Your lush green blades covers the landscape like a blanket
Hugging all the contours just like magnet
Leaving the view absolutely breathtaking
Displaying the power of your lodestone
My eyes fixated on your beauty
02.10.2017 Dr.R.A.
Category: life
How do you treat others?
How do you treat the people in your life? Do you treat them with kindness or disdain? Especially the people that you think you do not need… do you see them and treat them as valuable or do you treat them like disposables? Is your lifestyle too busy to send a text to say hello or even pick up the phone and say hi? Is your life too complicated for the persons that God has placed in your life as a means of building and shaping you for who and where He has designed you to be?
How we treat others is a reflection of our person. As such we should endeavor to treat others the way we would like to be treated. The Bible tells us to be careful in how we entertain strangers because we might be entertaining angels unaware.
A story was also told of a rich man and a beggar who both died but one ended up in Abraham’s bossom, whereas the other in hell. While they were alive the rich man never treated the beggar with kindness. When he died the man who he scorned was the one he wanted to come and drop water on his tongue. One moral of the story is that you never know when you will be in need and the same person you disregard maybe the same person who you will need their help.
We are all valuable regardless of status, culture, color, etc. As Maya said, people may forget what you do but they will never forget how you made them feel. Therefore, treat everyone with love and kindness, just like you would like to be treated. Things can be replaced, people can’t. Don’t value things above people, after all they are made in the image and likeness of God just like you.
2.7.17 Dr.R.A.
Don’t let the Blessings Break You
We often don’t acknowledge that the blessings we desire and God is able to give can break us. When we ask to be blessed we do not consider the implications of the blessing. We need to understand that to whom much is given much will be required. As such the blessings for which we pray may seem to be delayed but there is a reason for this delay.
The word lets us know that the blessings of the Lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow with it. So because God is wise instead of giving what we ask for immediately he allows us to go through a process which causes us to be built and strengthened for that which He will bless us with. During the process we may become lonely, tired, angry, sad. We may even experience grief during the process. However, amist the myriad of kaleidoscopic emotions, throughout the process we will see glimpses of what will be endowed upon us manifested which will give strength to keep moving along the journey.
The process is necessary for us not to destroy ourselves. For instance, in the natural if you give a car to a six year old to drive, though it may seem like a blessing to him it will result in breaking/death of that child as he is not quite aware of how to properly maneuver the vehicle amongst other things.
We are not the only ones who have to endure the process. David before he was anointed king had to go through the process of being a shepherd. Before he faced Goliath he had to go through the process of killing lions and bears. Yes, all these things happened in the background out of the limelight. But when it was time for the limelight/ show he was already prepared as he had been rehearsing for a period of time. He was able to bear the weight of the blessings because he went through the process. Don’t get caught up focusing on the limelight. It will happen. You will get to be upstage and center. Go through the process and build spiritual muscles to bear the blessings that God is about to pour out on you!!!
2.2.17 Dr.R.A
Scent
Miles away and it’s beckoning
Try to ignore, but the pull is magnetic
Can’t refrain as it’s alluringly captivating
Surrendering I behold its beauty
Hues of pink and green seducingly appealing
The closer I get I’m enraptured by your scent
Totally bewitched I decide to perch and taste the sweetness of your fragrance.
1/31/17 Dr.R.A
Replacement
In with the new and out with the old.
Let’s do a replacement.
Here’s to negative thoughts being transformed into positive ones.
A round of applause for good habits and excellent attitudes replacing ones that are less than desirable.
Let’s hear it for new goals and strategies for accomplishing the desired.
It’s really time to bring in the replacements.
After all, insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result.
1/30/2017 Dr.R.A.
Issues from the Heart 