A woman's Fragrance

The other day I was privileged to sit in a room full of woman... I sat back and walked the room with my eyes. I noticed every woman in the room was a beautiful creation flawlessly sculptured and hand crafted by Gods hand. So many wonderful fragrances filled the air. The aroma of greatness travelled through out the room. I begin to think to myself wow, what would it be like if each of these woman recognized their own scent. What would it be like if every woman in here was confident that the unique aroma that flowed from her spirit was significantly needed to make the world go round.
When was the last time you checked your fragrance?
When was the last time you appreciated your fragrance?
I read an article that said " if the fragrance of a woman vanished the world would stop". I can't speak for any other woman but the fact that someone saw fit to publish that simple line, it did something to my ego. I like my fragrance and I wear it proudly, Dr. Angelou said it best, I am a phenomenal woman and there's no other like me. I remember trying on some sexy graffiti one of my mothers favorite fragrances. When she first wore it, I thought to myself, I have to get that, so I went and purchased me some, got home put it on and absolutely hated how it smelled. Why? Because it did not agree with my body chemistry. I said that, to say this, one of the biggest problems we have as woman, is embracing our inner fragrance, we struggle with true identity, we neglect and reconstruct the original woman. Now please don't get me wrong, because I too enhance my beauty, I love cosmetics, I love being versatile with my hair, if the truth be told I consider myself a fashionista, but more over I Love Me! I see so many woman lost in the identity of others that its scary. Theirs a quote I love to go by " an original is always worth more than a copy" I stand by that quote. Its ok to be inspired but when you become lost in some one else identity you defeat your purpose of being. In my mind I house the fragrance that makes the world go round.... Embrace your fragrance and allow the original scent to flow freely from your spirit and change the world. You look Good on You. When you wear someone else fragrance it doesn't agree with your inner chemistry!

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Your Struggle is Not for you

As I commenced my morning at 4:00am I started off with Morning Prayer and meditation, I lay across the bed for a second and allowed my thoughts to travel.  I begin to think about the past few years of my life, I found myself fighting back the tears and simply thanking God that almost didn’t become. A lot of times we are faced with challenges and we allow it to consume our life and keep us from going after our destiny. We are quick to eternalize short term situations and allow it to slowly eat away at our souls. One thing I have learned, Life is not easy but if we learn to see the outcome of what we are going through it shines light on the situation at hand.  I know my God given destiny has been to help hurting souls, empower women, impart strength into the weak, educate people on HIV and AIDS, capture memories of life (photography), teach the importance of self beauty, write words of healing and victory and the list continues. Then I begin to think about how amazing God is and how his plan is not our plan and his way to bring fourth that plan is not necessarily what we have in mind.  I embrace the plan God has for my life in fact I love being a help to people I am a born Humanitarian but needless to say I am the perfect picture of imperfection.  I begin to think, how effective my gift would be if I never experienced anything, how convincing my speech of victory would be if I never went through a storm. How could I help a person on the verge of suicide if my mind was never tainted with the thoughts of ending my own life, how can I tell a person that in every storm there is light If  I have never been through  anything. Each day we live and each challenge we have to go through is not for us but it’s to help someone that will experience the same thing. So when challenges come into your life and you wonder why you are going through what you are going through keep in mind that you will cross the paths of someone that will need to hear your testimony but the only way your testimony will be effective is if there’s compassion and compassion comes when we walk the same road as the person in need. So when you are going through what you are going through just know the battle is not for you but it’s for a path you will eventually cross.

Good Day Loves!

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Me Myself and the Mirror

Today I took the time to spend some me time staring in the mirror, free from every article of material I examined myself from head to toe. I saw something’s I could change as well as something’s I would like to keep. I stared for almost an hour allowing my eyes to travel into my soul. Then I asked myself the question…. “Do you really know who you are?” “Do you really respect the person you are?” “What you see in the mirror, is it evidence of one who considers their body a temple?” If the truth be told the answer to all three would be NO… Yes I said it, and I’m not at all ashamed of admitting the truth.  In 2011 I made no New Year Resolutions just silent promises to myself and one of the promises I made to myself is to become a better woman to myself. I could never be a better woman to anyone else before first being good to me. I had to first start with a self examination with me, my notebook, a sharpie and the mirror.  I never deny the fact that I am secure and have a clear vision of Gods plan for my life but there is so much more that comes along with the plan and the vision. The first thing that came to me was going through a cleansing, freely we intoxicate our body with all kinds of things that could cause long term problems.  From our Food intake to the things we feed our spirit.  Now my desire is to become everything that God predestined for my life but the only way I can begin to travel that journey is by recognizing things that need to be put in place before I travel that road.  So as I looked into my eyes I begin to travel the pathways of my soul, and I asked myself another question “How bad Do you want it?” I asked myself that question because as I looked through my eyes I begin to see ahead in time, I saw myself as a bestselling author, I saw  myself traveling as a motivational speaker, I saw myself as a entrepreneur, I saw myself as one of the most creative  photographers in the world. I saw myself as one of the most profound writers in history. I saw myself living Life and not just waking up to life, and after all of that I asked myself… HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT!!!! I screamed to the top of my LUNGS!!!! I want it bad like first time I desired to have God in my life, Bad Like I needed GOD to perform a miracle in my mom’s Life, BAD like I wanted GOD to heal my father’s body… BAD like I wanted deliverance to take place in my heart Bad Like I wanted God to work out that relationship I knew wasn’t good for me. BAD Like I wanted mental freedom. So I said ok If you want it that bad there’s something’s that you are going to have to cut, something’s you are going to have to free yourself from…. At 28 years old I have been through something’s and I recognize and realize as long as I live I will have some other things that I will have to tackle, but the first fight that we usually endure is the fight against ourselves because we simply don’t know who we are, we simple don’t respect who we are and we don’t guard our temple. Take time to meet with the mirror free yourself from the material articles and look at the true you and then do  self examination to find out if you are equipped to handle the plan God has for your life.

(((((Hugs))))))  &  *****Muahs*****

Robin LaShelle