Day 2 …Mom was Wrong!

Ok so I’m on day 2 of my journey. Day 2 is to reflect on ourselves. No matter how much we think life is meaningless or confused about life, we are not here by accident. My mother always told me that I wasn’t supposed to be born when I was. I wasn’t just a few weeks early but a few years. My mother had a set plan, when she’d get married, have kids, work etc., but as the old saying goes, while you’re making plans God is having a good laugh. When things don’t work out as you have planned, it’s because it just isn’t meant to be. This something many of us, including myself fail to realize. I always want things my way. I make plans and set schedules to accomplish my goals in life. I now realize that just because I have not achieved them doesn’t mean that I’m a failure, it just means that there is something bigger and better that I am going to do, I just don’t know it yet.
Day 2 also goes into looking at ourselves for who we are and appreciating it. Our personalities, the color of our eyes, hair, and skin have been designed specifically for us. This really caught my attention because many of us, especially women obsess about our looks; those with long noses want shorter petite ones, people with blue eyes buy contacts to have green eyes. We put so much emphasis, time and money into changing ourselves to be something we were not meant to be. We let one person; the media, society tell us that unless you are 5’11, 100 pounds with large double Ds and long flowing hair, you need to be fixed. I hate to be cheesy but if God wanted us to all look alike he would have made us that way.
I am not holier than thou, of course there have been times when I have wanted to change things about myself and even attempted to …. Funny enough they never worked out. God made me this way for a reason, who am I to tell Him He messed up? I look the way I do for a reason, if you don’t like it tough, I know I’m fine! For those of you who want a secular point of view here it is…. Look at those plastic looking people, fakes noses, fake boobs, fake everything…do you really want to look like that? You may actually beautiful and let your insecurities screw you up. The list of celebrities who were good looking but now are jacked up is a mile long….Meg Ryan, Elizabeth Taylor…and one in particular I will not mention out of respect but you know who else I’m talking about! Do you really want to go around looking like that? Is that real beauty? Like the song goes, "aint nothing like the real thing!"

40 Days...Day1

’ve decided to take a different route for the next 40 blogs. Have any of you ever asked yourself what is the point, why am I here? I have too many times. In an effort to figure it out, I’ve decided to start and actually stick with reading The Purpose Driven Life. So far I’m on day one and this journey seems to be promising. The first day is to realize that we are not here for our own selfish purposes but for something greater. I recently updated my Facebook status and asked why God wasn’t answering me. I wondered if he wasn’t listening or if maybe I’m not listening close enough to his answer. I’ve decided its most likely the latter. I am reading this book in the hopes that I will learn to listen and finally receive my answers.
This may come as confusion to those who know me and have read my previous blog posts. How could a potty mouth smart aleck ponder about God? Well God loves sinners too. So the next forty days will be about reflection and hopefully some enlightenment. If anyone is reading The Purpose Driven Life as well me up maybe we can go over some things together. Till tomorrow……..

Smile?

Hello folks,


I’ve been away for a while but I’m back… no article today just some thoughts. While watching tv one day I saw a great commercial for the show Curb Your Enthusiasm. The lead character (sorry I have no clue who he is) was walking down the street minding his own business when some random woman walking past him tells him to smile. He then turns around and asks her to mind her own business. I found this commercial amusing because it has happened to me numerous times. Maybe when this happened, the guy from the show was having a bad day, although this is not usually the case for me. I mean really who goes around just smiling for no reason? And why are you so worried about my face? Maybe I’m in deep thought (which is usually the case). Maybe I’m not smiling because my dog just died. Maybe I have a bill I’m worried about…would you like to pay it for me? I’ve noticed that the only people that have approached me this way are men, (and some woman I work with that grew up with hippies) is this some kind of line you guys are using now? My usual response to some random person telling me to smile is to tell them to mind their business. Should I have another response, something nicer? I can’t think of anything, if you can let me know, until I’m telling people to mind their business or my personal favorite…kick rocks!!!!