Food for the Soul....

For Wellness Wednesday today I want to focus on the power of words or what the intentions behind them are made of.


The state of someone's intentions, thoughts and spirits can really put a whole new meaning to the words they speak and the power they give them. Of course I can really tell the truth and know that words are not just words because they are simply magical really. Everyone can either speak life which equates to love or speak death which is nothing but evil along with lies. 

One of the best things to do is give words of encouragement to others and be in good spirits with joy in our hearts. A lot of people's spirits are hungry for more and the best way to feed these souls is through Our Daily Bread as well as words of encouragement than words coming from trying to discourage someone else.

The evil ways of bad spirits are always at work and I am not afraid to call that out and know that there is a better way to go about living in the path of complete love. Today is the 12th Anniversary of the attacks that took place on "September 11th " which led to many strangers coming together to help one another and a new alertness in making sure that America is protected from the real threats of our national security.


In the presence of being attacked by the enemy, the love and light of God was alive because everyday ordinary people were able to become heroes. It always seems like people fall for paying more attention to what is dividing everyone and becoming raptured by bad spirits they forget about the grace of God. The truth is we all can help one another and words of love is what feeding the soul is all about.


"It's All About The Love" is the title of the Daily Bread.

We teach,encourage, and rebuke the evil....We weep and rejoice. The love we give is tender and tough and supportive.

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Darlings, stop the abuse and receive yor daily bread (not my photo)

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Receive love. Give love and repeat. Life and love is simple.

Seven

As I go on through life's journey I have realized that you can not really expect everyone to be happy and have joy in their heart. Also, something that has caused harm previously because I let my guards down while loving my enemies too much. But now I am happy to know that God has realized that it is good to love your enemies but when they keep askin for a butt-kicking or have really had the intent of destroying you than finally you have to say no more at all. 


How amazing or some type of power to give back what the enemy deserves from them feeding you poison disguised as lies. I am very blessed and thankful to recognize the evil that is and has forever been going on and than knowing what needs to be done to get rid of the enemy. 

In chapter 7 of "Demon Proofing Prayers" by Bob Larson I learned the true essence of myself which is being a giver and very thankful to realize I have been "Outgiving the Enemy" all of my lifetime. Oh my darlings, I am just amazed when I realize all that God has blessed me with and recognizing what life is all about, which is the life lesson in Chapter 7: Be a Giver, Not a Taker.

Anways, I want to show love and give love until it hurts because that is exactly what is right for my soul, those who need it the most are strangers and enemies both alike. Darlings, now is the time for me to give the good fight and stand up and shout with all my soul along with my spirit, " I am not going to take whatever the enemy is giving me but I am am going to give them more of what they deserve!"

Now to the significance of 7 because people bring up the number and have questions when they see my "7" charm around my neck. For all of those who have common sense or know a little about religion than "The 7 Deadly Sins" may come to mind and than there is a more in-depth perspective from the Bible..

For a more spiritual and well-rounded perspective "7" signifies:

Seven:
One of my personal favorite lucky numbers, seven is auspicious in matters of scholarly achievement. Seven is also associated with spiritual, psychic and intellectual development. It's the number of wisdom and higher reasoning. Seven is also a time-bound energy, it often signals good timing when seen in sequences. For example, if you see a series of seven in your day (on the clock, on bus tickets, license plates, room numbers, etc.) it often indicates good timing for scholarly/spiritual endeavors.

http://www.numerology.com/numerology-numbers/7?page=0,1

Than when it comes to Numerology.... 7 is...



The number seven is so great to me because it took me seven years just to get my Bachelor's of Arts degree in Urban Studies after taking a break and just enjoying life. You know what is the best about finishing what I started is that I kept on when many doubted me and the enemy told me to quit. After all my time spent in school I realized that we all can be teachers and the best one that has taught me comes from my life experiences. You know in life you just have to know that no matter all the evil going on and at work trying to stop you from acheiving. The best thing and only way to glory and love is to keep on going, and presevering despite the enemy.

