The things we take for granted are the things we lose sooner than expected.
Yours Truly,
The Truth
Of The Heart
It is written, that God will give us the desires of our hearts. A truth, that I believe. However, I wonder... Why is it that we believe that God will give us the desires of our heart when we do not give him the desires of His.
Remember what is written just before this promise.
His graces have prerequisites.
Just a Thought
Yours Truly,
The Thinker
Remember what is written just before this promise.
His graces have prerequisites.
Just a Thought
Yours Truly,
The Thinker
God Walks
God walked through my house today. He took all my troubles away. He is on His way to your house next.
Yours truly,
Wishen Euell
Yours truly,
Wishen Euell
The Blanks
We fill in the blanks of what we don't know
with the worst that we can imagine.
Instead of finding out the truth,
we make up what we think happened.
Then, we dwell on those thoughts as though they are facts.
What she didn't tell you,
What he didn't say,
making up an answer, hoping the questions go away.
We fill the blanks of a parent's love with insufficient hugs.
We fill the blanks of personality with artificial coverings.
We fill the blanks of ambition with contentment.
We fill the blanks of success with excuses.
We fill the blanks of love with lust.
never realizing that they are merely figments of our creative imaginations.
Yours Truly,
The Truth
with the worst that we can imagine.
Instead of finding out the truth,
we make up what we think happened.
Then, we dwell on those thoughts as though they are facts.
What she didn't tell you,
What he didn't say,
making up an answer, hoping the questions go away.
We fill the blanks of a parent's love with insufficient hugs.
We fill the blanks of personality with artificial coverings.
We fill the blanks of ambition with contentment.
We fill the blanks of success with excuses.
We fill the blanks of love with lust.
never realizing that they are merely figments of our creative imaginations.
Yours Truly,
The Truth
Can Do
That which YOU CAN do, DO.
That which YOU CAN not do, put on your list of things to DO.
Can't is not a definitive word.
It is, however, open to interpretation.
Do what you can, while you can.
Don't miss your Chance.
Yours Truly,
Wishen Euell
That which YOU CAN not do, put on your list of things to DO.
Can't is not a definitive word.
It is, however, open to interpretation.
Do what you can, while you can.
Don't miss your Chance.
Yours Truly,
Wishen Euell
Truth
Sometimes we deny it. Sometimes we rely on it. Sometimes we pretend it doesn't exist. Like it or not, it is what it is.
Reality is that which refuses to go away even if you don't believe it.
I encourage you to welcome the truth. Embrace the truth. But brace yourself, it may be more than you bargained for.
With truth comes knowledge. With knowledge comes power. And with power comes freedom... And change.
Loosing an illusion makes you wiser than finding the truth. And once you remove the veil of deceit, your future will thank you.
Yours Truly,
The Truth
Reality is that which refuses to go away even if you don't believe it.
I encourage you to welcome the truth. Embrace the truth. But brace yourself, it may be more than you bargained for.
With truth comes knowledge. With knowledge comes power. And with power comes freedom... And change.
Loosing an illusion makes you wiser than finding the truth. And once you remove the veil of deceit, your future will thank you.
Yours Truly,
The Truth
If You're Out There
Love this song. Please take heed to the message.
If you're out there, it's time.
Yours Truly,
The Believer
If you're out there, it's time.
Yours Truly,
The Believer
A Part of Life
We are each a branch, a bud, a leaf, a limb, a fruit, a fragment. An important piece of the body that makes up this thing we call life. We all have a part to play, our very own, unique contribution that we are here to make. And no one can do your part but you.
Unfortunately, most of us, are not doing what it is that we are meant to do. We do what we want to do, or more often, what we have to do and totally forget about what we are called to do. Motivated by money, fame, or superficial "success", we get lost in the world, lose sight of our purpose, then wonder why our lives are a mess.
Everyone is not meant to be a rock star, pop star, sports star or movie star. Some of us are meant to be teachers, or preachers, or poets. But instead we sacrifice our own distinctive features trying to fit into a life that's not meant for us, and it doesn't fit, and we know it.
Play your part. If not for you, then do it for me. The puzzle will forever be incomplete without your inimitable piece.
Your life is calling. Answer it!
