Taking Goliath Down!
Goliaths still roam our world. Obesity, Health issues, Lack of interest for exercise, Illness, Debt. Disease. Depression. Super-size challenges still swagger and strut, still pilfer sleep and embezzle peace and liposuction joy. But they can’t dominate you. You know how to deal with them. You face giants by facing God first.
You know what David knew, and you do what David did. You pick up five stones, and you make five decisions or steps.
1. THE STONE OF THE PAST:
Goliath jogged David’s memory, a déjà vu. While everyone else quivered, David remembered. God had given him strength to wrestle a lion and strong-arm a bear.
Remember back when you had faced other situations and overcome them with success. The strength is within you, getting in touch with yourself once more, going to The Source (God).
2. THE STONE OF MEDITAITION,VISUALIZATION OR PRAYER:
Note the valley between your thumb and finger. To pass from one to the next you must go through it. Before going high, David went low; before ascending to fight, David descended to prepare. Don’t face your giant without first doing the same. Dedicate time to meditation, prayer or visualization. Pick up the stone of meditation, prayer & visualization.
3. THE STONE OF PRIORITY:
Let your tallest finger remind you of your highest priority. David saw Goliath as a chance for God to show off! What if you saw your giant in the same manner? Rather than denied it, welcome it. Your weight problem, lack of interest in exercise etc. it’s your chance to take make it a priority to regain control of your life through your health once more.
4. THE STONE OF PASSION:
David ran, not away from, but toward his giant. Don’t denied your problem, acknowledge it, and face it; make the commitment with your life, and add passion, embrace it. Your ring finger.
5. THE STONE OF PERSISTENCE:
David didn’t think one rock would do. He knew Goliath had four behemoth relatives. For all David knew, they’d come running over the hill to defend their kin. David was ready to empty the chamber if that’s what it took. Do the same, never give up, you may get knocked down a time or two … but don’t quit. Keep loading the rocks. Keep swinging the sling.
Add a comment November 12, 2010
Cleaning the house!
Life is motion, sometimes we like it, and feel real excited about new things in our life, our goals seem closer, or still far away, and you may even think they will never happened. When you are feeling down and your energy is lower then low, its easy to fell sorry for your self, or even worst: theirs a panic bottom inside you that some push, and its fear and you just froze…and then all hell goes loose! ahhhhhh! Remember fear only fear itself!
But stop for a moment and quiet your mind, your surroundings, and you will then realize that your inner voice (that in this case i will like to call God) is trying to tell you something. You know something is wrong, and you have to shake it off faster then a blink of an eye, if not you will be stock there and you are slowly sinking, and sometimes you wont wake up until you hit rock bottom!
When you ask for help, it will come in all different kind of packages, shape, and forms, lets hope that you accepted it, and please don’t start doubting, its a normal reaction, but snap out of it, and listen, rise up, move, and go and do what ever it is that you have to.
While this process happens, most of the time life will push away as far as possible all the negativity, bad vibes, and pardon my language all the crap we have around us, and yes people that no longer cant be in your life.
At first you may fell guilty because they were your “friends” or you think so! But then you realize they were only loading their crap on you, or you aloud it to happen because every single time they had a stupid comment that you dint agree on, you just took it, quietly thinking that if you have said a word they might be offended, mad or even worst stop talking to you. Looking back that would have been the best thing that could happen. But then again, you dint want to make anyone uncomfortable but yourself.
At some point you start to do the right thing, getting up, take a big or little step toward your goal, all it takes its a leap of Faith, and the wheels of motion will go on. People will think they have a power over you, that you wont survive or make it without them, and all this time its wasn’t support, what they were giving you or honesty no, it was manipulation, putting your down, making you doubt about yourself, and making you fell that if by any chance you achieved something it was only because of them, and you have to be grateful and willing to take care of them for the rest of your life.
Lets make one think clear: manipulation, envy, jealousy, prejudice, is not friendship. Friendship is support, inspiration, honesty. Friends that really fell happy when you achieve your goals,and have a strong but kind word to pick you up when needed, not the ones that enjoy your sadness, frustration, and bad moments, because they are miserables to and thats what they want you to feel (misery likes company)
So clean the house, even if you refuse to believe that you have to, down deep inside you know you have too. If not, they will continue to feed from your positive energy and steel your joy. And when you realize its, it will hurt even more.
