Words have the ability to create impressions, mental images, and life expectations. They have to the ability to produce psychological, socioeconomic connections. Word have the ability to determine how we act or think. Words formulate thought, thought formulate actions. The words we say are the results we get.   Think about what you have said about yourself, your children, your job, or your life. Speak Life!…………Karl “Antonio Love” Perkins

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Most people are in many ways victims of their thinking. That is, they  hurt rather than helped by it. ….Ricard Paul and Linda Elder

I am learning that we are the products of our thoughts.  Our mind  creates material or chemistry in the human body. Theses actual brain chemicals  correlate to memory, intelligence.  One on the chemicals endorphin which is the body or brain natural pain killer. Endorphin is 3 times as powerful as morphine.  Endorphin is the brain’s painkiller, and it is 3 times more potent than morphine. Your mind also creates serotonin a chemical that is directly correlated to feelings, appetite, sleep, muscle contraction, and some cognitive functions including memory and learning (http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Serotonin). Dopamine,  another chemical that is produced in the brain, is related to talking, excitement, the ability to experience pleasure and pain, movement, emotional response.  Science teaches  that all the chemical that are produced in the mind has a direct effect the affect our body process. So in fact we are products of our thoughts. So when the Bible teaches us in Probverbs 23:7 As a man thinks in his heart, so is he,  Scientifically, that is the truth. A   thought, scientifically can be consider matter. A thought both has mass and volume.  Mass  is the amount of material that makes up an object.    Volume  is that a thought takes up space.

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If you do the same thing over and over again you will get the same results.  Even if you make the method faster, more efficient, and streamline, you will still get same results. The end results will be the same result but it happens faster, more efficient and streamlined.  What bothers me is the lack of innovation among Christians.   What does it mean to innovate?  Well I did a Google search and this is what I have found. Innovate come from the word invent.  This is what I found:

•Invention: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

•Invention: the creation of something in the mind the term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products…

•The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc; A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites; A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses

• innovative – advanced: ahead of the times; “the advanced teaching methods”; “had advanced views on the subject”; “a forward-looking corporation”; “is British …

•Innovative – being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; “stylistically innovative works”; “innovative members of the artistic community”; “a mind so innovational, so original”

•Innovative – Characterized by the creation of new ideas or things; Forward looking; ahead of current thinking

What are we doing as Christians that is innovative?  Last week, I was looking at Sunday newspaper, in the back of the newspaper there was a listing of church advertisements. It was amazing that as I was looking at hundreds of churches, lead by different people, it all appeared that there was no distinct difference between any of them. These churches were claiming to provide something unique and different, some even using the word “New” in there identification (ex. New House of Prayer).  It appeared that these churches all offered the same methods, some faster, some efficient, some a little more streamlined, but in reality it was the same method and product.  I wonder if the world, in which Christian are supposed to save, are looking at Christians as an answer to problems that we face locally, nationally and internationally. We are faced with diverse tribulations unlike the world has never seen before. However, I believe Christians have not changed the methods of how we answer the call for help. Christianity is viewed more as insight than an answer.  In Biblical days during desperate times the world leaders turned to people who followed God. Individuals who had divine innovation were called upon to solve the nation’s problems.  Are Christians positioned to be instrumental in solving problems though innovation?  We serve a God who controls time, therefore he is timeless. Therefore, we have the ability to innovate beyond this time, even to the point of being futuristic. Instead of playing catch up we should be the ones who are on the edge of new discoveries and revolutionary changes in thinking.  God is called the creator; therefore we have the ability to create. Not find alternatives, like many Christians have done.  Were we mimicking the things in the world and often times become a cheap version of the real thing. Like wanting and IPod Touch for Christmas but your parents buys a touch screen Mp3 player. It plays music like the IPod but it does not have the quality the attention to details as the IPod Touch.  Are we the cheap knock-off to real issues?

Jesus said Matthew 24:37-44 (New International Version)

37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42″Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Noah gives insight into the innovation of God. He created an ark in an environment that never seen water. He had foresight into the things that was to come. It was because of him that we all live today.  Regardless of the outcome Noah positioned himself as an answer.  I encourage you to be innovative because lives depend on us.

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There is a battle inside of me. I feel like I am torn between art, music, and creativity with the responsibility of ministry and community development. I just want to have an enjoyable life. Just like a bad dream, the burden of impacting the world calls me in the middle of the night. I desire to make a difference. My mind is constantly filled with questions. Will I continue to just have fun or will I get to the business of impacting the world? How can I combine these two? I think the issue is trying to balance myself. I like having fun, enjoying life, and being free to express myself. I am also faced with the responsibility of helping people. My mom said something profound she told me, that it is hard wanting to be average but knowing that God created you to be on center stage. That burden that you feel is purpose. I was reminded of people like Dr. Martin Luther King and President John F. Kennedy. These men lived during the same time and shared a burden to change the world. Is this what it feels like to want to organize a movement? Is this what it feels like to want impact the world? Is this what it feels like to organize the March on Washington? This burden is like an active volcano willing to erupt in any minute.

In late 2009 I made a decision that 2010 would be a year which I have decided to be. In 2010 I have risen from the ashes of yesterday and to proclaim that I am uniquely me. I will no longer live under a mask. That means merging my joy for life with the burden of trying to impact the world. That is why I moved my website from www.antoniolove.com to www.livelifeantoniolove.com I realized that all I can be is uniquely me to live my life and to share my burdens. My prayer is that I live a life that impacts the world each day. I have been created fearfully and wonderfully made. Therefore, the message is also wonderfully made. That means that my life is the message that is designed for only me to tell. This purpose of changing the world has been fashioned inside of me since I was born. I no longer fill the guilt of being who I am. I no longer feel the importance of living under expectations from people who might not understand me. As long as God understands me I am going to be okay. I will not apologize for being me.

