The Colour and Power of Your Thoughts: The language of laughter

The Colour and Power of Your Thoughts: The language of laughter: What language is laughter? I speak Italian and you German Yet you understood my very laughter expression I am amazed at this little fact...

The Colour and Power of Your Thoughts: The language of laughter

The Colour and Power of Your Thoughts: The language of laughter: What language is laughter? I speak Italian and you German Yet you understood my very laughter expression I am amazed at this little fact...

The Colour and Power of Your Thoughts: Hey! Champion

The Colour and Power of Your Thoughts: Hey! Champion: The champion in you Let it soar like an eagle Above and beyond the challenges One by one, jump over each hurdle Walk, run, fly Th...

Hey! Champion

The champion in you


Let it soar like an eagle

Above and beyond the challenges

One by one, jump over each hurdle

Walk, run, fly

There is no problem greater

Than what God has deposited in you

Kill worrying, she is too distracting

There is no obstacle stronger

Than what God has given you

Your victory is coming

It may not be fast and quick, but it will come full

Patience is your friend, impatience your enemy

His laws, your road map

Your obedience, the access key

There is a champion in you

Walk, run, fly, soar

Above it all,

Cry, ask why, but don’t stop try

There is a champion in you

You Made A Difference In My Life

May Day - Manchester

(Feel free to share with a family member, a friend or anyone who has touched your life)

Run!

Life is a race; you better believe it and must be prepared to run…

Every morning when you wake you have got to run…

Enemy coming at you to tempt and deceive you, you better be running…

You know you’ve got the intelligence and you like to win an argument but sometimes you have got to run…

Those who run away aren’t necessarily the weak or cowards…most often they are wise

Run! Like joseph

Run! Don’t be like Samson

Run! Away from the lust of the eyes and the flesh

Run! Away from the drugs and substance abuse

Run! Away from the fights that never end but change your entire life and bring you death

Run! Away from greed and the love of money

Run! Away from the love of the world

Run! Away from yourself

It is a race in which you are running against yourself and time

Run teenage boy run
Run teenage girl run

Run husband run
Run wife run

Single man and woman, run
Some won’t cheer you on but they’ll quickly scorn…run, run and run

You may have failed as a son but you don’t have to fail as a dad
You may have failed as a wife, but you don’t have to fail as a mom…run, run, and run

If you are going to run well you must learn what to run to and what to run away from
In any case when you wake in the morning, Run!

(Animated image from: www.halhigdon.com/rundogsrun.htm)

Game Over

Why do I allow you to rob my joy…and bring me pain

Why do I keep allowing you to take my pride…return me shame
What you think of me does not determine my name

Once upon a time you would mesmerize my mind
I would be fool’s foot ball to be kicked where your legs saw fit
But TODAY, you will no longer walk over me, no way

I am claiming my victory
I’m writing a new story
Time to walk in God’s glory

I’m changing my name
I'm changing my game
Here’s my status for you:
GAME OVER



Why I Cried...

There was so much happening…

Too much that I had little or no control over…

“Make it stop! Make them go away!” I shouted repeatedly…

But as each sun rose then set, it grew worse and worse…

I started bottling it all up…

Fighting it on the inside…

Hurting myself more and more…

Once I thought I would quit…

Twice I lifted my eyes and started to do it…

I internalized it, I criticized it, I hated it…

But as each sun rose then set, it grew worse and worse…

The system, the people and the way things were designed…

They all seemed to have been working against me on over time…

They had disrupted my reasoning and messed up my mind…

I felt my heart at a snail's pace bleeding as the pain grew stronger…

“Oh God, I just can’t take this any longer!”…

“Make it stop! Make them go away!” I shouted repeatedly…

Then one day it all hit me so hard…

My head felt like it was about to explode…

My heart burned from pepper mixed with fire…

Then slowly down my cheeks the teardrops came…

No longer could I bear the anguish and the pain…

As I sat down to write this, down came the tears again…

I cried and I cried as healing tears washed my eyes…

Then I cried some more so my heart could see life around me a bit clearer…

Now that I have cried, today I stand stronger, wiser, brighter and happier…

I have dried my eyes, I have had my sad moments, so when you see me smile, let me go by…

I know why I smile and I know why I laugh, I also know why I cried…

I am a Seed

Planted

Nurtured

Lived

Germinated

Matured

Fruitful and now it gives

A word spoken

A kind deed given

These are precious seeds

I am a seed

So too are you

Whose seed do you carry?

I am a seed of another seed

You carry a sown seed

It determines how you live and who you marry

Plant a seed for change,

It may not grow in your life time

But plant it anyway

Many have planted

We are their produce

They live on, once we speak

I pause to honour

The difference they have made

A vital difference in me and perhaps you

A chosen seed

A seed of love

A seed of mercy

A seed of purple or blue

A seed of thoughtfulness too

I am a seed, so too are you

Far from it...