Life is this perfect space of universe that every thing has a cause and effect, and at some point you will see them for what they really are. And guess what, sometimes you dont even have to say a word because life itself will push them out of yours, as far as possible.
So clean the house and put out the Welcome sign to: Good Work!, I’m glad you achieved it!, It can be done!, Go for it! honesty,vision, and close the door to the the sarcasm, envy, jealousy, manipulation.
Take a closer look and you will see them for what they really are…
Add a comment February 7, 2010
Really Happy New Year!
Its been a while since I wrote something because a lot is been going on! Yes its the beginign of the year, and as always we all wish for a Happy New Year to our family’s and friend and ourselves, but lets take a closer look to these words that we burst out, sometimes without even thinking.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!, lets face it’s a chance for us to let go of all the “crap” pardon my language but I’m being honest, we had in the past. You had 12 months of intense experiences, lessons, and daily situations,we lost love one’s, move to new place’s, etc. in general some good and others not so much, but they happened and they let you with emotional scars that need to heal, but its part of life and we learned hopefully from them in able to move on, and pass the lesson in order to move forward, otherwise they tend to repeat them selfs until you do. Review all of it, and take in what you were suppose to learn to move on.
There are two choices: first evaluate all that you been through, analyze it, process it and hope the lesson that was intended with it you learn it. You may have pass with flying colors or barely make but make sure you learn something. How do we know if you learn something from it? Good or Bad it doesn’t matter because is the attitude you chose to face during the adversity of the situation, that will make the difference, raise to it, take the best out of it, some will say: I chose to see the glass half full not half empty, and when you can truly from your deepest say it and turn it to a positive then you really learned from it.And if by any chance it happens again be able to recognize it right away and stop it from repeating.
The second choice: sit down and keep dwelling on the past, in all the I should have done this, or say. Refusing of letting go of the past, a phase in your life that is no longer coming back you mutilate your future because of the decision of not moving on, letting go. Don’t take me wrong, theres nothing wrong in remembering the good old times but you have to move on, live the now make the best of it in order to have a better future.
So in this new year that its barely beginning just 6 days raise above yourself, challenge yourself, get out of the comfort zone and do what ever it is that your soul is shouting for.
But do it for yourself not to make others happy, enough all ready in making everybody happy, saying yes to everything even when you don’t want to do it, NO STOP THAT CYCLE ONCE AND FOR ALL, just do what makes you happy, (its not going to be easy, some may get mad at you) start taking care of the most important person in your life: YOU, YOU, YOU! It may sound a little selfish but in other to make someone happy you have to love yourself first and make yourself happy, then all the pieces will fall in place.
You will be attracting to your life, successful relationships, good moments, and all the blessings the God has for you, and the people are going to sense that light, that warmth in you because of the love that you chose to give yourself.
Life may not be a party, but its sure a Blessing that should be played with the best tunes, lyrics and rythinms that there meant to be. But that my friend is up to you, so I don’t know you but I chose to move on, learn from the past, live my best live now because my future without any doubt is all ready been BLESS BY GOD!
Its not how many times you fall, its how many times you stand up and don’t give up. Never forget that God and his Angels are waiting for you to ask HIM for help!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! May it be full of Blessings, Love, Prosperity, Good Health and Excited twist and turns with great surprises!
Add a comment February 7, 2010
Chaos & Order, the balance of life!
Have you ever asked your self why is it that after a Storm nature readjust itself and the morning after everything is fresh, bright, and fully awake?
Its nature way of balancing itself, some times chaos is necessary in our life’s to reorganize itself and start new, from scratch. We don’t want changes in our life’s but its necessary because life is movement its constantly changing even if don’t want it to, we don’t have control of that. What we can control is our attitude towards the change or chaos.
Changes are stressful, resisting or opposing its only going to make things harder on us. Death, separation,sickness or moving sometimes bring chaos into our life, but after experiencing almost all the above mention (except sickness Thank God) in just a few months I now look back and I’m thank full for all of it. It was necessary in order for me to grow, and become a better person and discover a new, strong, woman.
Don’t get me wrong I still cry when I think about my Mom passing away shortly,and I wish she would still be with me, but it was her time to be with the Lord and I know by Faith she’s in a better place, without pain and surrounded by God’s love and his Angels and shes watching over me. Now my life and time belongs to me and I been learning to deal with this new phase in my life. And I still missed my “boyfriend” but our physical separation was necessary to grow and find out how strong our love really is and if its meant to be, it will be if not… only God know’s.
