I Need it Now!!!!!!!!!! The Golden Goose Egg
; "I want it now")
With only days before the Release of the book, The Hope Project, I wonder if it is unwise for me to believe that people believe in being a part of something greater than their situation. Will people operate there hope and believe again? Will they share this message? Will the message touch there heart? Will people actually pay it forward or will they look at this book as another gimmick? That on August 14, 2009 I am sharing my hope to people I do not know but I love enough to share my life time and expertise with them. I started to question my Faith in Hope. I asked myself , why am I doing this.? Why am I giving this book away? As I rolled out of bead the first thing I read was a person status on Facebook that said, “I’m not much of an economist…. But I cannot see how this is going to work out. About 20% of the nation have been laid off and about 12% of them are over qualified for most positions. Businesses have filed bankruptcy, homes have foreclosed, banks have failed, Yet the govt continues to bail us out??!!! Only God can repair this!!!” I realized that this book has a greater purpose.
Many people have heard this passage all the time in church. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The key word in this proverb is found in the word “Now.” We need a “Now” faith. We need a faith for today, current and relevant. The things that many people are going thru are much larger than what they have faced in the past. The American Recession has not only effected the poor but also the middle class. The working middle class were people that played by the rules they when to school, earned degrees, and worked hard. They would have never thought that half way through their career the rules would change. They would find themselves unemployed, underemployed, and homeless. People need hope, a now how. At the end of the recession, America will never be the same again. The days of the Six figure employee are coming to an end and very few companies will continue to have pension plans. What I have learned that whatever ends there has to be a new beginning. It is my hope that The Hope Project is the start of a new beginning.
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We are the Voice of Hope
We are the voice of hope.Hope is the message that needs to permeates the airwaves in the lives of people that have faced hardships. People across this nation are facing some very difficult times. Many individuals have suffered great loss. Many of us have lost loved ones, employment, housing, and in some cases hope. The reality is that hope does not linger in the hall of government but it rest in the hearts of people. People who are willing to recognize that true success is not money but making this world a better place. That little acts of kindness have more of an internal purpose than merely living. I realized that life is a Journey that is granted to people as a gift. Not just to have physical possessions but to invest in something that has an internally legacy, of what Author Cheryl Perkins would say, a living legacy. My works or little acts of kindness are so much greater than the now but in the hereafter. As a teacher, my former students never really remembers any of my lessons they always remembered what I stood for. The little acts of kindness getting to know them not as students but human that also share in this kinship called humanity. How are we the voice of Hope? The answer is in peoples ability to share in a world that see sharing as charity not as being part of a human family. As we share Hope with each other we also share the same voice, because we are the voice of hope. Don’t you agree that you are the voice of hope?
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Hope We Can Believe In
He spent over 20 years on his job, only to have a pink slip handed to him at the end of the day. He always had been on time for work. His annual evaluation had always ranked him as being brilliant employee. That level of duty and dedication to the company could not stop him from losing his career He was an engineer and went to school. He was always taught that a degree from school would always insure that he would have a job. At the age of 44, with the end of the company and a loss of one-hundred thousand in income, he finds himself without a job, career, and finical stability. He needs hope. It almost seems that this is the story of many hard working Americans. People are facing some of the toughest times probably since the 1930’s. Across the country the story seems to be the same, people are struggling. They need help and a since of hope. I think that I have the answer. I think that through a method of giving hope away we will begin to see s seismic shift in their lives, family, community, and country. I call this the Hope Project. In November of 2008, I began toying with this notion of giving hope away. What would happen if people would learn how to give, not just money, but time, and expertise? That individuals across the world started a trend in which we all shared each other’s burden. That we as a human race started giving hope to each other. This Hope Project is an experiment to see if the lives of people can be changed through the process of giving away hope. I have decided to provide both my life and talent first. I have written a book entitled The Hope Project, this book is totally free to any person who downloads the book or reads it electronically (Does Not Include Kindle). This book retails in paperback 15.99. My aim is to see if a person or a company can change if they were able to give Hope away. This provocative book, Hope, I am challenging people to take the book and pass it on – giving Hope away. In this book, I share with him or her a the 10 rules of hope. The goal is straightforward – to reach over a million people with his message of hope. So on August 14,2009 I am asking individuals to connect your faith with me as we reach over a million people with this message of Hope. Lastly, I am also asking people to join my facebook group and my online community. The Empowering Life Movement we are asking for 1 million people to make a commitment to be the change that the world needs.
Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=231959075611&ref=mf
Empowering Life Community
www.empoweringlifemovement.ning.com
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Tae-Bo, Lighting, and Prayer (Part I)
It was 2 a.m. I was not getting much sleep. I had to share a bed with my four year old daughter as we were visiting my parents. If you have children you know my situation. It is as if God teaches Tae-bo classes to little kids in their sleep. I was kicked and punched the entire night. As soon as the class ended and she settled into her deep sleep a storm came rolling in. The only thing I could think was I am never going to get any sleep. So at 2 am I was laying in bed meditating and I learned about prayer. I learned that the simplicity of having a conversation with God is one of the most powerful tools in the world.
