A Good Place

Loving life no matter what or whose not there

But smiling everyday as I don't have a care.

Keeping up with the Joneses is not where I seek

But following the Lord who is perparing it all for me.

As I stand with my feet planted through high waters

I know my sunset is above and beyond all the corners.

My sister got teary eyed today as she notice a glow in me

I felt pride and honored for her to say she's proud and love what she sees in me.

I don't wonder where I'm going or where I need to be

For I have found a great place, at a nice pace, and a foundation of peace.

God has guided me and my daughter on our righteous path

We want for nothing or in need of anything that may cause a dash.

I'm at peace, and love everything that I see around me

For there's nothing like holding the prize that has given me the key.

Look and tell me what you see when you look upon my face

You will see and accept Stacey is in a good place'

 

The Good Life

Life is amazing, great actually. Once we learn to get up in the morning and take each day as it is. A Blessing! Don’t worry about yesterday when that person offended you, or when you were cut off in traffic, when you realize you are being treated unfair at work, or when you know how good of a friend, girlfriend, husband, wife, sister or brother you have been and yet you never hear that you are appreciated or a Thank you. Life is still good. Why you ask? Because you had the ability, the self motivation or even yet that peace and happiness in you that allowed you to smile everyday and be kind to someone. Be grateful that you are not that person who seems to always have something going on wrong in their life, or always complaining about something, rather if it’s a pain in their leg, or they didn’t get to sleep last night, or they accidentally bump their toe this morning. Be happy to not be that person.

Despite all that I feel that can come against me, I am always happy, I can always find something to be happy about, or make a joke out of something to make someone smile. I love to make anyone smile or laugh, its’ a dose of peace and happiness for me. I could have gotten a ticket yesterday morning, and yet I received a warning and made a cop smile because of my fault-ness in car maintenance. I poured and entire tube of syrup on my slacks morning before last, and yet I made myself laugh about it the entire time as I cleaned my pants leg in the jobs bathroom. Our days are what we make out of it, if we bring disappointments from yesterday into today we’ll miss out on those happy moments of now. I love my life. I love not knowing what’s next or what’s to come. I have a peace in me that exceed all disappointments, setbacks, and discouragements, for I know everything is going to just fine. The next time you run into a disappointment, or someone offends you, your finances are not where you want them to be, or something just goes wrong all of sudden, remember that God is in control.
Know everything is going to be ok.. Repeat this to yourself “everything is going to be fine” meditate it, but remember to actually believe it. God loves you, he doesn’t want to see you cry for it makes him upset that you don’t trust in him to believe he is and will make everything “just fine”.

he's there always wanting to take care of you

shit happens...

picture by stacey woods

It is amazing how we go through numerous changes within a year, and force to learn from them in order to get pass them. Yet so many months later, we find ourselves retaking the same test again because we forget about the lesson we once learned before. We usually expect something awesome to come out of our struggle, and has yet to do so. Then we eventually fall back into a state of not believing, or forcing a change in what we are dealing with at that time. I just recently went through a struggle I once experienced before, but yet forgotten.

I am a firm believer of God, and I have always thought when something goes wrong in my life, that I needed to reflect on what I may have done that could have possibly caused this emotional set back or hurt. I have lived with this "train of thought" for years. Thinking when something goes wrong, and I couldn’t find anything to reflect on that I could have possibly done. I would start to hard on myself and confuse myself even more. Which would then affect the natural things of my life.

I have now come to understand that SHIT HAPPENS!

Being perfect is what we strive for, and yet we do have our short comings, ....but understand this… life does continue with or without you, and things go on. Realize that you are able to move on and from things, and that "somethings"  just may not have a meaning. Everything does not happen for a reason, only for the knowledge of knowing, and being prepared for your own future, or someone else’s. From my experience to yours, try not to be so hard on yourself, for the things that are ordain to make you a better person is for the glorification of your life.

As I’ve said before and I have no problem saying it again, “Shit Happens”.

Is it possible to lose yourself

of course it is. We experience many situations that can cause a dramatic change to our mentality. This could be a car wreck, a loss of a loved one, or even a relationship.

Just a day or so ago, I was visiting my mom and she handed me all of my very old daily planners. As a teenager, I found it important to remember every single exciting, endearing, and fascinating moment of my life! By doing this I would write down whatever I did that day. As I begin to read these so many years ago moments, I found myself smiling, bursting into laughter, and even crying. It displayed to me how much fun I use to have by myself, with friends, and old boyfriends. I then remembered... at that moment, who that girl was. She was very familiar to me, as if she was a good friend of mine who I enjoyed being with everyday.

I notice in my planners that after I fell in love with a certain someone, my life changed, it became bland. I started to focus only on this person, I stop hanging with friends, I stop doing the activities I loved so much. My planners then start to change dramatically, the person who I fell in love with name start to appear more than enough, not only of him, but his family. Not much of my familiy, my friends, or myself was in my schedule anymore.

When I counted those years back, I realize that I lost who I was for about five-years. I became a person of whom I didn't want to be, but found comfort in being her. Thanks for this book of which my past life was written, reminded me of who I was, and who God intended for me to be. To love life, endure the special moments of love ones, doing those things in which I love to do, trying new things that interest or intrigue me. Traveling with family, and friends,  and meet new and exciting people.

You are probably wondering, how do you do these things in which you love to do, when so many circumstances has cause tremendous responsibility on your life. I've learn to find time, to not get caught up in planning to do something, but to just do it! You do this by just learning To Do You!

