Knowledge is Power

Hello luvs, how are you all doing? I thank you for taking the time to read my new post. This one will be real brief because I’m short on time. As always, my prayer is that you are encouraged in the Lord and blessed by my words. I appreciate your support and remember to share my blog!

I have loved writing far as I remember. Ironically, writing is not the career I have always desired. True, it’s deeply embedded within me, but when I was a little girl I wanted to be a doctor. I don’t know what kind of doctor I wanted to be I just knew that’s what I was going to be. I would always have my little play doctor bag and a little clipboard as if I were seeing patients. I’d walk around with my stethoscope and check my aunt’s and uncle’s heart. One of the main reasons I wanted to go into that profession was because of how much money they made. That’s the honest-to-God truth. I just knew being a doctor is what I wanted to do with my life. On a home video from the summer of 1990, I said, “I’m going to be a doctor so I can help sick people.” When I was in fourth grade I wrote two plays and performed them with my friends and classmates. Ever since then, I have wanted to write. I can’t say I know all that I need to know about the writing field but I know it’s part of what God has purposed for me to do while here on earth. I must write. It’s like I don’t know anything else but writing. So, as I’ve been writing more and publicly posting my writing and promoting my work, I have also been researching different aspects of it. I want to learn everything that I can so I will be more knowledgeable about my gift and successful at it.

Greg Prescott has a company called Prescott Papers, which is a Professional Custom Writing Service. I came across one of his blog post on character analysis. Here is the link: https://www.prescottpapers.com/blog/how-to-write/how-to-write-character-analysis.php. 

Character development is something I need to familiarize myself with because there are many stories within me that I plan on writing and I want to make sure I give my characters’ personality and they stand out and are relatable to my audience.

Whatever your gift or talent is, you want to make sure you study it and research everything about it. It’s wise to perfect your craft so you will develop and flourish in it. The more you know, the more you can do.

College Mom

Four months ago, I wrote a post called “A Single Mother’s Joy”. I talked about my struggles in balancing my schedule and admitted my relationship with God was not where I want it to be. I am a mother and that task will always challenge you, disappoint you, scare you and have you second-guessing yourself.  Add single parent to the mix, and all those things double! Although I am raising my son without any help from his father, I have been greatly blessed with much support from my side of the family and my friends, as well as family members from my son’s father side of the family. If this new life role isn’t already exhausting and challenging, try being a single mother who’s in a college.

Prescott Papers is a Professional Custom Writing Service I learned about through Greg Prescott. I have provided a link about tips and suggestions on how a single mother can attend college while raising her child with the right source of information.

https://www.prescottpapers.com/blog/college-life/how-to-be-a-single-mom-in-college.php

It’s been some years since I last attended college. I struggled both times (two different schools). If I were pregnant during that time of my life…just the initial thought sends an overwhelming feeling through me. My mind frame back then was in a completely different state compared to where it is now. I know I would have quickly withdrew the first time around if I got pregnant my first year of college. I honestly don’t believe there are enough groups for single mothers. Either they’re deeply hidden and you must thoroughly search for them, or people don’t promote them enough. There are a lot of resources available for single mothers but you literally must dig up the information and then you need understand how the system works. I know many women who attended college while being a single mother and I always thought, “How are they able to do that? Where do they find the time?” When I learned some of these women had jobs as well, I thought they were crazy! Many years later I would become a single mother and would experience some of the exact obstacles and frustrations as those single mothers in college.

How many women actually plan to be a single parent? I have read or heard of the stories of career-driven women who aren’t in relationships and/or don’t want a husband but would like to have kids. I heard of a doctor from a well-known hospital who became pregnant with twins through VETRO. So, some women do plan for that life, but majority of women who are single parents were either abandoned by their child’s father or things didn’t work out when they were together or the mother had a divorce or became an unexpected widow. For the percentage that I fall into as well as single mothers in college, we didn’t plan on raising our children without the help of the person who helped conceived. This was not our life’s goal. If someone told me 3 years ago, that I’d be unmarried and single with a child, I would have laughed right in their face. I knew what goals and standards I set for myself and this was not it. Unfortunately, life happens. If we don’t stay focused and keep our feet and mind grounded in the things that we believe in, we can easily become misguided and lose focus and get caught up.

The journey of being a single mother is very hard, tiring, challenging and overwhelming but the outcome of the reward is well-deserved and completely worth it! So, whether you’re a single mother who’s in college or just a single mother who is working, I want you to know that you can do it! You can succeed at both. Once you have a plan and goals outlined, stay committed to them. It will all work out for you. It will be an adjustment and you may not get it right in the beginning, but overtime, you will recognize your growth.

Cheers to all the single mothers who are out there progressing!!!

Unopened Letters

Three years ago, I had the desire to start writing letters again. I truly believe this was something God dropped into my spirit after I had written a long letter to a friend. I was very truthful in all the things I’d written to him. I had missed that. Now, I can text with the best of them, but letters are more personal and intimate. So, the Lord gave me the acronym LETTERS (I will disclose that in a future post). Initially what I wanted to do was to be a blessing to people and write them letters, but these weren’t ordinary letters. I was trusting the spirit of God to lead me in what to write to every individual. I did not want to go off my own knowledge and have the letters based off information I already knew. No – this was totally God writing but through me. Fast-forward two years later and I incorporated LETTERS into the life of my unborn son.

