"30 Days of Happiness" campaign DAY 6 contribution

"30 Days of Happiness" campaign DAY 6 contribution (July 31st): Today I am happy simply because my Father GOD saw fit to awaken me today! My phone died last night because I'd forgotten to connect it for charging before I fell asleep. This ultimately meant there was no alarm to awaken me BUT my Father wrapped His loving arms around me and raised my head from the pillow ... LORD I thank You!

ALSO for the 2 new members of the VI LIFE, Shana Shell and Kayla King, I am SO happy that you've decided to take your health back! Happiness for me comes in ALL forms but my Father's work and those wanting to be healthy and well does something extra!!

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"30 Days of Happiness" Campaign contribution for Day 5

"30 Days of Happiness" campaign Day 5 contribution (July 30th): Talking to a customer at work who asks me about the Vi Life & for one of my cards because she is ready to join. She said one of her co-workers (who I don't know) shows my picture

to everyone in his excitement over the progress the program gives!!

Then a little later, one of my team members (in Cali) said she uses my pictures to show the people on her job how successful you can be on the program.

My happy moment ... when I realized I AM INSPIRING OTHERS COAST TO COAST TO LIVE HEALTHIER!! WOW ... LIL OLE ME! *MOOD: PROUD* (I woke up out of my sleep to create this post on FB)

"30 Days of Happiness" Campaign contribution for Day 3

"30 Days of Happiness" campaign contribution Day 3 (July 28th): So I'm just getting off of work and walking to the bus stop. When I arrive there are 3 black young adults (2 females, 1 male) & 1 white male, who visibly appeared to be a bit "off" to some degree, at whom these 3 black young adults are laughing.

I sit on a WalMart basket and the white man immediately says "NO MA'AM, take my sit" & gets up. So we switch places & I thank him. He then begins to talk, rather intelligently too! He spoke about a few of his medical conditions & his attempts to get back to Norfolk, VA to get medical treatment because the VA here won't care for him.

We conversed until my bus came, he thanked me for listening to him. I told him no thanks needed because he'd given me no reason not to talk to him. I also said and made sure the 3 black young adults heard it, that if more people treated others as they want to be treated it (conversations with him) would happen more often.

As I walked away I blessed him & wished him safe travels to where ever he was headed. He gave a toothless smile that made my day! THAT was my happy moment ... knowing I could bless & put a smile on a mans face who did not seem to carry one often. GOD bless him ...

BONUS 3RD DAY CONTRIBUTION:

All this love from my 1st grand-daughter, Miss Daysha, wrapped around my neck as we watch Despicable Me!! *PRICELESS*

"30 Days of Happiness" Campaign contribution for Day 2

"30 Days of Happiness" Campaign contribution for Day 2: I've posted enough about being ill and how I am hating the steroids so everyone knows I am not feeling well. Most of you know I don't have a car either so this morning I had to get up and walk to the corner store for a few things.

Now being sick and walking in rising heat is NO fun so you can imagine how unhappy I was but not complaining. I hadn't checked my mail in 2 days so I decided to stop and knock that out, my JEA bill & a letter from my son were enclosed. I open my JEA bill 1st which is usually under $10 but this one is $35 (COME ON NAH, SOMETHINGS GOT TO GIVE!!) and then I opened my son's letter to find a new picture of him. *squeals in excitement*

My baby boi looks wonderful under the circumstances and in his letter he says "2 more yrs mama. I am ready to get home to my favorite lady, my sister and my girls*! THIS is my contribution for today! Nothing else that happens today will top that so I can give this early! LOVE YOU DANTE"!!

I AM STILL BLESSED

With all that goes on and has gone on in my life I AM STILL BLESSED!

Though my life is not perfect and probably never will be I am more than PERFECTLY in love with it!

My Father blessed me with 2 beautiful children of which have spawned 2 BEAUTIFUL grand-daughters ... BLESSED!!

There's absolutely nothing more in this world I want than to see these 4 happy and well off for life! GOD KNOWS I AM WORKING ON IT!!!

*sings* WOKE UP THIS MORNING FEELING FRESH TO DEF I'M SO FRESH, SO FRESH

Mother of an Incarcerated Son: Released from confinement

Dante' recieved a DR for disorderly conduct ... well that was the charge anyways ... and put into confinement the week I was in VA (June 15-24). In his letter, advising me of the situation, he said "I am innocent of these charges mama! GOD is going to show up in this because I did not do ANYTHING! I am too close to coming home. I just want to do my time and get to my girls". I knew then my baby was going to be OK but that still, unfortunately, did not stop me from worrying, that's just a part of being a parent/mother.

One thing no one can tell me is that my GOD doesn't answer when you cry out to Him. As I prayed about my sons situation and chatted with my auntie about it, explaining a few things to her, Dwayne Woods began to sing in my ears "as soon as I stop worrying, worrying how the story ends I LET GO AND I LET GOD, LET GOD HAVE HIS WAY"!! I was sitting on the bus headed downtown, I do NOT like crying in public but I didn't even care at that moment because that is when I knew IT WAS WELL .... IT IS DONE!! I surrendered all!!

Then today (Sunday 07/01) as I sat with tears in my eyes and my grand-daughter Daysha hugging me and patting my back saying "it's ok nana" I had to shout "GOD IS SOOOOO AWESOME"!! I'd just received a phone call from the mother of another inmate housed with my son. I didn't recognize the number but since my son's been incarcerated and my starting Body By Vi I get a LOT of unknown number calls so I answered. Of course, when she started her sentence off with "you have a son or brother named Trouble in Madison ..." I immediately thought the worse (Father I will do better with that) BUT on the contrary ... she was calling to tell me DANTE WAS OUT OF CONFINEMENT AND HE JUST WANTED ME TO KNOW!!

MY GOD IS SO GOOD!! This has made my ENTIRE month of July! THANK YOU LORD!! The devil is trying his level best to keep my son down but MY GOD HAS TOO MUCH OF AN INVESTMENT IN MY SON...IT WON'T WORK DEVIL! IT WON'T HAPPEN!! *sings* VICTORY IS MINE VICTORY IS MINE VICTORY IS MINE TODAY!!!

Mother of an Incarcerated Son: High Spirits

One day away from vacation and in my mailbox is a letter from my son. When I felt the envelope I felt pictures so I thought he'd sent some new pictures of himself. I tore into that envelope looking for pictures of my handsome son to find 2 of the 3 pictures of myself that I had sent him, these 2:

Needless to say I was a bit "perplexed" as to why he'd sent my pictures back so I immediately began to read. He didn't waste ANY time getting into the reason he'd sent my pictures back and I quote: "Your pictures are BEAUTIFUL tho! You look GREAT but I don't put these types of pix of you in my book so I'll send these 2 back! I've been fighting since elementary school due to the fact that you're 'attractive' I guess, I don't need that rite now!" *smiling* That truly made my night! My son has not seen me since Christmas so he had not witnessed my weight loss transformation. He also went as far as to FINALLY admit he and I look JUST alike, especially since I have no hair. (laughs)

He is now going in to the Commercial Foods and Culinary Arts training offered at the prison. I am SO proud of him for making use of this time the Lord has given him on this earth behind those prison walls. He speaks with so much sense now, his attitude has really changed and I pray it continues for the better. There is not ONE person who can tell me MY GOD is not GREAT!

Love you son! 2 more years to go and we'll be done with this so keep your head up high, know that this is GOD'S blessing for you and your life and keep HIM first in all you do!