You see all these events back then caused chaos in my life, but today I have a new life, an opportunity for a new beginning, I had to choose between staying down after life throw me this giant curve ball, but I chose to embrace it and welcome the change and just go with it ( IT WASN’T EASY). So far life is good, its been a daily process getting to know me again but every day I’m discovering a different woman, one thats stronger than before and I’m no longer afraid of chaos.
I choose an optimistic attitude, sometimes I’m a little sad but God always give’s me a reason to smile again.
I’m closing all the cycles before the year end’s because I want to Welcome with open arms a new year full of Blessings, and wonderful things, I know there also going to be “stressful situations”but there necessary.
Next time you go through a major life experience or even if your in the middle of it, just ask God for strength , wisdom and guidance and things will be a little better and at the end.
Add a comment December 1, 2009
The Glass that supports the waterfall!
Why it was so breath taking and relaxing? Why it hypnotized me and I just could’nt move?
Maybe becasue the water was just being that, water, in its pure simplicity, full of energy but at the same time so peacefulll.
Or maybe it was that the glass that she’s sliding on and supporting her dint interfere with its true nature. The glass allow the water to be it self to express the only thing she knows strenght, pureness, energy and much more…
When were going trough the changes and rollercosters of life, we have different fellings towards it, we can be sad, or happy, or nostalgic, happy, grateful or in pain it dosent matter what your felling becasue its part of beign alive accepting our fellings when you go through all the stages and changes of life.
Some times the hard part is not dealing with what your felling, specially if it is pain or sadness because of the lost of someone or something in your life, no the hardest part is when does who you love cant allow you to go through your process of felling.
I know their intentions are good, and they want to convince you of not felling anything, to turn the page and move on. We all know that life goes on that we have to keep living and eventually move on.
But only you will know when its time to turn the page and move on, its going to happend when your ready, you got go through a process what ever it is, and sometimes you dont have the answer right away to say this will be done in a couple of hours,days or weeks.
The process of mournig or grief its very personal and you can’t rush it or denied it, believe me turning your back on it or not wanting to accept it, will make things harder and painfull becasue sooner or later you will have to go through it in order to move on and then turn the page.
Its not freezing time or stop liviing becasue life is constantly changing and like the waterfall is always moving, flowing being it true essence of water. But the glass also had an important role, it dint interfere the flow of the waterfall, it just support it and allow it the water to be just that water.
We all like to share happines and good times with our friends and love ones but also we have to Allow them to be sad, or nostalgic lend them a loving hand in supporting and understanding but at the same time allow them their space, and their process, sometimes not saying anything and just being their in silence or a shoulder to lean on and cry if its necessary is what we sometime just need. You may not understand it, or accepted it but you have to respect it.
Don’t try to make them avoid, or ignored their pain or sadeness, or tell them what to or not to fell nobody has that right, because they will run as far as possible from you and hide from the world until they are ready to come out becasue they turn the page and now there ready to move on.
Be the glass that waterfall slides on, letting the water be its self in all stages, thats the through meaning of friendship and love acceptance, tolerance, patience, and support.
Add a comment December 1, 2009
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover!
Have we lost the basic lessons of life that we were suppose to learn in elementary school or learn from our parents: listen, observe, read, think before you answer? Hope not!!!
It is easy to judge a book by its cover but never be full by it, you may probably think it’s about a specific subject by the first glimpse you took. Or even worst make assumptions that is not good enough or not worth your time to pick it up. Read at least the cover, and inputs of the author, that can give you a general idea before making any conclusion about it.
And let’s do the same with a person, read their profiles information if we are using Facebook or other pages. And when you meet or see someone for the first time allow yourself the chance and (also give them the opportunity) to at least get to know them briefly before making any assumptions.
In these days that everything needs to be done for yesterday, we dont have time, always in a daily rush of I have to do (the eternal race against time) normally, people don’t take the time to paste themselves and slow down, so they can really focus on what they were aiming for, and look an other person in the eye and not waste time and energy in things that are not really important.
When people judge others they are so fast to assume about the other person, and when they don’t get the respond they thought they were going to get back they become defensive, disrespectful and even play the paper of the offended victim.
Everybody is in title to their own opinion about their point of view of life, politic,religion etc. and when someone doesn’t agree with what you have to say, don’t get mad and start attacking the other partie just because the answer you got back from them is not the one you wanted or assume they were going to give you because you were the first one in judge and assume something about them.