I am always interested in learning more about the whole writing field, the various backgrounds and all types of services it can provide. Greg Prescott has a company called Prescott Papers, a Professional Custom Writing Service. He is a link with information providing one the many services.

https://www.prescottpapers.com/writers-online.php

Letter One

On Friday, June 12th, 2015, I wrote my first letter to my unborn son. I wanted my son to know who his mother was. I had no preconceptions about my labor or thereafter; I wanted my son to know about me and how he came to be. I wanted memories left for him about my life while I was carrying him. Writing Unopened Letters for my son's future was a fun and blessed experience. I had an idea of the things I wanted to write to him, but I also wanted the words to flow from my heart. The focus of my letters to my son was making sure he knew the truth about his conception and how deeply I already loved him. Even though he had yet entered the earth, I was fully able to understand when people would say, "there's nothing like a the bond between a mother and her child." I tried to make sure I wrote at least one letter a week. There were times where I wrote two letters a week. I always told my son his daddy loved him even though he wasn't here right now. I would never bad-mouth him but always said that he would have to explain to you himself why he left, would always leave etc. During my pregnancy, I was being prepared and groomed for so many things. Writing these letters initiated the fire within me me to get back to my gift of writing. I allowed myself to become distracted by people and situations where I wouldn't stay consistent with my writing. I didn't have a goal of how many I would write but I wanted to make sure there were enough to give him a general idea about who his mother was.

Letter Six

By July 14th, I had written my sixth letter to my son. I was so excited I chose to do this for him! There was another reason, secret that I kept to myself as to why I wanted my son to have these letters. I may not have had any worries about my labor, but some crazy thoughts did cross my mind about possible scenarios after his birth.

My son’s father has two older boys with another woman. He has a dysfunctional and unhealthy relationship with this woman where they’re always going back and forth. They’re either together and all is fine, or they’re not together and doing their own thing and aren’t officially a couple but will still start drama about what the other is or isn’t doing. Well, let’s just said my son’s father and I got together during one of their “breaks”. I foolishly thought this break would lead to permanency. There were obvious signs that no such break existed and there didn’t look to be one anytime soon. I wasn’t stupid but I convinced myself I could help my son’s father be a better person and do better if he was away from her. I wasn’t necessarily the best choice, but the healthiest choice. This woman finally found out about me. She found out about my pregnancy. Now, to-this-day, she and I have never met or had an actual conversation. I only know her by what others says about her that do know her and by the content she posts on her Facebook page. I won’t say I started fearing for my life but I did become somewhat concerned about my well-being. Would she show up at my house? Would she be sitting outside waiting for me (I worked late nights)? Would she try and do harm to me because I have a baby by her kid’s father? The fact that my son’s father stayed MIA during my entire pregnancy was another cause for concern. I had no clue about the things he was telling her about me and our “relationship” and everything that took place. He probably was lying to her in the same manner he was lying to me. My letters would be proof of the truth about us. I wanted my son to know the truth regardless of how hurtful it may have been, no matter how dumb and foolish I may have been, and how unbelievable the story may sound, it was the truth, my truth. He will have documentation of my moments and circumstances that I endured while carrying him. My prayer is that I will be around when he can read and understand them.

I no longer have shame or feel convicted about my past, particularly, the situation that I had with my son’s father. It took me a very long time to forgive myself and to understand what happened when it did, why it did and with who it did. I am going forward with my life for my son and me. I am growing in God and have turned my darkest moments into testimonies to share with others so they may have hope in whatever it is they are going through.

I love you and I thank you for reading my post. Be encouraged IN the Lord today! 💝

Jesus Speaks – Give It Over to Lord

PowerPoint Presentation is a Microsoft office product I would love to advance my skills in. Greg Prescott has a company called Prescott Papers which is a Professional Custom Writing Service. Here is a link to their services: https://www.prescottpapers.com/custom-powerpoint-services.php

Jesus is like a speaker with a microphone. Whenever someone gets up to give a presentation or make an announcement, nine times out of 10, they are talking through a microphone. If there’s some important event or meeting that is taken place like in an auditorium or a big conference room, they use a microphone. Also, the speaker is usually standing behind a podium and looking down at their audience – all the guests that came to hear them speak. Guess what? God is just like that!

God is thee Speaker and we’re supposed to be his listeners. When the announcer prepares you for a guest speaker, almost always they will give an introduction and some background history about the speaker. After they have done that they will say, “Now, I’m going to turn it over to the hands of…” Give It Over to the Lord! Jesus speaks and makes His announcements from the heavens above. That is His stage. We as people in the world are His members. Our ears and hearts are to be open to His messages. Sometimes God’s voice can be as loud as thundering clap or as soft as the still voice in the night. Whichever way God chooses to speak to us over the loudspeaker, He does speak!