Prayers

some of us entered the 26th with tears in our eyes, mourning our losses (home, money, family, etc.)
some of us forget yesterday is the one day we set aside to truly love EVERYONE - or try to.
but we can't.

let us use the 26th to learn a lesson about the bags we tend to pack and carry around like state i.d.
p. diddy once said: i knew i was successful the first time i flew with no luggage.

we must learn to enter these new endeavors (days, relationships, jobs, etc.) new.
the bags we began packing at the beginning of the old should be discarded at the end and we must use the time between to shop for bigger, better bags.
let us enter the new with empty luggage.

to play around with a few lines from shug: it must piss God off for someone to possess the ability to progress/move on/start new and not use it properly.

let us move on and get closer to our dreams.
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a friend contacted me a little after midnight to ask me to pray for his family because they just lost an elder (grandmother).
so to him - and whoever else needs it:

let us pray:

dear God:
if i can survive the day i can survive tomorrow.
i will live this day and those to come knowing that it is and was you who created it & because of that i will find something to admire and love. i will drop my bags off at the exit of yesterday and fill the new ones with what you've brought me.

i will keep my smile always to the sunshine so the shadows will always fall behind me.

amen.
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peace.

prayer request from:

christopher butler-steward
@thebrownbarbie
@roroatl
@thekaptainkirk
eron riley
andrea smith
ms. michele
@lovelustme