I am slowly realizing that not many people read the posting that I write daily, that hurts, they are after the comments. I dedicatedly sit and do this everyday, and I think I bring good subjects often times to the table, am I wrong? real question, please answer me, truthfully. I really look forward to our interactions daily. The peepers are many, but that is all they are, peepers. Recently one peeper had the nerve to email me for the words for my poem which I wrote when I was eleven years old entitled “Spike Heel Boot”. I wrote half of the lyrics on the Honorable Louise Bennett post, she peep and ah send mi email fi Miss Lou poem (my own enuh), when I clearly wrote on the post that I wrote it, and want lyrics to other works of Miss Lou. She never comment here yet, but waan come reap, bright an outta order! oonuh must read the posts!
It takes courage to bawl out smaddy whey waan teef mi lyrics and nuh business! It takes courage to get every morning when you want to sleep and write these post with dedication, (lol, I am throwing shade at you all, ah so mi tan). It takes courage to do many things in this life, and so I urge you all to share your courageous moments with me today, or add to this post.
Courage Reposted -by Obara Meji
It takes courage to make Spiritual decisions. It takes courage to face the worlds challenges everyday. It takes courage to adjust your lives. It takes courage to stand up for yourself, in a world which is so critical of you. It takes courage to continue daring for better, and actively pursuing it. It takes courage to love. It takes courage to forgive. It takes courage to release and let go. It takes courage to make sacrifices. It takes courage to embrace anything which society believes is not the norm. It takes courage to learn to drive. It takes courage to go back to school. It takes courage to raise your hand in class. It takes courage to tell someone you love them and mean it. It takes courage to believe that you are loved. It takes courage to ignore the frailties of the world. It takes courage to let others know that you read this blog. It takes to be yourself, which at times is the hardest to do. It takes courage to have a voice and use it. It takes courage to not give into fear. It takes courage to cut your loses and get on with your life. It takes courage to step through the front door.
It takes courage to admit your flaws or your faults. It takes courage to see your inner beauty and strength, looking beyond superficiality. It takes courage to stand up and speak out for another. It takes courage to attack life on behalf of others. It takes courage to be present in your life. It takes courage not to bend to pressure. It takes courage not to make the power of money ruin you. It takes courage to leave a toxic relationship. It takes courage to look at being fired from your job as God’s way of telling you that greater is to come. It takes courage to believe that your chaotic life will change one day and all be well. It takes courage to embrace your spirituality. It takes courage to begin a new relationship. It takes courage to move away from your comfort zone and begin life on your own. It takes courage to be a parent. It takes courage to be a single parent. It takes courage to face your detractors. It takes courage to sleep alone, feeling lonely and sad. It takes courage to get a reading, some people don’t want to know. It takes courage to dare to dream higher than what others expect. It takes courage to be defiant in the face of adversity. It takes courage to remove the limitations placed on you because of your race, or ethnicity. It takes courage! It takes courage to own your freedom and explore all your possibilities. It takes courage to let go off your mothers hand. It takes courage to refuse time to non essential activities. It takes courage to stand up to a friend. It don’t mean you are weak if you turn the other cheek, walk away from trouble if you can the song says…It takes courage to walk away from a fight. It takes courage to stand up and speak. It takes courage to sit down and listen. It takes courage not to be a victim of anything. It takes courage to free your mind. It takes courage to step aside. It takes courage to trust. It takes courage to explore and accept things that you learn from the Bible or the Koran or your faith. It takes courage to change. It takes courage to accept change!
“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
― Napoleon
Ẹni tó bá ní tòún bàjẹ́, tó bá rí ti ẹlòmíì á yin Ọlọ́run lógo. /
Whoever feels his case is deplorable will thank God on learning of another’s…..Yoruba Proverb!
[Contentment and an attitude of gratitude are crucial.]
All religion are valid as long as it teaches peace and love…..Obara Meji!
There are no disappointments in life, only lessons learned…..Obara Meji
Deprecated: Function bp_core_get_user_domain is deprecated since version 12.0.0! Use bp_members_get_user_url() instead. in /www/embracingspirituality_349/public/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6031
This website was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I have
found something that helped me. Appreciate it!
Your skirt is beautiful and it suits you so so well !
Hey Nunu…we going to buss some clappers…will be back for class…
Good evening folks! Almost time to go to class
Good evening guys popping in before work .
Obara throwing shade today lol I love it.
I read most of the time (no shade) often times depends what’s happening at that moment I will come back at a later time when my mind is more at ease.. I appreciate the writings because when I ultimately need a pick me up or word of encouragement, I always find the blog and nestled In these posts is exactly what I need at the present time.
