My how time flies!!!

Maybe I should change my blog name to "my how time flies". It just seems to be the theme or at least the beginning line of each posting.

Enough of that. Now, down to business. I have been loc'd now for 17 months. I have noticed, as most locers say, a significant change in me. My way of thinking and my outlook. My world view has broadened to the point that I am happy to be me. I see my place in the world and I am ready to get to it. I don't know if that would make sense to just the average person who would happen to read this post. I simply can't think of a better way to put it. I won't dare say it's the locs. I will say it is beginning the locs that propelled me into this acceptance of me. The great thing is; it's just a piece of a fantastic voyage that is leading me down a road I am completely ecstatic about.

To the vainer side of locs. They are long enough now that I can put them up see:

At one of my fav spots "daydreaming"

Non-locs update. My daughter graduated from HS. OMG! I can't believe my baby is "grown". For the last couple of days we have been at her school of choice for orientation for the fall. Wow, how overwhelming all of this information has been. So much for her to digest and know by Autumn quarter. She will do very well, of that I am confident. I am so confident of her impending success because I have every confidence in God. He promised that if He began the work He would finish it. He got her this far, He will take her all the way. Man I love that girl, should I say, young woman. She is pretty amazing!

This of her on her Senior pictures shoot.

WOW HOW TIME FLIES!!!!!

Love till later!

S~

Ok as I promised (myself) here is at least one pic of my hair now. I did a twist out for the first time ever. I have to say I really liked it.

Just an awakening!

The other day a friend of mine leaves me a voice mail. She said she really sensed a shift happening in our local church. This statement immediately settled within me. I heard it loud and clear. I have been sensing the same thing for a while. Not just in our church though, in the body of Christ at large.

This post is very different from all of my other posts. I just feel a great push to document this within the parameters of this blog simply as a line in the sand. This friend of my is great at challenging me to keep moving forward. To allow God to work in and through me to accomplish what He has designed for me from the very inception of time.

I will, I am, positioning myself for this shift. Please do likewise. Whatever it is you sense God telling, showing, compelling you to do; do IT! In other words, PUSH!

PUSH past all of your old perceptions. Don't allow what you already know to color or contaminate what new is coming to you. Many times I have the propensity to allow my understanding to operate in the same mode it has in the past when I encounter new information. I have committed to stop that. I will look at things from God's perspective. But foremost I will ask Him to lend me His perspective on every matter that concerns me or my children.

PUSH past all that you fear. I will no longer allow what I think may happen to hold me back from doing things I know He has planned for me to do. I will not be limited by my own strength nor my concept of it.

PUSH all the way into where God is showing you to go.

PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!

it's been over a year!

I can't say the time has flown by. But it really has gone pretty quickly. My life and my locs are going places I never thought they would go. I am still in school, and I believe my locs have saved my life. To cut out the half to whole hour I used to spend on my hair in the morning has been a God send. I get a little freaked out now because every now and then I feel something graze across the base of my neck, then I realize it is my hair. I haven't felt that in years. That is pretty fun.

As for school, I am in my next to last quarter at the White Castle of Colleges, and will be transferring to a nursing school in my area this fall. It's hard for me to believe that I have been in school now for two years and my dream of becoming a nurse is this close. God has been so faithful to me. I really didn't think I could do it. I never had the support growing up that would say you are smart you can do anything God puts in your heart to do. Rather, I always felt like the negatives were harped on more than anything. This experience of being in school has been beneficial in manifold ways. Just to name a few. I have learned that I have a great brain and have scartched the surface of how to use it. I have perseverance that I had not tapped into before. And I love science. I would not have told you that in my high school career. Although, thinking back now I really didn't mind it. It was math that I abhorred.

Oh well, I just took a study break to jot these thoughts down. Thanks for checking me out.

Love ya!

S~

P.S. I feel like I always promise this, but truly pics are coming.

The time flies!!!

Today is my locversary. I can't believe the year has gone by so quickly. Thinking back over the year I have not only recognized changes in my hair, but I have changed as a person. My hair almost seems to be the least component of the picture that is my life.

I am yet in school getting closer to the goal of actually enrolling in a nursing program. I am learning so much about myself and the person I want to become and the person God has created me to be. It all seems to be so big, at least in comparison to who I was a year ago and to who I am right now. I am grateful for the encouragement I find in the Bible. He that has begun a work in you will perform it to the day of Jesus Christ. So excited about what's to come. I love the journey!

Pics to come.

Love to all,

S~