2009 - Endless Possibilities

Today is the day before 'Old Year's Day' as we call it here in the West Indies or the day before 'New Year's Eve' if you are American but whatever you want to call it, the year is at an end. Hmmm, it's the time of the year when we all do some soul searching, self-assessment and inventory of our year's endeavors so that we can set new goals and resolutions for the bright new year ahead. So let's look at my year.
2008, What a year this has been!!!! There have been trials, pains, disappointments, fears, points of weakness and feelings of failure, times when I have dared to dream and times when I lock my dreams in a box, times when I am certain I can move mountains and times when I ask "who am I kidding". As I said before, What a year it has been! Yet here I am at the end of it and hope is still alive in me. Yes this year was a year when I thought it would drown (hope that is) but coming to the end of one of the hardest years of my life, I look to 2009 with hope. Hope, because I am a child of God and therefore I have nothing to fear. Hope , because God has proven over and over that He will never fail me. Hope, because I know God's promises are true. Hope, because my God has given me wings and I will fly!
So yes I am a bit bruised and scarred after the fight I had this year but like Joshua I will bring down Jericho's wall and like Caleb I will take my mountain. So I wait as the final hours pass in 2008, I wait for the bells to toll the beginning of 2009 and I greet it believing it will be a year of endless possibilities, a year to climb a mountain, a year of receiving what I have been believing for. 2009 is MINE!!

Looking back to the future

The knowledge of who we are must first be proceeded by the understanding of who we were in line with where we came from, followed by the vision of who we will be by way of where we are going.

I have not long ago learned of the infamous and getting more so, Willie Lynch Letter and found it quite interesting. As a christian I have come to the realization that there are not coincidences and as I read the letter as a black woman I could not help but see the stark similarities between what was written and the culture prevavlent in the West Indies. Who was Willie Lynch everyone asks, and when did he write and deliver such a speech that cannot seem to be found anywhere in history? Whether or not there was an actual West Indian plantation owner by that name or not, who actually lived in the 1700s or 1800s or 1900s for that matter or whether the letter is the compilation of a African-American who majored or minored in American history to me does not seem to be the most important aspect; what is important is the fact that fundamental points of this letter is true both in the West Indies and America. In getting so carried away by the existance or non-existance of the man we miss the point that though there may not have been an actual "Making of a slave Handbook" the results of this non-existant handbook or plan can still be seen today.

To see the issues brought to the fore by this letter as a blame game or even an escuse to hide behind is, to continue to be the victim of slavery and the rules of the making of a slave as explained by the author of the letter be it Willie Lynch or John Doe.
What this writing illuminates is the destruction of a race, a sex and a people by not another race but by the devil himself. No human being could have master-minded any plan that could have been that successful for that long and no matter who the critic is, the cripled mentality of the black man is no myth or conspiracy theory, it is a fact. What it all comes down to is this; the devil devised a plan that would strike where he knew he was strongest; in the mind and he simple saw an opportunity which man provided him with by our need to suppress one another in order to succeed.

To return to my opening statement we must look at knowledge of where have been as a means to change where are going but we could not change what we did not know. Now that we have the knowledge of the mental conditions and breaking of slavery we can do what need to be done; change our mentality by renewing our minds.

To Be continued........

Can't despute, I am blessed!

Well, I've just watched a close friend of mine have a very low moment and she's been having quite a few these past few months where her children are concerned and one thing she said to me is that I don't know how blessed (well she used the word lucky but I prefer blessed) I am. Well that's where she's wrong cuz I do know. I try to take stock and remind myself of that everyday cuz you know what I realized, as bad as u think things are in your life rest assured they are worse in some else's and that kind of puts things into perspective. So no everything isn't all great neither is it how I'd like it to be right now but things are good, no scrap that they're Great and I am blessed! I just wish she'd see that she is too. We're not blessed in the same areas but she's quite blessed herself and I think maybe God orchestrated it that way so that we can help each other out wherever each lack. I could have the totally pessimistic look on life and be totally unhappy because everything isn't peachy but you know what, I realized a while back that it takes more energy to be angry, discruntled and unhappy and besides it's simply much more fun to approach life with a smile. Now don't get me wrong sometimes my smile sapps a bit and sometimes it gets turned up side down and sometimes it turns to tears but I try not to let that last for too long. I mean sometimes you've just got to cry, scream or have a small hissy fit but then you get over it and move on with a smile because you realize you've got the rest of your life in front of you. Life is a choice and I choose to live it with a smile. I realize that everyone can't be me but I wish they'd try to look at life a little differently every once in a while and maybe just maybe they might find a few things to be thankful for.

Later!

Day 1

Well, I Have finally set up my own blog and I am quite excited. There is soo much I have to write since wrting is my passion, but we'll take it slow.

Until tomorrow, TTFN!!