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Life

Pray & Worship

Shaun Bradford

Happy Tuesday!

This morning I visited my Facebook memories for inspiration for today’s blog. Well, I found a lot of inspiration and wanted to share it all but decided to only share a few.

Facebook Memory: August 8, 2022

Caption: Once you experience something, it’s impossible to unexperience it. Your life is forever changed by that experience.

You cannot unknow, unsee, or undo anything that has already happened. All you can do is adjust and move forward. Life…

Facebook Memory: August 8, 2022

Caption: How are you waiting? With or without expectation? You know, “Whatever happens, happens,” OR “I’m expecting exceedingly abundantly above all that I ask or think.” Me. I’m doing the latter. I’m EXPECTING great things to happen!💃🏽♥️ Today’s 8/8. New day. New week. New beginnings.🌸

Lately, that’s the message I have been seeing everywhere – wait with expectation. Expect great things to happen. Kinda sad though. About two weeks after sharing that post my mom had a stroke and never fully recovered. Whew…

I’m going to end with this video by my fav, Mr. Tyler Perry. The actual Facebook memory from August 8, 2018, was a snippet of the sermon he delivered (yes, he preached – smile), Climb and Maintain.

Climb and maintain means to pray and worship. As we know, life is going to do what it does. No matter what we’re going through we must continue to pray and worship. I know sometimes it’s easier said than done, but it works. Believe me, it has gotten me through some really tough times. Had to make myself do it yesterday and it worked!

This is all I have for you today. Praying you have a wonderful day. Be blessed.♥️

Shaun

Life

Patience: Part 2

Shaun Bradford

Story time…

So, for those who follow me on social media know that I have multiple accounts across different platforms. I use most of these accounts to share things I’m passionate about – food (food pics for my foodies and nutritional information); health and wellness (information, resources and events); and inspirational messages (my own and others). Well, for the past few days, I have had issues posting things to my accounts on Facebook, which is where I have my largest following. I reached out to Facebook several times through their Help/Support feature and received no assistance. Yesterday I googled and tried everything suggested, and still nothing. However, I found a work around using Meta Business but could only share my original posts but could not re-share others’ posts. Finally (around yesterday evening), I gave up.

That was yesterday…

First thing this morning, I was back at it. That’s when I finally posted today’s blog about patience and letting go and letting God work it out. In the meantime, I did find that I was still able to use the repost feature on Instagram to re-share others’ information. It’s a wonderful feature but time consuming when it comes to re-posting posts that include multiple pictures and videos. Yes, I do post to my story but my followers on Facebook are more engaged with the actual posts than the stories. If this makes sense.

Anyhoo… just as I was about to become frustrated AGAIN, I logged into another one of my accounts and found that whatever glitch that was happening had been resolved on that account. I can now post and share from that account which is connected to all of my other accounts (Pages).

Y’all, God is good! That was really bothering me. There are so many events happening this week that people really should know about, and not being able to get the word out was really weighing on me.

Whew!! Breathing… It’s too late for breakfast so I guess I will finally eat lunch.

I guess this blog can be labeled as a rambling because I know I rambled in this one. Please forgive me if you cannot follow or understand what I have written. Just had to get this testimony out. Again, God is so very good! Amen

Shaun

Life

Patience

Shaun Bradford

Today’s post is a simple prayer/request:

“Lord, please give me patience.”

Release and breathe…

Today, I’m choosing to let go and let God. Have a blessed day.♥️

Shaun

Life

Hello Sunday

Shaun Bradford

I actually slept all night! Believe I fell asleep around 11 PM and didn’t wake up until 5 AM. I needed the sleep.

Yesterday, one of my friends drove down to have lunch with me and we talked for hours. Y’all, I needed the company. I needed to feel like an individual again. I needed to feel like Shaun again. It felt so good to be able to freely express myself without judgement or tiptoeing around feelings. Grateful for true friendships.

I’m going to leave you with a few gems from August 6th (wish I could share them all):

Facebook Memories

All it takes is ONE.

There’s only ONE you. Chosen.♥️

I have loved basketball for decades (since high school). Went to one BIG3 game and knew I wanted to own a team. Optimistic.😊

Trust God’s plan.

I pray that you have a joyful day. Love you!♥️

Shaun

Life

This Just Blessed My Soul

Shaun Bradford

Just watched a beautiful video that blessed my soul! Y’all, I immediately felt a sense of calmness and peace when Theo de Plessis began sharing his story. I have decided to bookmark it and make part of my morning routine.

The world needs more love, kindness, compassion and peace. I believe this can and will happen when we place more value on people and relationships than things and self-serving ambitions.

If you have 10 minutes to spare, and need to a little inspiration, please watch the following video: Being Beautiful.

Be Blessed♥️

Shaun

Life

Present and At Peace

Shaun Bradford

Had forgotten about the theme I had chosen for this year, “Present and at peace.” Life started happening and my focus shifted from drawing from my inner peace to focusing on things happening around me. And about a good 90 percent of those things were someone else’s problems. My daughter says I internalize other people’s problems. She says it’s okay to empathize with them but their problems are theirs. And she’s absolutely right. I’m listening.