Where’s is tolerance and respect toward other’s? Have we lost those qualities? Or is it that they’re only ok when it applies to our side?
Dont be mean, disrespectful and judgemental towards others, just because they dont share your same interest, point of view, values, likes and dislike, intelligence, social status, political view, sexual interest,background, studies, looks, etc. lets allow humanity to be their selves (thats why is interesting to meet new people and new experiences) as long as they dont harm you or your love ones, and most of all don’t step over your boundaries ,but also lets not go over theirs either; it works both ways.
Lets slow down, take a deep breath, value life, and relearn to value tolerance, respect, patience, obedience, discipline, be receptive towards others, etc. dont take me wrong we need to have fun in our lives but also balance, the extremes are never good,(once in a while eat a cookie or a chocolate molten) and the next time your going to be judgmental about a person or assume something about them because of the way they look, talk, etc. think twice because when the coin shifts to the other side its going to be about you.
So don’t do to others what you don’t want for you, AND DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!!!
Add a comment December 1, 2009
Welcome, to a new begining!
As im sipping a cup of joe, I take a second and take a deep breath and without any complications I just let my feelings be and an incredible sense of Peace comes from my heart. It’s overwhelming and Im enjoying every second of it, if I try to seek where does it come from, theres only one answer its coming from God, his loving Angels and my mom; and I dont doubt it because as Im writing tears are running down my checks and I know thats shes hugging me from heaven and wishing the best today!
Tears may be from sadness but there also cleanse our soul, and its the way to get in touch with our inner self and analyze whats going on in our hearts. Sometimes a human been can grow more in a blink of an eye, when we go through all kind of changes and motion. It pushes us to get out of our comfort zone and grow up and opened ourself to accept the lesson that the Universe is giving us, and it will be a little less stressful, not easy but if were willing to do our part and go with the flow of life, believe me its going to be smoother and faster.
So today I celebrate one more year of my life, saying that I been re-born into a new human being, a stronger woman, with a very clear vision of life and where Im headed to, and whats the plan to follow to get it done. And only excitement comes to my mind because Im welcoming the future by making my present better, letting go of the past and trusting that: “Everyday, In Every way through the Grace of God, I’m getting better and better”
He will always take care of me and my love one’s!
“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”
Matthew 10:34-42
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Add a comment December 1, 2009
Life’s Detours!
Every day in every way through the Grace of God Im getting better and better!! As I look back and not to stay in the past but just analyze, and meditate where I was and where Im heading to I just can say how much a human being can evolve and grow in just hours, days, weeks. Im bless to have great people in my life, people from whom I learn and admire. We all go through rough patches but at the end of the day its how you came out of them it what counts.
Your attitude toward the circumstances its whats going to make a difference it’s very easy to stay down and cry and fell sorry for yourself, and thats not bad at all, because we are not machines we are human and life sometimes hurts. It’s when you decided to keep playing the victim roll wanting everybody to fell sorry for you and not wanting to do anything to stand up and continue.
We can’t forget to see the whole picture, the important thing is not forgetting where you once were going to, we have a plan and we want to follow it up until the last step but sometimes life happens and it’s the way that God is telling us to change the path or reevaluate the plan, you got to be opened to see, fell and listen to the signs that the Universe is sending us.
Dont be discourage or disappointed or even worst don’t give up on your Journey because a small detour, OK sometimes its a big detour! but still you got to continue. Just take a deep breath and take things slowly, and you will see everything with new eyes from a new prospective. You cant continue to be hardheaded and insist in that its your way or the highway! Because maybe thats not the right way. And even worst we are so focus on getting to the end that we forget that we have to learn through the journey so many lessons.
I don’t know you, but I don’t want to missed out anymore on life, I want to be able to enjoy the journey, see the view, smell the flowers, listen to the masters, pick their brains and learn all that I can so when I arrived I know it was a BLESS OF A JOURNEY to get there and ill appreciated and value it even more.
How many times when something doesn’t go as we planed we found ourselves saying: and now whats the worst that could happened? instead of asking whats the best thing that could happened to me today? You know what: the sky its the limit to all the positive things that can come our way with just a change of attitude and thoughts.
Sometimes the journey to get there its the plan itself before we get to the end of our goal or dream. Ones wisdom, lessons, and knowledge obtain through the journey should also be part of achieving the goal so that way you will be complete to savor the result, and the fruits of our hard work.
