Yep...He's my dad!

Today is my fathers 50th birthday. We recently had an eye-opening conversation that really changed me. I learned so much in that one conversation with my fathers about myself and my family. I will forever appreciate him and honor him. For one, he has a good heart and despite what I feel he has not done or has done, this is the man God blessed me with. He is the only person on this planet that I can say is my biological father. This is my way of giving him honor on his 50th birthday and giving him his flower while he is yet alive.

Often time we don't realize what we have in a person until they are gone. We look at all their flaws while they are alive, but when they are gone, all we see is the good. We remember the good memories we shared. I know my father will be around for a long time.

I wanted my dad to know that I LOVE HIM! I see parts of him in me and ask we talked recently I realized I am more like him than I thought. I miss him and can't wait to continue to build a relationship that is long overdue for maintenance. All the things we went through in our Father/Daughter relationship has brought us back to this moment. A moment of reconcilation.

A mother and a father is an important part to purpose. They hold a HUGE piece to your identity. Appreciate them, love them, despite what you may know. I know that having that conversation with my dad recently and hearing him speak things into the atmosphere.....well...they broke some things off of me. Only a Father can do that! Happy 50th birthday dad!!

Be blessed!!

Just Visiting....

Today I was reading an article in the "O" magazine written by Oprah. She quotes one of her favorite quotes by French philospher-priest Pierre Teilhard saying "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." After reading that quote, I felt a urging need to write as thoughts starting flooding my mind. As I meditated on that, I remembered in God's Word that says in John 17:14 (NKJ) "I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world." When you come into alignment with God and accept Him into your life as Lord and Savior, surrending your complete will to His will, not only do you take on a new life in Christ, but you come into the knowledge that you are just passing through. This life is a moment in eternity that God has allowed us to experience for the glorification of choice. During this human experience, will you choose Jesus now and forever?

When looking at things from this perspective you really go through a paradigm shift and realize that this is not IT. This is like a trip to zoo. Going to the zoo you enter (birth), you experience each animal (life), and you exit (death). While there you can choose which path to take through the zoo...but at the end of the day you must remember, this is not your home, you are just visiting.

Meditate on that today: How is your human experience going my friend?

I love you all. As each day go by I get more and more excited to share with you the things I learn in my own process to purpose. God bless!!

Inspired to the Core

I’ll never forget going to see the Lion King with my mom a few years go. The person that played Rafiki really touched my spirit to the core. The reason being is that her voice was so amazingly unique and beautiful that she inspired me in her gift. It was something that seemed to wake an emotion in me, the motion of inspiration. When you are inspired you have a tendency to want to make a move. Inspiration produces motion. Some decide to ride the wave of inspiration as it is not long lived. Inspiration is temporary that requires constant renewing. I believe that is what the arts are created to do; to inspires the world to be all that they are. I recently went to the Dallas Museum of Arts with my boyfriend. This was one of the many places we stopped during one of the best birthdays in my 27 years of living. That’s another blog post for another day. At any rate, as we walked around and looked at the art, I felt inspired because each of the pieces whether it was a painting or sculpture, all was conceived from a thought. That thought made manifest produced a beautiful art piece. That art piece inspires others as they gaze upon the creation of beautifully expressed art. In a way true art repoduces itself in the hearts and minds of people. The piece of art that inspired me the most was a sculpture. As I looked upon it I knew I saw a dance.

In my process to purpose, I have hit a milestone in understanding that dance will play a HUGE role in my purpose. Every time I am inspired, I see dance, I think dance, I become dance as an expression of praise and worship unto God. Process to purpose golden nugget: when you get inspired what is it that you desire to do?

Humility In The Process

Humility plays a huge role in the process to purpose. The definition of humility is not proud or haughty; not arrogant; but an expression of submission. The reason this is so important in the process of purpose because it will require submission to God’s Will and not our own will that may be made up of lights, camera and fame but completely outside the WILL of God for YOUR life. Jesus Christ is the ultimate example of humility being that in the Garden of Gethsemane he prayed the utmost prayer of “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." (Luke 22:42)

Are we willing to allow the Father to do His Will? Are we willing to give up what we are holding onto to fulfill the Will of God? This is easier said than done and most of us want to pursue our idea of “dreams” and “purpose”, but unwilling to take God’s path to get there. Yes, he put that desire in us. But we all have to check our desire every now and then and get our flesh in check. The flesh has a tendency to want to do things that the world will applaud. What makes God applaud?

I have a deep passion for purpose in my life and the lives of others. I now I have an even deeper respect for the power of humility in process and how that can change the game when you fully and completely submit to the Will of God. Destiny awaits…