Blessings

Good day,

Reflect on the past, accept acknowldge, forgive and appreciate it. Look to the future, prepare for it, encourage and learn from it. Enjoy the present for the past has gone and tomorrow is not guaranteed.

So love and respect thy self before you look to anyone to do so. Forgive thyself for all the mistakes,  lack of judgement and abuse thy have put thyself through. Accept responsibility for allowing others to not treat thyself the way thyself should be treated.

Remeber if we do not treat thyself right how can we expect others to treat thy right?

So as I lay with my princess in my arms we send our love to everyone in our world. We also ask the Almighty Most High to send his angels to watch, guide and protect us in the Light of Blessings to heal thy wounds and thy minds and shine his light on our spirits. May your days be forever blessed.

Peace love and blessings
Cc and Kai

Mothers Day

We often take for granted what being a mother is really about,
we may even find that we scream and shout,
For those of us that have been blessed to have gone through 9 months of pregnancy,
We should really be grateful
For some of us haven't had the experience however that has stopped the mothering process.
As a woman we are gifted with the capability to, love, teach, support, to work hard, to cry hard, to provide in every way.
Whether we raised children of our own, or maybe brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers or children who were neglected by their own.
Lift up your light, celebrate, appreciate, acknowledge the challenges you've had.
There are no manuals, no instructions, no google,  on how to be a mother,  
It's a gift from above!
So let us embrace our role as women, love our family 24/7 365

Even on this mothering sunday,
We never get a break,
As we have mothers that we have to,
Acknowledge on this day.

I love my mum, without her where would I be, thank you for giving life to me, raising me, aiding me to be the woman i am today.

To my royals, thank you for blessing me with the opportunity to be the mother that you see. Thank you for loving me unconditionally.

To all the angel mothers, grandmothers may you look down on your children and be proud.  Know the love is lost.

To all my sisters from another mother, my stepmom, godmom,  the women in my family, my  nonblood mothers, my friends, you are  phenomenal mothers, super women handling your business everyday, I love you all. Thank you for being a part of our world.

Love We3

Scream Tuesday

Scream Tuesday!!

Today I just feel like screaming,
In fact no doubt I think I will
Today I just feel like screaming
Even if its against my will
Today I feel like screaming
Then shouting and just letting it all out
Then I'm going to get on my knees

Dear lord as I kneel here humbly on my jelly legs, i thank you for my blessings big and small. I thank you for giving me air to breathe, water to drink and food to eat. However right now I feel that feeling deep in the depth of my soul, so i'm here, im really here asking you,  praying for inner peace, clarity strength and the ability to achieve understanding of my current situation, of my future and letting go of all my past. I am a sinner have done so many wrongs but I ask you to forgive me as I humbly kneel before you, my almighty father to take away my problems as I hand them to you. I know there is nothing you can't do.

I ask you my almighty father to guide me, give me confidence in my actions and my words.

I also ask you to give my family,  friends and those I have yet to meet the strength the health and clarity to handle what is before them, behind them and all that they have to deal with.

With love in my heart and a head full of stress and pain I embrace you from within.

Ameen

Telly adicts

Those that know me know I'm a bookworm always got a book close to my hand. They also know if you turn on the tv 9 times out of 10 I'm likely to be asleep with 5 mins. I use books to escape from the reality or to get a deeper understanding of people and the world around us.

Recently over the past year I've started to watch shows some of them reality others are entertainment.

And there's one that has caught my eye. Her majesty's service Aylsebury. A documentary series about life in the Britain's young offenders institutions. 

Ive watched a couple episodes and have formed the opinion that as much as the makers in some ways are trying to make it seem like a deterrent for young people, to possibly show them that crime doesn't pay. Its the opposite.

To me all its doing is

a)hyping prison life "only the tough survive and survival of the fittest to gain more street cred for your crew"

b) a majority of the videos they have shown, of the fights, are of the young black boys locked up in there

C) that alot of the boys in prison should really have spent more time getting knowledge and an education than trying to be tough.

D) the youth of today truly are a lost generation, they are misguided,  probably lacking in love and support and need to use the brains that they have to better themselves

E ) there was one black boy that was built like a brick, had a brain like a brick. Like really? If that was my son or brother on the tv speaking and behaving in such a manner I would give him too licks with the dutch pot. I would truly be ashamed because he sounds illiterate, his communication of the way he would behave is disgusting. Although they didn't show him doing any of the things he mentioned, for all we know he could just be trying to hype himself. Of the whole first hour I watched this, he saddened me, I pitied him, and felt appalled all in the same breath.

Come on black boy fix up. Our ancestors are rolling in their graves thinking they fought for us, they gave us knowledge and power beyond the crack and the guns, the hatred and the lack of strength, the gave us community love and family upbringing amongst other things.

It saddens me to know that this boy, and so many of our boys are living up to the stereotype of what the media portrays us, black nubians to be. ANIMALS!

In this day and age our youth and children need to gain knowledge in order to respect themselves.  To gain understanding of who they are and where they came from in order to make the right decisions to protect our future.

Is there really any need for us to continue to desecrate and destroy what little unity we have? Should we not by now be able to stand together to build our nation? Strengthen our children with love, support, education. Should we not be able to break the shackles of hate amongst our own?

