Month: November 2010

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75 turned 86 ppl. Praise God! CFTH

Hey!

This gurltheycallCree is TIED!!! Not tired, but TIED! LOL WE fed 86 people today!!! Our goal was to feed 75! God is the bomb. I can’t even try to express how I’m feeling right now. I can’t stop praising HIS name. Jeeeeeeesus!!! Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus. I’m going  to post the video of my family preparing the food. As always, I was the camera gurl, making sure they were on their JOBS!! LOL Just playing. Check out the video and tomorrow I will post more photos and footage!!! What a wonderful God we serve. I am doing with I always wanted to do. Wow! For dinner we COOKED, Chicken and Dressing with cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, string beans with white potatoes, dinner rolls, potatoe salad. For desert each person had donuts, brownies, and cookies. Each person had water, pop, and juice.

 

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Its almost time! CFTH

Hey Family!!!

 

I’m up and running. Kinda under the weather for the last 4 days, still went to work and did my best to stay positive, even though I wanted to lay down on the floor at work and go to sleep. LOL Its nothing but the God in me who is keeping me on top of things. I’m amazed at all the love and support that I have gotten for CFTH, so many people have helped to see this come to pass. Someone even sent me a message today saying that I will bring you gas money to travel around in when passing out food. I’ve been so quiet, because I’m so blessed that God has laid it on my heart to do this. It means so much to me, I can’t wait to see the faces of the people tomorrow. Since, I have started this, several people have asked me to help, or either tell others about what they are doing. Thats a blessing, but at the same time I gotta be careful too.

 

I have some work to do, gotta get off-line for a minute!!! Here are some photos, more coming after we “take it to the streets”.

Cree

 

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Im quiet

Hmmmmm…….Its going to be pretty interesting seeing the outcome of this story. I don’t have anything to say, just learning to “fall back” and be quiet. I like myself this way. No…. I LOVE MYSELF this way.

 

I’m always the life of the party. Always the “person to go to”……. but in this season. Im quiet.

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A conversation with my Lord

Lord, Thank you for everything and everyone in my life. This year has truly had its share of “stuff”. LOL And I Thank you for everything. You know me, and you know how  to get my attention. Boy do you know. This year you stripped me down!!!! LOL Its funny now, but it wasnt funny then. I had to let some people go, and for some reason my mind is clear. I can see what I’m suppose to be doing. Distractions come and they can throw you totally off track. SMH. But, it’s all good. I’m on FIYAH now, and boy do I have some things lined up for 2011.

I do have some things about myself that I really need to work on. Patience.  I have this thing where I feel that if I say something, then people should agree with me. My sisters and friends tell me this all the time. Lord, I really need help with that. It has really gotten bad, real bad. I get so to where in my mind, I wont even want to deal with that person anymore if they don’t agree with me.  What kinda person is that? I have to learn to respect other people’s opinion. I don’t have to get upset and try to reason with them. Sometimes I’m NOT RIGHT!! So what if they don’t agree with me. Jesus I really need help in that area. And the part that trips me out is, I can be quiet and be submissive. But something in me fires up and just want to keep trying to get others to see it MY way. I really need your help in that area. First thing, you told me to keep my tweets to a minimum. When people start talking mean to others, that makes me mad Lord. I can’t stand for people to talk about others. Thats why I don’t like GOSSIP!!! Especially about  people I love and admire. But I can’t control them.

