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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Your Turn to Decide..

    I'm going to be honest with you. I have nothing to say. That could be a good thing, it could be a bad thing. In my own mind, I have not been given an idea or a topic, so I am blanking.

    Is there anything you would like me to cover? A topic? A question? Anything. Cause today, I am blank. Maybe no one is in need of guidance at this time.

But on some real stuff, on Friday, prepare for a note that is going to blow your mind. I'm having someone else write it, and she has a lot for say about it.

Just a fair warning...this is going to make black people look even worse than they do now in the eyes of America.

So prepare for Friday's blog, also, if you have any topics or questions that you may want me to cover, leave a comment below and I'll give out my knowledge, free of charge.

*Green

Monday, July 28, 2008

They Called Me Solomon...Some Still Do....

"5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."

 6 Solomon answered, "You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
    7 "Now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong [wisdom]. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?"
    10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. 11 So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, 12 I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. 13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both riches and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. 14 And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life." 1 Kings 3:5-14


"The Bible accredits Solomon as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem,[3] and portrays him as great in wisdom, wealth, and power. " Read more here: Solomon.

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Never Would Have Made It - Marvin Sapp

*Green

Friday, July 25, 2008

How To Match Your Soulmate...

    Now that I've killed your hopes of love with Wednesday's blog, I'm going to share a blog with you that was presented to me.  I'm am essentially going copy and paste this.  Upon reading these tips, there is a difference in them fitting your current relationship natural and you MAKING them fit your relationship. Keep an open mind as to what you are doing and really consider what is said in these tips. They can be found on Ariadne Green's Website. Thank her for the words of wisdom. Read the following carefully and see if they apply to your life. DO NOT FORCE these tips to work, either they work or they don't. Be true to yourself, and stop turning a blind eye to truth in order to fulfill your own self interest. Enjoy:


In interviewing over a hundred couples for my new book Divine Complement , I was struck by the similarity in the stories of how soulmates met and the divine creative design that drew them together.   From those still looking for their soulmate I am often asked, "How will I know he or she is "the One"?   Listed here are a dozen characteristics, indicators and clues that he or she is your authentic Divine Complement.   

1. You are magnetic opposites .   It's true! Most soulmates are opposites who complement each other's strengths and masculine and feminine traits.   So if your partner seems stubbornly rational when all you want from him or her is listen to your emotional needs or follow your intuitive lead in making a major decision, you are likely complements who need to apply a balanced approach. The greater function of a soulmate relationship is to mirror each other's less realized and actualized traits and talents and to blend them together into a productive balanced partnership.  

2. Your soulmate is not perfect and has caused you to discard your wish list of ideals.   Your true soulmate may not match your qualifications for the perfect mate or match.   Rather he or she is a 'soul-match', meaning they will help evolve your soul out of its previous conditioning and urge you to perfect the love you were meant to give freely and unconditionally.

3.  A dream may have announced your soulmate's entrance on the stage of life with a loud trumpet call .   Many soulmates dream of each other months or even years before they actually meet.   It seems that they rendezvous in the ethers before the relationship ever lands on earth.   A mysterious dream lover or a stranger who waltzed into a room in your house in a dream, may have alerted you that your soulmate reunion had been divinely planned for the near future.  

4. Magic was afoot the day you met and reached a crescendo in the weeks that followe d .   " It was kismet" sums up the experience and the world around you took on the air of   'somewhere over the rainbow'.   Serendipity and synchronistic signs may have alerted you that he or she was "the one."   "A soulmate awakening" as I coin these experiences reveals a dimension of creativity that is full of magic and meaningful signs to authenticate your soulmate's identity. 

5. You were introduced by a member of your family or a friend.   A large percentage of soulmates are introduced by a friend or family member who innocently played matchmaker, usually without any idea that they were bringing you together for life.   Other souls collaborate with you to make your soulmate dreams come true. 

6. You met at someone else's wedding or in church.   Soulmate meetings are meant to tie the knot with a meaningful event or situation that points you to the profound spiritual connection you share and to the divine nature of the relationship.   

7. A divine spark lit your heart the moment your eyes met. Most soulmates attest it was love at first sight.   Lucille Ball recalled that when she met Desi it wasn't exactly love at first sight.   "It took all of 5 minutes." The divine connection between twin souls creates a synergy that ignites each other's hearts with a powerful love energy--it is spiritual chemistry.  

8. You ran into each other over and over again before you ever dated.   Sometimes the love spark doesn't catch the first time, and soulmates need several encounters before they connect in a more meaningful way.   It may seem like God pushed you together.   The soulmate play on the stage of life may have many scenes and acts before the wedding feast. 

9. Your partner seemed "oh so familiar" even on the first date.   Soulmate relationships are karmic which means you likely spent several lifetimes together.   Your soul remembers their soul intimately even if the details of the past lives are never revealed. 

10. Your relationship presents challenges that seem like unfair spiritual tests.   Your soulmate seems to know what buttons to push to help you let go of the patterns you have outgrown that could sabotage your relationship. Fate may present hurdles that test the love that you have promised each other.   Soulmates are meant to grow spiritually through tests of their love for each other and these tests are never easy. 

11. Your childhood legacy and past relationship experiences contain uncanny parallels.   When you sat down to talk about your family history it is likely that discovered you suffered from some of the same emotional issues growing up or held similar attitudes about one or both of your parents. Your legacy in some ways mirrors your mate's so that you can bond emotionally and serve each other with compassion through the psychological healing process.  

