The Celebration Continues…Kwanzaa!

Unity…Creativity…Faith…Giving gifts…December 26 to January 1, is the annual celebration of African-American culture; leading up to Karamu, a Feast of Faith…

The celebration begins in succession with Kukaribisha (Welcoming)…Kuumba (Remembering)…Kuchunguza Tena Na Kutoa Ahadi Tena (Reassessment and Recommitment)…Kushangilia (Rejoicing)…Tamshi la Timbiko (Libation Statement)…Tamshi la Tutaonana (The Farewell Statement)…

The Swahili phrase, matunda ya kwanza, means “first fruits.” First fruits festivals take place in Southern Africa, which are celebrated in December/January with the southern solstice…Kwanzaa is spelled with an additional “a” so that it would bear a symbolic seven letters…as it occurs over seven days…which dedicates each day to one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa…Nguzo Saba.

Kwanzaa is celebrated by all…

Unity…Creativity…Faith…Giving gifts…a celebration of culture…wonderful reasons to be communal in recognition and celebration…The diversity of human beings..is divine! And should be so honored…Unity…is the key….

Joyous Kwanzaa to all!

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Reflect and Meditate…On a Selfless Christmas.

Today is Christmas. It will be a day of joy and celebration for some…and just another day for others…

However the day unfolds…take some time to reflect and meditate…and take yourself out of the equation to reflect and meditate on others.

While it is always good to be thankful and grateful for what you have…and what you receive…step outside of your box and reflect and meditate on those who are not as fortunate due to War…Poverty…Homelessness…Mental Disabilities…Sickness…Physical Disabilities, and other human frailties which may or may not come to mind…

These human conditions will not take away from your joy of Christmas if you become a part of someone else’s joy. Remember, it isn’t always a material gesture that heals…a smile…a kind word…an act of random kindness, everyday…will elevate a spirit to the highest level of Heaven! Christmas isn’t just for a day…it is an energy that is endless and timeless!

The difference someone makes in your life…is the difference you make in others’ lives…

When you step out of Ego…and into Spirit…you know who you are…what your purpose is…and how you can leave a positive footprint in the world…for others to step into…

You are the Joy…

You are the Light…

You are the Giver…

You elevate the goodness in the world…

You…make the choices to do so…or not…

You…bring Christmas…

You are…Christmas…to more people than you know…

Reflect and Meditate on that…

Being “selfless” is an unconscious habit…

Refine it and allow it to shine brightly…

Mesmerize…like the lights on a Christmas tree…

Reflect and Meditate…

Let the joy of your Christmas…touch the lives of countless…

Let the joy of you…energize you…

Merry, Merry, Merry…Christmas!!!

To All…Goodnight…

To All…Shine…Bright.

May Peace always…be with you….

This Night Before Christmas…Commit To Peace…Pledge…To Love…

Christmas Day… over 2000 years ago, bestowed upon humankind a miracle…in the form of a man who would eventually give his life for the salvation of Humanity…

While it is your choice to believe or not believe…Salvation is yours.

This night before Christmas… Commit to Peace…Pledge… to Love…

We choose the lives we live…we can make conscious and unconscious choices to live the best possible lives that contribute to the well-being of those within and without our immediate circles…families…communities…

We can gift many with kindness and compassion…understanding and patience…with goodness and joy…

These gifts are lasting and yield endless bounty…paving the way to Peace…reinforcing the power of Love…

Receive these gifts in the Spirit of Christmas…and in the Light of Salvation…Understand the miracle of Christmas…

Gift these treasures…and behold the miracles which spring forth and transform humankind…

This night before Christmas…Commit to Peace…Pledge…to Love…

Your light…and how you use it…nurtures and sustains…the true meaning…and the miracle…of Christmas….

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing….

Restoring Christmas Magic…With The Heart of a Child.

Here we are…three days before Christmas… Can you feel the Magic?

Isn’t it something how Christmas eventually melts the hardest of hearts?

Remember when you were a child and the anticipation of what was to come…wishes and desires materializing in the wonder of the Season? Nothing was impossible in the heart of a child…our childish innocence was priceless! And magic…because we believed!

Can we recall that belief and restore Christmas magic…with the heart of a child?

Can we believe long enough and strong enough to change the chaos going on around us…in our lives…in the country…in the world?

Restoring Christmas magic with the heart and determination of a child…can bring about Christmas miracles…if you believe

Belief moves mountains…materializes hope…dreams and desires.

