J Inspirations Blog

It’s been awhile since I’ve been angry. Now I’ve had my moments of sadness, and hurt, but I haven’t been angry in a long time. My baby had a cold (and we all know how much I’m attached to my baby) well he had a cold and it through me off my square a slight bit. I really don’t like him being sick at all. So I decided to take him in for a checkup because I wasn’t comfortable with how he was breathing. Make a long story short it was just a normal virus, nothing major but while we were preparing for him to get checked, I started praying and began to get mad. I know crazy right? How do you get mad while praying? As I began to declare healing, I started crying and felt anger rising in me. I then quoted something my Bishop had taught the Sunday prior and told God that Jonah’s healing was a need and that I was Expecting him to heal him and that it wouldn’t be nothing serious going on with him (i.e. flu, pneumonia). After his test results came back negative, I immediately thanked God. Once set...

I once was speaking with two co-workers and we were conversing about life. One of the young ladies mentioned something about making “bad” decisions and suffering the consequences that sometimes follow those decisions. We all know that sometimes God shows us mercy and we really don’t get what we deserve. However, for the times that we do encounter backlash from a decision we make, how do you handle it? Are you a victim? Were you deserving of the consequences? I remember telling {REDACTED} that I believe we make decisions based off temporary emotions. Even if we know that long term this decision that we make can be harmful to us we tend to still make the decision based off of immediate satisfaction. It’s what we want or at least what we think we want at the moment therefore; we don’t rationalize about the long term damage it may cause. I’ve always been more of a logical than emotional type of gal, so before making a decision I tend to think about all of the outcome possibilities. Althoug...