I am perfect…far from it

I am righteous…oh dear, far from it

I am very loving…far from it

I forgive easily…oh man! Far from it

I love the Lord…now I am a bit closer

I want to live with Him forever…now you talking (BIG SMILE)

I am not perfect, but your love is bringing me closer to it

I am not righteous, but you are my righteousness

I am not so loving, especially to those who hurt me, but I am transformed by your love for me

I use to forgive easier before all this madness around me but you are teaching me daily to let it go

Wow!

It is no wonder why I am able to sleep well at nights and live in peace

Because everything I am not, you are

When I am far from you, I am far from all the good and holy things too

All you ask is that I remain close to you

Thank you Jesus

The Love Story

‘A list of thought provoking comments and questions on love’

• The story of the average young searching for love is both confusing and mixed up, but who says that's the way it always have to be...

• Why do you have to make all the wrong selections before arriving at the right one?

Desperate for love we accept God’s reject...

Why so many people in love aren’t willing to forgive each other?

Love makes communication easier; disrespect makes it harder...

The word love means a whole lot of different things to different people and to the same people at times...

Loneliness should not be your main reason to seek love or a companion...

If the mind loves misery it will not find comfort anywhere else...

There is an element of ‘love’ which says, ‘taken for granted’...

Whatever you love sometimes you want more of, I wonder whether that is the case for those who love the poor?

You will do for love what you believe is impossible for everything else.

A love quest often leaves the chased and the chaser blind to others... 

When a child loves you he/she believes you are perfect, but as they grow older we teach them to look for faults and hold on to them...

Love is very encouraging to the heart...

My BEST days are the ones I gave love without partiality.

Dog Quarrel

In the still of the night

The cry of grey hounds filled the air

A fierce quarrel among the beasts

Bark, bark, everywhere

They all were speaking at the same time

So what the other said, I could not hear

Brutal, heated words, they were not clear

You dare not grab a dog by its ear



Though they were near, a distant away

I would not dare, I would not dare

A bite may be better than a bark from the beasts

They quarreled louder dangerously quiet a tease

Like pairs of ferocious women

Bitterly they tore each others’ flesh with growls

Barking the clouds from out the sky

No neighbour to calm this flood of fire



Acrimonious sound bites

‘Brown dawg!’

A fight ensued, I knew it

The quarrel wouldn’t last

Midnight only a distant past

Skimpily clod

I knew I had to



Sweep for my sleep

I grabbed the broom, dashed from the room

Breathing heavily

Blood was in my eyes

Too long, in the middle of the streets

A grave wrong had robbed my sleep

I rushed outside so fast

Two huge stones followed me


I tossed the stones and I wielded my broom

The sacred angry dog pack rapidly dispersed

Leaving a wounded lying still

He was too badly bitten

One quarrel

One fight

One sacrifice

Dogs short of fence

Owners starved of sense

Must a child now pay?

Hiding From Myself

I haste,

I haste,

To find a place,

A place beneath,

In this game of hide and seek,

Hide me from myself,

Make me into someone else,

A heart that is 180 degrees to my mind,

Myself I hid, now I try desperately to find,

I travel where my desires are greatest,

No, not where my Father say is best,

Hide me from myself,

Make me into someone else,

Fear and shame,

Give me a new name,

I detest it,

I dislike it,

Who I am and who I have become,

I can no longer hide,

I must ride my tide,

My thoughts

My mind

My secrets

My stuff

Though not perfect

A seed of righteousness is in me

I am God’s promise for someone’s dream

I must fulfill it

I must live it

I am bringing this game to an end

I want to be free, Jesus is my friend

I am in it, to win it

I am in it, to win it

(God loves us just as we are, come as you are, bring all your broken pieces, bring it all to Jesus, He is calling, He is waiting)

Independence Quotes

1. The spirit of independence was breathing heavily down our necks; we could not contain its fury. We gave in and now we celebrate 49 years of it all.

2. Such great wealth in being independent, if we could sell then it may be priceless.

3. The sweet tune of the Jamaican song, ‘wi love yu, wi luv yu a jah mek yah’

4. We have endured so much suffering and pain. Our fore fathers made such great sacrifices, the price of freedom has already been paid, it is now time to live, preserve it and pass it on.

5. Independence is great for those who know what its worth

6. Its such a funny thing that we believe we are much wiser today yet those who fought for our freedom did so with so little and we have so much and having such a hard time keeping it.

7. The stories of Jamaica’s independence must be told, written in books and stored in libraries and universities so we will rise above our challenges of yesterday and become stronger, better and wiser tomorrow.

Flag of Jamaica image courtesy of 4 International Flags

He is

I don't spend a lot of time describing God I just simply say, 'He is'