Believe in Peace…

Believe in Harmony…

Believe in Love…

Believe in You…

Believe in Humanity…

Believe in giving outside of yourself…

Believe in the goodness of spirit that keeps the world turning…and the universe from imploding…

Believe in Hope…especially when you can be the bearer of hope for another…

Believe in Good Will and be the example in practicing it…always.

Believe that there is more light in the world…by increasing yours…and becoming the better part of yourself…until it becomes

the entirety of your being…no one is a lost cause…unless they give up on themselves…

Don’t ever give up…give in…unleash the child-like innocence in your heart…let the magic of the Season show you again…

Restoring Christmas Magic…

Restoring Belief…

Restoring…You…

Christmas is almost here…

Unleash the magic…

Believe!!!!

The Final Month of 2022…

Here we are. December 1, 2022…The Final Month of 2022…

Taking a look back at the last eleven months, how will we spend the final month of the year?

It is a month we will never have again…please spend it wisely…Make it count…Make it meaningful…

Truly make it a month of giving and living…with extra doses of Love…Goodwill…and selflessness when it comes to others…within and without your circle of living…and when it comes to you…remember that you are a work in progress…with the ability to change and uplift…yourself…with compassion…patience…and forgiveness…as you would offer and give to those outside of yourself.

Humanity is a continuous work in progress on a scale that ranges far and wide.

The holidays we celebrate in December are holidays of humility across our various cultures…with one element in common: Goodwill…Love is the greatest…however, that is a 24/7 exercise to eventual mastery…if the heart…mind…body and spirit are endless and willing in the pursuit and attainment thereof…on an unconditional level of practice and fulfillment.

If humanity would only commit to Love…and Goodwill toward everyone across our planet…The Final Month of 2022 would be vastly different than the eleven we have lived…experienced…and witnessed…where changes that would elevate humanity have once again been ignored and explained away…clearing paths that only worsen the human experience and condition of countless…who only wish to live and embrace a better quality of life.

Make December a standout month for human improvement and compassion.

There can never be harmonious living between good intentions and evil doing…

Only the best of who you are can change the world for a better today…tomorrow…future…

The Final Month of 2022…is your gift…to gift the world with love and light…

Thirty-one days of better…

Better you…Better world…Got it? Get it?

Get going!!!

This Temple…

This Temple…is My Home…

Without my consent…no one can enter…

No one can change or rearrange its content or character…

No one can rent…buy…sell…contain…or control it…

This Temple is My Sacred Place…

My Peace…

My Joy…

My Happiness…

My Solitude…

My Refuge…

My Salvation…

My Holy Ground…

This Temple…is…My Connection…

To The Almighty…

God…

Goddess…

The Force…

The Divine…

…All There Is…

This Temple…is…

My Power Source…

My Light…

My Eternity…

My Rock of Ages…

This Temple is…

My Body…

My Soul…

My Essence…

My Being…

Embodied Spirit…

I AM…

This Temple…

My Dwelling…

My Abode…

My Mansion…

My Home…

No Trespassing.

Being Thankful To Have The Ability To Change…

We all have the ability to be fluid and bring about change…

It isn’t an elusive ability…all one has to do…is to do it…

Nothing is written that cannot be changed…

Everything is open for improvement in the world…and that includes the human condition…

You…are the instrument of change…

This Thanksgiving…

Be thankful…

Because you have the ability to change…everything.

Don’t neglect or give away your power to change…the world…your surroundings…yourself…

Be thankful to have the ability to change…

Reflect on that when you can open your eyes from slumber…and take another breath…and rise…with the ability to change…anything…

Lift your world out of chaos…and you will extend to the world another chance to change…

Be thankful…

You have purpose…

You…are…change….

The greatest gift of change…is to be…the change…

Remember to be thankful…

For the gift of change….

Happy Thanks…giving…Change….

Finding Peace In A Chaotic World…

When we find real and true peace in our hearts…we will find peace in a chaotic world…and when enough of the masses understand the real and true meaning of peace…chaos will cease to reign.

People create chaos…People create peace…The equation is simple.

Peace on Earth…Goodwill towards humankind…has always been people’s choice…

Choosing chaos over peace is leaving the world and humanity scarred…and unable to heal and recover.

Veterans Day is always a bleak reminder of how many lives were given because chaos is embraced constantly over peace…

Veterans and civilians alike…from chaos on the battlefields…to chaos within our country…and around the world.

