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Often our lives are filled with overwhelming pain, loss, obstacles and strife. Just remember that these attempted blockers of our blessings are temporary and God is permanent - God is on the throne!! Blockers keep trying to destroy us but with God's love and protection we have the victory!!  Have faith in God and deter faith in people! People will sometimes hurt you because as humans we are not perfect. Remember God will never hurt you and He is working all the blockers of your blessings right now! The Holy Bible provides solutions to all of your problems and it provides answers to all of your questions! Prayer provides you strength during adversity. In addition, prayer communicates your requests, acknowledgements and praises to God! God already knows what you are going to say, do or feel because He is omniscient. Keep praying because God hears and God heals!! Blessings and love, Joan Ellen Gandy
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 We are all on this short journey of life and we all have to spend this time loving each other instead of wasting it away with hate and regrets........right now is the time for positive changes!!!!! Anything that is negative in our life requires a positive change!!!! We change our negative experiences first by changing our attitude from negative to positive. Next we change our negative influences by surrounding ourselves with positive influences, positive people and positive habits. All of these positive acts help to sustain positive energy and positive thinking. Write me and tell me how you turn your life from negative to positive.  The tragedies I have experience is no way more than the tragedies I have witnessed in my life. There are people everyday deciding to give up on life and even take others with them, and there are people who are dying everyday unexpectedly and way too soon per our human understanding. Death at any age or reason breaks our heart. No matter how, how old, who, when, why and why now does not remove or decrease the horrific pain of loss. Any kind of loss eats at our soul but don't give up because GOD IS ALWAYS IN CONTROL!!!!!! JUST GET DOWN ON OUR KNEES AND PRAY!!!!!!!! This day should be spent with family and friends and good food!! If you are alone due to loss, circumstances, misunderstandings there are a few reminders.  Love is forever and when we suffer a death of a parent(s) and or child, a loss is now a gain for we now have an angel a guardian angel. Circumstances are temporary for example, you are working toward improving & or building your own family and distance has separated you all (another example deployment), but eventually you will all be reunited together! Misunderstandings destroy a piece of your spirit when you refuse to forgive, be the bigger one and apologize and if it is not accepted or acknowledged it has been accepted & acknowledged by our Heavenly Father!!!! Everyone has a mother and a father and for those who have absent parents, our Heavenly Father is fulfilling that role since the day of your birth and He will be there for you until you are called to your Heavenly home!! Jeremiah 29:11"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"(NIV). Love and blessings, Joan We all have experience the feelings of being broken, destroyed, hurt, tired, worthless and lost. Think of your body as a vehicle. We are all a shell of a vehicle (our body) and our gas tank represents our emotional, mental, physical and psychological virtues. We need all of our virtues to go through our life in a positive, efficient and an effective matter. When our tank is empty, it is time for us to fill up our tank or we become stagnated and left in one place and not going anywhere  How do we fill up our tank of emotional, mental, physical and psychological virtues? How do we move through our life when we feel empty and broken down? These questions are feelings that go back in ancient times. If you feel alone, you are not alone! God has placed all those answers for us right in the Bible and through prayer! Refill your tank which means revamp your life through God's wondrous plans for your life which are positive changes right in front of you by looking forward rather than backwards! The Bible provides the necessary fuel to fill each of our tanks!  Deaths, bills due, possessions gone, fired from work, abandoned by friends and all of disastrous events that are leaving you destroyed, reach for God! The Bible is the time to restart your life!  We are stagnated and not willing to move is the time for prayer and God's desire to have a one on one with you in prayer! Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God"(KJV). In the stillness of our lives will allow us the time of prayer and meditation and not making decisions in haste. God leads us to the right places when we place our trust in Him! The disastrous events that placed us in a stagnated place are all temporary. Joy will return and brighten our day and our spirit! Psalm 34:17 "The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles"(KJV). I have many times in my life yell out or say in my mind, "Lord help me, hear my prayer!" Never in my life did He forsake me!! Maybe I wanted a different resolution however God solves our problems in ways that will benefit us! Death of a loved one or loved ones is the worst pain that can place us in the darkest place. Death is universal and so is pain and grieving is different for each of us. John 16:22 "So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you"(ESV). The loss of a loved one reminds us that our life is temporary and the gift we receive from the loss of a loved one is knowing that we will be reunited with our loved ones one day! We shall transfer the pain and tears of death into the joy of a reunion one day! This is why when we remember our loved one, we celebrate their life and know we will see them again! Friends abandon us or people ridicule us, divorce, break up: Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower"(KJV). The best and greatest friend in our life is Jesus!! Human beings are imperfect and incapable of being our best and greatest friend. We love everyone and we will have friends but perfection in friends is nonexistent!  Possessions stolen or house destroyed/foreclosure/eviction, car repossessed, no food, no water, no money: Psalm 9:9 "The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble"(KJV). If all we have is our body and our Bible, we are on the right path of receiving the gifts that God has for us in place with first being our refuge in times of trouble! We will be blessed abundantly when we place our faith and trust in God!! Tired and can't go on, sick, depressed, tired: Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest"(ESV). God is right within reach and He will provide us the necessities to go on because God is not through with us yet! Don't give up for God will never give up on you!!! Blessings and love, Joan Quotes and sayings written by me and published on my Twitter feed The Art of Gandy: @joan_gandy: Our role as parents from birth & on should shape our children each day toward success in adulthood!! #TheArtOfGandy @MotSuccess @joan_gandy: The problem in our society today is our inability to communicate with clarity & comprehend completely!! @joan_gandy: Our role as parents from birth & on should shape our children each day toward success in adulthood!! #TheArtOfGandy @MotSuccess @joan_gandy: Unknown awareness of our artwork does not define our talent, we are just able to live without paparazzi & the headaches of stardom!! @joan_gandy: Be known for acceptance & understanding of peace rather than known for catching & throwing a ball of confusion! #TheArtOfGandy Quotes and sayings written by me and published on my Twitter feed The Art of Gandy: @joan_gandy: Our role as parents from birth & on should shape our children each day toward success in adulthood!! #TheArtOfGandy @MotSuccess @joan_gandy: The problem in our society today is our inability to communicate with clarity & comprehend completely!! @joan_gandy: Our role as parents from birth & on should shape our children each day toward success in adulthood!! #TheArtOfGandy @MotSuccess @joan_gandy: Unknown awareness of our artwork does not define our talent, we are just able to live without paparazzi & the headaches of stardom!! @joan_gandy: Be known for acceptance & understanding of peace rather than known for catching & throwing a ball of confusion! #TheArtOfGandy  How is your spirit? Notice that I did not ask you how are you doing? I asked you a deeper question about how your spirit is doing which is the status of your soul, essence, inner self, temperament, attitude, mood, character, heart, and force?
