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As i sit back and think about life, I think about how much hell it can bring, but I also think about how much joy life brings us.

Have you ever thought about what life would be like if you looked at it and seen it the way that God sees you in it? Me, personally, I try to see life for all of the great things that it can bring now, and I try to envision everything that God has in store for me even if I don't see the end results right now. I have made a lot of mistakes, I have hurt a lot of people, yet God still loves me. I was hurt, I have been abused, I have been done dirty, and i have held grudges against people that i should have let go long ago, but yet God still forgives me. Have you ever imagined what your life would be like if you forgave yourself and forgave the people that have hurt you?  

Or am I the only one that is starting to see God for who he truly is? I know that life is not always the best to us, and it can really bear down us A LOT!! I could honestly say that when I wake up some days, I just don't feel like being alive. I just don't feel like doing anything with my life. I'm stressed, i'm burdened down, i'm emotional. And yet God still decided to breathe the breath of life into my body and give me an opportunity to make things right. Being jobless is not the best friend of a lot of people, I know I have been there! When you wonder where your next paycheck is going to come from, when you wonder where your next meal is going to come from? How long will it be before the rent man is going to kick you out of your place? How will your bills get paid? But yet God still says don't worry, don't get mad, don't get stressed about anything in life because I will take care of everything that you will ever need if you just belive in Me. But how hard is that? How hard is it to believe in God who we can not see but His presence is everywhere? The same God that woke us up early in the morning or whenever you woke up is the same God that will take care of every problem that you are facing, all you have to do is be faithful and patient. 

God, I'm losing my mind, I'm losing my family, I'm losing my friends, I just don't know how to hold on to anything like i used to. Why am I losing everything? You said that You would always provide for me and always be there for me! Yeah I know, that is where most of us stand at some point in our lives even if we don't admit it openly and publicly God still knows. But God says just call me "I Am" I am that I am!!! What did He mean when He said I am? I am everything that you may ever need. I am your doctor, I am your provider. I am your caregiver. I am your way out of no way. I am the reason that you have life. I am the reason that you live. I died so that you may have life and life more abundantly. I am Everything that you could ever think of and more than that. God said that He can do Exceedingly, Abundantly above all that you can Ask or even think! 

He's Able!! God is able to surpass any problem that we are facing in our lives right now. He is able to bring you out of any hole that you are in or have gotten yourself in. As long as you are still breathing then you have beengiven another opportunity to make life Great as God said it is. As long as you are here, you have a chance. There is nobody that will ever separate you from the love of God.

If we are worth dying for, then He is worth living for. I may be broke, busted and disgusting. No job, No friends, No family, No money, a bad person, with a bad attitude, a liar, a thief whatever it may be but God still thinks that we are worth dying for. Everything that we are facing now God has already completed He has already taken our struggle away, our pain away. We just have to choose to make life exactly What God has promised us because His Promises are still Alive..

I pray that whatever you may see in your life that you realize that you have yet to see the best of your life. The best is yet to come, remember that always

ERW

Not Easily Broken: 

Wow as i was thinking about this and the title of what I would name this, It reminds me of myself and so many other people that may be going through situations and trials, storms or whatever test you may be facing right now... This message is geared to help you.. Remember that you never have to be submissive to your struggles... God has already given you the resources to get through every situation you have seen..

My advice to you all in these situations is remember who you are hurting and feeling like there is no where to go. I started to realize over the last few weeks that I am still living, and I haven't been through as much as most people have. But i am living and I am living well, very healthy for the most part, 4 broken legs, a car wreck that flipped 8 times that could have taken my life, a lot of bad decisions.. But God... God will allow us to bruise, bend, and stretch but he never allows us to break.

One thing i can say about a lot of our situations is that Life goes on, I know it may take a while and I know you may hurt for a while, but one thing to remember is that life goes on. My favorite thought about the situations is Not Easily Broken. I have been hurt in the past before and you always have to look at yourself and your life and not allow your spirit to be broken by the situation, don't allow your character to be broken by the situation, don't even allow your heart to be broken. Yeah you might say how is this possible? Well a bruise hurts!!! No one ever said that you wouldn't bruise, but a bruise is so much easier to care for than completely being broken..

i have come to realize those people that are broken completely shut themselves off from everything that they once knew especially in a woman's case she will completely shut the world down around her. And that's not good for your health. There are many people that are out there that try to break you on purpose, they try to ruin everything that there is about you, your name your life your character everything that you are, they will try to ruin, they will put you at your lowest of lows and think that they have you. But you can't allow yourself to be broken.

