GRATITUDE & ABUNDANCE.

GRATITUDE THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT MAKES US WHOLE…When you learn real GRATITUDE your life shifts. You no longer entertain the negative…..which is the biggest shift….your enough becomes enough. You really do appreciate that enough is all you need…..Gone is that feeling you have to “chase” the world.  Your BLESSING and ABUNDANCE just appear. GRATITUDE also shows the meaning of sharing what you have, that IS what we are here for to “PAY IT FORWARD” opening the SOUL and SPIRIT for more ABUNDANCE.  GRATEFUL for all thing large and small… opening  our HEARTS to LOVE…. tearing down the walls…more like the fortresses  we built to keep the BEAUTY OF THE  WORLD out…

I fast for Lent and although I know in that short period of time I cannot change everything, BUT  I can change some things..the starting is the hardest part…I’m starting another  GRATITUDE JOURNAL today and the best part is how GRATEFUL I am for MYSELF…….HEALTHY….HAPPY…..HERE!!!!!!  Much LOVE & GRATITUDE

Happy Birthday Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr……..I started my day watching the movie SELMA which is what I had planned to do…….WOW what a powerful reenactment of BLOODY SUNDAY…..all should get awards for their acting….One thing I kept thinking was..back then we were marching for LAWS to be  acknowledged and changed,,,to give black people the rights they were ALREADY entitled to. We were FREE people RIGHT!!! Funny because there were sooo many similarities to the way black people are being treated today and the marches are not  to change and LAWS.but to acknowledge that 50 years later black people do matter and have a very important place in our history……but the treatment of black people is the same. Why doesn’t America want to give black people the respect and dignity they deserve and have earned. We educated ourselves equal to our counterparts and it still not enough. Our President is black still it is not enough,  Still today our legal system does little or nothing to benefit poor and inner city people. Reading the newspaper and watching the news we see so blatantly the difference and so bold. The people who marched across the Edmund Pettis Bridge both BLACK and WHITE were HEROES!!!!!!!…..

But yet 50 years later we are still fighting and marching and praying for change.  Every man in this country should be free because thats what our constitution says RIGHT!!!!!   CIVIL RIGHTS is very real and it is our birthright So I say to the 25,000 people who crossed the bridge 50 years ago THANK YOU!!!! Clearly it would be MUCH worse if you had not paved the way…………

Let me start by saying I LOVE MY PRESIDENT….but Mr President you dropped the ball on this one. You should have been on the front line of the PEACE rally in Paris….Isn’t AMERICA supposed to be the leader in world peace.  Now as I watched your press secretary squirm as he was asked why you did not go…..I’m thinking well secret service is ALWAYS available to you under any and ALL circumstances including playing golf and vacations sooooo I would think you could have rounded some of them up for this very important rally…A CALL FOR WORLD PEACE….your press secretary actually said that he didn’t know what you were doing and he said that security was an issue…..I do get that but, some of the strongest world leaders were there….YOU should have lead THEM!!!!!…….they needed security as well…BUT THAT DID NOT STOP THEM….thank you White House for acknowledging  that you did make a mistake by not attending  we can respect that…BUT it was more like too little too late…..We can no longer afford not to step to the front line…..in war there is always casualty but we do not run from war if the means protecting the masses and we are definitely at war….Just a different kind of war. GOD BLESS THE WORLD!!!!

Originally I wanted to write just about DISRESPECT,  but after waking to the disaster in Paris I have so many thoughts……Let me start by saying I by no means believe in terrorism of any form….but I do believe in provocation…I also believe that FREEDOM OF SPEECH is overrated and abused…now let me clarify that by saying can you just walk up to a person and say WHATEVER you feel just because you feel like it….nope…because it causes problems….We have lost our ability to sit down and talk to our enemy or friend because mockery and jokes have become the prominent form of communication..Now I understand that terrorist nor radicals have no place in any society, BUT that what they  believe,  they believe.  And maybe just maybe we should try to understand what their fight is  verses continually provoking.  Mainly its about their religion…..this has been a middle eastern fight for centuries……so why provoke them.  Don’t we understand that maybe they don’t understand us just like we don’t understand them…Why  make jokes about what people feel or believe isn’t that the same as common bullying……There is a huge difference between Freedom Of Speech verses the POWER OF THE POISON PEN……I am not suggesting that we revoke our rights to express ourselves….what I will say is maybe we can express ourselves  more in a way where other people and other cultures don’t feel so disrespected…..The world is so unrest right now……peace is no where in sight so I would think that the POWER OF THE PRESS would choose to calm not instigate and provoke ……so please lay down those POISON PENS and pick up PENS OF PEACE……..

My thoughts and PRAYERS are with our friends in Paris tonight…………..

I said I wasn’t going to blog this topic again because I thought it would be rhetorical…BUT I’m watching the news as always today and the story of Eric Frein comes on…Remember him…no…ok well he’s the white guy who ambushed and killed a state trooper in Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago…Well the first thing I noticed was how healthy…groomed…clean..and dressed he looked…but I remember when the news showed video of him being arrested how carefully he was placed in the police car….ANYWAY are you getting my point……A BLACK man is beaten and strangled to the ground for some loose cigarettes by white police officers…A BLACK 18 year old  male is gunned down by a white police officer for only GOD knows why….that story is soooo convoluted you have no idea what or who to listen to…….A WHITE man stalks and executes a state trooper…he is carefully arrested taken to a warm holding jail…fed…”.because after all he was hiding in the forest for three weeks”…….showered and given a place to rest.

Am I the only only who sees the difference….Now let me be clear I am NOT trashing law enforcement, we need them…BUT I am addressing those in law enforcement that do daily make the difference between BLACK & WHITE….so right this is nothing new about this topic  BUT now with average people video taping we are seeing more reality…..getting a clearer picture that this kind of behavior is VERY prevalent in our community and society….I don’t really like always to make these issues BLACK & WHITE…why not make it a issue of humanity……TREAT US LIKE YOU WANT TO BE TREATED….Why do some police officers treat BLACK MEN differently…seems to me the same officers who sooooo disrespectfully turned their back on The Mayor Of New York City Bill de Blasio while at the funeral of “one of their own” would be the same type of officer to abuse power while making an arrest of a BLACK MAN……I’m just saying…..PEACE!!!!!!!..BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!

Gone are my NEW YEARS resolutions….ALL of which have never lasted much past the 2 or 3 of January….BUT I can honestly say if I change this 2015 its due to a continued evolution of my SPIRIT and SOUL anyway…….I don’t believe we change just because we write something on a piece of paper and poof the next day we are different….that can be a start, but change takes passion-learning-loving and most of all being. BEING PRESENT….not only for yourself but for the people and circumstances around you…..Change also takes time….time to figure out why you feel you need to change in the first place……Change is also a constant work in progress…I believe if we really want to change  toward improvement, our work is never really done…..And sometimes  there are days when one feels no change at all…..But with FAITH and BELIEVING in ones self change does find its way…..so I say no NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS just BE……and see where you go from there LOVE AND LIGHT HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!