 Lord Thank you what my baby is doing in her life. I remember ( how can I forget) when my lights, gas,cable got cut off in dead of the winter. You told me to take Neisha over to my parents house and for me to come home, because you wanted to talk to me. I laid in that cold house, days and days, and days for you to speak to me. I was so cold and so lonely, and so confused, and I just didn’t understand things. I called people to help me and people I knew could help, they said they couldn’t. Well, I guess not, because you didn’t want me to get help yet, not until we had that talk. Everyday, I kept asking Lord, what is it that you want. What do you want to talk to me about? You finally spoke to me and said. All of this is about Mar’Neishia. I said MARNEISHA!!!!!! What about her? You spoke to me loud and clear and said ” the person that she is to be, you are in the way with your foolishness”. She was no more than 13 years old at the time. She’s now 24. You told me that I was “off the hook” in so many words. I knew exactly what you were talking about. AFter that I got myself together and time went on and things are good. Neisha always asks me to tell this story to her, she is so geeked that you “whooped ” me over her. lol We laugh about that all the time. She just finished her internship working for a Judge ( he picked her) and doing arraignments. She went to all the high-profile court cases including Kwame Kilpatrick. She met a lot of friends, and she knew and met every JUDGE on the ballot this year. She loves life and tells me every time she thinks of it, that she knows that you will assign her to do “something big” but she just don’t know what it is yet. Wow!!!

 

Lord Thank you for all that you’ve done for me. And 2011 is MY YEAR!!

LaCrease

 

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Manuel

Neisha always ask me “ma, would you go to Africa to help those little kids since you love them so much”? I would always tell her NO. Because I am scared of bugs, and I keep imaging bugs all over my face. But when I read this blog http://africa-love.livejournal.com/51215.html  from this young gurl who is about 25  years old it changed my way of thinking. I fell in LOVE with this boy name Manuel. He is so adoreable and his story touched my heart. I get up everyday come to the computer and look at his photo. This picture is on my screen saver, he’s the first thing I see when I turn it on. I didnt know that I could fall in love with a kid just by looking into his eyes. Neisha asked me 2 days ago. ” Now ma, would you go to Africa”? I told her …….in a heartbeat. I have got to talk to him over the phone. I want to hear his voice. I sat up and read about 40 of her blog entries. Some made me cry, and others inspired me. I love children, well, I love people period. Everyday I think about Manuel and how much he loves God, and his new mom Abby. Now, people who know me, knows that I love Anita Baker, Maxwell, and Tyler Perry. Well, Im adding Manuel next to Tyler Perry. LOL Yea, he is up there with Tyler Perry!!! If, I can just talk to him over the phone, I’ll be so happy. Im going to see if God can make that happen for me. My friends tell me that God always give me what I want ( if its good for me). Well. I want to talk to Manuel!!!! lol

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Communication and Dedication

Hey Everybody!!! 

 I know that I’m gonna be busy for the next week getting ready for my Feeding the Homeless for Thanksgiving dinners that I pass out, so this will be a long message. My mind is all over the place right now, which is not bad, it’s that I want to cover a lot. First of all I want to Thank God for the many women who read my blogs, I get so many encouraging messages in email, and I’m happy that someone is reading them and being encouraged. So Thank you!!!

 

So many people have come to me asking how did I get started with Cree’s Feeding the Homeless. For as long as I can remember I have always had this connection with the homeless. I’ve never been homeless myself, but I hate to see people hungary. So, this is not something that I just up and did. When I’m out and about, and someone ask for money if God lead me to give, I do.One year I said Lord, I want to feed the homeless. I want to cook the food out of my  own house and pass it out on the streets of downtown Detroit. I was nervous the first year, but we feed 12-15 people. Last year we feed 50 people, this year we are feeding 75. I tell people  you must have a plan. You have to set time apart to really get involved with making sure that everyone is getting their items in on time, and a lot of people like to be reminded, so you have to send out reminders. I’m very good at planning so that area was easy for me. I made out a menu and also everything that goes into the food has to do on the donation list. From the eggs, to the cheese in the macaroni. I’m also good at communicating the need to others, so that they can get the items to me in a timely fashion. You have to leave room for a few to say…. something came up and I won’t be able to donate. The money that was donated will go to those things. Thank God I never had that to happen, but what I did do this year was add dressing to the menu because of the money that was left over. This lady that works in the UPC office at my job asked “am I scared to pass out food”. No, I’m not scared at all. Those are the most grateful people you ever want to meet. They Thank you over and over and over again. They really appreciate it.

