You deserve it…No need to be apologetic

You have been in the same job for so many years and you feel as though it is time you move on, but the thoughts of leaving only make you feel guilty….Don’t be apologetic about it, you need to move on. You deserve it.

You have been wishing all your life for a partner who would love you and cherish you, making your life so much more worthwhile. It has started to happen. Now you are so happy and daily you are experiencing joy like you have never experienced before. Don’t fight it, let it happen. You deserve it.

You have wanted to make a change for the better for some time now.
You have been through a lot and cried many times too. God heard your prayers and is now ready to give you your heart’s desire. You are at the brink of a great change, a great time. All the stuffs you’ve detested are removing them selves from you and the type of people you love and admire are coming into your life.
This is your time to live and be free, your time to be happy.
Don’t be apologetic about it. You deserve it.

I watched my eight-month old son scream for stuff he wants, then upon receiving it he instantly become confused and not sure what to do with it. In the same minute he wanted it, he has refused it. As grown ups, we are not much different sometimes, we wish and long for that which when it arrives we are not sure what to do, we become confused, fearful and even resistant. If what you’ve always wanted starts to blossom and bloom, then it is time to sit and enjoy the beauty of it all. Don’t fight it, after all you wanted it. No need to be apologetic. You deserve it. God knew it and that is why he did it.

Is it love at first sight?

I looked at her, saw love in her eyes
So I made a loud sigh
Asked myself why
Then went over and said, “Hi”

She told me her name
Her face questioned my aim
I seemed just too tame
But oh! She was enjoying my game

They say love doesn’t show up at first sight
So I guess this must be ‘like’
Oh my friend can you tell
When you look in another’s eyes

Can you tell they like you
Do you know you like them too
We chat a while
Then we exchanged numbers and parted with a smile

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I Gave You Everything - Quiet Assurance

There’s nothing I can give that I have not already given.

There’s nothing I can do that I have not already done,

So what would it take to ensure you knew I have given you me?

What would it take for you to know I love you?

I gave my life for you

I made plans for you

The things you need I have already provided.

The sicknesses to come, healing has already been done.

I am never too far to feel you

I will never hesitate to meet you where you are

I will always remember a thought so tender…Cast all your cares upon me for I care for you

This is my quiet assurance

"I love you so much," says the Lord

I know the cost of love, it cost me the life of my son

A Musical Idea

Promoting my free music website:

http://www.amusicalidea.com/index_2.php

A day of forgiveness

Why don’t we declare a Day of Forgiveness where we all can forgive everyone for what they said or did to us?
Let us call it International Day of Forgiveness - a day focused on each of us flushing our system of the waste, the baggage and just start over afresh.

It sounds like a great idea to me.
What do you think?

Let me see, I could forgive Marlon for what he did to me in grade three, over thirty-five years ago on that Tuesday morning while I was doing my class work.

I could also forgive my teen crush, the girl from next door who broke my heart. Though she was twenty-two and I was only thirteen, I could finally forgive her for what she did and how she handled me. Wow, that would certainly make me free.

Then again I could also forgive my parents, my former boss, my ex, my gardener, my plumber, my older brother.
Oh my! It seems like I need more than one day. At the rate I hate, I need more than one date.

Perhaps we should celebrate an International Forgiveness Week instead. You know, I am thinking that by the time the following year comes around I would have had so many people who would have upset me, hurt me, and cause me to curse and swear. If I were to wait another year, I could go crazy walking around with all that in my head and in my heart.

Wow! It never really bothered me before now, I could just hate people. I actually believed I have the gift of hating. The smallest wrong you did to me I would just hate you for it and wished the worse sometimes.

I am now thinking that I have wasted so much of my life hating and resenting people that I really do need more than a week; maybe an International Day of Forgiveness is not sufficient, but it’s a start. I could really use that, after all I have so many people to heal my heart of and so many stuff to get rid of. I need to forgive everyday, but I could start with this one day, today.

Luke 17:4
“Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive."

Sleep wrestling match

Sleep call me by name
Singing me a lullaby
A yawn tears my cheek bone
As water seal my eyes

Again a yawn stretch my jaw
My eyes now closing down
I must travel to that place
In response to a system shut down

The way men look at me

(A young girl’s perspective)
By jermaine Gordon © Copyright 2009

Men stand a gaze
By what are they amaze
Staring, peering
Is it my ear ring
The dress I‘m wearing

Am I scaring them away
Or attracting them to stay
Is something wrong with my hair
Oh why? This long, persistent stare

Is there something on my face
Or my blouse of lace
Though separated by the distance
What could he be thinking?
I am his last chance
Or does he want to dance

This stranger staring down on me
What could he possible want to see
Perhaps engage talk
Make a date
Go to the park

Is he thinking how beautiful I am
Admiring my complexion
OMG! Is he seeing my reaction?
What does he want from me
I turned and saw him smiling
So I smiled in returned

Am I too concerned?
For my number he yearns
Wanting to come over and say hi
I am afraid not
For now, its goodbye

The jealous husbands problem

Three married couples must cross a river using a boat which can hold at most two people, subject to the constraint that no woman can be in the presence of another man unless her husband is also present. How would you get all three couples safely across the river?

