The Women's Empowerment Group

As I reflect on 2018, I am just amazed and at awe of how God has grown me, things that have pained me for years are slowly moving away and I am beginning to see the "me" that I have worked so hard to master..Broken places are being healed and love is beginning to peak through to reveal its magnificent power, Life is messy and at times it can feel almost overwhelming, it can literally take your breath away. But at the end of the rope is where God steps in and takes charge,.. if you believe it.. He makes things that were once muddy (clear)..he tells you who you are and who you are not. He is honest with you even when the people around you are not. He soothes, he comforts and most importantly he restores. We all walk around with the facade of busyness, I'm too busy to spend time with you, I'm too busy to call, I'm too busy to check on you..Busy, Busy, Busy. But I have come to know that the busyness that we experience-- is really just you making time for

I have been writing for the past five years, writing about my journey to wholeness. I started out as a fragmented person. One who had pieces of herself but nothing seem to connect. Over the past five years the pieces have slowly begun to come together. I can see the remnants of a whole person forming. But one day I realized that after all of the work, I still struggled with right and wrong.  I had spent so much time in trying to stay on the right side of everything, that I failed to see that I was afraid of what I perceived as wrong, I was afraid of the judgement, the side eyes that I would receive if I ever did anything wrong. Being on the right side of everything at times is tiring and boring. It forces us to chase perfection. The right side is judgmental it separates us from the real world that is filled with right and wrong. My right is your wrong and my wrong is your right. There are a plethora of views. Everyone has their perception of what is right or what is wrong. B

Sometimes a stranger's words can resonate with us on a deep level. As I was going through my day I ran into a stranger that said to me in a random conversation that " Only you can make you happy" This resonated with me on a lot of levels, it stopped me in my tracks and forced me to become present in the spirit of his words. Sometimes we can become so entrenched in attempting to make others happy that we neglect to tap into what makes us happy.And forget that we are only capable of finding our own happiness. Sometimes our happiness can become lost in serving others. And sometimes we can find that same happiness in the act of serving. This paradox allows us to not become too self-serving. When we can find the balance between serving ourselves and others, we can find the essence of  truly being happy. Happiness is a state that is only designed by YOU. When we can see happiness in the smallest/largest thing ie., the treees' blooming, the sun shining, having food an

There has been a few times in my life that I have become fully in tuned with the universe. In the moments of being in tuned with the universe, amazing things become crystal clear to us. When we can quiet our hearts and minds enough, we can hear and see what the universe is saying to us. The universe is made up of many forms of energy. We can derive energy from the smallest piece of the universe. In our hurried and frazzled lives it is extremely important that we stop and listen to the small whispers that the universe occasionally lends us. The fluttering of a butterfly--or the gentle spirit of an innocent lady bug that appears out of nowhere. These anomalies can heal us on a deep level, they show us that our deepest needs are seen and heard by the universe. And the universe has simple remedies to heal us, if we can become open enough to its quiet solutions. The more I live the more I learn that the universe is full of solutions, we just need to be able to hear them and embrace t

There is a time in everyone's life that we must turn the page- so that we can move on to new things in our lives. Turning the page merely entails accepting things right where they are-- while taking steps in a new direction. Turning the page is deeply rooted in acceptance, acceptance of who we are and where we stand right now. When we can strip off all of the "could haves" and "should haves", we are left with "what is"--and "what is" --is the present moment. The present moment is a place that allows us to stop and take in all that is..it is a place that is free from the past and the future. It is a place that allows us to feel our own breath and our own heartbeat. It is a place that allows us to see and feel the rain and all of the beauty that it beholds. It allows us to feel the kiss of the sun on our faces. And most importantly it allows us to see all of God's magnificence in its entirety. In these moments we are one with all..and

Fear is an amazing emotion it can fuel us or fight us. When used effectively it can be the spark that pushes us to a new level. I choose to reject people or things that use fear tactics to stop us. I have come to a point in my life that I am willing to take the risk of losing everything to preserve the core of who I am. At my core, lies a fearless source that knows the power that lies in and through standing up to those things that fear us. When we address the core of fear, we find that it is merely old tapes that we have created ourselves, some have some real aspects to them, but most are our own pre-conceived notions. Fear mongers are real, they are normally people who have no power in themselves. And they choose to attempt to fear others to gain power in themselves. At the core of fear-mongers are people that are lacking in their lives and have chosen to take the focus off of their  own lives as not to resolve what ails them. The remedy for fear-mongers..is to love them uncon