So today, I am once again choosing to stay present – only focusing on what’s in front of me – and at peace. Praying you do likewise. Have a wonderful day!♥️ ~Shaun

Staying present isn’t easy but it is so necessary to remain at peace.
Life

I Received My Answer

Shaun Bradford

I’m not sure what’s going on with me waking up around 3:00/3:30 AM nowadays. Like, I’m wide awake. Then around 5:30/6:00 AM, I find myself falling back to sleep. At first it was annoying, but now I just start everything two hours earlier, then take a nap before officially getting up. Anyhoo…

After waking up with Marvin Winans’ song, Draw Me Close to You/Thy Will Be Done, playing over and over in my head, and much needed prayer time with God, I received my answers. I know what’s wrong. Not going to go into details because those revelations were just for me. Now that I understand what the problems are, I can deal with them. Now, how I choose to do it is totally up to me.

Here’s what I’ll call one of the “solutions” to the revelations. Listen, it had me shaking my head and smiling at the same time. Y’all God is so good. It’s an excerpt from one of my journal entries from this date. Debating whether or not to share the entire entry. Will let you know what I actually decided before I hit publish.

Shaun’s Journal Entry: August 4, 2014

So I’ve decided not to fight it any longer. I may as well give in and just let things be. No, I’m not happy, but as I’ve told others many times before, make yourself happy. So life has given me a barrel of lemons & grapefruit. Time to make sour punch (sounds gross huh?). Oh well…

God will work it out. Turn it over to Jesus, he will work it out! He can, he can, work it out. You won’t even have to touch it. Hallelujah!!

Although that entry was about something completely unrelated to what I am currently going through, I believe it was written for this very moment. Nine years ago, God already knew exactly what I would need to get through this time. So yes, I’m smiling and now tearing up. I needed those words of encouragement. I’m turning everything over to God. I won’t have to lift a finger or touch a thing. He will work it out. Amen

By the way, I shared the entire entry. All of it was relevant. I keep telling y’all God loves me. Smiling

Praying you have a blessed weekend. Thanks for reading. Love you!♥️

Shaun

Life

Hmmm… What’s Going On With Me?

Shaun Bradford

Y’all, something is happening to me and I’m not sure what it is. I try to stay in tune with my emotions/feelings so that I know when things are off. Well, lately I’ve noticed that things have been a little off. For one, I am not as understanding as I used to be. I’m also easily agitated. Like I told someone a couple of weeks ago, I feel like I’m at a stage in my life where I don’t have time for foolishness. I don’t feel like accepting any and everything with a smile. I used to try to be understanding and give grace, now it’s like my patience is almost nonexistent. I haven’t snapped at anyone… yet (cause I do feel it coming on) but I have been short with a few people. I have even caught myself frowning and making faces while listening to nonsense. I used be able to hide it, now whatever I think or feel is clearly written all over my face. When did I become a grumpy old woman? Sighing

Perhaps I’m sleep deprived, or I’m sad or depressed and don’t realize it (my daughter’s thoughts). I don’t know what it is but I don’t like it and have to find a way to change it.

Anyhoo… I know this was another random post. Just needed to release that negative energy. Now let me go find something positive to do.

Good Night♥️

Shaun

Life

Be Patient

Shaun Bradford

You have seen the vision. Be patient. You are either being prepared or protected. In due season, all things will be revealed.♥️ ~Shaun

You may not understand it today, but you will in time. Delayed is not denied.
Life

Your Blessings Will Find You

Shaun Bradford

Already up reading past journal entries so I may as well write. This particular message is a brief summary of what I wrote eight years ago, August 2, 2015.

Message…

Your blessings will find you. You won’t have to seek them out, God will deliver them to you. Remain faithful.

Eight years ago, I was at one of my lowest points in life. I had recently separated from my ex; car was breaking down every other day; house was going into foreclosure; and I didn’t know if I would get the raise that I so badly needed. That was eight years ago. In that same journal entry I wrote –

“I feel like the world is weighing down on me. This load is very heavy, but I thank God for helping me make it daily. The steps forward are very small, but I do know I’m moving forward.”

Despite what I was going through, I knew deep down I was moving forward. Later on that same evening, I had received an email from the department chair saying that they had petitioned for me to receive an even larger increase in my salary from what we had discussed. I didn’t even have to lift a finger. God intervened on my behalf.

Since then, I have been up and I have been down, but never that far down. Even with setbacks I have constantly moved forward. I was listening to a message yesterday where the young lady said your setbacks have made you stronger. And she was right, each setback did make me stronger. What would’ve taken me out eight years ago seems like child’s play today. God is good!

That’s all for today. I haven’t been drawing like I used to. Feel like I’m running out of flowers to draw. Maybe I need to really focus on drawing one thing and perfecting it. I’ll let you know how that works. Until I draw something new, I will reshare from my Facebook memories. Here’s what I shared last year. Be blessed.♥️ ~ Shaun

Stay focused.