The Mediocrity Frame

Avoid mediocrity at all costs today! You were not given another opportunity to breathe, move, and gloriously be, to merely  skim the surface of your boundless potential. Live on purpose with the bigger picture of your life's unique design in mind. Stand clear of those who attempt to bind you down with the complacency of complaints. Complaints have never accomplished anything revolutionary. Only complainers are comfortable in a room brimming over with complaints, because as long as we complain we can avoid doing anything that will ever matter.

It is in the doing that our single lives will begin to make a communal difference. So, kindly excuse yourselves from the stifling presence of complainers today, and get to the duty of doing. If you don't like the picture of your circumstances, step out of the image and reconstruct the frame.---Baria Leshea Jennings

Use Your Fear!

If you haven't done something that positively scares you out of your socks, but moves you in the direction of your dreams, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!!! Seriously, it's just really that simple today. You may have heard it said that fear is simply False Evidence Appearing Real. Well, jump on the trampoline of faith today and leave that liar,fear, shaking on the ground where it belongs.
Fear is the enemy of Fulfillment. If you never want to walk in the fulfillment of your purpose, keep amplifying the whisper of fear. On the other hand, if you want everything that is divinely yours, you have to dismiss discouragement while welcoming discomfort. The more than a conqueror shoes may take some getting used to, but you just keep wearing them. If you feel your ankles quivering as you walk towards your dreams, it is only because they are breaking through new ground...with your name all OVER IT!--Baria Leshea Jennings

Trading Happiness for Joy

Happiness is evasive and contingent upon circumstance. Happiness can make you laugh, play, and even dance. Happiness can be so close and yet so very far away. It is in the sticky-finger grip on a lollipop stick and in a sun shower at the break of day. Hahahaha!!! Happiness, you slay me! But, when you leave, all is blue. Until, I feel the rejuvenating breath of joy on my back, pushing me towards all that is true. Like the undeniable truth of a brand new day, or the peace that blankets my pillow at night. Or, the anihilation of all that is wrong for the one thing that is right. Yes joy! I will have you any day with all of your simple ways. You are the answer to happiness gone wrong. My joy, you are here to stay!
Don't let anyone steal your joy, my friends. For, if they ever do, you'll see. You can never really lose it. Joy is what you find inside the belly of misery. ----Baria Leshea Jennings

Girls Are Little Earthquakes: Earthquake Thought of the Day

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Looking Back

Remember where you came from without taking your eyes off of where God is taking you. If you look back too long in the direction of what is already gone, you just may look up in time to see that your scenery has remained the same, yet the time has trudged along.So, remember your past only to push you into your present destiny. Everything that you have gone through until this present hour has shaped your mind, thought processes, and attitude. So, be thankful for the lessons of the past, but allow the present to renew your spirit and mind so that your work will be completely and utterly in the moment. That very moment may be someone else's lifeline.--Baria Leshea Jennings

Today

Today will never be again. So, kindly tell Yesterday that it is over! Yesterday could never do what Today will do for you. Give Today a chance. The two of you have so much yet to accomplish. And whatever you do, do not waste your valuable time together, discussing Tomorrow.  For, what you do with Today has the ability to change the scope of a thousand tomorrows.---BLJ

Back to Purpose

When you find yourself looking for validation from others, you are usually far away from the trail of your purpose. The only validation you will ever need will not be heard from another set of human lips. So, find your way home to purpose, and drop a few divine bread crumbs along the trail so that another will find their way too.---BLJ

The Higher Route

God has such a wonderful sense of humor!!I walked up behind a woman today who was the only one in line at the cafe in Sam's. I stood there for a moment, then stepped aside to pull my son closer to me and got back in line.Meanwhile, a man walked behind me on line. When the woman walked away, he jumped in front of me at ...the counter and ordered! I looked at him and said "I was here sir!"He replied, "You were around the corner." I smiled at him and said "No, I wasn't but God bless you anyway--All of your days!"He didn't know what to say. As I sat down to eat, I noticed that he and his wife had a problem on line and had to wait. Well, I ate all of my food, in perfect peace, and they were still standing in line 20 minutes later!Just goes to show you, when you take the higher route, the Lord fights your battles. No need to get flustered!!

-BLJ

Do You!

Love yourself beyond explanation today! Treat yourself to a compliment why don't you!! Lather up in the gift of self-love.Take yourself for a long walk through the park. Go window shopping in the city, and whistle at your own reflection in the glass. You are everything that your mind could ever imagine and more! Dream yourself out of a daily existence, and begin living to dream! It is in the resuscitation of self-love that breathing takes on new meaning and haters become your oxygen! Do you, beloved, do you!!!---Baria L. Jennings

Special Delivery

Prayer is best when it has someone other than yourself attached to it. Take the time today to avail your heart, mind, spirit and threshing floor to whoever God places in your spiritual point of view.  It is so easy to become consumed with our own needs and desires, but when you bring some unsuspecting sister or brother before the throne of the Most High, it is in those utterances that your own prayers make their way to your doorstep. So, send up a special delivery in prayer for another today, and when you least expect it, your  own mailbox will be overflowing!---BLJ