As I was in the bed watching my little girl just sleep jealous because she was doing something that I wanted to do. She began to showing signs that she feels protected as she nestles her head into my chest with a smile of contentment. She had no worries. I realize that children don’t think about bills needed to be paid, they have limited understanding of the problems that we as adult have. They just rest in arms of the one who was designed to protect them. As I sat looking at her I realized the wonderful relationship that a child has for their parents. At a wonderful age of 34 I still look at my parents with that same look, I may have my own home, job, and business, but sometimes there is nothing like coming home to the people that were designed to protect you. When things get a little difficult going back home and are refreshing. It is kind of like my daughter crawling in my lap and going to sleep. Parents are like god, when you are in there presence nothing really matters other than love. That is why parents should not expose children to adult problems. It robs them from their child like innocents and it distorts their faith and hope.
There I was 2am not being able to sleep then all of sudden at storm came rumbling in. The only thing I could think of was I was never going to get any sleep. As the storm became louder my daughter facial expression changed. She became uncomfortable, as the lighting flashed and the loud sounds of a tree being hit by lighting my daughter woke up looked at me and said, “Daddy I am scared,” then she held on to me tighter an went back to sleep. After she told me she was scared she acted like it never happened. That was the nature of prayer, give your issues away and act like it never happened.
I finally understood prayer and how the God wants us to view him. In my daughters mind I was God I was all seeing, knowing, and powerful. When her life became difficult she went to the one she knew could protect her. Once she made her request she left it alone. Her faith and hope was left in the hands of the one which she felt should deal with it. When she made her request for protection in her mind the issue was settled, she was going to be protected. Is that not the nature of prayer? Is it not making a request to God? Is it not leaving it in the hands of the one that sees, knows, and control all things?
Then I realized that we as adults don’t prayer like children. We think that it is our prayer that gets us the things that we want. That is the reason why we attempt to be so perfect in our prayers. Like we are trying to impress God a being that sees and knows all things. My daughter is four when she is the most eloquent that is when she is trying to manipulate me. She gets this little sparkle in her eyes and tilts her head and smiles. She put on a show for daddy. How a many of us try to put on a show for God? Even though he may grant us some of our prayers do you really think he is impressed with us? Prayers are a matter of the heart not words. Sometimes we may not know what to say, like a child our vocabulary is limited. So our prayers may be found in the word help. It can be displayed as our hands our lifted with tears strolling down our face. During the storms God knows. Like I knew that before my daughter arose I needed to be there for her.
I learned that prayer was not about being correct or long it was about a relationship that was built on faith and hope. It was about making a request to the one that control the universe. It was about making that request and letting it lay in the chest of the one who can handle it.
I have expressed that in the next 90 days or so I will be sharing with you about a movement. This is a movement that is based on people that is willing to share. These blogs are a part of this movement and I ask that you share them with everyone.
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This Time it is Different
This time last year I decided that I was going to take my workout to another level. As you can see my efforts to convey my message became distorted by my lack of discipline. It was not as if I did not attempt but the cares of life took me away from what I had planned to do. As a historical note 2008 was a hell of a year for me it was as if I had lost everything. I had suffered a major career scandal, lost love ones, and a failing relationships. It was as if my whole world was being turned inside out. It appeared that something was trying to destroy me every moment of my life. As I entered into 2009 I believed that this time of my life was going to be different. I really felt in my heart that this was going to be a rebuilding year. My life had destroyed and what was solid in my life was the only thing that remained. It reminded me of Matthew 7:24-27, Jesus says “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who build his house on the sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
It was as if anything that I did not build solid was gone as soon as the storm came. I was like Katrina Victims, I was considered a refugee in my own land. There was a blessing in the storm for me. I was allowed to see that which was solid was solid and that which is sand was sand. It was like an old archeological dig the wind caused me to discover me. I was able to see the me that had been covered for years. The dreams and the passion that I once had came back to life. I think I had no choice I had nothing left. I think when you are comfortable and you make a certain amount of money you forget purpose of why you where created. Bachelors degree, Graduate degrees, Specialist degree can sometimes be the biggest deception in a person life, it can sometimes rob you of innovation. It causes you to trust the system and we are all finding out the system is changing. The things becomes your God and you can no longer hear your destiny speaking.
This time it is going to be different. Purpose is knocking on my door and I have answered. In the next 90 days there will be some exciting things that I will be sharing with friends and family. I have a project that I am working on that I am really excited about. It aligns with my reason for being born. If you are reading this I am going to ask that you pray for me that this time of my life it would be different and as I share with you parts of my project that you join in the movement.
A few week ago through facebook, I was able to find a friend that I had not spoken to in years. Just like a archeological dig this friend was able to brush off more sand off of me. He reminded me that I had a grassroots nature. He has no clue that for months I have been pondering a grassroots movement.
So in the next 90 days some of the things you will see from me. I will be doing more life style changing to discipline myself to handle this new grassroots movement. This includes more exercise, better eating habits and more praying and mediation. I also will be spending more time connecting with people though blogging and online journals. I ask that as I share you share back because this movement will not be possible without the help of people. 
