The Women's Empowerment Group

As we age, we come to view realness in an entirely new way. As the pieces of ourselves surface, we grab hold to them much like an awaited clue to a mystery. The truth of who we are burns and soothes us all at the same time. It is like being on a beach and finding sea shells, some of them are perfect and some are defected. We dust off the sand to uncover its beauty. Such is the case of finding our true self, finding what is the real truth--not the truth that we have settled with and for..but our authentic truth. There once was a man who was asked as to whether or not he would choose a boat or a map to direct him through his life. The man chose the boat, so that he could float through the sea of life, allowing the boat to deliver him to his destination. Some times on the boat he would literally float in one place ,for what seemed like days ...but he surrendered himself to the course that the boat chose. When we chose to surrender to the reality that life is the truth teacher, it is our

As the year draws to a close, when we look back onto some of our experiences, good and bad. We realize that they all were suppose to happen. They were all a part of strengthening us for what's to come. As the years roll by, I begin to realize that each year has built upon the last. Very similar to how the mastaba pyramids (see picture) were built in the Egyptian Age , they began building them as one big building that held the kings but later in the construction they were built with various compartments that held various rooms.One room on top of another.... Such is our experiences.. they begin as one big glob of experiences; but as the years roll around, they become compartmentalized into a more clearer understanding. We begin to move the experiences into there own rooms, where they become comfortable and cozy in our memory. Some memories we must discard because they do not fit into any of the rooms and they no longer have value or belong in any of our rooms. So as we discard our

My Christmas wish has evolved over the years. I used to wish for material things, but now I simply wish for peace. I wish that all of my friends and family find peace in all that they endeavor. I wish that the world would come to know that love is the ultimate healer of all that ails it. And that if we simply stop, look and listen we can find out amazing things about each other. We can look at what we share and not how much we are different. Our differences are what make up this beautiful world, it is what we come to find interesting in each other. If we were all alike this world be a very mundane place and space. I wish that in warring we find out how to make peace with one another, oppose to finding ways to harm one another. I wish that our communities would recognize the power that lies in working together and joining forces and not finding ways to tear each other down. I wish that we find ways in our families to weave together our god given gifts to create a beautiful tapestry t

War is an amazing tool, it at times can change the entire landscape of our lives. I am a peace lover but one thing that I have learned on my journey is that getting to peace at times requires a little war. Some mountains must be gone through and not around. If we continually side step the tough issues or people in our lives then we cannot get to a solution, a win/win for everyone involved. I've spent a lot of years only applying kindness to the difficult situations and people in my life. But I have also learned that some people do not respond to kindness, some people are not ready to receive kindness because they have things within them that repel kindness away from them. Waging war at times can mean standing on what it is that you believe and no matter what others think or feel --standing. When the winds roar and the people around you do unbelievable things to you--still standing. Standing on the mere fact that when you have done all that you can do for a person or situation w

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.  ~Aristotle I have grown to know that education can in fact open up amazing doors in the mind. Education is the one thing in my life that has allowed me to free my mind. To not so readily accept the accepted and to challenge those things that popular thought willingly receives. On my journey to finding myself and Christ.  The one thing that has kept me focused is the ability to stay in a state of learning. To never rely on what I know as being factual, because knowledge is fluid and every corner that we turn disputes and challenges what we think we know. I used to think that confident all knowing people had all of the answers, but I now know that we all are really unsure. Because surety is fake--nothing is truly for sure.  No one really has all of the answers, we are all traveling on an unsure journey that leads us to the things that make sense to us. The things that give us a sense of peac

When you love someone, sometimes you must let them go in your spirit. Sometimes the heart wants to hold on to them but the mind tells us that we must let them go. Letting go does not always means in a physical sense, it at times means giving another the space to grow. Allowing another to live in their space and time, to feel their breath,their energy and their feelings. Sometimes two people together can interfere with each other growth. It can stop individual growth, it can serve as crutch as to not endeavor the inevitable growing. When we love someone we at times can feel their pain and want to do anything to take away their pain. But at some point we must all feel our own pain, we must feel it so that we can know it for ourselves. Our pain is the catalyst for our growth--it is the screaming signal to us that it is time to change. That it is time that we come to know that what has worked for so long, is no longer effective or efficient in our lives. When we are alone with our own

In the wilderness is where you find out the most about yourself and others. It is in the moments of ambiguity that we must use all of our skills to understand the things that are unclear to us. As we travel through life there will be moments and time spans that make no sense. They may feel like there is no end in sight. These are the moments that we must hold on to what we know and dive in. As we begin to swim through the sea of unknowns, we must ask GOD to protect us and keep us. We must trust that GOD will fix things and eventually make them clearer to us. Life is very similar to a forest where there are no clear directing points but we know in our heart and minds that there is a way out. Sometimes we must stay in the wilderness until we can make sense of it, while in the wilderness we must pay attention to the path that we are taking as they could in fact lead us back to where we started. So we must place markers on the roads that we have traveled as to not end our journey, at t