12. You are on the same page with your vision and aspirations for the future.   Generally, soulmates want the same things out of their relationship and of life. Some soulmates have promised to serve the greater good of humanity side-by-side, and will collaborate to contribute something meaningful, such as a book or a humanitarian mission.   Each of you may have arrived with a different piece of the future puzzle and putting them together will give you a clearer picture of your higher purpose together.
    copyright--2006--Ariadne Green

    God bless.
    *Green

    Wednesday, July 23, 2008

    Is Love Enough? A Review of the Mini-series..

    The past 3 notes, last Wednesday and Friday, and this past Monday, I shared some lyrics from a CD thats been in my car for a while, and I figured I would share some things from it. The CD was "Who Iz Cel-D?' by a friend of mine whom will be known by you as Cel-D. Male or female, you should go here and purchase the CD.

    But the reason I wanted to share those lyrics was because a lot times women have a friend or mother, sister, someone they can go to and get relationship advice that they need, and often as men, we don't feel we have that luxury. So this was kinda that "help" many people may need just to let them know that they aren't the only ones going through what they are going through.

    Sometimes, we need to stop and reevaluate what is really going on in our lives, and if it's what we want. At our age, or younger, we get into relationships thinking, this is what we want...this is going to be my husband, this going to be my wife, etc. But we never take into consideration that if you've been going through an unhealthy relationship, your marriage will be the same, but now you're essentially stuck. Getting a ring, having a ceremony, etc, isn't going to just make everything better, and doesn't change the people within the relationship. Marriage is not a cure-all. Its still the same garbage relationship, you're just bound by the law (and God), that you've chosen to be with the same person forever, the person you couldn't get along with before. The circumstances in the relationship don't change with marriage, you just now have a ring that says you're stuck fighting and unhappy for the rest of your life, unless you want to spend the time and money into a divorce by the time you are 40. Not worth it. Tired of hearing about people by 50 they have gone through 4 divorces because they married for the wrong reasons, or they weren't happy. Get happy first, then get married. Don't expect marriage to make you happy. Doesn't work that way.

    We are young (most of us that read this), be happy NOW. Stop wasting time, trying to work it out. If it's broken, it's broken. Wasting so much time fixing things, when you could be in something that already works.

    Men, you're so stuck on getting a piece of booty, that you will sacrifice happiness for an easy nut. You won't let a woman go, because you are too prideful and don't want to see another man treating her better than you could. You think she'll be all alone an helpless without you. NEWS FLASH: she's lived how many years, successfully without needing you, believe that she can continue without you. If she is 30, and she met you at 25, she did good for 25 years, and you made the last 5 worthless (Women get this in your head. stop letting your man think he is all you have and that you can't do anything without him, and you need to stop thinking it youself. I don't know who is dumber, the man that says his woman is nothing without him, or the woman that believes it). Maybe you're afraid she might become promiscuous and now you have the thought that you may have always been dating a whore and you were the only one that didn't know. Or that someone may have better sex with her than you were able to. Maybe you feel she's the best you can do. Could be you just don't want to see her happy. You've messed up so bad that you're afraid she'll spread your name in the dirt (which is a showing of her character). So stuck on her looks that you don't realize the relationship is worthless. Man up, and be a man, handle your business and grow some balls.

    Women, you get so emotionally attached, that you are often unable to rationally consider what is really going on around you (cheating, disrespect, abuse, arguing, your lack of confidence, maybe your materialism, high maintenance, you blame your past). And no, it's not always the man's fault that things are wrong in the relationship, maybe you don't have yourself together, but you're too prideful to change it, or too afraid to let him go cause you are so "in love". Get out of love, and get real. You are wasting your time and his. But don't be on some stupid either, like Kanye said..you stuck on some "independent shyt, but would trade it all for a husband and some kids". Get off your high horse, humble yourself. Get your life right (cause no women has ALL their stuff together), or be one of those 45 year old women, never married cause you walking around with a chip on your shoulder, PUSHING AWAY every man that encounters you. Missing out on what a good man could be, cause you walking around with too much pride, and more fears than a hypochondriac. And women stop looking for love. Stop going out trying to find a man. You'll find MANY men, but you'll never find that man that wants you, because that man doesn't want to be with a woman that is on a man-hunt. A GOOD man, wants a respectable woman that takes the time to handle her business, and is worried about her own, rather than scoping out males every time she leaves the house. A good man, will come when you aren't looking, because a good man will see that your priorities are in order, and that is the type of woman he wants to be with.

    People use that word "love" as a crutch. As an excuse to keep dealing with mess. Like happiness, anger, or sadness, love is an emotion that doesn't control you, it is controlled by what is happening around you. You can love someone, and not be "in love", you can love a friend, you can love a family member, "love at fight sight"...whatever. Either way it is no excuse for inadequacy or desire to do better.

    Do go back to those 3 notes, reread them, man or woman, apply them to your life, and see what it is YOU need to do to better yourself. Stop thinking something is wrong with everyone around you...something is wrong with YOU! Stop blaming everyone else for your insecurities, unhappiness, pain. You are in control of your life, and if you choose a road that allows such turmoil, you will live in that turmoil. Get real, get right, and grow.


    "However, when you truly find that one made for you, I believe you find a piece of yourself that was put there by God in the creation of your soulmate. It will never become apparent until you find that one and begin to give all of yourself to them. Our society has a thing against submission to another, but Christ himself said the greatest has to be a servant to all. We all want power and authority but fail to realize that that involves the enormous sacrifice of being a slave to all and putting all ideas of self to death. A daunting task, to be sure, but necessary for growth and healthy relationships. It's also the fastest way to learn to love others. So the moral of the story: finding the one does not involve losing your identity, but rather realizing another aspect of it and how the Father"

    **If you can relate to this, or any parts of this, you may want to consider that fact that you could possibly not be in the relationship destined for you. Now you are just merely wasting your time and energy**


    God bless you.
    *Green