A's Happiness Blogs

As the school year has come to an end, kids are getting out of school for the summer, and seniors are graduating high school, and college. They are starting their journey to adulthood. Some know exactly what they want to do with their lives, while others may have no clue what they want to do.  That is perfectly alright. It may take some time for them to figure it out.  My son is about to go to the eight grade, and he was concerned about his future, already. He told me he was scared that he would not live up to his potential. He was concerned that he would not be able to do the things that he wanted to do in future.  As his mother it is hard. I have never wanted to be that parent who lived through her children. There are a lot of things in my life that I wanted to achieve, but I was not able to.  I always want them to go after their own dreams, live their own lives. Not become who I want them to become.  I would love for them to go to college and become a doctor ...

Standing Up for Yourself!  So in my last blog, I talked about having a boldness for God. That is so important when it comes to us being chirstians. We need to be able to stand boldly for God when things are not right.  But one thing that I realized, the hard way, was how hard it is to have boldness when it comes to oneself. Now I am not saying that this is every Christian man or woman, but I have noticed that sometimes it is hard for others to stand up for themselves. I have struggled with that for years. I know in the past when I stood up for myself,  I would get so mad and angry and I was not acting Godly at all. I would curse and just act like I was just  a crazy person.   This happened when I was pregnant with my oldest son Donovan. I had a boss who was very nasty and very ugly. One day I did not have a ride to work because my husband was stuck at work and could not get off, ( he sold cars at the time). Well I called up to my job to let them know what w...

One of the hardest things that I have had to face since I started this journey to have a better relationship with God, is my boldness when it comes to people.  Now you may be wondering, what does people have to do with your journey to have a better relationship with God? I am so glad you asked. See, I have always wanted the approval of people in my life to validate that I was doing something right. I wanted people to tell me how good of a job I was doing, but I realized I was going about it all the wrong way.  I coward down alot, because I wanted that approval from others. I would never stood up for what I knew God was telling me to do. I always just took what others said, and just shyness would always set in.  What I found out was that people were not the answer to what I was trying to do for God. I did not need their approval. I found out the hard way, that I was not going to get the approval of man, because they do not understand what God is doing in my life.  But...

Sorry for the interruption on my website. I was not aware that my website was not working and had not been working for almost a month.  Please forgive me for that. But the problem is fixed now, and I will be back posting blogs this week!    Thank you for understanding and for your patience.     God bless.

This will be one of the shortest blogs that I write. But something happened that made me a proud mother today, and it showed me I was doing something right.     As I am resting up for work tonight, my 7-year-old son Jack came to my room to talk to me.    Now a few days ago, I had a conversation with my children about how I will be traveling for work and that I would be gone a few days out the week. I was honest with them, I told them I was nervous because I never done this type of thing before, and I never been away from them, but I was excited at the same time because it was a new opportunity for me to do something different.      So, as I am laying on my bed today Jack comes in my room as he always does with a smile on his face to check on me. Him and my 4-year-old son, Gavin sat on my bed, and he said:  “Mama are you nervous to leave for your job in a new city?”     I told him I was nervous, but it was going to be ok, I knew God ...

Having Peace in your Life Going through this life, we find ourselves having good days and bad days. It seems like sometimes we find ourselves having more bad days than good.   It can be frustrating because it seems like noting seem to be going the way it should be going. We find ourselves stressed out because nothing seems to be going out way. We try everything we can to try to be happy, but it never seems to work out in our favor.    But the beauty of being a child of God, is the peace that he gives us to be able to bear anything that the enemy seems to throw our way.    Philippians 4:7- “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and mind through Christ Jesus.” (KJV)   I love this verse.  This verse means so much to me. When you think about the peace of God! How wonderful it feels to have that kind of peace.  See, when you have the peace of God which passeth all understanding, you find yourself thinking on...

    One thing that frighten me the most when I started blogging and doing social media was the way I came across to other people. I am already a shy person, so when I decided to start sharing a piece of myself a few years back I was scared.   I saw how people would respond to others on their social media platform. Some people were loving, and kind while others were judgmental and negative.    But the one thing that I learned from doing this for so long, was I needed to be myself. It was one thing for me to try to be what others wanted me to be, but I had to learn that I was not being trueful to myself.    See, when I make the choice to share my life, I was trying to be like others that I saw on the internet. And to be honest, I mimic some of the things that I saw others do thinking that I would get the same response that they were receiving from others. I quickly learned that that was not the approach that I needed to take.    Then I had to t...