How to remix your day: put the bitter with the sugar, set fire to the pain
Feeling a little thirsty right now.
Like I need a little wildness and little boldness right now. I think I’m catching a taste for some…lemonade — like I need a little change somehow (but more on that in a minute). For now, check out the latest confess-ion from HotPrayersTv.
My great grandmother, Othella Mae Zackery, always said a lot of things, some of which I still don’t quite understand. But then there are those phrases that changed my family’s life:
I’m not gone get back any further than you knock me,”
she said. Born in 1906 that Diva had a ‘never give up’ type of spirit. She faced things I could never fully imagine including:
- RACISM – extreme racism, prejudice and segregation,
- FAMILY ISSUES – raising 3 generations includng some of her siblings and grandchildren (she raised my dad)
- DIVORCE – divorcing her husband at a time when it just wasn’t done,
- HEALTH – surviving a heart attack and exercising to rebuild her health
And still she said,
I’m not gone get back any further than you knock me.”
She said things like that so much…
…it became a part of who we are. If you passed through her world, you had a chance to catch her fire and to catch her passion for winning cause as she put it
I’m gone stand at the head of the class, if I can’t spell a lick,”
With an 8th grade education that’s exactly what she did – she found a way to shine. So are you thirsty yet?
Every Body Has LEMONS In Their Life
I have my share. And I’m sure you do too. But I think I’ll make like Othella Mae Zachery cause
I’m not gone get back any further than you knock me.”
I’m not going to make it easy for you to take me out or keep me down. Working from that never give up spirit. I’m always — always — working on a rebound.
Now what about you, thirsty yet?
talk soon,
jamillah
P.S. Life is full of setbacks. But it’s also full of survivors.
