We all have those moments of despair, wondering why, why, why is this happening to me, why am I here in this place. For some of us, its the driest season we have ever seen. But, I have realized the longer you focus on "it", the harder "it" becomes. Take a moment to reflect on your past, that time when things were really bad before, and reflect on how you ended up on top...it will happen again, but you most do something different. Its hard to move forward with your plans, dreams and aspirations if you have no tangible plan. I know this has been a reoccurring theme in my writings lately, but it is so true. Although the plan you write will be altered, it gives you something to see, to meditate on, to create visible time-lines and actions to complete it all, and it works. When we keep our plans in our minds, they get lost and tangled up in all the mental clutter and chatter of our everyday lives.
If you want to see things manifest differently in your lives, ask yourself, "What am I doing differently?". You must do what scares you to death!!! You must be passionate about whatever it is you want, and you must learn to give, especially to yourself. Time, resources money, even a smile or a kind word. You think you got it bad? Go visit one of your local shelter's and see how bad they got it. Go visit a mother whose child is missing, hit the streets and try to talk to that young girl who has been tricked into prostitution while her pimp keeps a watchful eye, imagine you were her for just a moment. Switch your focus, change your circle of friends, get with folks who are doing what you would like to do. There is so much life to live on this earth, there is so much awaiting to spring forth from your soul to assist another person, there are so many people that are awaiting you, you can't even imagine. We are to live in heaven on earth, fully, abundantly, prosperously, purposefully. You can be down, discouraged, but only for a moment, so don't become defeated, change your mindset and renew your mind daily with the thoughts and plans that will help you to arrive at your new destination, which I will call L-O-V-E. Loving your tests and trials, loving who your are, loving how far you've come, loving the love you give to others. Operate from that love within and your situation will turnaround immediately...try it and see.
So with this being said, this month I will leave you with a poem by Langston Hughes.
Love, peace, and many blessings,
Shamina
Mother to Son
by Langston Hughes
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
Hughes, Langston, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177021, Web. 29 Nov. 2011.