I wonder if its because the elders are dying, without handing down our ancestors knowledge of medicine, craft, love and life?

Is it because children are having children? Even as I ask that question, I don't know about that one! When we go back in time and check our family trees our elders were having children young.  The difference is they had family support,  the community raised the child.

Is it a case of "spare the rod, spoil the child" when the government made it difficult for parents to discipline their children without fear or recompense from the autorities of government?

Is it because their are too many single parent homes?

The lack of respect, morals, and so many other thing is being lost.

Even the Street Code has been lost. These youth are out for death, with no respect.  The moral code of respecting even if you dont like but respect was there. Now its every man for himself.

It saddens me. Im truly at a loss for words, can there be enough action to flip the coin and save a generation that's wiping out itself?

Valentine's day where it began!

So Valentine's day is officially over millions of couples all over the world are snuggled up holding each other close after a romantic dinner, flowers,chocolate and cards.  So many couples go out on a limb on this day to create that special ambience and declaration of love that I assume they do or should do all the other days of the year.

Fact

St Valentine was..... well who really knows the records show there were three saints in the Catholic/Christian books all apparently were martyred on February 14th. Hmmmm so how did this so called day of love come about?

Well lets find out

BACK WAYYYYYY back in ancient Roman times there was a festival for Lupercalis/Lupercalia, apparently it was a fertility celebration that used to be observed annually on February 15. However the rise of  Christianity throughout Europe saw many pagan holidays being renamed then dedicated to the early Christian martyrs. (Why??, I think I need to investigate further for future posts)

Anyway Lupercalia was no exception. In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius decided he was going to turn Lupercalia into a Christian feast day and set its observance a day earlier, on February 14. I guess he didn't think much of the feast of fertility as he decided to honour Saint Valentine, the Roman martyr who lived in the 3rd century instead. It is this St. Valentine whom the modern day honours.

Hmmm considering there were three St Valentine's what made this one so special? Well let's find out shall we?

There are two different versions of St Valentine's story the Protestant and the Catholic one. At least they both  agree Saint Valentine was a bishop who secretly held marriage ceremonies for soldiers, against in the orders by Claudius II who decided he didn't want his young men getting married and losing focus off the wars and battles he had engaged them inorder to prevent his city fron being overrun.  so he prohibited marriage for young men.

During the lifetime of Valentine, the golden era of Roman empire had almost come to an end.

Valentine being a man of the cloth and a lover of matrimony made it his mission to give couples the hope and faith that they could sanctify their unions with God's blessing.  Although such unions were done in secret word spread like wild fire and Claudius caught the fire and sent his officers to arrest Valentine.

During Valentine's stint behind bars a jailor, who had heard the rumours of Valentine's gift; the power to heal, asked him to heal his blind daughter. As said as done Valentine through faith prayed for the restoration of the daughter's sight.

Claudius II found himself to be impressed by Valentine when he met him. So much so he tried to convert him to his way of worshipping Roman Gods. Valentine declined and in turn tried to convince Claudius to convert him to his religion of serving just the one God. Outraged by Valentine's conviction against, not only, his prohibtion on the ban on marriages but also, his Roman Gods, Claudius II gave the order to execute Valentine.

Throughout Valentine's incarceration a bond was formed between the jailor's daughter. When she heard of his imminent death she was devastated. Apparently Valentine sent her a note and signed it "from your Valentine", a phrase that is still used today.

Historians find the most plausible story surrounding  Valentine is one not centered on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion. Valentine is believed to have been executed on February 14, 270 AD.

This is how Valentine became a patron saint and February 14 became the day for the lovers.  It was acknowledged by young Romans as an annual opportunity to give handwritten greetings to the women they admired. 

Once Christianity got their hands on the calendars it became St Valentine's day.

And you know in modern times any opportunity to make money out of a recognised day the industry will run with it.

Fact

Millions of $£¥€ are spent on this day because it's become an international day of expressing love through expensive gifts because society says so.

Fact

Most men couldn't give a hootniny about this day but they would prefer not to leave their woman upset and angry; because Samantha's boyfriend spent 100 bucks getting the biggest floral display he could find delivered to the office.

They also know the bigger the gift the more chance his woman will pull out that sexy little number and give him some nookie especially since for the past months since  New Year's she's just been too tired.

Women also use this day to rub it in the faces of their man's mistress, side piece, jump off and baby momma, or whoever else he's breaking a piece off to, that you are number 1 and they need to respect that.

If you celebrate Valentine's day, did you know the meaning of it?

People think about it.... everyday should be acknowledged as a day to express your love to your partner. REMEMBER  Love doesn't have a price tag. There shouldn't be any reason to neglect your partner because life is just toooo short not to give your all to your loved one.

How many of you celebrate Valentine's?
How do you celebrate it?
Do you go all out and spend tons of cash?

Guys share your opinion with us I'd be interested to know what you think.

History lesson over thanks for visiting.  Look out for my next "Snippet from my mind"

Oh before I up and leave I want to Congratulate my best friend and her now Fiancé -yup he popped the question on Valentine's Day and she said Yesssssss! I love you both.