"1:17:48 (1 Hour, 17 Minutes and 48 Seconds"

I walked into the living room, daughter in arm and opened my window. Thinking that i would have the same amount of bad luck day after day, my phone rings. I take the call and to much of my surprise, my view on life changed.

We are different, men and women that is...and we rely on different emotions or way to express feelings or thoughts. From a man, what we feel isn't what we do. For example, if a woman says, "i just wanna vent, will you just listen" the man would say, "yeah i got you". The woman begins to talk and somewhere in the middle of even the end of that venting, the man is already making ways on how to fix that problem. Women on the other hand are emotional and often rely on the way they feel to pattern there actions. The bible speaks that the woman is the weaker vessel. Not lesser or beneath us but weaker in the emotion area. We all have someone to submit to and it has always been a chain of command so to speak.

This phone call opened my eyes to more than they were opened to already. Einstein says "The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome" which makes you insane. This is something that most of us are familiar with. You don't have to go insane the literal way but it makes the judgement call a little more cloudy than usual.

I used to think that because i have a problem, whether it be within me or with someone else, i created it because it was me. I also thought that because i "created" it, i was bigger than it and i had control over it. No, i was wrong. We don't often admit that what we create, we have to deal with and sometimes it may not even make it back to its original form before our interference. We often point the finger at a problem that we created because the outcome is that of something that we didn't see coming. Results by definition means "To come about as a consequence" or "To end a particular way". Basically results means what our "intentions" were appose to what the actual outcome was. Sometimes a result can get so far out of our hands until we have no choice but to fight back. Originally that result, was a result...of our results..(read that slowly lol).

They say that you have to first forgive yourself before you forgive other people. I thought this was easy seeing that its yourself....NO i was wrong again. Forgive by definition means "To excuse for fault of offense; pardon" or "To renounce anger or resentment against". The bible says in Matthew 6:14-16 "For if you forgive me when they sin against you, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, you father will not forgive you your sins". Judging by facts of the word, i haven't forgiven myself properly almost ever. I say "i forgive you" but continue to speak on it and relive it and convert back to it. Its says to "pardon" (the act of liberating something or someone), and liberate means "To free from confinement". I have been going about things the wrong way and by this, if you believe....I'm sure many of you have as well. The bible says that we are continually coming into the knowledge of, so its never a time where we should feel content with what we know. I thought i knew too much already, NO...wrong again. I know now that forgiving someone is not just a word or words but its a lifestyle, never to return to the thoughts of or feeling of that again after the initial pardon. But, remember that before you can forgive (pardon) others, you must forgive yourself...never to speak on that again.

Then we come to this word that has been around for years but not many would own up to it "Pride". Pride by definition means "Arrogance or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness". Looking at the definition, most of us would say.."nah that aint me" but we are just that in every since of the word. The bible says warning comes before destruction, and society says that pride is the ego of the world. Its great to think highly of yourself but to feel as if you are better than someone or too much to have a conversation with them, your damaging yourself. The bible says that "He who think he is something when he is nothing, deceives him own self". We tend to think we mean more to this world or our self than this world or our self think we mean to it. Its one thing to have evil deceive us because that's what its there to do but when we deceive our self...its foolish.

Finally we are on to the word "Love". Love by definition means "A strong positive emotion of regard and affection". Love for God, parents, friends, relatives or your spouse is to not want to let down or disappoint. When you get to the point of not caring, love is no longer there. Remember to Love as God does, we are not judged as a group but as individuals.

"Its not what you GO through, its what you GROW through" -Seven-

Good looking out on the call from Seven, dude is very insightful...also Cixx and Bizzle..we got this!