Posted by LaTara on January 1, 2009
I love real people, especially my sisters. There is something that is special and unique about women who can just be who they were born to be without worrying about what someone else thinks about them. Women who are aware of who they are. Women who know that their story can be the catalyst for giving someone else wings to fly. Authentic women are about solutions not simply masking issues.
Authentic women live a liberated life. They are not worried about what the crowd is doing but rather what is best for what their lives. They are not women who judge or pay fault on someone to make them look bad. They live to help others with expectation. They know that they are not perfect but they strive daily to life right, nonetheless. They take time out to care about themselves because they know that care of self is just as important as care of everyone else. Yet, they live a life that serves others.
Posted by LaTara on December 30, 2008
Wow, another year is only 2 days away! Every year I choose a new motto, theme, scripture, and song to help me create my goals, stick to them, and gauge where I am in life.
This year my motto or theme is “Forty, Fit, and Free!” I chose it because on January 17 I will 40 years old and I am getting myself in shape physically, mentally, and emotionally which will help me to live a more liberated existence.
I have chosen a few songs:
- Unrestrained by Calvin Nowell - Represents living a liberated life
- Inside Out by Calvin Nowell - Living life inside out
- I Am One by Chrisette Michelle - As one I can make a difference but with you the world can be changed.
My scripture:
Posted by LaTara on December 2, 2008
Finally Mary shares from “Take Me As I Am” the importance of sharing your story
“You know I’ve been holdin’ on. Try to make me weak, But I still stay strong. Put my life all up in these songs Jus so you can feel me.”
Your story is meant to be shared. Now I am not saying tell it all. I am saying that you need to ask God to show what to share, when and to whom. Be transparent, honest, and open about you.
I spoke to a group of young people about 6 months ago. My topic was your gifts and your purpose. In sharing about gifts and purpose I was led to share my testimony about being sexually abused as a child. Now I had no idea where the Holy Spirit was going with it but I obeyed.
Posted by LaTara on December 1, 2008
This one is so important. I know because I have walked this journey too. Mary has done the same. Listen to theses lines from “Take Me As I am
“She has no regrets, She accepts the past, All these things they helped to make she. She’s been lost and found, And she’s still around There’s a reason for everything”
Have you faced you past? Or have you buried it deep down up under the pit you dwell in? Or do you wear on your sleeve like a proud victim yet never healing from it? Do you regret your past?
If you don’t accept it, deal with it and leave behind all regrets trust me when I say in some way it is bound to be repeated.
Posted by LaTara on November 30, 2008
With Mary’s CD, “The Breakthrough” there is a call to women to stand strong, don’t give up and breakthrough. Listen to these verses from “You can’t hold a good woman down”…
“It doesn’t Matter what They say or do Don’t let ‘em Get to you, Don’t be afraid You can, you can
You can breakthrough Take what I’ve been through To see that You can’t Hold a good Woman down
Went through The same point Of givin’ up I felt Like I had enough Went to the edge Of the ledge But I didn’t jump “My Life” Will sum it up You can’t Hold a good Woman down”