Darlings, only be the grace of God have I made it this far and things are only starting to get fired up on the spiritual battles to come. Thank You for the Truth and sweetness in all the humans I have crossed paths with and righteous souls. I will continue to meditate and pray that what is started will be finished and fully completed for goodness sake.

Also, with some more of my research I realize that their are seven rays of light or color in a rainbow which also can represent the 7 Archangels.

Blue: Michael, leader of all the holy angels

Yellow: Jophiel, the angel of beautiful thoughts

Pink: Chamuel, the angel of peaceful relationships

White: Gabriel, the angel of revelation

Green: Raphael, the angel of healing

Red: Uriel, the angel of wisdom

• Purple: Zadkiel, the angel of mercy

The constant in my life and prayer that I repeat often is that the "Lord have Mercy on my Soul and my enemies". The great thing about this is that my prayer is always answered and I am motivated to forgive the weak ones who know not what they do.

More on the Power of 7.

Creative Roots

Since I am in a reflecting moment I will go back to August 10th when I celebrated the finale of a art gallery in the Anacostia community of DC while getting one of the best shows from GlitterLust. The lead singer was making my night with his glittery boots...

Anyways, I am back and proud to embrace my creativity as well as others to realize that the artist in me needs to come alive once again and that means...


I will paint more and find a way for people to enjoy my customized shirts as much as I do. Although I will not most likely ever be a size 0 or small again I can have something that people of all sizes and skintones can appreciate.

Ready for some art besides the masterpiece that is me

All natural with my colorful kinky hair...

No flash--notice my Odwalla juice in my arm

Flash

Sitting down and more than enough jelly to go around...

flashing lights and.....

Glitter Lust!

These boots had me infatuated

My skinnier days with slicker and unnatural hair too....

Reflecting

Of course nothing compares to getting the day started right with a red velvet cupcake and white velvet (vegan) cupcake from Red Velvet in Penn Quarters area of DC. I tell you the truth: baking is quite and art in itself and Amen for baked goods.
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   It has already been five days since my fast and life is good and I am happy that I went through this challenge in the first place. I know what is best for my body and have actually trained myself to have smaller portions and be contempt with that. Just like a lot of other people, food seems to be the one thing that will not turn their back on you and provides a lot of comfort; and unfortunately a lot of people are fine with taking advantage in being "greedy" for lack of a better word.


Oh but the biggest lesson I learned and to get down to the nitty gritty is that: There is no justifiable reason why starvation should exist in America or even the world for that matter!

My fast comes to a end at the perfect time because September just happens to be Hunger Action Month.

If I managed to be contempt and lively with only drinking juices, water and having two pieces of fruit for a day to weeks than many other people could survive. 


All of these campaigns to feed the hungry and donate to this or that starving child only exists due to greed and abuse and that is the honest truth. I see it everyday and yes I admit I have even been wasteful when eating out at a restaurant, so everyone should be well aware of all the perfectly good food that is thrown out in the trash.

The reality is that a select view gourmet or intelligent restuarants such as Pret Manger to name one know how to give the leftovers to a food bank or better yet some places only have smaller portions to be served.

The greed comes in with unreasonable prices for food and especially on high quality food because not all food sources are raised or grown equally.


There is no need for me to get into this because the fact is that we all know in our heart about ourselves and exactly what is going on in our neighborhoods, communities and maybe the world.


Maybe this hunger thing goes way beyond our bodies and goes deep into out minds and spirits.


Nothing is wrong with snacking throughout the day or even admitting well maybe I just might be spiritually hungry in fact.

For Hunger Action Month people should challenge themselves to go on a all liquid diet or just eat only fruits and vegetables in whatever form they see fit. I have had a peak of the promised land and you know it takes sacrifice and dedication to really know and accept the truth.

So while you may decide to go on your fasting challenge I applaud you, but now I am making September very sweet by enjoying a "sugar" diet of baked goods.

I have shared enough already but I will gladly reintroduce myself in the sunlight on a glorious day..........

