This will be a valentine’s day that I never forget. My special valentine was such a blessing to me and has me going to sleep on cloud nine… I can’t wait to return the favor…

My Valentine’s Day was much like any other day, I slept in some because I had been working alot. Did somethings around the house and planned on going to the office. I didn’t feel like I got enough time in reading my bible so I took it with me to the office.

When I was heading to the office, I had a hunger for a Whopper (Burger King) but when I went to the one by my house, it was one rather dirty, they were out of meat, and I was just not enjoying that experience.

So, I got a chicken sandwich that made me wish I went to McDonalds instead. I did some things with my church around noon and then hit the office by 2. Worked for a few hours and then had another hunger for a Whopper. So, I decided that it would be great to take my books, catch up my reading and enjoy my whopper.

So I did that, went to BK, had a great time, this gentleman started a conversation because he saw what I was reading and we had a very pleasant conversation. I continued reading and went back to the office. Then 3 or 4 hours, maybe 5 later, I got another desire for food and a Belgium Waffle from IHOP was on the brain so off I went. Here is where my Valentine comes into play.

I am seated at IHOP and I get comfortable, place my order and begin to read while they are fixing my food. I look up to my right and there is this older woman with what I presume is her husband having dinner. I can tell they are watching me read as they may not expect me to be reading the books at IHOP (I am wearing jeans, hoddie, backwards black hat, and Ipod in ears – listening to Harvard Business Review).

Then I receive my food and here goes my valentine into action. As I was enjoying my golden brown waffle, I notice that the lady jumped up and went to the waiter to talk about something. I figured she just wanted her bill, she was there before me. But then, my waitress comes by and I ask for the check and she said the lady over there paid for you.

I was so blessed that my special Valentine decided to be a great blessing on my Valentine’s Day. I was also so blessed that God put me on her heart for her to pay for my meal. She was a older white woman with her husband, dressed down and in most situations you wouldn’t even notice them but I believe that God used them to bless me so God could tell me Happy Valentine’s Day.

I always wanted to pay for someone’s meal and be a blessing to them and I appreciate the fact that it happened to me. The next valentine’s day that I am out and I am able to, I will sow that blessing into someone else’s life.

Thank you My Valentine, Your Kind Act Shall Not Be Forgotten….

Happy Valentine’s Day… If no one told you that they love you today, God loves you and so do I!

PS. She also left a banging tip for the waitress over 60%!

Some call it a secret sin, some call it an area where you need improvement but it doesn’t matter, you can call it what you want…

You wished it would change and be over so you could be a better person and live your life. That joy and happiness that every sees you put on, you could just be. Your burden really could be light.

But it feels like you won’t ever be able to get this thing off of you. Either it was something that was passed on or just something you have been doing for a long time that you can’t seem to stop doing it.

There is hope because you can, I can, and we can.

Every day that we wake up and try again to overcome that situation, problem, feeling or attitude is another day that we become closer. Sure it would be easier to just ask some higher power to make a switch and then we make it. But then we would have no story to help those that come behind us. There is always someone worse off than you. Someone that is more tangled up in what you are working to get out.

Every time you try and you succeed even if just for a second, that is a chink of the armor of the one that is battling you and you are one step closer to deliverance. So, don’t give up. Put a smile on your face, if the thing, attitude, habit, whatever was that bad, you would be dead. But you are not.

You are a live… I am a live… We are alive…

The day has only yet begun, your life still has much ahead of you. Our past was 1 second ago and our present will determine our future. Lets bind up our feet, get our head in the right direction, pat ourselves on the back for although we had that habit, we said that thing, we did that thing, that thing does not define us.

You, I, We are a people of power and a people of overcomes. That mentality will not stop us from achieving what we were created to do. We are world overcomes and the victory that overcomes the world is our faith. We must have faith that all things are possible if we only believe. So what we didn’t have faith the last time we were in that situation, the conversation, that location and we didn’t perform the way we wanted to.

We are still alive to believe another day. So, if you join me, lets press on and press through. Lets enter all that was created for us because why would He create us if not so we can be prosperous and successful.

Good morning America, our future is knocking, lets get dressed, put on our overcomer attitude and lets go get the world… it is ours for the taking…