 

Someone asked me,  am I nervous to ask people to donate? The answer is No. Because its something that I believe in with all my heart, its my passion, it’s what I enjoy doing. I personally know a lot of people, really good people, and they know you, they trust you, and so they are very willing to help out. You have to see the vision……clearly. You have to choose people who  HAVE PROVEN to be trust worthy when it comes to cooking the food. I’ll make sure that they have everything they need, but they have to be people you truly trust . My daughter and nieces are the ones who help make the plates and put the napkins and silverware together. All you have to do is believe in what you are doing, make an effort to really put 100% in it. Send out reminders, and communicate to the people what you need, date lines, and their time to distribute if they can. It’s really fun, and the appreciation ……is priceless.

 

My goal next year 2011 is “taking it to the streets” to branch out in different cities for Thanksgiving. I have a friend who wants to do it in Texas. And he wants me to show him how its done. If I can get 2 people in different cities to do this for their own community we will really be making a difference!!! Im excited!!

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My busy day!!!!!

Today was a wonderful day Lord. Thank you for all the work I got done. My mind speeds daily with ideas, and thoughts, past and present things. I have to calm down and regroup myself when I move to fast. I did a serious mult-task today. LOL I had to finish writing and texting people who need to get items to me for the Thanksgiving Dinner for the Homeless. Then I had to write out a plan as far as the cooking. My sister and her husband is making macaroni and Cheese, and my other sister and her husband is buying the  chicken. I have to make sure the silverware is wrapped up in the napkin, we do that the day before so that we don’t have to worry about that. We also put the donuts , brownies, dinner rolls and cookies in baggies as well. We make sure the water, juice and pop is cold and placed into  plastic bags. We also cut off foil so that we can cover the food just before we seal it. I’m even making the potato salad the day before. I want the  cranberry to be sliced. I want my celery, onions, and bell pepper to be sliced and ready to go into the dressing. There is a lot to do before we can even start to fix plates. I like to be organized when I do this ( my family says I’m bossy and they can’t wait till it’s over LOL).  I don’t have attitudes or anything, they are just so use to me being silly, and always laughing, but when it comes to business they know I’m different and like to make sure things run according to the  plan. I just know what I want, and how I want it. I’m going to say a good prayer before I start. LOL

Then I was reading my messages on Facebook, and as bad as I need to return phone calls ( Lord, help me in that area, so ppl wont think I’m acting funny, I just hate talking on the phone) I need to call some folks. I did text a few ( haha) and sent email to them tonight. I fried some chicken today, and had a nice dinner. I did something else that im happy about. I made a menu for the homeless for Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day. I want my friends and I to cook for them on the holiday for 2011. My menu is all made out and everything that needs to go with it. When I do that……. it’s a done deal. Also, I have plans for Valentines Day Care Packages for the Homeless. I have everything that I want then to have written down and after the first of the year, I’m going to announce it to my Sistergurls group. There are 71 of us, and we should be able to complete the VISION. I’m very excited about that.

 

 And also I reserved served hotel rooms for my Raisingurls for a party next June. You have to do that wayyyyy in advance at this place. Rooms fill up fast, and the prices are outta this world. So we are set for our dates, they are gonna have to earn this weekend for real!!! My group meets May 1, 2011 @ my home, I can’t wait. What a long time coming. I still don’t know how I’m going to get a Van or Truck. We have so many kids who have a hard time getting to my house and that bothers me so bad. They feel bad when they can’t come because of transportation. Also when we go bowling, to hotel parties,  dinner and  to the movies, I have to ask my sisters to help me take them. I need my own truck next year. I dread the day in a way, but something will work out. I just dunno what! I’m hopeful.

