Day: November 18, 2010

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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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