Often our own spirit is shaken, lost and hurt. The causes of our pain are often directly from our own reaction of other people’s indirect or direct actions and or inactions that we take personally. When family and or friends emotionally hurt you it is time to remove that hurt from inward to outward to out of your own blame and out of your own circle of influence. Those who emotionally hurt you have a deeper pain themselves that they attempt to inflict on you either intentionally or unintentionally. Regardless of why family and or friends inflict their pain on others is a deeper issue that they will need to embark on for their own emotional healing and self-growth through counseling and spiritual teachings. Embarking on emotional healing and a commitment to self-growth takes time and no one is guaranteed to be around to reach the age of hundred. Through the knowledge that our lives are short, as of today (right now at this moment) we have to release any blame we have placed on ourselves because of other people’s actions and or inactions. We are not failures because we are winners when we chose to release blame and become stronger emotionally by first accepting that we deserve emotional wellness and emotional healing! We deserve happiness! We deserve to grow mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and physically through self-love which is unconditional and blameless! Our lives are too short to live otherwise! If no one ever raised your spirits high, gave you confidence to excel, and celebrated your accomplishments, it does not define you as such because only you can define yourself! Just as a person who constantly belittles you and calls you negative and unkind words does not define you because yet again, only you can define yourself! If our own mother, father, sibling or child tells you that you are unworthy or decide to alienate or abandon you, remove the self-blame right now! Again, it is not you but it is those who knowingly or unknowingly inflict their pain of self-doubt and years of emotional damage toward their victims who are the closest to them! Unfortunately, their spirit is lost and in every direction they travel in they disseminate their pain on others to destroy humanity. Yes, misery loves company! The next time your spirit is low, shaken, lost, and or hurt seek to transform your spirit by removing blame, accepting self-love, believing in our own self-worth, embarking on emotional healing, consenting to self-growth, believing in your own success through confidence, understanding that only you can define who you are through positive affirmations, refusing to become hurt by those who are negative and emotionally detached, and rejecting those who are emotionally damaged away from your circle of influence! Right now, today, celebrate you and accept self-love and well deserved happiness through self-growth, emotional healing and positive affirmations to yourself!!!!  “For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ” (Galatians 1:10, ESV).
As a disabled Veteran I was seeking to provide financially through various projects which required the gaining of approval, likes, and numbers from others. As long as I could remember, I was seeking to gain the approval of my family, friends, directors, subordinates, publishing companies, and so on. When I reached the age of 40 I realized that I can’t please everyone. Suddenly, as I am closing in on the age of 50 I realized that why am I trying to please anyone. My need for approval should never be focused on people however my approval should be focused on God! I will never gain the blessings from the fruits of my labor focusing on people! It is guaranteed that I will receive the blessings and the favor upon the Lord through my sole purpose of God’s approval! What happens when we focus on people for approval? We will eventually become disappointed and miserable. There are thousands and thousands of disappointed and miserable people who unwillingly or willingly desire for others to join them in the land of mental, emotional, and psychological disappointment. This incorrect focus of approval from people will definitely lead to self-destruction. Once I focus only on God’s approval the rewards will arrive and when I say rewards it is the type of rewards that are unseen. The purpose of my life is to live it according to God’s plan and through God’s approval and the reward of eternity in heaven! Focus on pleasing God! Focus on God’s approval! The blessings in your life will begin or continue to be received through God’s plan and not from others! Blessings and love, Joan Ellen Gandy  Right now at this moment we exist because there are plans for us to fulfill When there are people, situations, and circumstances that interfere with our plans it is time to refocus our life and make critical changes. People, situations, and circumstances should never interfere with our plans. Our plans equal our happiness and our happiness equals our plans! Everyone has something in their life that brings them happiness no matter if it is small or large. Keep in mind that happiness is based upon positive things and or positive lifestyle! If you surround yourself around negative people and negative situations and you do not have a choice of changing these experiences due to work, utilize the power of positive thinking. Things that bring you joy and that will recharge your happiness require positive thoughts!
If you only knew the horrific times I had during my last deployment and Soldiers who wanted to commit suicide and tragic events surrounding our task force. My happiness and strength is through prayer and I prayed all of the time! During incomings, personnel issues, and flights to various places I prayed. In the CHU I prayed in the morning and at night. Another thing that made me happy was comedy shows and movies. I ordered movies and shows that had comedic value to provide some type of joy. In terms of positive thinking, I kept thinking about being at home and thinking of the places that I was going to go or take the family. Don't ever feel that you are alone in this life and that you do not have a purpose or a plan! You may not know it right now, but you have a purpose and a plan! Check out the positive quotes within my website. Love you even if you don't know it!! Joan Ellen Gandy A special gift to you on the importance of your life!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iprAk4HxjJ0 |
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