We must remember how we are all connected…how we all affect one another…seen…unseen…next door…and oceans apart…

We must quiet and dissipate our chaos…within…and without…and lay a foundation and pathway to lasting peace…within…and without…

Finding Peace…in a chaotic world…is our choice…

Reflect on today…

Honor it…

And take up the path of Peace…..

All Saints Day…A Prayer For Humanity…

It is said that “on the Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, the Church celebrates those Christians who achieved spiritual maturity.”

Spiritual maturity knows no culture or creed…no color or gender…

A spiritual mature person actively honors all beings and recognizes we are all interconnected, diverse and unique. According to Genesis chapter one, verse 26, we are all created in the “image” and “likeness” of God/the sacred, with the capacity to discover that potentiality.

Looking back on the last 10 months…one must wonder…where is humanity’s spiritual maturity?

Where is the spiritual growth and progression?

Somehow it appears that spiritual growth has been stunted, and progression is taking giant steps backward into “cave people” mentality…with the masses blindly accepting without question or pause…

On this All Saints Day…we need a Prayer for Humanity…

The chaos just manages to somehow grow and swallow all sense and sensibility…and again, it is welcomed! When one becomes blinded to the truth and accepts obvious lies as truth…humanity loses another generation of spiritual maturity and spiritual growth…with the loss reverberating around the planet.

One day soon, it will become quite clear that materialism…power…and the quest to control will crush individual spirit to the point of no return. Perhaps we are already witnessing this fallout in everyday fare…when children at the age of seven years are toting guns in their backpacks…we must ask ourselves…where is humanity headed?

When the resurfacing of hatred against groups and cultures rise with an intensity of resurrecting atrocities which were sworn to be “never again” lie on the precipice of eruption…we must ask ourselves,”Was there ever an ounce of spiritual maturity in humanity’s journey of evolution from such horrific events through the passage of time?”

We only need to look in our own backyards…and witness the deep division in America…from the constant nursing of Racism…and “whitewashing” of Slavery and Black Americans…Native American genocide…Asian cruelties and other diversity groups being targeted… to know that “spiritual maturity” is nothing more than grasping at a dream…and we must say a prayer for humanity…

And while we are saying that prayer…we must stand up for preserving whatever best is left…in humanity…to evolve and rise above this innate hunger to destroy and divide…to conquer…a conquering that has no rewards…no redemption…just a fractured…and crumbling America…Asia…Europe…Middle East…Africa…our planet…

Every hand plunges the sword…no one is innocent…as long as we continue to endorse evil with illusion and delusion…and sleight of hand.

This is the eleventh hour…of the eleventh month…November…The number eleven…master number…a unique, powerful vibration…it is time to be influenced by the eleventh month…to find your inner strength in these times of trial not only to cope well with crisis and chaos…but to banish it from destroying humanity.

All Saints Day…A Prayer For Humanity…

Only a center in Love can cement and conquer…restore and rebirth…cast out the soulless… and bring light once again…to a planet shrouded in that which seeks to destroy it…

Examine your hearts…Are you Love?

Or that which seeks to destroy?

You hold the decisive energy…

You will decide…the prayer…which will energize spiritual maturity…

Or send the human spirit spiraling down an endless crevice of no return…

Which side of humanity will you embrace?

All Saints Day…has opened the door…

Be Mindful of The Path You Forge…

Be mindful of the path you forge…it will become your legacy…

The way we live our lives becomes our footprint in history…

History isn’t just what is read in history books…history is what every human being creates in every life they touch by thoughts…words…deeds…and beyond. The paths that are forged become crossroads to all life and all lives lived in your time present on the planet!

We are not islands unto ourselves…as much as some would like to believe…that is why it is so important to be mindful on your journey through life.

Someone watches you and imitates your every thought…your every word…your every deed…you are a book…a collective history in motion…especially children and young people who are trying to make sense of the world around them…and those who have yet to make sense or find direction in their lives.

Take a moment to reflect on what you have left behind on your path…

Is it a history that reflects the best of you?

Is it a history that you would want to be woven into the book of earth history of humankind?

Will it advance humankind’s presence for another millennium?

Or will it take humankind back to savage beginnings?

Here we are into the month of October…

And the history being made continues to journey far from where humanity needs to be on the road to progress…

Start with you…

You are what we see in the world…

Be mindful of the path you forge…

The legacy of humankind…and this home planet…is being created and written…

By you….

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