I don’t want to stay down and cry and fell sorry for myself less alone have others fell pity for me, no I rebel against that and I stand up and continue. And when today I look back and I see where I am standing right know I know that I am where I need to be, I would probably liked to be better or more upfront, but now I know I cant skip a page in the book of life, because theirs a lesson I need to study before I can continue so at the end Ill be able to past with flying colors!!!!
So Ill never forget that tears, sadness, sorrow are a part of life and its necessary but also laugh, smile and happiness its the best part and that should be our daily goal, trying to be happy or stay focus in the state of mind to continue in pursue of happiness to become a better person. So today I bless my family, friends and does not so friendly because I learn from them and they show me how to become better
Add a comment December 1, 2009
2Day I set My spirit Free!
Today I set my spirit free ! I let it go strong and free like the wind that moves constantly without limits, without no beginning or end just free. And the places it went i could have never imagine them because I was a prisoner of barriers, of have too’s, should have and all the noncess that we allow our selfs to become slaves of, and most of the time society imposes…( or at least thats what we think)
Today I set my soul free ! It went free like a wild animal that cannot be hold down or kept in captivity for the pleasures and amusement of men.
By setting it free I found once more the purpose and meaning of the warrior! Shes always been free and no one or nothing can quiet or stop her, all this time she was trying to show me the way, but as the noise surrounded me I couldn’t listen to her voice, I couldn’t see her signals and the worst part I couldn’t fell her anymore…
But faithful to herself and to her duties she was always in battle, ready to protect, to move on, to do what ever it was necessary to be free, and continue the path to reach the goals and dreams that were starting to fade away, because the everyday situations were delaying them, making them each day a step farther than closer, making them seem impossible to reach and not worth faithing for.
Today I set my spirit free, to be strong like the wind, wild like the animal and it finally meet with the warrior and with the sword in her hand shes now protecting it to never again be prisoner to continue the journey of life to finally accomplish the dreams that once were left behind, and go after the new ones that are in the making with the new life she just found and wont let go…
So 2day… I set my spirit free!!!
Add a comment December 1, 2009
Fear, fear itself!
Whats fear? A felling that makes you still, like your frozen in time because your afraid to move. People often take challenges, risk, decisions, without thinking twice because probably if they took a second and think about it they probably wouldn’t move. Others just stand still and they let life take its own course delaying things but at the end life will make the decision for them, and it probably will be that the window of opportunity closed itself, because it will not be open for ever.
We want to move on, and continue to the next chapter, and you know deep inside you have to do it, because its for your own good, and it doesn’t matter the outcome, because even if you don’t move on live will continue with or without us… Dont get me wrong we have to plan and visualize what we want and you take the right steps to do it (specially if we are control freaks), but not always things happened like we thought they would or should.
Here comes the part of wanting to control everything because thats the only way we think that everything will be all right; guess what? we cant control everything, we dont have any power over other people events and situations, even if you think so. Your going to be stock in time trying to make the right move or decision waiting for the next chapter to come up, but its not like that.
Take a minute to analyze your thoughts, feelings, visualize what could happened if you don’t move on and what, if you do. Identify which ones come from fear and which one come from your soul thats shouting to move on to be itself to free yourself.
Dont we fell amazing like little kids when the wind blows in our face and the felling of freedom is incredible?
So lets only fear, fear itself because thats when we freeze in time and miss out a lot of beautiful things that life has to offer. This doesn’t mean that the decisions will be easy to take or after that your going to live happily ever after… Life is not a fairy tail but we should add a little bit of color, music, laughter, hope,joy, lots of lots of Faith and trust the gut felling thats God taking care of us. Just quiet the surroundings take a deep breath and listen carefully to the silence… and you should found the answer!
Life is short,
dear to dream like if you will live 4ever;
live your life as if you will die 2morrow;
cherish the warmth of the sun in your skin;
enjoy the freshness of the wind against your body;
taste the sweetness of the rain when it falls in your lips…
smile even without a reason;
dont be affraid to look silly;
dance as if no one is seeing us just be yourself;
kiss your lover with passion;
take in the view of the sunset;
use the stars in the sky as your inspiration and stage to visualize how far your dreams can go;
let your soul come alive and shine thruoug and people will see your true colors…
“The warrior once again raised up and she fights for her soul to not become prisoner of fear”
Add a comment October 2, 2009