Courage, courage, courage. Courage is going after your dreams inspite of what others/anyone thinks. On Saturday Big M came in and was telling a story that an African man was on the bus and he spoke, the ppl heard his accent and took him off the bus. Courage, is being bold in telling my children that they will not get Ebola and it will pass quickly. I heard Little M telling her friend emphatically that we will not get Ebola (cause my mother says so and my knows a lot of things). Yes, her mom learnt her stuff right here… Read more »
Gwan Mama Bear, baby cub proud of mama bear. It sweet you when you overheard the confidence your daughter have in you don’t, MTH?
Now, whey dem tek the man off the bus? lol
We can Choopid sometimes u see…di man should a cuss out dem claat…
I am so proud of little M, she so sweet …. I love her confidence…
Teach, it tek courage fi a laugh offa yu wiked joke dem an know sey mi naah wear nuh pampas…Teach, nuh tell mi sey yu guh as far as toput on the red dat inna d imiggle a far-rid. Now, it tek courage mi nuh falla fashion a guhh red up fi mi face.
Mi fambily mi sey unno mek mi pred wey. YW yu nuh easy a fall-e-tee. AMH or Ham, longtime mi nuh si yu mi girl. Cami and Bubblez, Lion paw. Unno is de bestet people.
Love and light all mi chargies. It takes courage to share your story and I am sharing a part of mine. Its not the surgery that my dad did that made me so hopelessly depressed. My dad did his surgery onTuesday and was in serious pains. Yesterday, I could not go see him and my sister went. My sister had a little difficulty finding him as Idid not give her the full info and she could not have called me. My sister told me that it took her a very long time to find him. When our uncle was in… Read more »
I MAKE THE DISCLAIMER, BECAUSE AS a spiritualist I know there is no difference when it comes to color, so as I know better, I can have no hatred, but IT IS THE REALITY, it is a sad reality but it is
I have a very close friend, I told her when she want to have “skin color conversations” to speak to me freely. I rather she ask and talk about what’s on her mind with me than with a person who’ll take offense. She is a sweet person and I would hate for someone to offend her while she seeking answers to questions that people want to take as taboo.
Other than that, 2 bottles of red and we laugh at the stupidity of mankind.
I am not a racist, no way jose! jUST SAD FOR THE TREATMENT FOR HOW LONG AND NO JUSTICE EVEN TO THIS DAY
Hey Cami and Ty, Black is beautiful, I was watching Henry Louis Gates today on you tube when he did his genealogy on Don Cheadle, mi nah lie mi feel sad for Don, and Tom Joyner, I am NOT racist or anything like that but is what white people going to tell God sey! Wickedness innate inn dem enuh! It takes courage to say that because there are a lot of white people who peep over here but this is not racism, it is fact, the way they treated blacks! It would be hard for me to have an interracial… Read more »
Too bad you have to make a disclaimer before stating your facts. lolol. But it is what it is…All that sin from the past cannot go unaccounted for, and I cannot understand why the whites prolong this act of supremacy knowing the evil history of it…oh well I guess we’ll see the outcome when we move on from this realm.
I know me and Yw ago share a seat and a buss joke inna de hall a judgement…don’t bro? lolol
Hardcore Courage:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2802992/We-ask-women-world-not-underestimate-Meet-inspirational-Kurdish-women-given-fight-ISIS-militants.html
it tek courage as a black gal wearing ah sari today wid mi red dot inna mi face and singing in Hindi songs whey mi cyaan pronounce han hall ave on indian jewelry, and ah gyrate roun mi house to maha lakshmi music in frontta people who ah wonda quietly if mi mad!
It tek courage fi nuh wonda tuh, and it tek courage fi write dah comment yah!
lol, since yu a browning you’ll just look like a Hindu-British, lol
Subtract cultural practices and the Euro dipping in India…I can’t understand why the darkest of the darkest Hindu think they are above dark skin Black people…dwrln
mi nuh miss de meat, mi not a meat lova, but de ital ting deh star ah beat de I, meed put all salt pon a forty leg yah, nung, aldoe ah did rumor dem did ah spread pon de dread!
yuh mean saying is sensi im planting?
Cause im sey im is the don inna di juggling. Ah bear rumors ah gwan…
De world seems to be built on rumors, lol
Nuh chue, as yuh sey dat…ah wha mi a go nam? Dis sweet ting fi divali aren’t no joke
lmaoooooo, amh spell ham, grung!!
but nam in deh deh!
is a good ting me is a gal whey nuh naturally craven!
Is not NYAMaste is Namaste
it takes courage to celebrate Diwali and cannot eat salt, when salt is the star of every food show!