I’m about to brainstorm 2 functions for my Sistergurls. They are asking when are we getting together again. I went down to the Motor City Casino to meet with someone to show me the rooms, and whewwwwwwww those babies are expensive!!! LOL They are nice tho. We saw the Premier Suite, for the one I want its $2600.00 a night!! If we all pitched in we would be $100.00 out. But this week, I’m going to MGM Grand Casino, and to the Renaissance Center to look at The Presidential Suites and Junior Suites. The receptionist guy was acting so funky, all I could do is stare at him, cause I was minutes from nutting up on him. Neisha was looking at me, like “OH JESUS PLEASE DONT LET MY MOMMA SET THIS PLACE OFF.! LOL She kept looking at me, and you know she saved that man. Because he goes to the back to tell his manager about what I wanted. And he comes back and says he’s not in. Then goes on to say, um um um um well, um um he says that you can’t book it this far in advance. And for you to write down your name and phone number where you can be reached. I said how is it that you said he wasnt here, but at the same time you said, HE SAID….. I can’t book that far in advance? He was sooooooooooooooo nervous. I told him No Thanks and walked away. Gotta work on my patience for real!!

Just now I had Neisha to finish my write up for my managers for Feeding the Homeless. It’s very nice too. So I sent that off in email. It’s almost 3 am, and I have work in the morning!!!

Good Night!!!

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Hey

Day-Day and Nell (Raisingurls to Women)

What a week!! LOL Thanking Jesus for everything, he has really truly showed me himself. I’m so blessed, and it has really humbled me. I ve been quiet for 4 days, just listening, and tuning it to everything that is going on in and around my world. Where do I start?

  

I had a good time with my Sistergurls group that I started on Facebook several months ago. We went to see For Colored Girls  Saturday Nov 6, and out to dinner @ Ruby Tuesday. We had a very, very, very nice time. They want to do something else soon, so I am in the midst of planning something. They really enjoyed the fellowship and the conversations after the movie. I really enjoyed my self and seeing all the ladies come together as one. I always knew that I can get people to gather, but God has really shown me that I can be a very powerful woman. I think that I procrastinate too much. I can be much more. I need to stop filling my plate up with so many things at once. When I took my paper to work so that my coworkers can sign up to feed 75 people this Thanksgiving, I didn’t know that so many people are really willing to help. I am just about done with collecting everything. I have so much stuff here and I look at it and say Thank you Jesus!!! Just by opening my mouth, we are going to feed 75 people this year. This is my dream. This is something that I always wanted to do. People ask me why don’t you go to a soup kitchen and help out, or why don’t you cook the food and take it to a homeless shelter. Thats not what my vision. I laid up on my couch many of times, wishing that I could cook food for the homeless and pass it out MYSELF. Never knowing how things would turn out, too fearful of what others would think of me. I am so over what folks think of LaCrease. So over that. I can do anything I want, because if it’s in your heart, it will flow out of your mouth. Youve got to speak it, think it and believe it. 

  

 I remember when I first moved into this house, I would lay on the couch late at night, and imagine my living room filled with women being delivered from abusive relationships, sexual offensives, violence, and some of the issues that we have as women have. We don’t know how to love our men, because we are so ANGRY inside. We are VERY angry. And once we are gone to deep, we feel as if we don’t have hope. We feel like we have to take whatever it is that we are going through. We don’t want to be asked” why are you single”? We rather have a man just to say we do. So, with that said right?

 

I came home one day after last Saturday and put together a committee of 3 out of the 71 women in my group and we are going to have another gathering this time OVER NIGHT! We are going to chat into the wee hours in a very beautiful atmosphere in downtown Detroit. As time go on, I’ll be back to discuss. Its gonna be A HUGE deal and a BIG BREAK THRU!!! no-one knows about it except the 3 of us, so I’m excited about that. 🙂

 

My car will make it through the snow, I hope. I need a truck May 1, is coming soon. My Raisingurls meeting will start back on that day, and many of my gurls don’t have rides to my house for whatever reasons and that bothers me. I pray to God, that something happens for us before then. That was one of the reasons why we didn’t have meetings this year. I see and talk to them all the time, a few of them have babies too. I want them to come back and talk to my new gurls about parent hood and how their lives has changed. Thats going to be interesting too. 

I’m off to bed, work is due me in the morning!! Be Blessed!