Afterwards

Once again I have another tale to share because yes God continues to work wonders in my life and I am blessed with so much gratitude. Anyways, this is the third day after my fast and I have been enjoying my food with the suprise that my body has definitely changed after my one month of fasting. I am not sre if my stomach is smaller or something is going on with my intestines but I know that I trained myself to eat less and be complete with smaller portions than before. I am more than thankful for this change and to be rescued from the American apetite that can be the main cause for all of the terrible health conditions.

Just to let you know that while I was on my fast I had no problems when it came to getting rid of toxins and waste that was no benefit to my body.

I may have been on the greedy side a little from enjoying food from one of my favorite restaurants and than going to a cookout afterwards. All within a five hour period I had yams, macaroni and cheese, cornbread, fried fish, baked beans, potato salad, half of a turkey burger and one fried chicken leg to "celebrate" Labor Day or just enjoy a American holiday. Well to my amazement the food did not sit well with me at all, because I was completely stuffed that in the midnight hour around 12:10 AM I akoke to pain right at the top- middle part of my ribcage. I did not even know what was going but I just knew the pain was excruciating and so bad calling 911 was the first option that came to mind. I just thought of the possiblities of this pain as maybe being caused from Gas or something going on with my small intestines. Well than I realized the fact that I do not even like hospitals, and being stuck in the Emergency Room is something I don't want to deal with so I called on my creator, the one and only Lord who is my heavenly savior. I said, " Oh Lord, my God I ask of you to take this pain away from me. Oh please I do not know where this is coming from and I just want this to go away." Of course God is so good and always on time with answering prayers that right away I knew what to do. The simple solution was that their was waste in me waiting to get out and all that was needed was a bowel movement. I mean wow amazing how after that the pain was instantly gone and this was something that could not be removed on my own, it took me asking my Lord for help.


I know it was not only me on my own alone that got me through my fast and of course I received help from my higher, most intelligent heavenly creator to remove the internal waste that was causing me pain. I find this story kind of funny and put a smile on my face to just think, " Oh God to get rid of this pain all that I needed was to sit on the toilet and take a s*&t!".


I tell you I was happy and filled with tears of joy because my God knows how much I love to avoid hospitals and being around sick people. How amazing to know and believe in the most powerful being to solve your problems which happened for me in the midnight hour. When you feel you can't go on or just need a extra push their is no help like that from God, his son and the Holy Spirit.

Maybe this story may have  a reader responding in a way as maybe Jasmine Darling should have used the bathroom before falling asleep or........the truth is I didn't feel the need to use the bathroom before falling asleep.


The bottom line or moral of this is that one of the best benefits of fasting:


1. No constipation

2. Decreases or lessens appearance of cellulite

3.Trimmer waist

4.Slimmer thighs

5.Radiant skin with smaller pores

6. sweeter blood which helps the mosquitos


Here are 10 other benefits of fasting.

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Bestseller

Lately, I have been reading which I love to do and I decided to share because I really care and maybe someone may decide one of the books are of interest to them. All I know is that I am blessed with the amazing grace and understanding of the lessons my higher and intellectual beings have endowed me with.


At first I didn't want to share all of this with the internet world and all the public to think or believe that I am some type of religious freak, but I have decided to come down to Earth because after all this is a "religious" world we are living in. Through my spiritual journey and just understanding human nature these books have given me clarity to how great and good the almighty creator is.

Highly recommended

This shows just how evil people can be and when people choose to abuse their power for living in complete darkness...

Amazing to realize the spirituality of systems of the world....

My bestseller and favorite design

From my special design that I love painting on shirts that I have sold to classmates in the past, I am am happy and so very thankful to realize that it has brought me to exactly where I am now on my journey. At first I did not understand, but I know that the choice of light versus darkness is so real now that I have found myself in the situations I am in. Not only does God not Ugly which is choosing to be consumed by negative feelings that allow us to act in ugly ways can be very lethal. (If anyone pays attention to my tweets I did mention that "If you feel some type of way don't get caught up in it" which is like be happy and don't worry).

