Everything has Seasons………….Crees Blog Entry

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Today, Lacrease, we believe God wants you to know that …

everything has seasons.

What you are struggling with the most right now is in its winter season. Spring will come soon enough. What brings you most happiness is in its summer season. Fall will come soon enough. Live wise in this understanding.

 

 

Its true that everything has seasons. I am truly living in one of them now. But with God on my mind….days are moving along just fine. What I do to stay positive in times like these is to read my bible, I love watching Bible stories, I do online bible quizzes, I pray, I listen to sermons, play gospel music. And most importantly… surround myself with positive people. Listening to positive stories always uplift my Spirit.

 

I’m so excited about the things to come….. Yea Cree 🙂

 

Where works of the flesh exists, there is NO joy

Offended turned Correction………..Crees Blog Entry

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I remember when I first started going to my Church, Second Ebenezer. I would sit in the back because I was new and didn’t want to be seen or heard. I never imagined myself sitting in the front rows, to me it seemed as if you were there longer…. that was YOUR spot. At my Church you could “come as you are” and that was one of the main reasons for me joining at that time in my life. I didn’t have a wide selection of dress clothes, and the little I had, I could mix them up with dress pants, and jeans.

 

As time went on I became comfortable, and started sitting in the first 5 rows every Sunday. One day I wore a dressy skort. It was my favorite outfit. But one of the older ladies of the church came over to me and placed a lap scarf over my legs with a smile, and walked away. I WAS SO OFFENDED. Not to mention EMBARRASSED. In order for her to come over to place the scarf over MY leg, SHE must have felt that my skort was too short. Boy was I on fire in that service.

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After service, I never mentioned it, I just went home. But it stayed on my mind. I couldn’t shake the feeling that she did that. I knew that if I called and told several of my friends what had happened, they would tell me that she was out of order, that she was wrong, that I shouldn’t go back there again, that I should have confronted her about it. But I’m not the type of person who will call my Sisters or Friends and say… “Let me tell you what this lady did to me “. I go to God… all the time. Because what I found out in doing that is…..friends will tell me what seem right to THEM. Maybe a few of them would ask to see the skort, and say…. yeah maybe that is too short. We tend to ask people just to hear “their opinion” when in reality, our mind is already made it that we were “offended”. There’s nothing else to be said, nothing to be discussed. I felt offended…. and that’s final.

 

It stayed on my MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND…. yes it did. Every time I went to Church and saw that woman… it was on my mind. I never got an answer from God at that time when I felt that way. But he surely reminded me of it when it was my time to “get it”. As time went on ( been there for 20 years now) I started to build my wardrobe. For some reason I didn’t want to wear jeans any more. My mentality had changed in the way I dressed. I was very conscience of the way this woman of God carried herself. I cared about the way I dressed in the house of the Lord. I knew better, and I did better. I would see women coming in church with their cleavage showing, with short dresses and skirts. And I remember thinking…. wow.. people come to the house of the Lord…. any old kinda way. THEN, God bought back to MY remembrance, of when I was wearing my short skort…. I didn’t think it was too short. But as you leave the MILK… and start eating solid food… you see things totally different than you did before. God had answered my question. I had every reason to be offended… when I didn’t know any better. When I knew better, and dressed better, and respected the way I felt about myself….. I understood. That lady wasn’t trying to hurt my feelings or offend me ….. she helped me. I would never in my life wear that skort again. Never ever. It was so short. I wouldn’t even wear it outside. I’m not a person who care if someone likes my shoes or boots. My clothes or anything that I wear. BUT I DO CARE if someone says… your dress, skirt or skort is too short. As a woman of God.. that would be something , that I TAKE CARE OF ON THE SPOT … EVEN IF I FELT DIFFERENTLY. I don’t want men staring at me, or coming on to me because of the way I dress. I don’t want my breast hanging out, or cleavage showing. I don’t want my behind showing, and I want to be covered up.

 

What I learned in this Life Lesson that I’ll never forget is that… there are some things in the house of the Lord that YOU JUST DONT DO when you know better. IF……. you know better. Ask God to show you if you’re wrong about being “offended”. I was use to dressing the way ” I wanted” and felt that I was in the house of the Lord. I came to hear the word not to be judged. No one had any BUSINESS to correct the way I dressed.

 

Seasoned Christians know better. Babes in Christ….. will have to learn.