What is driving you?

Someone or something
Driving you to work
Driving you to school
Driving you amidst the conflict
To keep your cool

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Driving you to go
Driving you to stay
Driving you back home
Driving you away

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Someone or something
Driving you crazy
Driving you sane
Driving you to remain lazy
Driving your pain

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Someone or something
Driving your thinking
Driving your disbelieving
Driving your failing
Driving your achieving

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We just keep on going
There is always someone driving
Always something motivating
So be sure of where you want to go
Where you are going

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If your tank is empty
Then it may just interrupt your journey
One thing is certain even if you stop a while
Soon you’ll be driven another mile

Sleepers v Dreamers

Most people who dream never fully understand the importance of waking up and living it.

They are in love with sleep and sleep often times love them back.

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 of life
It seems all the things we ought to share with each other
Is easily understood by another

Laugh while you can
Laughter, a feature of man

It is true for love
The same for laughter
It is true for crying and for a smile

It really doesn’t matter
There comes a point when words alone just won’t do
The laughter is much too much not to do

Laugh when it seems too crazy to laugh about
Laugh when it seems too heavy to bear
Laugh when there’s no reason to

Laugh while you can
Laughter, a feature of man

Laugh yourself to better days
Laugh at your complex maze

Even when your laughter offends
Your own heart break you may need to mend

So whatever language you speak
The sound of laughter is always sweet

Laugh while you can
Laughter, a feature of man

Laugh yourself to better days
Laugh at your complex maze

The Shadow-side effect

Today as I traveled to work I came up on an object in the road.
I was traveling east and the morning sun had cast a shadow on the object in the middle of the road.
The object seemed dark and was difficult to identify. But as I drew closer and closer, my vision got a little clearer and I saw what appeared to be a little dog that was unfortunately run over by an earlier vehicle and by now had become motionless.

As I drove around it and looked back in my rear view mirror, it became even clearer what it was. It was a little white puppy with brown stripes and black spots. As I pondered on the whole experience I realized even in this there was a beautiful morning lesson.

As I approached the object it was difficult and perhaps impossible to see clearly what was in the road. The shadow effect had created a blur, a distraction and an illusion. This reminded me of life and how often we fail to see things for their real value and color as our perception is affected by shadows around; Shadows that cause us to only see the pain and not the gain from each experience; Shadows that cause us to focus on the hurt instead of the chance of a new birth.

As I continued the rest of my journey I began to notice the same thing even with each tree along the road side. To see the tree’s real color, type and worth I had to view it from the side with the sun light and not its shadow-side. An amazing lesson it was for me and I pray it will be for you too. The shadow-side is not the best angle to judge your current troubles and problems. If you really want to see them for what they are worth, view them from the side of the light. Allow the light to cause you to see life for what it really is.

In light of this unfortunate accident with the puppy I chose not to allow my emotional-side to cause me to miss this ah! ah! moment or my morning dew.
In John 8 v 12, Jesus is described as the light of the world.
The shadow side also causes us to be filled with fear, for the shadows often times bring scary darkness. If you are not looking from the sunny-side, the Jesus-side, then you are viewing life from its shadow-side.

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Trust and open mind

An evil man must defend the good he has done and his reasons in a similar way a man of good character must truly convince us that he has done an evil thing. When we have reinforced perceptions of a person's character it is hard for us to see them in another form, even when presented with the facts...Therefore, an "open mind" is the solution

Leadership and followship

Leadership is of no necessity when there is no one following.
Most often people complain about the absence of leadership without also recognizing the absence of followship.
Just as how it is important to train our leaders to lead effectively we must begin to consider guiding the followers on how to be responsible and effective followers.
In this twenty first century there is much emphasis on leadership training and we are being coached in understanding the essential qualities and characteristics of a good leader.

I have attended a few training sessions myself and have purchased books, DVDs and so on about leading and leading effectively. My aim is to lead to the best of my ability and beyond. However I have seen many failures in leadership and quite often the people who are being led tend to divorce themselves from the failures of their leaders.

I have seen failures in our political, religious, corporate, community and family leaders that have affected whether are not we want to be led further. Not many corrective measures have been taken in the evaluation process to address present and future leadership issues.

Take for example the ‘trust’ issue which has been hanging over our heads for many decades. We have seen dishonest leaders who are known to have mismanage and misappropriate huge sums of the public funds yet they walk scotch free while we imprison an ordinary man for five years for stealing two mangoes. We have seen leaders lacking in integrity, fairness, justice and wisdom and many of us have not been able to live above the betrayal in some instance.

I believe I can categorically state that we as a people, in this side of the world, simply just don’t trust our leaders. We have been hurt, lied to, cheated and exploited. The demon of trust still haunts us today as a nation, as a region and as a people. This demon which prevents our leaders from leading effectively also prevents our followers from following responsibly.

