Go Get Your Happy!

"Go get your happy! 

So what if it's not the perfect package. If it's _____ don't let misinterpretations and misunderstandings get in your way. Stop chasing some 'leave it to Beaver' dream that doesn't really work. Stop chasing goals that you really don't want. Focus on the [goals] that you do and move towards them with gusto. Don't worry about ____. Don't tether yourself to _____. Worry about you and what you want."

Take care or yourself!
Worry about yourself! 

You're welcome.
G. 💕

Prayers and Love

"Lord, dear Lord, above, God almighty, God of love; please look down and see my people through."

Thank you for waking us up on this spring like Monday morning. We appreciate your will and passion for us. We appreciate the blessings that you continue to fill our lives with. We thank you for our faculties that allow us to enjoy this life that you have blessed us with. Thank you for continuing to surround us by people who love and care for us: safe people, functional people, supportive people, listening people, fun people, intelligent people, mindful people, loving people, helpful people, good people. We thank you for removing the wool from our eyes so that we can see exactly what we need to see. Thank you for removing the cotton from our ears, so that we can hear you clearly. Thank you for speaking to us, when we are broken and we are whole. thank you for speaking to us, when we are weak and we are strong. Thank you for speaking to us, when we are giving and when we are selfish. Thank you for loving us and standing for, by and next to us all the days of our lives. 

We pray today, father God, for health. We pray for strength. We pray for wholeness. We pray for support. We pray for guidance. We pray to be able to hear you and see you. We pray to be able to know that you are speaking to us and notice when the angels are here for us to guide us and to keep us. Though we don't necessarily understand our path, we thank you for it. We thank you for creating us to be strong enough to fight the battles that enter our lives. Though, we don't think we have the strength, we know you have not given us the spirit of fear but of a sound mind. We know that whatever we put our mind and heart to we can accomplish. Thank you for allowing me personally to be the walking testimony of this exact statement. 

I pray today for the motherless, that they may find love in the people you have placed in their paths. We pray for the fatherless that they may find guidance in the angels you have hand selected for them. We pray for those that have had to bury a loved one that they may find peace. We pray for the parents, that they may be graced with patience and understanding, help and guidance, while rearing their kings and queens. We pray for those that may be looking for a new job or direction on their career but ask that they are blessed with gratefulness for their current position. We pray for the business owners that their businesses continue to thrive and that you have your hand in every decision that the owners are led to make and you cover them from those that are corrupt and trying to overturn their empire. We pray for traveling mercies for those that may be heading somewhere soon. We pray for the ability to take a vacation for those that need it. We pray for love, to manifest, to mature and to become everything you have designed for our lives. 

Thank you father God for allowing me to use my platform for good, no matter how small it may be. Thank you for allowing anyone that reads these words to be blessed exceedingly, abundantly and above all things. Father God, thank you for answering the prayers that I have not asked publicly but are in the hearts of those that requested prayer. Thank you for continuing to order our steps and guide our paths. 

We appreciate you. We love you. We thank you. We trust you.
In your matchless and heavenly name we pray... 

Amen.

Quotes from TV

"Just remember; even in the bad news, there's good news for someone."

- Greys Anatomy

Love yourself, first

How do you define failure? 

Do you think you failed because you weigh the same as you did a year ago though you told yourself you would lose the weight? Do you think you failed because your mate ended your relationship? Do you think you failed because you didn't get a promotion you've been working for? Do you think you failed because you haven't successfully taken a vacation with the passport you worked so hard to get? 

It took you 5 years to gain the weight. That means you've been working in a (bad) habit cycle for five years. Your default is set to things that keep you the same. It'll take time to break your cycle. You haven't failed, unless you have given up. Don't be so hard on yourself. Every day, set a goal to do something differently than you did yesterday ... unless, yesterday worked. Then, repeat yesterday. 

Your emotional abusive, physically demeaning, less than amazing mate ended your relationship and you feel as if you failed? Listen love, unfortunately, everyone doesn't know how to accept love. Not that you were perfect either, BUT, you did everything you could. It was time. You didn't fail, you succeeded. You successfully loved someone so much so that it was difficult for you to accept that you deserved better because you just wanted to spread love. Selfless. Unconditional. Love yourself now. Strengthen yourself now. Then, choose love again. 

