Brick One

Is success a destination or is it a journey? What even is "success"? For years I thought It was a destination. One that stated It's a career. It's a husband. It's children. It's a certain size. It's a certain look. But fast forward to now I find myself asking that question again. NOW... after turning twenty-eight....being a college graduate for four years with NO career.... a ten year part-time job with no promotion in sight (with four or five second jobs scattered in between)..... a spiritual life that I couldn't truly call my own....and a reflection in the mirror that has yet to show who is really hiding behind all of this physical & emotional weight. I finally asked myself that question:

"Where the %$#@! was I all this time???"

And then immediately following that I sensed THE ALL ask me: 
"Do you even know who you REALLY are???"

My Answer: "%#@$&%...." 
...I didn't even have a clue. I had realized that my answers never had anything to do with me, but had everything to do with things outside of myself.

That realization proved to be the catalyst. That moment sparked the change.

I feel like THE ALL has put me in a peculiar space to both reflect on my life and move forward into my optimal Destiny. That "destiny"  that The Bible speaks of in Jeremiah 29: 11:


11 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."


Twenty-eight years has brought so many different life experiences involving people, places, triumphs, and setbacks. But rather than choosing to live in a dream world; in which I somehow have ALL the right answers,  I'm choosing to pick up my brick and actually start BUILDING in reality. It wasn't until recently that  I realized I was only grabbing for handfuls of sand, wondering why I couldn't lay a solid foundation. Upset that my "foundation" kept crumbling. You see, my head wasn't in the right place. I wasn't even asking all the right questions when I called myself praying for an answer. At times I wasn't even asking. I was just doing; acting in my own ignorance, bias, and impatience. 

Now I'm evolving. Reading....Healing....Listening....Losing....Gaining....Praying....Affirming...((Shutting UP))...Letting go....and holding on in this process called Self-evolution. I always knew that my story would end up being one person's inspiration. And prayerfully that person would be the next person's inspiration...and the ball would keep rolling....and rolling....and rolling...That's the ultimate goal.

My purpose here is to first & foremost: 

ENLIGHTEN:
"Temet Nosce" Latin for "Know Thyself". Once you KNOW who you are and who THE ALL has called you to be, you become an unstoppable force that is able to successfully lay the foundation of the empire that is your LIFE and build accordingly!!! THE ALL has already given us all of the tools necessary. All we have to do is use them.

ENCOURAGE
Being a part of the cure and not the disease. Helping you to not only pick up the first brick but to help you keep building.

THINK
This segment will expand on such topics as spirituality, sexuality. race, gender, social standards, beauty, self-care, prejudices, relationships, etc....Whats a good way to stimulate the mind like a thought-provoking topic???

SHARE
I said I was evolving and this will allow me to be open and honest about my own struggles and what steps I'm taking to conquer them. I may want to cringe inside with what all I may disclose but then again, I'm here to be someone's inspiration.


Were all on a journey in this life....lets strive to always move in the highest vibration possible