Breakfast For Your Soul

Monday, October 20, 2008

 
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Good Morning Beloved,

I pray that this day you walk in God’s favor, accept what God has given you and not miss the “small” blessings.  A few years ago, I made statement that still rings true today.  I told a friend that I have truly enjoyed my daughter and all of her stages.  When she was a baby, I can remember the diaper bags, huge pocketbooks, deluxe strollers and traveling up four flights of stairs to her baby sitter’s house.  When she reached elementary school I remember walking her to school and then to work.  Through the years, I remember traveling with her on buses until I was blessed with my car.  There have been many times of struggling and making due, but with God (and my mom’s) help, we have made it through some difficult days.  There are frustrating and stressful days.  Days like the time I had Jah dressed in her Christmas finery, (she was about 3 or 4) and she dumped a whole container of baby powder over her head.  Head to toe baby powder.  Instead of going totally ballistic… I grabbed a camera.  I still have that picture.  Now, it is a precious memory that makes me smile… the day it happened…. not so much.  There has always been a thought in the back of my mind that said, “enjoy this… these days will shortly be over”.  Find the humor in the situation.  We have lost family members and friends.  We still miss them, but now we can think about them and remember how they made us laugh and how they got on our nerves, which can bring us back to how they made us laugh. I remember Minister James Hughes, a former member of our church and my pastor’s nephew.  He was terminally ill for many years.  The year before he got really sick, our family and his went on vacation together.  He was a minister at another church at this time.  It was supposed to be their church trip, but everyone backed out but our family and his family, so we decided to go anyway.  We had so much fun.  “Jimmy” was a person who really knew how to enjoy life.  Even with sickness coursing through his body, it didn’t take over his spirit.  He laughed, and joked and teased the whole trip.  A couple of years later he was gone, but the memories we have of him live on….. Enjoy this day!

Share some Good News…..

… oh, I have some… Happy Birthday to our sister Janice Wellington… I worked under her many years ago, and she is hands down from that day ’til this the best boss I ever had!… She is a part of the ‘Soul Food’ family… Janice, may God bless you with many, many more happy ones.  Thank you for being YOU!

U BLESSED!

Have A Fabulous Day Everybody!

Regina