An example just an example is Jesus Christ himself, this man endured more pain than anybody in this world could ever imagine but he never allowed them to break him. All the bruises that he had he never allowed himself to be broken, you could almost not recognize him but he was not broken. SO much can be learned from this lesson.

Apples bruise but they can easily be repaired, just cut back the bruises and they are perfectly fine. You're body can be bruised but it heals with almost no sign of pain ever being there. A broken bone will never heal back the same way that it was before it was broken, some are held up by screws some just dont grow back in right, but you will always know that it was broken..

One thing I am continuing to learn is that the things in life we go for are test.. I'm learning that you can't have a testimony without first having a test. We can't be elevated to the next level in our faith, our blessings, our gifts without first showing faithfulness and showing strenght. We never realize that 99% of us are either going into a storm, in a storm, or coming out of a storm. THe best thing to do is to learn how to dance in the rain, because when you can't go over the best option that you have is going through. But you have to learn how to give thanks in all things and give praise in all things. Dear God, I know i do not have this, I know I am going through this, I know i see this, but Thank You. Thank you For everything...

Sorry this note was so long but so much on my mind right now and I just want to let anybody out there know, SMILE like its all you know how to do, don't hide the pain but allow yourself to heal, allow someone to help you heal, allow someone to care for the bruises and bring all the functionality of your life and heart back to a completely restored place. this is all

Dear God, I love you, I thank you. I just want you to know that for once I am not asking you for anything, all i want to do is say Thank you.

Emmanuel Rashad

P.S.A- Stop allowing people think that they have rule over your life and over your situation, own and copyright everything that you are, because we are a strong people and no one can break us but ourselves, you can bruise me but you can't break me

Sitting here and thinking I haven't written anything in quite a long time, so i figured what better occasion to pick than something for my lovely couples and people on valentine's holiday. It's been a while since i have written anything pertained to the subject, so this is from me to you.

 Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.1 Corinthians 13:4-7

 Many people have what they call their own definition of love and to each person love means something different. To me i have my own interpretations, i have been where most people are so let see if i can shed some light on my thoughts.

 To love someone is nothing, to be loved by somebody is something and to feel the same love by that somebody that you love equates to everything. Love is half dream half reality. Problems usually arise when you fall in love with the dream and not the reality. But you find true love when you fall in love with both. I often say that I am in love with the thought but never has it occurred to me that I don't have love because I never have fallen in love with the reality of my thoughts. But at the same time I think that maybe God wants us to meet a few of the wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet that person we will know how to be grateful. All too often we are not grateful for the ones we have.

 Love is not sending you a gift, a letter, or whatever it may be because this week or today is valentine's. Love is saying i love you and i will be with you even when i dislike you with everything in me. Love is saying that today is wednesday I decided to send you these flowers just because I woke up and realized how beautiful you are. Love is giving somebody complete control over your heart to destroy you, but trusting them not to. Love is saying that I think about you constantly because you never left my mind, I missed you every second because even when you are with me I am still missing you. Love is saying that you are smiling for no reason and you realize that you were thinking about the one that you cherish.

 Throughout life we meet one person that is never like another, we can talk to them for hours at a time and never get bored, you could tell them everything and they will never judge you, this person is your best friend. Someday someone might come into your life and love you the way you've always wanted. If your someday was yesterday, learn from it, if your someday is tomorrow then hope for it. If your someday is right now then cherish every moment of the one that you are love with and never let it go.

 Love is a commitment, point blank. If you tell someone you love them it's because your committed to them, and entering into something where each person gives and each person takes, a balance of both. I think we misunderstand what love is because many of us haven't seen it. Just because you miss somebody doesnt mean you love them. I've missed alot of *ahem fools, and realized that wasn't love. I only missed them because I was by myself and they weren't around. Not because of love.
Love is saying "I can't live without you", not "I can see myself with you for the rest of my life." Love is seeing past a person's faults, whether they be past or present, physical or emotional. Love is taking the time out to listen to the other person. Love is celebrating with them when they're happy, and crying with them they're down. Love is taking the initiative to do what's right, whether or not they asked you to do this in the first place. Love is not the feeling you get when he calls, or how you feel when you see him. That is probably excitement, happiness, etc..Love is a set of virtues that you abide by. This is just my definition of love.

These are just my thoughts on the subject in itself. I know that everyone has a separate definition and if so share in the comments, I love hearing people comments, definitions whatever it may be... Hope you enjoy

Thnks for reading

Emmanuel Rashad