Voices from the neighborhood.......

In this neighborhood we live in, we are often scared of been labeled anything other than a good name, a man once said (i do not remember his name now) "you never know what burden reputation is until you loose it".

I have been thinking since i am already wearing a reputation that could pass for bad in some locations and good in another location. I have decided to validate myself and ask myself what my reputation is, and i have come to the conclusion that everyone is right because of the nature of my being, i am only what you want to see but ultimately i will leave a legacy and touch lives. Apparently i have come to know that regardless of all the grammar we speak and how much we try to come up with favorable ideas about what our lives should be, God ultimately has the master plan and He is the originator of all we will be.....so this brings me to the part where i say stop freaking out

Our lives are like open doors where we really do not have any control as to what have been programmed into our destinies, circumstances come and go, wealth, poverty, health, sickness, love, hate and all sorts make their exits and entrances into our lives at their own time and pace and all we can do is just wait for the times to change again. Sometimes we rave, rant, worry and are happy over what we get but it is appointed unto us that there is and will be a time for everything. So regardless of all our desperate efforts sometimes to change our circumstances, we may never in real sense do much except when it falls into the season's end of whatever phase we find ourselves. Now that takes me to the point where i ask again what prayers and thoughts do for us?

Bottomline is as a man thinks so he is and ask and you shall receive and i guess they go hand in hand, think it, ask it and in your palms they shall arrive. So who are we to question what we have now? why do we then question the things we have, where we are, what we are now, who we love or even dislike....it is for a season but all directed towards ultimate goodness because the creator can never will that ill luck befall you but permission may be given to the originator of wickedness to try, so tears may come, pain may follow, heartbreaks may be a frequent guest but the sun will come in the morning and your morning will come.

So the question now becomes.....what do you do with what you have in your hands? HE asked Moses what do you have in your hands? and it was with that rod that he saved and punished equally all who deserved it and even made him important amongst his people.

Do not be deterred by the voices from the neighborhood or be forced to misuse an opportunity, do the best you can and seek no compliments from no one because all man will be too himself on the journey of the dead, all men are alone with their conscience at night when they go to bed, so think it through before you throw that brother out because the voices in the neighborhood said he was no good and not your level, be mindful before you deny that sister the opportunity for that one chance of a life time because the voices said jeez she is crap and not worth your while.....

If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. People should not really say what you deserve or don't deserve.....when the Son of man came, they said to him all them neighborhood voices said what are you doing with a prostitute, the tax collector and all them low life people, sinners, adulterers and them all bad people.....if He had stopped loving for a single y'all be lost now.....our ultimate destinies may be fulfilled in the craziest and most undignifying of things......who can say anyway? we do not know the mind of the creator.....so if loosing sleep over me makes you happy and am responding positively and the neighborhood says am no good and even you, if you stopped it may not really hurt but if you do it in the purest of heart, you may be sun that will come in my morning, the real deal that my life needed

Love all you can, live life all the way that's possible, do all there is to do in the pureness of heart, if it makes you happy and it puts a smile on a face do it.......how we deal with all entrances before the exits of people and stuff that come our way is how we will be judged....to whom much is given, much is expected, if i say am unlucky because i have loads of bad experiences and make countless mistakes, i think it means i probably have alot to give and a lot to learn and so do y'all who walk by everyday on my pathway.....