Hello, Everyone:

I’ve been somewhat busy lately and I really need to update my blog more often. I’m just going to have to make the time, period.

I hope that all of you’ve enjoyed Mr. Leming’s interview.  I really appreciated having the opportunity to present some of his viewpoints.  If all goes well, his post production motion picture screenplay, Carnies, will be distributed in theatres, soon.  I pray that it becomes very successful.

From time to time, we all have to deal with various challenges and some of them can leave you feeling depressed and hopeless.  I recently had one thrown my way and it gave me “the absolute blues”. Sometimes as hard as you try, it’s not meant for you to become involved in a particular situation.  There are times in which “the chemistry”  between everyone involved is not complementary and you have “to call a spade a spade”.  As Jesus said in Matthew 10:14: “Whoever will not receive or listen to your words –go outside that house and shake the dust from your feet.”  The next verse, 15, advises you "not to sweat" such people because their day is coming and you would not want to be in their shoes. 

It’s never nice to deal with people who “stab you in the back” because you have a little more on the ball than they do.  Many people operate within somewhat unethical realms because they are desperate and integrity is something that is “alien” to their character.  Interacting with such types can lead you into a very dark place emotionally and spiritually.  I’ve dealt with my share of them by always choosing “the high road”.  By doing so, whatever intentional injustices they perpetrate against me will come back to bear down upon them threefold.  I’m a witness, I’ve seen it too many times, GOD never sleeps!

In the meantime, you have to acknowledge the hurt in order to disperse the bitterness it leaves behind.  For me, the best practice has been to talk to GOD as I would one of my very close friends and not “sugar coat” my feelings or words.  The bitterness needs to come to the surface and not remain submerged to do you more damage in the future.  Just tell it like it is and you will not be disappointed.  Once you have “exorcised” your emotional demons, your mind will be free to focus on other pursuits and not “energizing” your disappointments.  Life is just too short to be carrying around baggage stemming from chaotic incidents that went nowhere. Stuff happens and you can’t allow situations that did not work “to yank your psychic chain”.  The only thing you can control is how you choose to “take care of yourself” and if you don’t do a good job, no one else will.

May Peace Be With All of You,

Sistah Selah