Remember that time you said you didn't love your company? Maybe God didn't promote you because He has something better for you. You didn't fail. You're smarter. You became more tenacious. You developed your skill set. You are better than you were before. Your title doesn't define you. You are successful. You are not a failure. Keep growing. Keep learning. Keep working to become a better you. And, when it's time, you will shift. 

As for that vacation, save that change and take a vacation for your next birthday. You deserve that. 

You are enough.
You are not a failure.
You are a success.
Act like it.
Think like it.
Believe it. 

Love, you, all ways, always.
G. 💕

Where's your faith sending you?

I quit my job in February of 2015. My life literally got flipped upside down in September of 2015. I kept applying for jobs because my faith was weak. When I didn't get any jobs or even callbacks i asked myself and God "what am I doing?" 

In January of 2016 my faith changed. I literally started reading and believing the word of God. My favorite scripture has always been Matthew 7:7 - ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be open unto you. I asked why I wasn't getting these jobs and what I was supposed to do. He literally said "use your gifts". Doors began opening like crazy when I literally stood on his word and my faith. 

I said all that to say, when you ask God what you should be doing, wait for His answer and then do that. I'm literally faithing it and life is improving. 

Today's job: meal prep. 

Trust God. Use your gifts. Live life. 

Where's your faith sending you?
G. 💕

#garnetism

Never stop loving, yourself included. 

A Little Wisdom

So often we become something for someone. We act like we like Chinese food to go on a date. We act like we enjoy lifting weights because our friends do. We act like we want to dress a certain way because our parents like it. We grow out our hair because someone else said it's cute that way. But, what do we want? 

If we spend our whole lives becoming something for someone else, we'll never become who we were intended to be. Even though someone likes you this way or that way or when you do this or when you do that, there's someone else who needs to love you exactly how you want to be. That someone is you. 

Start loving yourself first. Then like yourself. Then be yourself. The original is always worth more than the copy. 

Besides, you don't want the one that doesn't love you just the way you are. 

Love, you, all ways, always.
G. 💕

Faith it 'til you make it!

"Manipulation comes when you're shifting because the devil makes you think you're losing." 

Trust the process. Trust your sight. Know that you're still heading to that light at the end of this tunnel. 

Faith it 'til you make it. 

G. 💕

Unconditional Love

There is no such thing as passive love. Love is a decision. You really don't fall in love, you make a conscious decision to walk into it with every ounce of your being, and, at that moment, it is everything you have ever wanted. 

Contrary to popular belief, love is not solely romantic or familial. Love is spiritual. Love is emotional. Love is platonic. Love is unconditional. 

In a time where social media serves as our life updates, I believe that love gets lost somewhere between down wifi, a new number, a lost connection and just forgetting that you actually haven't seen that person or heard that persons voice in years - though, you think you know every monumental life event. Thanks, tweetainstasnapapolobook. 

Don't get me wrong, social media is amazing. It has reunited me with friends from camp, elementary school, high school, college. It has served as a life bulletin: baby announcements, wedding announcements, graduation announcements, job announcements, death announcements, dating announcements, party announcements, club announcements, business announcements, new project announcements, move announcements, home announcements, organization announcements, life announcements. 

But, where has the love gone? Nowadays, you can't love people, unconditionally. Well, thats not true. You can. But, its so hard for people to accept it. Why is that? Is it because they know that you don't know whats really going on in their lives? People are so hidden in real life because they are so used to showing their highlight reel online that they can't understand that you love someone as broken as they are. 

Get this, everyone is broken. Everyone has baggage. Everyone has a story hidden behind their smile. But, contrary to popular belief, everyone needs love. And, unconditional love is actually a thing. 

So, today, I charge you to make a choice to love someone with every fiber of your being. They may not be able to accept your love, but keep loving them. Be it a friend, a spouse, a child, a parent, a lover or a stranger, choose love today. We don't know what battle people are fighting but I bet love will help. We don't know what mountain they're climbing but I bet love will help. We don't know what praise they have to share but I bet love will help. We don't know the last time they needed a hug but I bet love will help. 

Sometimes the behind the scenes footage includes court dates, loneliness, death, suicidal thoughts, hunger, past due bills, job loss, weight gain.... or, joy. Sometimes, people love on you because they need love themselves. 

Won't you spread love today?

Love, you, all ways, always.
G.