"Why didn't you listen to your life?" - @Oprah

"Listening to your life as it whispers to you first, so that it does not have to knock you upside the head with a brick or come crashing down you as a brick wall, is one of the greatest principles of life because there are many things that happen in life that are beyond our control. Natural disasters, death, unexplained events. But there are also many, many, many things in life that we can control and become out of control because you're just not paying attention. You are sleepwalking through your life... Life whispers to you all the time. Your life is speaking to you. All around. From the time you wake up in the morning and every single experience that's coming into your personal space, into your physical space. All of those experiences are speaking to you. They're telling you something about your life and about your circumstances. It whispers and if you don't get the whisper, the whisper gets louder. If you don't get the whisper when it gets louder, it gets like a pebble, like a thump upside your head."

Mother Oprah is dropping a few pearls of wisdom. I just love her. She makes my heart swoon.

Opinions are like buttholes...

I can't recall the year Salt N Pepa's "None of Your Business" came out, but I do remember casually telling my mother in a conversation that "opinions were like buttholes and everybody's got one." Yes, I was a very precocious child lol. Just to think that this was one of the raciest songs out during the time... oh, how things have changed.

Anyways, day 3 of Blogtember asked for us to "pass on some useful advice or information you learned and always remembered."

As I type this there are a million things running through my mind. I'm full of unsolicited information and probably the walking epitome of someone that's never short of an opinion. True to that statement, the best advice that I've actually remembered throughout my 29 years of life is to remember that opinions are truly like buttholes and everybody's got one... including me.

Having Faith in God's Timing (video)

"To have faith in God, is to also have faith in God's timing..."

Encouraging Words

"Be patient. The struggle is getting caught sometimes between ambition and patience. We have the ambition and the drive that gets us up in the morning, that makes us want to do all these things but we have to be patient because its all about timing. I look at my own life. I know all of this is happening at the right time and if any of it happened any sooner I would’ve blown it or wouldn’t have been able to sustain it. Don’t give up hope over one tough scene in your life. There are a number of scenes the hero has to fight through to get the victory in the end. Faith works. That’s my message to you. That’s my hope, that’s my heart." - - (Via NecoleBitchie)