This morning I received this in an email and thought it offered a few powerful messages:

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.  
Noah's Ark :  Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah's Ark .

ONE:  Don't miss the boat.
TWO:  Remember that we are all in the same boat!
THREE:  Plan ahead.  It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.  
FOUR:  Stay fit.  When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
FIVE:  Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
SIX:  Build your future on high ground.
SEVEN:  For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
EIGHT:  Speed isn't always an advantage.  The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
NINE:  When you're stressed, float awhile.
TEN:  Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
ELEVEN:  No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.
Please pass this on to people you want to be blessed.
Give it!  Don't just get it!

Most people walk in and out of your life,
but FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart.

My prevailing message continues to resonate with a resounding, "I will walk again." That deeply rooted belief even after these last almost five years will not escape me. I have too much riding on my ability to regain my independence. Last week while finishing up my last few sessions of in patient rehab at Kessler Institute in West Orange, NJ I nearly bumped wheels with Eric LeGrand the young college football player paralyzed last October while playing during the Rutgers-Army football game. I wanted to talk but he was speaking with a therapist. Maybe while going to out-patient I'll get to meet him very soon. A few days later he was in my hometown inspiring the young people to never give up. He told the students "I will walk again. I don't know when, but when I do, there's going to be a huge party in New Jersey." My belief and sentiments also young man. WITH UNSHAKABLE DETERMINATION, KEEP THE FAITH! 
                                                                                 
                                                               Read the story of his visit here:
                  http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/10/rutgers_eric_legrand_motivates.html

Believe you can still live the magnificent life you deserve to live...in spite of, regardless of, whatever may seem to be wrong at this moment...we have choices to make....I say I am determined to live my best..even if it's the only positive thought I have right now, IT'S ENOUGH! It has to be enough right now to move forward...MY SPIRIT, MY SOUL TRANSCENDS appearances of what multiple sclerosis or anything else has done and is doing to or around me. What do you declare as your truth to live by? Keep your vision in focus.  Until next time, TBC - BE SAFE and BE BLESSED!

Yestrday is a Dream!

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow is only a vision....But a well-lived today makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. - LIVE WELL TODAY and BE BLESSED!

Dx'd in '93, with Multiple Sclerosis while fighting my then employer for an illegal termination, with an 11 month old baby, I was one of three African American women in a battle against a Goliath. You would think the federal government would even follow federal law when in the act of terminating employees. Not in our cases. It seemed at the time it would never end. It lasted 16 months for me. A long story short, we won, that was 18 years ago. My son is 19 now a sophomore at an Ivy League Univ. and I'm still living in defiance against this thing called CCSVI/MS. I'm readying myself to retake/remake some things put on the sidelines for too long. There's nothing wrong in capturing a deferred dream/vision. If it's not yet lived, it's still waiting for fulfillment...and it still belongs to the dreamer/visionary.

GOD grants us the strength to overcome obstacles thrown at and thrust upon us...We just need to keep focused, address the adversities and be determined to be VICTORIOUS. GOD BLESS each of you to stand up, stand in and own the VICTORIOUS places held by GOD for you and only you. ~♥~

I BELIEVE

Yes, I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES....trusting in GOD'S PROMISE and living with and by FAITH knowing the POWERFUL SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN does more than I can....My work is to do as guided and BELIEVE !

Romans 8:28

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

This stated, on this day, I AM GRATEFUL. For me to profess this not having walked for the past 5 years due to multiple sclerosis and having more bad days than good due to complications of it is a miracle in itself. My physical life has been restricted from many of the magnificent things I desire....but......that too will not last. BELIEVE IN THE MIRACLE OF RESTORATION.  For anyone who has so much more on your side, your FAITH, YOUR BELIEF, YOUR ACTIONS will deliver you to a better place than just living in the negative places that begin in our heads. This writing is an extension of how I am being led to share hope. I KNOW LIFE IS GETTING BETTER as I live and speak GOD'S directions. 

After living with this illness in my life for over 40 years diagnosed since '93 and seemingly being stripped of so much because of it.....and I'm not crazy yet.......This is a part of my progressive testimony!.....GOD IS GOOD, IN CONTROL....... JUST BELIEVE, TAKE ACTION AND LIVE KNOWING THE BEST IS HERE and TO COME!

Until next time......TBC and GOD BLESS!