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New Year's Resolution – Kill 'em with Kindness

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New Year's  Resolution – Kill 'em with Kindness As I sit and reflect on the last few days of 2013, I am beginning to pray about the things I feel God is leading me to do in 2014. 2013 was a year for growth and change and I believe that 2014 will be a year of harvest and blessing. If you read my first entry in August you will see that one of the things I lacked the last time God blessed me with a season of harvest and blessing was humility. Like I've mentioned before I struggled with selfishness for a long time, so I wanted to make a promise to God to always remain humble and to always find a way to be a blessing to others, especially during a season of harvest.  I have realized that God has blessed me in so many ways and has taught me a lot of things.  Therefore learning how to truly exercise the fruit of the spirit kindness is definitely a goal of mine for 2014. One of the things that inspired this change was watching others give so much of their time, resourc

Sometimes you have to Lose to WIN again...

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Sometimes you have to Lose to WIN again... “Patience is a virtue that I seemingly don’t p ossess"   is a horrible saying that I would constantly repeat. I remember back in 2007 my family and I were going on a cruise and there was a mix up with my visa and the ticket agent told me I wouldn’t be able to go. I had never been on a cruise before, I was looking forward to this trip ALL summer and now I wasn’t going to be able to go, are you kidding me!!! I am embarrassed to say what happen next, but I can’t tell you where I’m going if I can never talk about where I came from. I broke down in the terminal of that cruise ship like a 2 year old. Literally screaming, jumping, stomping on the floor and crying in the corner. I am utterly still embarrassed as I type, I honestly through a childhood tantrum. Many people blame my huge obsession of having everything go my away on being the last child, but whatever it was God told me if I wanted to grow in Him, that tantrum mess had to g