It tek courage fi tap nyam meat and have it start register now…ever notice that AMH spell HAM. It sad when you start to see food name in people name….no sah, sad…
lolol… it can pronounce said way to. Hi AMH.
love n light Cami
Amh yuh went Missing, man howdy!
mi nah missin teach jus hush hush
Yw you are a riot, lmaooooo!
Hi AMH long time….It take courage to face those fears and insecurities and still like yourself…it can be done tho
much love Kia
AMH: It takes courage to let me see you after all this time and think that I will not chuble (trouble) you :).
Though you have not seen much of me I have taken a lot from our wonderful teachers daily posts during this potentially overwhelming time.
Opposite sides of a similar coin.
Look at your avatar’s glasses. It is mine in reverse: upside down and cornea instead of pupil.
Time passages. Indulge me in a little song: “Ooooo girl, things are going to get easier. Oooo child things will get brighter…” Seriously, though, light, love and positive energy to you.
Thanks YW we will take all we can get!! love the tune btw
You say that because you don’t hear my voice wid it 🙂 but is the thought (keep telling yourself that Yw)
my dear mother can’t hold a tune in a cup but I still think every note is pure gold, all music with joy is beautiful
Listen 3 little birds
Thank you once again Obara for putting yourself out there for us. I feel more confident after reading today that I am courageous and I am so grateful to you for the reminder not to fall prey to my fears and insecurities.
Many blessings to you. To all of you.
it tek courage fi go outta door ah winter time inna Merica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxVA6RmRRkE
Look how Oliver Wrap up..
It tek courage fi tell ah…..person….GWEH!!! Yu mussi mad, ah try come tek mi tings…
Cho it take courage just to get outa bed daily wid bill and sam a hunt mi dung 😀 😀 dem pesky isi kmt
Dem two mussi serial stalker, dem really pesky fi choot.
Yu zeet smh
It takes courage to believe that your chaotic life will change one day and all be well…Thank yu Obara for help with this… Mi did a spin like gig 😀
It took courage to share that story and doan know why yuh share it, it tek courage!, lolol….all jokes aside, share everything Yw, big up yuh self.
It takes courage to write for all you scholars to read, knowing that I love commas so much all inna soup mi put comma, it takes courages to write and nuh fret sey oonuh ah criticize me, choo oonuh suh brite!
It takes courage to DARE to be who you are when everyday people try to label and cause doubt within you. Like yu quote from Mandela, courage is facing fear not the absence of it.,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (just some comma special for you)
Greetings ES fambo glad to hear Baba M is recovering. Obara Charles YW Nunu hail
It takes courage to be ME everyday but I wouldn’t want to be anyone else in the world… LOL
This is for you Kia B (of course, change the man to ooman)
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ” – John Dryden
“Not Heaven itself upon the past has power” – Always curious bout this line….
Thank you bredda YW.
Happy the ooman, and happy she alone,
SHe who can call today her own:
SHe who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Powerful…
Obara Meji: It takes courage to share all that you do with us each and everyday. To all the ES bloggers it takes courage to share your thoughts and beliefs in this amazing forum set up by Teach. By doing so you all become like teachers. Here is a story: I was talking to a man yesterday who was sharing his devout faith in Jesus Christ and the Church. Now, of course, most of what he was saying was like pointed sticks stabbing my eardrums, hot oil on my cranium, and tiny needle sticks all over my skin. However, I… Read more »
Morning Obara Meji, Cami, Charles, Nunu, Mth (doe I is are do not sees yu), and anyone I may have missed. Well,,,,,,,, I read the post – just ah show mi courage. Kenny sey courage to walk away and courage to stand and fight. The cowardly lion have courage all along but just don’t realize it. It takes courage to cure your rage and to cope with age…
Good morning, brother Yw…see you are in your usual mood of cheer. Blessing bro.
Big up, mi sister. Internet hugs and nuff light and well wishes for you; yu done know…
Good morning Obara, Charles and M. Right in this moment I identify with it takes courage not to give in to fear and it takes courage to trust
Gud evening Obara and ES crews.
Good evening (your time zone) Charles, Love and Light to you and family. Hope you’ve overcome or nearing the end of your obstacle. Ase.
Morning NuNu, hope all is well.
Howdy Cami
Ase.
Yea Cami! My time zone. It’s 4:53pm my local time. I trust n believe Oludumare n obatala are discussing on how to get me out. He has never failed. I have courage. (smiles) anyway how are you doing?
I’m doing well, thanks Charles. Glad that you are being courageous and that Nelson Mandela quote is for you.
Good morning Mth, I an glad he is recovering although still in pain, but we all here will continue to pray him up!.