New Living Translation 1 Corinthians 3:2
I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready,

*photo with friends is the skort I wore to Church*
*photo above is how I looked at the lady when she places the scarf over my legs*

 

Where works of the flesh exists, there is NO joy

Scriptures………….Crees Blog Entry

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Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

A Time for Everything

1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

 

9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

10 Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless. Ecclesiastes 5:10-

The man in the elevator………………Crees Blog Entry

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I went to CVS get some cold medicine. As I was walking from the parking lot this guy was behind me. I didn’t turn around because it was cold and I was trying to get in the building. As we walked in together, I never looked back at him, I got on the elevator with him and another guy as I went in first I asked them their floor and pushed the buttons. At some point in the elevator I felt him trying to look at me. I was looking and feeling a hot mess. I had no intentions of given any one any eye contact. I had on my night gown, 2 shirts, a coat and a sweater under it. I had on 2 head scarfs, a hat and my hood from my coat. I didn’t want to make eye contact with anyone. I wasn’t feeling well and I just wanted to get back in the apartment to lay down.

I knew he was trying so hard to see my face, and I wouldn’t let him. LOL I took my keys out of my coat pocket preparing for the elevator to open. That’s when he saw my hands. He said “Ooo that’s a nice polish, what color is it”? LOL LOL I gave him what he wanted… to look into my eyes. I FINALLY looked up at him and said “its kinda orange.” He was so happy. I smiled at him. He smiled back. I know he hated it was time for me to get off…..and that another person was watching it all. When the door opened, I turned around and looked at him one last time before it closed.

*wink*

Where works of the flesh exists, there is NO joy

New Year….. New Mind!!! 2014 Crees Blog Entry

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Happy New Year!!!! New Year…. New Mind!!!
 
 
Today is the first day of the New Year. I’m excited to see what awaits me for 2014. I had to make some changes in my life, and its funny, because never in a million years would I have done this on my own, this is how I know I’m ready for the next LEVEL in my mind. I’m not playing anymore, I’ve been so serious about changing things. I even changed my Twitter name to what it was in the beginning…. GodsgurlCree.
 
 
Sometime in September 2013, I realized after work and on weekends how I spent so much time talking on the phone…………for hours. I love my friends, and I really appreciate how they trust me with they’re life lessons. Its my time. I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember. My mom use to talk to me all the time. She would take me everywhere, she said I understood things, and didn’t Judge people, and that I always told the truth. As I grew up, people would always talk to me and I love that. But now there has come a time where I have to focus on myself. I never really realize how much of my time I devoted to others. Until, when I came home from Atlanta, while others wanted to talk about THEMSELVES…. I needed to talk about my issues. That’s when I really realized that I have always made it about others, and had NEGLECTED MYSELF. It’s not anyone’s fault….. it’s not even a bad thing. I just had to “feel some kinda way” in order to see the bigger picture. I was really going through a tough time mentality, and spiritually. I mean I was REALLY going through. God got me through that time in my life.
 
 
That was the FINAL straw to me. When my Verizon phone fell for the 3rd time in a few months *I didn’t want to pay another $100.00 for a new one* plus I wasn’t able to see who was calling. I decided that since my contract was almost up that I would REALLY TEST MYSELF concerning talking on the phone all day. I got me a trac phone. THAT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BEST DECISION I’VE MADE IN MY LIFE. LOL I DONT KNOW HOW TO BALANCE MY TIME WITH GOD/FRIENDS/FAMILY. Of course I will eventually get on another plan, but for now I need to learn balance. I laugh everyday at my new happiness of not being on the phone all day. I really don’t think no one has an idea of what I’m talking about. I HATE talking on the phone. I just HATE IT WITH EVERYTHING IN ME. When I’m on FB, none of my friends like to type out what they would say to me OVER THE PHONE… so they say when are you getting a phone? NEVER!!!! I can type all day LOL. With my minute phone… its “say what you gotta say” and lets keep it moving. LOL I still love ya… but I gotta GO! LOL
 
With all of that being said….. I spend a LOT of MY time with GOD. I’m so happy right now… I can’t stop laughing. I have never known a PEACE like this. I READ MY BIBLE, HAVE BIBLE STUDY, CHURCH, READ BOOKS, AND LISTEN TO MY GOSPEL MUSIC. I get so much done. This is THE OLD ME…. IM BACK LORD!!! He has revealed so much to me about myself, things I have missed over the years. He makes me laugh, … yesss he’s funny. If there is something you need to completely cut off…. just do it. You’re not missing anything. In the long run it will benefit you. It’s time to focus, its time to pay attention to what the voice you hear on the inside tells you, its time to do new things, think a different way. Cut off people, and things that doesn’t bring you closer to God. Trust me… you aint missing NOTHING. I leave you with this.
 
 
Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think . Then you will know what God wants you to do Romans 12:2 NLT
 
 
Where works of the flesh exists, there is NO joy
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