Believing In Things Unseen…

Believing In Things Unseen… When we were once children, our fondest time of the day is when we were pretending. Imagining being the most beautiful princess in a far away land, or the bravest knight slaying the meanest dragon. Pretending led us to joy in believing we were the most magnificent person within ourselves, but yet we were not able to actually see it. Most times in our lives we are in a state of believing in something or someone, when there is no concrete information that what we are believing in will eventually surface. We try our hardest to believe in those things we want to see happen or have. I have come to realize my hardest times in life is when I was left only to believe. It’s not easy at times to keep hope, faith or believing. I have found this inner strength in me that has given me the hold of believing, even when I have nothing to look forward too, or when I do not see my prays being answered in a timely fashion. What I do see fit to shorten my suffering or stress, is to just believe in God and to trust my struggle is not taken for granted or for nothing.

We have to remember the most powerful source on earth that is not seen in a physical being is our Lord, and Savior Jesus Christ. Like many we believe in him stronger than we believe in ourselves, and it’s all because of the things he has done in reach of our hands and by the sight of our eyes, that he is real. So despite where you are in your life right now, rather if it’s in a struggle or in a time of losing, believe all is to pass soon and your glory within, will first  reveal itself to you in the sequenced of valuable time. In other words its never too late, but is always "right on time".
always remember, "joy cometh in the morning"

Not Knowing What’s Next…..

Not Knowing What’s Next….. I’m at a point in my life right now, where I do not know what’s next, for I do not know what is to come, when or who my next relationship is with, where would my next career take me or take place. What I do know is that I’m moving forward, taking each day as it is handed to me, and trying my best to make each one count and make the best of it by making it productive. Knowing what I want to do, but capable of only doing what I need to do, which in many cases of our lives is never the same. In order to do what you want to do, requires certain amenities, tools, steps, and planning. But where do we find the time, to grasp those things we want to do and the things we’re passionate about, without losing hold of what we have to do, what’s demanded and needed out of us now. As my epoch proceeds itself, and moves on with or without me, I have no choice but to move along with it. I look into not only what I can do each day to make it count, but into someone else’s day and find a place where I can make their day count too.

When we come to these certain points in our lives, you have to learn to take them positively. I’ve learned to not beat myself up over what I have no control over, the situations where I could not have change the outcome, or done different. I’ve also learn to not base my past actions on what I've do now, just to have assurance on bypassing the same mistakes for my future, but to just be positive in not KNOWING whats next.

This is when God loves to do the most in our lives, which is to surprise us by the things we’ve taken trust in, and to bring us out of.  So when you think of where you are now, the routine of your life, rather if it’s at your employment or in a relationship, relax and enjoy it everyday.

Without knowing what’s to come is the best part about living, take the time and inspect your own expectancy, and surprise yourself. Do something out the ordinary for once, try something new, learn something different, take a different route home. Don’t wait until you’re forced out of that normal routine and left in a state of not knowing what’s going on, or what’s happening. Start now and plan for a better future, an exciting outcome. I’ve been taken from a routine in my life that has been consistent for more than five years, and it took me days to understand this is not my plan nor my schedule, but to realize what I was missing, what I am now able to appreciate and love about life. I still don’t know what’s to come, however I know something is coming far greater than where I was, and not knowing what that is but the caliber of what it is going to be.

Trusting in God is not knowing, but believing! There’s A Reason for every Season!

Losing

 lost

Losing is not only something hard to face, but to move on from, depending on what was lost, or to ever regain the feeling of moving forward without what was lost. Losing can break you, discourage a thought or movement, or to have faith in anything or anyone again. But it could also motivate you to restore what was lost and replace it with something greater, larger, or better than before. I’ve lost so many times in my life this year. But as I now look back at all the things I’ve lost, I do not understand the strength that I had, or where it came from. How do I locate it for other hard times, who gave it to me, and how did I find the secret key to unlock the sacred box it’s kept in. Not realizing such a power of this super natural strength I had only surfaced when I really needed it.

It’s a struggle and fight to only focus on what you have now, and not what you had. Things are remove for a reason, a purpose, and a sense of higher development.

At the time of losing, you’re not able to see the forthcoming, the opportunity, the prospect, or hope of something good. We’re thinking and analyzing the question and only thought, which is ‘why’. You’re feeling hurt, deserted, disappointed, hopelessly confused. You even get angry, looking for someone to blame, after you’ve blamed yourself enough. You don't want to be the reason for the lost, you’ve contemplate everything you’ve done right, things you could of done to avoid the lost of losing something. I’m here to tell you... I’ve lost, and lost, and lost, and now I’ve gained more than I ever had in the first place of losing. As a friend told me, at time it’s hard to move on but you have let your arms catch you by the ankles so that you’re able to walk through it… It’s hard to trust into something good, that you’re not sure of what it is yet, but to know its coming. So we have to get up, and keep going, find the motivation in us to know everything is going to be “just fine”. This is a setback preparing us for comeback, becoming a better person understanding life’s curves and detours. Detouring from a regular route to see another way with a much better scenery. Not missing out on God’s creation of moving through life too fast.

 A season of losing is not defeat nor accident, but all an encouraging motivation of lifting to another echelon. A reflection of the past to continue to the next phase, that moves forward to more chapters. Which leads to an unforgettable ending. Losing, a scene of slow motion, causing the grasp of your mind and hands a head start on life’s most prize possession. A lead of catching the world.

In order to motivate ourselves or to see what we’re missing, we have to experience a low point, which in some cases is losing something that your eyes are contracted on, everything and every moment counts, evaluations are in movement… You’re now seeing what was once blind. Colors of mist and calmness, an outlook on what’s to come and not lost, remember to reflect on being still when losing something, try to understand what is to come, and what has now ended. In other words look into the sacredness of the future and take along with you the memories, the lessons, and the gifts of what is now gone and to become.