The True Pilot

Over the past few years, I have spent a lot of time in airplanes traveling within the US and across the globe for my own pleasure. My travels have been fun and for the most part I have never really run into any issues. Until recemtly, I was on a flight that started off really ROCKY, so rocky that I could not get any sleep (which I always get to do on my flights).  This got me thinking, so many times I have put my trust in so many pilots that I don't know. Pilots that you can't see, or touch or hear but yet I trusted them with my life.

Why then is it so hard to trust completely and utterally in God? You can't see Him or touch Him and most times you feel like you can't hear Him but just like a pilot He is there. Leading and directly our lives if we would just stay in our seats (Let Go) with our seat belts on (Let God). We already know He can and He will land us to our destination safely.

Passenger B*B*J*B

Bold and Beautiful

It's important for me to talk about what its like Being BBJB (yeah I came up with this blog before Being Mary Jane came out on BET). Anyway, apart of Being BBJB are talking about some of the not so good things about me. There are two things I've always battled with and that's having short hair and biting my nails. Seems so minor when you write it down but boy have these things had a major impact on my self-confidence.

Having a mother with lovely long hair and a sister with thick voluminous hair, I wondered why I was born with short brittle hair. I would have loved to just have at least one good quality, why did I have to get stuck with hair 2 bad, hair that couldn't grow and then to lose the ones that did!! On top of that I have a terrible habit of biting my nails. Even down to the skin (yeah its a serious habit). For 28 years I have been trying to break this habit. At some points I actually did until I looked down and saw all my nails gone (not cute).  It got so bad that I didn't even know when or where I was doing it. I had gotten out of control.

This all had to stop!! I had to look for ways to believe that I am Bold and Beautiful just the way God made me. Regardless of what I had and the bad habits I had formed. So one by one I found ways to embrace my downfalls and control my own beauty. So how did I start? First I decided that if i was gonna be stuck with short hair that I would rock it out!!!

I got it cut and styled just like I've wanted to but have't had the guts to do. Since the cut a I have gotten nothing but compliments (which is an immediate boost of self-confidence.) This trickled into the way I dressed and developed into the confidence I thought I didn't have.

But I couldn't stop there, I had to come up with a plan for my nails. It certainly wouldn't be cute if you looked good  but had jacked up hands, would it? So I decided it was time to invest (which I never do). I invested in pampering my nails every two weeks. And if I make it two weeks without biting my nails I get to choose a nice color (red, pink, orange or aqua). For those of you that know me, I never have any nails to paint in the first place so this is truly a treat. Here's my progress:

It sometimes can be the simple things in life that can make a person feel Bold & Beautiful. These are just some of mines.

B&B

Matter of Lifestyle

Has the Lord ever dropped your future into your lap? If He did, would you know it was from Him? The God I serve works in the most mysterious ways and that I have seen myself.

Four years ago I met a woman that has had an awesome influence on my life and in return I am trying daily to pay it forward. Today is her birthday and the launch of her new product line.

Click here to check it out. http://www.matteroflifestyle.com/

Happy Birthday Gwen!!!!

B*B*J*B