Leadership is a partnership. The willingness and ability to lead must be coupled with the consent to be led. If I were to ask you whether you are a leader or a follower, what would your response be?

Unfortunately, too often there are many leaders and just not enough followers. I have always believed that good leaders are also good followers and the best followers are the ones who understand the important role they play in this whole business of leadership.

Much resource is being expended on developing our leaders and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to lead for the fundamental reason that our people are finding it more difficult to follow. Why not therefore, divert some of the resources toward developing better followers?
Why not teach our people how to serve and serve without servitude?
After all, those who are exemplary followers are soon promoted to leadership.

In order to have effective leadership and responsible followship a very key ingredient must be present, that of oneness of purpose, unity and collaboration. It is neither good nor bad to lead or follow but it is always good to serve.

Serving is hard work, no wonder we are having such diffiuclty following, but even more frightening is the fact that leading requires an even greater level of serving.

If we are going to become better leaders without being losers then we must also become better followers. Forgiveness and starting a fresh is now required. The change for a better tomorrow, as echoed many times before, must begin with me. God bless you and let us commit to being better followers.

10 Things I Can Least Stand And Why

Beautiful girls who are so sweet they make my skin itch

People who are judgmental as they oftentimes misjudge

Work that robs me of play time

Behaviours and cultures copied under the disguise of fashion without knowing the real reason for it

People who live without an understanding of who they are and from whence they came, as they tend to just go around in circle, one generation to another.

Nations who impose their evil beliefs on others

Leadership who fail to lead

Followers who fail to follow

People who thrive on creating division and controversy

An ungrateful heart and bitter attitudes

Not easily replaceable

When before someone you bear your naked soul
They tap into a deeper dimension, a big part, the whole
Making it difficult to let them go,
Though they are not easy to hold

Feel like I’m losing my mind

Today I felt like was losing my mind so I went to google and did a search on what it means to lose one’s mind. My search directed me to www.answerbag.com where I found some funny and interesting answers. Here are some of the better answers I saw:

The same place your wallet goes when you lose it: the last place you left it. Either that or the dryer.

It doesn't go anywhere, it just doesn't announce its presence.

It means u lose control over ur mind .

Reflective at 34

At age 34
Love at its worse
Love at its best
And so much more

At age 34
Life and its meaning dodge many
The man at forty, sixty or twenty

At age 34
Some seek more, get more
But still have less, contentment poor

At age 34
Leaders become the worse servants
Away from themselves they are lured

At age 34
Despite all the ills and pains
A thankful heart is by far the best gift to attain

At age 34
I am neither the passage to go through
Nor the door
I am only my Master’s instrument
Just one more

Some more than some

Some problems you encounter will be like walking
Some will be more like sky diving
Some you will straighten out and some will straighten you out

Some people you meet will be easier to deal with
Some will think the worse of you even after you have offered yourself, offered help and endured their sorrows

A passing wind will move some more than some.
A clanging noise could deafen some more than some.
A joke will crack up some more than some
A beautiful sunny day will mean more to some than some

The association of a certain scent could awake memories in some more than some

The playing of specific music could mean more to dance to, more to cry about or more to reminisce on for some more than some

When I realized some more than some was a part of everything we do and everything we say, then I commit that my tongue must be guided more and cautioned with every utterance, for a word spoken will mean life to some more than some but that same word could be fatal to some more than some.

Fortis Forever

I was privileged to have attended the noble institution of Kingston College located in Kingston Jamaica. I spent the first seven years of my boy to manhood years at Kingston College. The Founder, Bishop Percival William Gibson was of the belief that Kingston College Boys would take the world as Christian Gentlemen.
You can read more about Bishop Gibson and his accomplishments by clicking here.

It is also commonly believed that Bishop Gibson founded the school on these two scriptures:

Psalms 37 v 24, “Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.”

And

Isaiah 41 v 6, “Each one helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

The School motto, “The Brave may fall but never yield,” in the latin translation is “Fortis Cadere Cedere Non Potest”. This embodies the teachings and principles of the school. Bishop Gibson saw a better tomorrow from molding the young minds of the men who would be leaders today. He founded the school primarily to educate the minds of the less fortunate, the poor.

I believe every mother’s son who attends the school is engrafted and becomes a part of this Fire that Bishop carried in his heart for many years. We have been so selected to make a difference in our world, to look out for our brothers and to rise amidst the wind. The challenges of today require more Bishop Gibson’s to rise among us, right in our present generation and they should rise to correct and address some of the ills of the society we live in.

Kingston College, a school conceptualized and built on love, remains a notable contributor to the building of our nation. Love for our fellow brother was evident in the way we lived then and even more so today. During my school years, I observed students without the ability to purchase lunch being offered one-half of a beef patty by another.

Now, some 15 years after leaving the institution, the message for today still remains “Be Strong and love your neighbour”. Despite your struggles be strong and remember to look out for your brother, we are indeed Fortis for