Merry Christmas!!!!!

If Christ is absent from our worship during the holiday, we have lost sight of the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas is a time for peace.

With an internecine warfare being waged by the forces of evil among us and a world recession at our doorsteps, there is a practical dimension to not getting caught up with the externalities of Christmas but instead to meditate inwardly on the Christ who is the reason for the season.

I am truly grateful and thankful for being blessed with good people in my life. I thank God for each day he has allowed me to see. Every year as we approach the "new year" we tend to make resolutions. Whether its to drop a few pounds, quit smoking, join a gym etc.etc..........

I don't make resolutions......why wait for a new year to roll around to make changes in your life. How foolish does that sound?

This year I just ask God to continue to lead me, guide me and direct me in the path in which he wants me to go. I ask that he continues to bless me....so that I can continue to be a blessing to others. I have been blessed this year in many different ways and in return I have used my blessings to be a blessing to others.

Christmas has become way too commercialized and people get too wrapped up in the "getting" and not the giving. On Christmas Day I will be working at The Advent House as a way to give back to those in my local community who are less fortunate than myself. People have asked me "why are you doing that.....you'll spend no time with your family?" To some of the people that I will see tomorrow....in their eyes...I am their only family. Family doesn't mean you have to be related by blood. My family understands what I do....and I why I do it. Give somebody a hug today and tell someone you love them. Always be thankful and grateful for what you do have...and always remember where your help comes from.

Just Do It!

Life is too short to live your life making up excuses for yourself. I've been guilty of it too. Yet I have learned that I have to live my life for me...and that I gotta do what I gotta do...to get to where I want to be. I am not remotely close to where I want to be in life. Yet at the same time I am now mentally prepared, focused and motivated to do what I need to do to go forward. My philosophy is this: why wait for the bus to pick you up when you can get a head start walking. We spend too much time complaining and worrying about what’s gonna happen next. When all you have to do is just make it happen! If you hate your job....stop complaining. Do what you gotta do to change it. If you aren't happen with the people in your life.....remove them from it. If you don’t trust them anyway, they don’t need in it. Life is definitely what you make it. So for the time being I know that I will continue to hit bumps in the road, question if I'm going in the right direction and have moments where yes "I will fail". But I will pick myself up...brush my shoulders off and keep it going. "The sky is the limit and you know that you keep on...just keep on pressin on"!!!!!!!