-Quote of the Week

“Having A Rough Morning???

Place Your Hand Over Your Heart....

Feel That?

That's Called Purpose!!

You're Alive For A Reason

So....Don't... Give...

Up!!

~ Said to Blk Pearl by

Bryant Jones Mitchell

(Nephew)

I usually write about positive things..... Because I don’t see the point in bitching about what’s wrong. Something will always be imperfect. Something will always be broken.

But, I think it’s important every now and again to stop and acknowledge how hard life can be. Because sometimes, it can be really, really damn hard. Sometimes, you’ll be in seasons where you have to go through an unimaginable kind of pain.

• You’ll wake up in the morning feeling exhausted and wonder how you can get your energy and zest back for life.

• You’ll get hurt or lose your health and not be able to do things you once took for granted.

• You’ll run out of money, and wonder how you are going to make it another week.

• You’ll find out someone you love is dying.

• You’ll feel totally lost, wondering what your purpose is. 

• You’ll struggle with whether you are lovable, and worthy of love.

• You’ll realize you fell out of love with your husband or wife. 

• You’ll lose your job.

• You’ll lose a company you started.

• You’ll walk away from the great love of your life. 

• You’ll wrestle with the most intense kind of loneliness imaginable.

There will be moments—seasons—in your life when things feel hopeless. You lose confidence in yourself. You lose trust in others. You hit rock bottom. Your former view of the world, people, work, relationships, love crumbles. You’ll have to deal with things you don’t want to, and say goodbye to people you do.

It won’t feel good. It won’t make sense. 

When you hit that moment, I want you to STOP.

Stop moving, stop thinking, stop letting your heart race faster than the rest of your body can keep up with. 

Take a really BIG, deep breath.

If you’re alive, there’s a reason for it. I don’t know much—-I'm trying to figure things out too, and coming up with theories to help me make sense of it all. I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know why loss, and pain, and heartbreak happen the way they do.

But I know for sure that if you’re alive, there’s a reason for it. 

God put you on this planet to do something incredible. 

• To build something unforgettable.

• To love more people than you’d ever expect to love, better than they’d ever expect you to love them. 

• To learn lessons that will forever change you.

• To lose hope, and then get it back again, stronger. 

• To find and understand God.

• To experience pain, if only to help you see how strong you are in the overcoming of it.

• To fall in love...even if only to remind you of your capacity to love someone.

• To meaningfully connect to the people and the world around you. 

• To adventure..... To explore new places, leaving you with fresh eyes. 

• To find your meaning and purpose in the context of it all.

• To experience what it’s like to have a soul full of gratitude, for the joy and for the pain.

So, can you feel that? 

Your heart is beating. 

You’re alive. 

There’s a reason.

Go find out what it is!!!.