What Do My Words Speak?

I had the most amazing evening tonight with five other friends. We all went to see Joel Osteen which you may have seen in my post below. It was much more than I expected. The emotions that flowed through me and my friends were amazing. There was so much love in that arena tonight.

Things were flowing in and out of my mind while I was listening to the uplifting positive messages Joel was sharing. I felt like I was getting renewed in my faith in Christ. I felt like my vision for myself and the world was getting a recharge.

Joel's wife shared some words and they hit me like a ton of bricks. She said "compliments & encouragement is the glue that hold relationships together" We should spend more time encouraging those around us. We should spend more time complimenting those around us. So often in life we're afraid of speaking what is truly in our hearts. We're afraid of being politically correct or not. We're afraid if I speak from my heart I become vulnerable or that we'll be rejected. We tend to put our heart in a box to protect it when really we need to be open to receive any love the world has to give us.

After I posted a couple days ago about Lamont, I received feedback from a few people. They questioned my motives and intentions. It amazed me even when you speak from a place of honesty and integrity how society will try and change it around. Maybe that's become the norm and when people see something totally out of the norm they question the intentions and motives.

I plan on posting about more people in the future on my blog and what I see in them as well. I will ask permission just as I did with Lamont before I post. I hope if nothing else people reading my posts will come to realize there is a lot of great people out there going through the same challenges, barriers and issues as the rest of us.

In closing I can say I truly feel blessed to have many great people in my life. I will be reaching out over the next weeks and months to post about them as well.