Yours Truly,
The Mirror
Unfortunately, most of us, are not doing what it is that we are meant to do. We do what we want to do, or more often, what we have to do and totally forget about what we are called to do. Motivated by money, fame, or superficial "success", we get lost in the world, lose sight of our purpose, then wonder why our lives are a mess.
Everyone is not meant to be a rock star, pop star, sports star or movie star. Some of us are meant to be teachers, or preachers, or poets. But instead we sacrifice our own distinctive features trying to fit into a life that's not meant for us, and it doesn't fit, and we know it.
Play your part. If not for you, then do it for me. The puzzle will forever be incomplete without your inimitable piece.
Your life is calling. Answer it!
Yours Truly,
The Mirror
God Fearing?
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want.
The Lord is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
I've been young and now I'm old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging for bread.
The Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations.
He is my protector and my redeemer.
My shelter and my comforter.
My provider and my friend...
WHY SHOULD I FEAR HIM?
Yours Truly,
The Thinker
The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want.
The Lord is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
I've been young and now I'm old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging for bread.
The Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations.
He is my protector and my redeemer.
My shelter and my comforter.
My provider and my friend...
WHY SHOULD I FEAR HIM?
Yours Truly,
The Thinker
IGNORANCE IS NOT AN OPTION
Now I'm not usually one to deal with racial stereotypes and all that jazz about white man, black man, but this was something I found noteworthy and worth sharing. While browsing through blogs I posted on myspace, I came across this post. The fact that the essence of it is still true is truly disappointing. But then again, The Truth Hurts... that is unless you are able and willing to change it.
Please Note: This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.
THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from theBlacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book." We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.
GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%). Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, and they still think
that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them "Status" or that they have achieved their Dream.They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue
to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.
SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own,
Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner.They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not
allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community. They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness?They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM).
They do not understand that they are no better than each other
because of what they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels.By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, THEY DON'T READ!!!!
Wow, I don't have many words to follow that. Just, PROVE THEM WRONG.
Yours Truly,
The Reader
Carpe Diem!
While loitering in G.R. this past summer, looking for a reason to make use of my camera, I came across this.
Scribbled onto a door of an abandoned mystery, somehow it spoke to me.
Yours Truly,
The Photographer
Scribbled onto a door of an abandoned mystery, somehow it spoke to me.
Yours Truly,
The Photographer
Dead Silence
As our children drown in blood baths of murder,
witnesses keep silent.
Pride is found in not being a snitch
and criminals rely on it.
For every mother left without a son,
for every brother left standing alone,
for every child left without a father,
your voice could be their closure.
Copyright (c) 2008 Ms. A.T.L.S.
...
It disturbs me the way people are murdered everyday and we just accept it as a way of life. Kids killing kids, teenagers killing their friends and more often than not, no one ever pays for the crimes they commit. Another one bites the dust. Another news story, just like the one I saw last week, last night. Is there no remorse? No fear of consequence or retribution?
Where is the hope? Where is the direction and correction? What will you do to make a difference?
Yours Truly,
The Hopeful One
witnesses keep silent.
Pride is found in not being a snitch
and criminals rely on it.
For every mother left without a son,
for every brother left standing alone,
for every child left without a father,
your voice could be their closure.
Copyright (c) 2008 Ms. A.T.L.S.
...
It disturbs me the way people are murdered everyday and we just accept it as a way of life. Kids killing kids, teenagers killing their friends and more often than not, no one ever pays for the crimes they commit. Another one bites the dust. Another news story, just like the one I saw last week, last night. Is there no remorse? No fear of consequence or retribution?
Where is the hope? Where is the direction and correction? What will you do to make a difference?
Yours Truly,
The Hopeful One
Lost In Time
The clock on the wall strikes twelve
The wrist watch reads one
The phone only rings when extra digits are dialed
Melodic voice tones are entrancing.
Intensified love with no visual association
Separation is the motivation
Fighting hard to hold on
through verbal communication
The sun begins to rise before it completely sets
Divided by different destinations
Scattered in search of success.
The degree of separation between two points;
Distance
In mathematics, the process of discovering
How many times one quantity is contained in another;
Division.
In dreams, thoughts and pictures alike
Memories provoke tomorrow's future
Loneliness is crying a river of tears.
The winds mix in heaven,
the rivers in the ocean
One love on two sides
makes empty of a full notion.