We all have purpose inside of us. We all have a message. In 2010 let us all take off the mask and become all that God intended us to become. We all need to live our life in the wonderful. To discover the uniqueness of what God has created.

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December 19, 2009 marked my first year anniversary of becoming a single dad. Who would have thought that this was to be my life. As a professional, we can be critical of other people who have children. For example, have you ever been at the mall where you see some poor woman trying to get her child to follow their directions. As the child uses the mall opportunity to perform their rendition of “ Disobedient in A minor.” You know the yelling at the top of their lungs “No I wanna Play” or the Screaming of “Your are Hurting me.” Before I was a parent, I would judgmentally state it that if it had had been my child that temper tantrum would not happen. Yes, it was me who laughed at friends behind their backs who had children on the teddy bear leash, the one that looks like a backpack but it attaches to a parents wrist. In the past 5 years I have learned the joys, laughter, pain, and frustration of being a parent. Parenting is the only job that does not come with a manual. It is the only responsibility that carries a life time contract, and it is guarantees to have a journey of a lifetime. It’s when you become a parent that the idea of the teddy bear leash become an ingenious idea. When you have children, having your 10 year old child sit in the stroller at the mall seems like a logical plan. Regardless, if their feet are touching the floor become a better plan than allowing them to walk throughout the store only to have to go to customer service to have them paged. As an educator by trade, I have been trained to work with students but nothing prepared me to work with my own. This blog is dedicated to sharing how I am learning to parent, work, run a company, and build my life. One concern I can say about parenting is that we do not want peoples sympathy but understanding. If you see me in the mall with my daughter and she is wearing a Princess and the Frog leash, just say hello and don’t laugh. If you do laugh because I am walking around with my child on a leash remember the words of a brilliant philosopher and poet 2pac, “Only God can Judge me, Baby, Baby !”

*Okay I admit she never wore a leash. It was a thought. Lol

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I was totally overwhelmed this morning. I woke up late. I was rushing to get my daughter ready for school, only to have her miss the bus. Today had promised to be an exceptionally busy day, and nevertheless it just was not going extremely well. Not to mention I had to take her to school then, had meetings all day. I need to hear something that would encourage me. Have you ever experienced one of those moment where you sit in your car and feel like crying but can’t or the world is on your back and it will not let up. Then a scripture came back to my remembrance me as it is found in the book of Zephaniah 3:17-18 it states:
17 The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.”
18 “The sorrows for the appointed feasts
I will remove from you;
they are a burden and a reproach to you. [c]
I was reminded that God sings over us. Then I remembered that when I was in a local singing group, the rule was to connect with the audience pick one person and sing to that person the whole night. Then I was filled with cheer because it was revealed that God has chosen me out of the crowd to sing to me. I am not woman, but I have seen women get overwhelmed with emotions when they are serenade by someone they love. Can you picture that someone is the Creator? Today was a day that I needed to know that God was paying attention to me that he was with me. That his eyes were on me and he was singing to me. What a beautiful though, what a gesture of love and compassion that our father wants to show us. So today remember that God is with you and he delights over you and he sings your song.

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The theme of Antonio Love this year is “The Year of the Phoenix.”  Many people wonder why I have decided to use this as a theme for 2010. Well the phoenix is a sacred bird that never dies.  The phoenix symbolically displays the ability to have a vision and to rise again.   The phoenix at the end of its life builds a nest lays in it and ignites it on fire. The bird and the nest burn fiercely to ashes,   after the smoke and the ashes clear a new phoenix arise.  I am proclaiming that this year begins a new Antonio Love, I have the same mission but different vision.

Isaiah 43:18-19  (King James Version):

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

There is something new that is hovering in the atmosphere of our lives a new destiny a new vision and a new life.  As I have spent the last several months years talking with people. Many individuals’ lives have suffered severe loss, tragedy, and setback. The world is calling for the new, but to have the new, you must give up the old things.   Like the phoenix, our lives burned into fiery ashes though situations and circumstances.  People across the country and including myself,   have seen the devastation of finances, marriages, and health. Like the phoenix, after the smoke clears and the ashes settle, the only creature that remains in the mist of the ashes is a new phoenix. The phoenix is a trademark of our power to begin again or the case of the phoenix rise again.  The lesson that we have learned and the lesson that we are learning allows us to become invincible in our journey through life. My mom always taught me that how you live today affects your legacy. In reality I believe  how you rise to fulfill purpose makes you immortal giving you the ability to live in the lives of future generations.

This year I have committed myself to rise again, to live in the new. 2010 you will see a different Antonio Love, for the phoenix has arisen.

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I am who I am. That is a powerful statement. Even the esteemed creator calls himself the Great I Am. I am who I am is also is Ehyeh asher ehyeh in which translates to “I-shall-be that I-shall-be.” What God is saying is I am all That I shall be. He does not have to change because he is true. In the life of a person with imperfections there is a position were they can also can be in a position of full self confidence. The epitome of all that they are created to be. Individuals will never be perfect, but they can be in the process of perfecting the person that they are created to be. They have the ability to recognize their identity, to have a mission to complete themselves. An individual’s ability to put in a position where a person can say I know who I am. I am all that I am, that they I have the ability to stand before people to demonstrate the significance of what God created. Confident in having the ability to realize that I am the best me I can be. That they are rare and wonderfully made. That their journey here on this planet is for them and them alone. That life is not just a chance, but it has an infinite purposes. I shall be is a statement of fact. It is a declaration of knowing that it is about walking in the power of the uniqueness of being yourself.

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