Morning Thoughts: Dealing With Negativity.

In my last blog, I talked about Encouragement. As of 7:00am, Monday Morning, I woke up this morning still feeling angry at some things. As I looked about the sun shining through my window, I realized that it was a brand new day. As I went about on my morning blogging routine, I took one look into my e-mail inbox and noticed the e-mails that contained “negativity”. What exactly did I do? Simple deleted them so I wouldn’t have to worry about it. Why is that? Because, any negativity that comes towards you, will simply become a part of you. When it’s a part of you, it will consume you to bring it down even more.  So I took my one step out of bed, prayed a “Prayer for Guidance” In which Joyce Meyer wrote on her Facebook…

           

            "Holy Spirit, come dwell in me fully and completely. I know that I cannot change things on my own. I'm open and sensitive to Your promptings and sincerely invite You to get involved in every area of my life. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for comforting me, strengthening me, counseling me, standing by me and helping me with everything that I face and go through. I want you to be my chief Counselor, my main Teacher. I want You to lead me and guide me. I allow You to take charge and remain with me forever. Amen."

After that was said and done, I prayed for others out of encouragement and love. Simply because as Christians, it’s the right thing to do. After I came back from my first class, I thought about all of the other people who don’t have a “Faithful” connection. What did I do? I simply prayed for them. Then I thought to myself, if you continue to dwell on the negative, you will receive negative results. If others who persecute you continue to think negative about you, they will get negative results.

What I’m trying to say is this, “Negativity” is like e-mail. Remove and delete the junk, or else, it will control your mind, body, and spirit. Continue to pray for guidance, healing, and comfort, and always remember that you’re a conquer with the anointing of the most high God.  Negative is like one small single cell. If you dwell on that tiny cell, it will just continue to grow. Once it grows, you will feed from it. With that said, it will keep you from finding the positive cells in the situation that you’re in. Always find the smallest positive cell, grow from it, encourage it, and use your FAITH, to expect the positive outcomes.

Amen, and God Bless!!

Ronald Atkinson

Night thoughts: Encouragement and Judgmental Correction

We all have the need to be "Perfect". We all feel that we have to live up to other's expectations of perfection. Regardless of time, effort, practices, and so on, we all work hard at something. But no matter how hard we work, we can still be beaten down as if, we're not good enough. What ever happened to encouragement? Too often, we either find ourselves judgmental, or surround ourselves who are very judgmental. In order to increase encouragement so that we can strive for a positive outcome, it all has to do it with love. If we encourage more, it will build them up. If we judge, yet hammer others out of correction, it will bring them down. And with that, you will not receive the perfection you need. There's a difference between "Encouragement" and "Judgmental correction", and it all has to deal with Love, and faith. 



Goodnight, and May God Bless You.

Trust & Loyalty

I don’t know why men get overly upset when they see their girl socially talking to someone else. But then again, it goes for women. Women don’t like it when their man is caught seen with other ladies talking to them, or at least to where ladies are flirting with him.

I felt the need to write this blog to set something straight. Last week on Friday night, I was in Aggieville for the first time since May. Apparently, I like to go to hang out, chill, and enjoy myself with friends. I don’t go to get wasted, and I definitely don’t go just to pick me up a chick. Anyways, I walked inside of one of the bars just right about thirty minutes to closing time, and my friends just sat and chilled. While they ordered their drinks, they decided to go out and get something to eat. With the Varsity Truck in the back Alley, and a Pita Pit down the block, they dispersed, I stayed. While I was staying, I had a small conversation with a female sitting next to me. We were talking about something, and she decided to ask questions about the topic she was talking about.  Anyway, at no point was I flirting, or even THINKING about this girl during the moment. To be honest, I was more engaged in the conversation. However, this other random guy seemed to be upset when we were talking. With that said, he said, “sir, I’m going to need you leave, and you [the girl] sit over there”. Okay, I can understand that it was closing time, and you needed to get some work done, but if you’re upset and didn’t want me talking to her, you could’ve said so. Respectfully, I just walked out without putting up a fight. Now to be honest, I don’t know if that was her boyfriend, brother, cousin, whoever it was, I can assure you that knowing how Aggieville can be, sometimes you just have to protect those you know from strangers. But this blog isn’t about the situation, but more so on the words “Loyalty” and “Trust”.

Ladies and Gentlemen, know that each and everyone of you is a unique individual. As human beings, we will always have those who are “interested” in us. We will always have fans, friends, and of course anyone who will come into our lives. The problem is, we let jealousy get the best of us. When we go out with someone, we feel the entitlement of keeping that person guarded from being free into his/her own world. Yes, we have the urge to tell them what they can, or cannot do. We also have a say to make up all these rules. Anyhow, often times, we don’t like to see our loved ones talking to others, flirting, or at least be somewhere when we are not present. We also don’t like to see our partners text anyone else in their phone, like pictures, comment on their tweets, photos, etc.. so we feel the need to monitor them. Technically, my girl could be hiding secrets from me that I DON’T know about, but here’s where it comes down to.

A Relationship is built on “Trust”. If you begin your relationship, you’re committing to trust each other at every step, every second, and in every way in life.  I’m not that type of guy that’s going to monitor my girl, or interfere with who she lets enter in her life, talks to at a hang out place, or whatever…I will not get super defensive in fighting someone just because that person thinks she’s beautiful. All I’m saying is, it’s something that we have to deal with everyday. But my focus isn’t that person, or the situation. Instead, my focus is on the girl who I am with. Yes, there could be others who are beyond greater than I am and perhaps trying to get with them, but if my girl can standup for herself, and resist temptation of flirting with other people, and even perhaps stop the situation, that’s all that matters. It’s the ultimate test of how us men should look at. If she can fight for herself, and say “sorry, I have a man”, or “ Excuse me, but I am beautiful only for my man”, then obviously, she passed the test.

I didn’t write the the meat of the blog, because there’s many things that can happen in any situation, but all I’m saying is, Trust is within your partner. If you can Trust them that they will be loyal to their self, and you, then perhaps, you can take the worry off your shoulders. Relax, go out, have fun. To be honest, if anyone tries to talk to your partner, or seems interested in them, take into consideration that you have someone great by your side.

Life is full of temptations, so the best way to fight them off, is you. Anyone else can only peer pressure you to do something.

Ronald Atkinson