Purpose and Passion

God's work

Lord Jesus You never fail to amaze me.  You bless me more than I could ever image.  I know You can do amazing things, but You show me Your love and give me purpose.  Purpose that glories You and helps other.  Lord allow me to be a good stewart of these blessings.  Please Lord !  Keep me humble along the way remembering that it is all about You.  I am only the vessel Your humble servant.  Lord bless us so that we can move this project forward.  Provide us with what we need along the way.  Allow our work to bless the magnitude.  Thank You so much !

Well, yesterday I was blessed beyond my wildest dream.  I trust the Lord because He is able and so very capable of doing all things.  BUT when I see him working in my life it amazing me.  I always say this “I LOVE to see the Lord work”.  And last evening He worked His hand in my life in a way that only God could do.  WOW !! WOW !!  Tenth Talent Productions, LLC made up of the talents of Andrea Swift and Nicole Hargrove presenting me with a proposal.  The proposal for a testimony of my journey.  Now this testimony would be used to help believers and non believers with their weight loss journey.  My blog, yeah this blog would be used and we would also use You Tube.  Also incorporated would be some self image building all supported by scripture.  Marvelous, simply Marvelous.  Last night as we talked Andrea broke down the word and I sat in awe of her understanding of the Word and her thirst.  She said God puts the super in the natural.  Get it Supernatural.  He can take what we as humans do and put the super in it and make it more than our human minds can do.  Ms. Nicole is a friend of mine, I call her a thinker, she thinks and is smart woman, thinks quickly and knows stuff J  God is allowing her to use her talents to glory His work.  I sat there and was like how ya’ll know all this stuff, and then it hit me GOD. 

I have been asking God to allow me to use my life to help others.  I want my story to help others that are struggling and need that motivation.  The channel could be called Olivia’s Daughter as is this blog.  I want the things I do to represent God in a positive manner and incorporate my mother’s spiritual influence on my life. 

Now we have lots of work to do.  I have my homework.  But I can say this is a passion so my energy will be right.  The Lord brought us together for this collorabtion so it is of God.  God will get the glory throughout my channel as he has throughout my blog.  I want to live a life pleasing to God that blesses others.  I have had journey which has caused me to have any tears but also much joy.  As I am sure many of you have had and so you understand.  Please stay tuned for the launch of Olivia’s daughter. 

The team of Tenth Talent Production, LLC are wonderful women of God, so I feel confident in allowing them to produce my testimony.  There are other special things that we discussed so stay tuned for updates. 

Please keep us in pray as we move forward in preparing to do God’ s work.

A special shout out to gonegirlgo (Zoe Brown) who helped me to see that from written words dreams can be developed and executed.  She is another sister who loves the Lord and who is moving forward on her dream.  Thanks !

Beauty Tip:  Embrace who God made you to be.  Loving who God made you to be honors God and gives Him glory.  Don’t be hard on yourself, love yourself and help others.  Share let it go (Andrea).  Sharing is always of God.  Purpose and Passion :) :) :) :) 

Diet:  Yesterday I got back on the band wagon.  I ate my 3 prepared meals with popcorn as snack.  Yeah Yeah Yeah.  I have foot appt. today.  Prayfully I will be back on the workout path real soon.  Lord’s will be done.  I trust Him.

Blend, Blend, Blend – Build, Build, Build

Lord God almighty you never fail to amaze me.  You have shown me how to live in peace and enjoy the life of abundance.  Lord because of You I know LIVE. 

Last night I worked out, boy was I filling it.  I have to get back to my 3 day a week routine.  I must, there is no way around it.  Yesterday was my 1 year anniversary of my return to True Image.   A year ago I was extremely depressed searching for answers.  I was at the point in my life where I seriously had to decide live or die.  I chose life; I knew that in order to live I needed God.  God guided me back to True Image; I needed strength in my body, to feel strong.  I also needed to rededicate myself to Christ and stop being angry at the Lord for taking the people that were so special to me.  I had to get up and move on.  So I did and I am glad.  At that point I made a decision to live and to live good and to live a life pleasing to God.  I also decided to make decisions in my life that were Godly and not to do anything that I did not feel lead by God to do.  I have a passive aggressive personality, I have the ability to be pissed off and no one knows.  This has eaten me up alive.  I decided to speak up, get things out so that I am not festering harmful thoughts in my mind.  I also decided to be pleasant to others, to encourage others, to smile at others, to be an overall nice person.  To say positive things to people and when needed to do it in a constructive manner.  I want my life to be of value to others, God has me here for a reason. 

I continue to work on me and ask God to reveal in me what I need to make me a better person.  This has been a journey.  I work hard to not say harmful things and to be sensitive to the needs of others.  In doing this I have been blessed beyond my wildest dreams. 

My mother lived her entire life for her funeral, she really did.  She would say I want people to be able to have nice thoughts about me and say good things.  I want them to know I lived my life for the Lord. I now understand the depth of her spirit.  I am fortunate to have had her as an example of love right here on earth. 

I will be attending Friday Night Live; I was there last night briefly as they set up for tonight.  There was such excitement in the room and everything looks so nice and well planned out.  This happens when people work in their gifting.  I saw no chaos, no arguing no egos, I saw peace and order.

Gonegirlgo- Congratulations to Zoe for kicking off her dream of moving us all along.  What a blessing this will be.  I plan to take place and get myself moving deeper in my passion.  March 24th at 10:00 a.m. Shaker Library.

Beauty:  I have worked out how to build my filer, color corrector, concealer and derma blend and power under my eyes.  WOW it is a real work of art.  I have tried so much to get the appropriate effect.  My problem was I was trying to use one item or I was using items with the wrong consistency.  The L’Oreal color corrector consistency is so thin that it slides on, Mac full coverage concealer is the bomb, and then foundation, then lastly the derma blend.  In using this step process I only need a couple dabs of derma blend to finish it off as it is thick and using it along was too much of a build up.  I love being a girl and playing with makeup, I really do.  There is a make up guru so enforces the importance of blending so I learned early in the makeup game that using proper brushes and blending crucial.   But no one really showed me how to build; it is something I had to individualize for my specific needs.  Mac Fix + is hands down the best, a few sprays gives a real nice finish.

List of possibilities for March :  Mac Spike eyebrow pencil, Armani foundation or Lancôme, and more Mac mascara, Guilt by association-mineralized eye shadow. 

February Favorites – Items I went to daily, in no certain order

Derma Blend

Mac Fix +

Sona Kasha slanted eyeliner brush

Maybelline Blackest Black gel liner

ELF bronzer – use for highlighting under brow

Sensationail nails – manicure is holding strong after 1 week

Thrifting at Avalon – 3 jackets

Neutrogena pressed power

Skin products – ROC, Larches, and Vichy

L’Oreal – color corrector

Milan – Lipstick - #24 Orange Gina

February Regrets

That target is not keep stocked up on ELF products