Life is in your hands

Abundance is something most people search for, some people find, and some think they can never have ... If you take a look at your life you will find that abundance is all around you in places you didn't expect it to be. Even in birthdays there is abundance April is the month where half my family is born, we have 7 birthdays to celebrate from start to finish. There is some traveling distance between us and we go back and forth between each others houses all month. Whenever a friend ask me to do something in April, I have to say no because I have a birthday to go to that weekend. I love my family and I know that we all laugh at this month where we have the same amount of gift-shopping and celebration done as we do for Christmas. I am so lucky my birthday is last, that's when everyone is broke and tired of cakes and  I'm usually in Tobago this time of the year and haven't been with my family for my birthday for a long time. This year I asked everyone with an Apri...

Respecting our differences  There are 7,5 billion people living on this planet. There are wars being fought and love being celebrated. There are 4200 different religions in the world and that shows us how different and similar we are. When you peel of our beliefs, and our skin we look pretty much the same. But the excitement lies in the differences. Some people like this and other people are highly sensitive to that.  When lack of understanding and respect destroys the quality of other people's lives. I was just at my aunties 90 birthday party and there was about 60 guests. My aunt have been looking forward to this day for months and wanted everything to be perfect. She talked to my mom, her neighbor helped out for everything to run as smooth as possible. Tender I have a "tender belly" family with tender belly I mean that some of us have something we can not eat because it makes us sick. And this isn't just a gassy stomach and being a little bloated. I don...

There's nothing in life that's more powerful that gratitude.  You can have everything you ever wanted in life, but if you bitch and complain all the time you are not happy. Then you can be the poorest person with nothing, no money and no possessions, but he is grateful for all the things in his life and he is completely happy. What does the poor man have to be grateful for, you might think. And I'll tell you!! All the things you take for granted, all the things you have that money can't buy. All the things that are so important for any person to feel any kind of happiness or joy. These are the basic needs of any person rich or poor; friends, family, respect, honor, the air you breath, the breeze on you face, your health, your inner peace, your ability to think, feel and to experience. What you take for granted  The fact that you can look at the sky every day, watch the birds fly over your head, smell the air, hear the leafs shake on a tree, listen to the stillne...

My biggest challenge turned out to be my biggest blessing and I learned that people have tremendous strength. Having said that, I didn’t see it like that when it happened. I was in shock, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I didn’t know what was appropriate or even how I really felt about it. I just watched my mom fall to pieces and listened to what she had to say with disbelief and questions. Could this be real? Is she tricking me, does she have a hidden camera, is this a joke, if it is it’s a terrible one. But there she was, dead serious and on the floor of my kitchen, crying her heart out in grief from the shock she just experienced. And what did I do? Her daughter, I was just standing there not knowing how to respond, not knowing what to say and I didn’t even attempt to comfort my mom. I cannot remember I can't remember what day it was, but it was probably Saturday because I was home at the time. It was morning about 10 am I guess, because my mom asked for breakfast ...