change the way women (young and mature) think and feel about themselves through the in's and out's of dating.  As a reader of her blog, www.abelleinbrooklyn.com, I had a certain expectation that was not only met, but exceeded. I ended with a level of freedom and esteem that I didn't have before, that I hadn't recognized in regards to dating. Demetria leads you, not by just giving advice but by leading you through your own thoughts.  You question your own motives.  You find answers that you have been looking for about dating and relationships and THE DIFFERENCE.  I appreciate D's candid, no sugar coating way of laying it all out.  Her experiences are much like many of the women that I know.  Women that I've shared with.  I’m happy to have taken this journey with her. From her sexual assault, the ah'ha moments and very subtle "about me" adventures... I was empowered by it all.  Warning signs about men, she shares without male bashing.  She gives advice with no banners of perfection and that, I like. I'm excited to see 

THANK YOU D!


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Frances

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What I Know For Sure

God is real
My life is full of purpose and value
I am loved
I am capable of living a life of hope
I need you
Grace and Mercy are without inevitable
I am loved
My destiny is ever expanding
I live a life full of purpose

Do we really understand love?

1 Corinthians 13

The Way of Love

 ¹ If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. ²If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. ^3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

   Love never gives up.
   Love cares more for others than for self.
   Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
   Love doesn't strut,
   Doesn't have a swelled head,
   Doesn't force itself on others,
   Isn't always "me first,"
   Doesn't fly off the handle,
   Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
   Doesn't revel when others grovel,
   Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
   Puts up with anything,
   Trusts God always,
   Always looks for the best,
   Never looks back,
   But keeps going to the end.

 ^8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

 ¹¹When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

 ¹²We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

 ¹³But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

Picking up the pieces...

It's time to lay it all out.  I did something wrong.  I made some mistakes.  I failed at acknowledging the truth.  I forgot how essential being honest is to my development.  I lost myself along the way.  Was it my faith? Was it my ambitions? Was it me? Clearly.  I forgot that life is about growth.  The priority spectrum was disfigured.  I had one through five somewhere down the line with twelve through fifteen.  I consistently blamed my past.  The rejection that I felt.  The love that was lost.  Honestly, it was the love I withheld from myself.  I refused to walk into the reality of what's true.  I missed some steps.  I skipped all around life.  I'm 28, wishing I was somewhere down the road at 40.  Maybe at 40, I will be above what happens at 28.  Who knows? Maybe I will just remember what I'm destined for.  Know that it's okay to miss a few steps.  Lean that missing steps is what advances you in life.  It pushes you to grow and have a full desire to expand.  To live.  To live above all the chaos and move forward.  To pick up the pieces...

Trust.Comprehension.Belief.Intention

How do we develop a sound and stable ability to trust? No just trust the actions and intentions of others, but ourselves.  I have experienced awkward moments where I was unsure of my alibis.  I was honestly questioning whether I really comprehended how to trust.  In order to trust others, we must develop trust of and within ourselves.  If I don’t believe my own strength, am I really capable of believing in another person.  We’re all fallible.  Our own personal intention is important.  How we trust and have confidence in ourselves set the tone for our lives. This is a question that I want you to ask yourself: Do I comprehend the full positional of trust?

Expectancy

In this era where "just believe" has become a mindset for many people, it’s meaningless to act as if our minds are playing fields with no bases.  We know that what we believe is what we will achieve.  It’s simple; the act of believing is the best way to shift your life.  When you trust in something or someone, it means that you are without a doubt confident in them.  As you journey along in this life, I encourage you to walk with a level of expectation.  Never enter into a day and you have no plan.  Never mishandle what God has given us.  Never mislead your mind to believe that you can’t…. this is deadly.  Live in Expectancy.  Walk in Expectancy.  Love with Expectancy.  Be, what someone expected.