Monday November 7, 2016 

It’s OK to be not OK. True emotional well-being is not the absence of negative emotions. It’s being able to withstand the down times with minimal damage. May you be blessed with a strong emotional immune system that fights off depression and leaves you at an even keel, even when everything is not OK.

I have a list of folks I know...all written in a book

And every now and then...I go and take a look

That is when I realize these names ...they are a part

Not of the book they're written in...but taken from the heart

For each name stands for someone...who has crossed my path sometime 

and in that meeting they have become...the reason and the rhyme

Although it sounds fantastic...for me to make this claim

I really am composed...of each remembered name

Although you're not aware...of any special link 

just knowing you, has shaped my life...more than you could think

So please don't think my greeting...as just a mere routine

your name was not...forgotten in between

For when I send a greeting...that is addressed to you 

it is because you're on the list...of folks I'm indebted to

So whether I have known you...for many days or few

in some ways you have a part, in shaping things I do

I am but a total...of many folks I've met

you are a friend I would prefer...never to forget

I will reawaken my senses. I will see the positivity today. I will smell the signs of life around me. I will feel the living proof of God's creations. I will hear the songs of nature. I will taste the sweetness of replenishment.

Isaiah 57:19​​​​​​​

Prayers and help for my niece raychel she is deep into drugs, looks very sick, and is also in an abusive relationship. Her 4 children are with relatives and I have the ten years old girl who is missing her.