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My review “For Colored Girls”

Thanks to all the Sistergurls who came out to see the movie For “Colored Girls” with us, and, to Ruby Tuesday on Saturday Night.

I thought the movie was very, very good and very deep. Its a trip when you see yourself on the screen in 3-4 of these women at one time or another in your life. And then you sit back and ask yourself “dang, did I really look and act like that”? The painful truth is……… yes. We as women allow ourselves to be treated in ways as we saw in this movie. We can sit up all day and blame the man, but it is us who allow it to continue to happen day after day, after day after day. Situations that we find ourselves in, are the same ones that we “swore on a stack of bibles…..aint gon happen to me”. Well it is you/us. We would sit up as teenagers and stare into the  mouths of our mommas, her friends, our aunts,  and grandmothers when they would be “having grown folks talk”. And listen to everything they talked about. It was usually about  “jive turkey dudes” they were dealing with. We are the same teens that grew up and became the stories that our aunts, grandmothers, and mothers talked about.

How could we go to the movies see ourselves on the screen and get MADDDDDD at Tyler Perry.. because its “depressing”.( side eye) Well, welcome to your own world…..HOME GURL!  This is the life  YOU/WE penciled in for OURSELVES. What we all saw this past weekend in that movie is real life. You may not have been all of those women, but I know each of us is at least 3 of them. I know and understand that its “painful” to watch, and its “depressing” and it makes you cry, and makes you think, and makes you relive your past. But you know what? This movie will either make you “Level up” or Fall Back” Quit playing……..aint no in between’s. After watching this movie, you’re gonna either go home and put on a “Band-Aid” meaning…… do a self examination of your past/present issues. Or you’re going to “let your wounds continue to bleed” and allow salt and vinegar to nurse your wounds. Tell me you get the picture?

I feel so bad for all the men who let this movie go right over their heads. I read so many tweets and messages from  BLACK men who felt Tyler Perry HATES THEM. First of all, this is NOT Tyler Perry’s work. Yes, he may have added something’s for balance. This was a play, and he turned the characters into a movie to bring them to life as it was written in poems. When Daddy’s Little Girls came out, I wonder how many of those same men, took their kids to see that movie? Um hmmmmm. This was NOT a movie to male bash. This is a movie for WOMEN and MEN to look at themselves on the screen and use it to heal. This movie is NOT to blame the BLACK MAN. And truth be told, they  saw THEMSELVES, THEIR FATHERS, COUSINS, UNCLES AND FRIENDS in this movie too. They’re not exempt from healing. We all know that all men are NOT gay, NOT abusive, NOT HIV carriers, NOT rapist, NOT baby daddy’s,  and NOT cheaters. This movie didn’t say that they all were. I can talk all day until I’m blue in the face on this subject, but to me in music videos the women always are half naked. The men ALWAYS HAVE ON CLOTHES AND COATS. I’m not mad at the rapper who made the video, or feel the need to say” all women are not like that”. It goes WITHOUT saying as far as La’Crease is concerned. Everyone is their own person. Every time I see a flyer advertising for a party, whose on the front cover showing all her goodies, front and back……….a WOMAN. That’s the reason why we ALL need to see For Colored Girls, see yourself on the screen and do a SELF EXAMINATION!!! If you are NOT any of those MEN in the movie…….keep it moving. If you feel its male bashing, then videos with half naked women, and party fliers are female bashing too. Same stuff!

I advise every person to see this movie. Its okay if you feel your wounds opening up. If you fall on the ground scar your leg up, 1 week later its still not healed, you need to revisit that wound and find out what’s the problem. But if you fall and one week later that wound is closed and no matter what you do to it, it won’t open……. YOU’RE HEALED. Don’t be afraid to see this movie, I also think you should also see it alone if you’ve seen it with others. So what if you need to cry, that’s a good thing. Just whatever you do, don’t just go see “the movie”  AND come home EMPTY HEADED get YOU SOMETHING OUT OF IT.

My name is La’Crease J. Walker and I approve this message.

 

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