Come home soon.
Copyright (c) 2000 Ms. A.T.L.S.
Yours Truly,
The Writer
The wrist watch reads one
The phone only rings when extra digits are dialed
Melodic voice tones are entrancing.
Intensified love with no visual association
Separation is the motivation
Fighting hard to hold on
through verbal communication
The sun begins to rise before it completely sets
Divided by different destinations
Scattered in search of success.
The degree of separation between two points;
Distance
In mathematics, the process of discovering
How many times one quantity is contained in another;
Division.
In dreams, thoughts and pictures alike
Memories provoke tomorrow's future
Loneliness is crying a river of tears.
The winds mix in heaven,
the rivers in the ocean
One love on two sides
makes empty of a full notion.
Come home soon.
Copyright (c) 2000 Ms. A.T.L.S.
Yours Truly,
The Writer
I Hope You Dance
I must admit, I have not always been one who enjoys reading a lot. Often I would loose focus and put down a book before I could really get started and blame it on lack of creativity in the writing or something or another. And then I found this book. Being a dancer, I was automatically attracted to the title and being a human I was furthermore attracted to the content.
I Hope You Dance is my all time favorite book. Written by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers and made popular by Lee Ann Womack, I Hope You Dance is the most uplifting and inspiring book I have read in a long time. A short read, it is sure to become everyone's favorite. Read it now. Read it often. Keep it forever. Then buy another one to give to someone else to read (you wont want to give them yours).
I know you will be inspired.
Yours Truly,
The Reader
I Hope You Dance is my all time favorite book. Written by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers and made popular by Lee Ann Womack, I Hope You Dance is the most uplifting and inspiring book I have read in a long time. A short read, it is sure to become everyone's favorite. Read it now. Read it often. Keep it forever. Then buy another one to give to someone else to read (you wont want to give them yours).I know you will be inspired.
Yours Truly,
The Reader
Versiz
I am a huge fan of poetry and the spoken word. One of my all time favorite spoken word artist is Jamaal Versiz May. I would go on and on about why I love this man so much, but I figure you should see for yourself. Appreciate the craft.
I knew you would like it.
Yours Truly,
The Student
I knew you would like it.
Yours Truly,
The Student
A Day for Change
Today is the day. Change has come.
Throughout the past year, as a nation we proclaimed "YES WE CAN". Trust and Believe, WE can. But more important than the words CHANGE and CAN is the word WE. This change will only be effective if WE change. Please, do not get caught up in the magnitude of this moment and believe that things change overnight. Today is the day for a national change of power. However, Change will only happen for you if you change. Let this be the reason you do something noteworthy. Do not sit back and wait for change to come. Get up, get out and help change happen.
YES WE CAN!
Yours Truly,
The Hopeful One
Throughout the past year, as a nation we proclaimed "YES WE CAN". Trust and Believe, WE can. But more important than the words CHANGE and CAN is the word WE. This change will only be effective if WE change. Please, do not get caught up in the magnitude of this moment and believe that things change overnight. Today is the day for a national change of power. However, Change will only happen for you if you change. Let this be the reason you do something noteworthy. Do not sit back and wait for change to come. Get up, get out and help change happen.
YES WE CAN!
Yours Truly,
The Hopeful One
Just a Thought
My Internet has been out of order for a minute and I'm not a big fan of doing this on my phone but I know someone has been waiting for more...
Thought for today:
Think on it, but try not to sleep on it.
Yours Truly,
The Mirror
Thought for today:
If tomorrow never comes, will you be satisfied with what you have done up to this point?
Think on it, but try not to sleep on it.
Yours Truly,
The Mirror
Give and Take
I give, you take.
I work, I make, I pay.
You take, you take, you take.
I give, you take.
You take advantage, you take your time, you take your responsibilities and make them mine.
I give, you take
Then you think all is forgiven because at church you tithe and pray.
I give, you take.
I give, and seldom do I complain.
You take...
Just like your father.
Tours Truly,
The Giver
I work, I make, I pay.
You take, you take, you take.
I give, you take.
You take advantage, you take your time, you take your responsibilities and make them mine.
I give, you take
Then you think all is forgiven because at church you tithe and pray.
I give, you take.
I give, and seldom do I complain.
You take...
Just like your father.
Tours Truly,
The Giver
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