I have to use myself as a prime example because I was faced with the choices of being Good, Bad or Ugly and I choose to be good by fighting for what is right. Once again I have a tale to tell and this is my true real life story. I looked at my options for beauty schools and decided on "Aveda Institute" because I was impressed with the products and what appeared to be a great institution. Well, of course I was wrong for believing that my education would be just as great as the veneer of the image that was being sold to me. To tell anyone the truth the Aveda Institute is owned by a whole other institute seperate from the storefront that sells the products online and in stores.

Anyways to get to my whole point, I realized the new owners who took over right around the time I started school whose name fits them perfect "Beauty Basics Incorporated" was not providing the service, equipment, policies and necessities for a Esthetician student who paid their full tuition. Coming to the realization that wrongdoings were being made I took a stand by being good to know that I was left with no choice but to take legal matter for receiving less than 100% from the Avedaq Institute. Now if I was bad than I would be like the rest of my classmates or "spa sisters" who could only complain and just take what was given to them which was nothing more than a big slap in the face if you ask me. Than the most worst case scenario to reciprocate what the school was giving out and act out right ugly would be to destroy them with no other considerations of other human beings. If the complete darkness and ugliness of "Beauty Basics Inc. " consumed me than I would have decided that setting the school on fire would be the best way to handle the situation, but that would be doing more damage than good.

I am thankful and blessed that I choose to go in the direction of light and love. Being good in these circumstances allowed me to be empowered to choose the humane way to resolve this issue by going through the Justice system. Being more spiritually aware and realizing that we all have choices to make on how to handle ourselves I  see things clearly.

Well the whole lesson of my story is the being good is having the strength to go forth and do what is right. Being good is following your heart and sometimes means going against what everyone else is doing. Than being bad means letting worldly things and everything that weighs you down be in control of how you act. Being a shiftless person that really well I don't want to focus on that because well everyone is in this state and that includes me. After watching Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing I am convinced that I am highly favored to brought to doing good work eventhough it hurts to be brought to this point. Than of course their is ugly which is plain evil which leads people to kill, violently abuse, sabotage others, harbor anger all the time or just have thoughts of wishing harm on others. 

The truth is that we all have some "Good, Bad and Ugly" in us and I know that when their is complete peace we all can coexist in each others goodness. Well, it just so happens everyone is at war with themselves and depending on how someone is feeling and if they choose light or darkness than there just won't be complete peace on Earth.


So the question always remains....Will you choose the dark or light?

Day 28

This marks the last week of my fast which I will miss but this doesn't mean all my discipline is just going to be thrown all out the window.

What a wonderful day it has been filled with raindrops, daylight, Pickled cucumbers, Sugar Baby watermelons,  mommas,  anniversaries and the Lederer Youth Garden. I am really excited about learning about the Greenhouse and other programs that DC offers such as DC's "field to fork network" and this other thing I found.


Also, I believe this is worth mentioning because I am living in DC and today marks the 50th Anniversary of the "I Have A Dream" speech. I believe that I am highly favored and amazed by the grace inside of me and that I can realize. This wellness Wednesday will definitely be one I will cherish and hold in rememberance. 



Well since today is such a special day I have my own speech, in more of a written format that I will one day say out loud.



I have a dream that one day everyone living in the inner cities and Urban Areas will have access to healthy food and high quality facilities in their communities.

Also, I have a dream that people can learn to accept themselves fully and others with their flaws and all.

I have a dream that people will be colorblind and learn not to judge someone based on how many degrees they have or lack of them.


I have a dream that the style or texture of someone's hair will not me a matter in their job prospects and their treatment.


I have a dream that people will trust I have their best interest at heart and know what is best for them.


I have a dream that somehow people can work together in peace and find some common ground from sea to shining sea.

I have a dream that one day my work will be published in a high fashion magazine in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Russia, Middle East and Europe.
I have a dream that people will learn to speak freely and openly about any problems they have with someone instead of in private or behind their back.

I have a dream that one day people will learn to elevate to a higher spiritual level.


The most important part of my dream is that people can learn to love and nurture their environments fully.