Hey family! It’s been a rough few weeks but I’m back and I’m better! I miss yall! I wanted to just see how everyone is doing? Let’s check in with a quick ice breaker… Share something your looking forward to this year? It could be a vacation or perhaps you have someone graduating. Whatever it is we want to , congratulate and celebrate with you! I’m looking forward to your responses. As for me, the family and I are going back to Cali for spring break next week. I will actually be out of town for W.O.O.T. Group next Tuesday so I have decided to postpone Part 3 of our “Love is” Series to the 4th Tuesday of this month. Welp, see you all when I get back and prayerfully I’ll have some color cuz winter did me wrong lol.

I rededicated my life to Christ about a year and a half ago now. It’s been a beautiful journey. I’ve done and accomplished things I never thought I could. I always loved singing but wasn’t bold enough to sing in front of people. I felt conviction one day when I realized God restored my voice after being delivered from smoking cigarettes. I knew I had to share this praise. I would always sing praises in the car on the morning ride to school with Journie and one day I recorded it. I felt the Spirit urging me to post it but I hesitated. Now mind you, it’s early, my voice is raspy and I’m looking like I just woke up but I was obedient and posted it with a hashtag of #Praisehimwithmeyall! I began getting so much positive feedback in spite of me going through the motions about my insecurities. God showed me that people were less concerned with what I looked or sounded like but more so appreciated a genuine praise! He took the nerves and feelings of things needing to be perfect and replaced it with light and joy Glory be to God!

For a long time I’d sit and ponder the why’s of life. I tried making sense of things like childhood cancer, rape, war and even persecution. I remember reading the stories of the lives of our forefathers in scripture and tried to comprehend it via logic. Sometimes questioning Gods decisions. I realized it was all in vain. Then I read a passage in the Bible where Apostle Paul basically argues that God can do what He wants to and owes us nothing. He was right! He says in Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” That is so powerful and so true! Visually I pictured a China plate tucked away safely in a cabinet on display vs a paper plate we use and toss. Imagine if the paper plate told us how it felt about it? I took it one step farther than Paul and thought “If He acted out the justice actually owed to us... we’d be guilty and deserving of eternal hellfire. This humbled me and brought me to a scripture I often visit in my heart that reminds me that the suffering we endure now isn’t comparable to the Glory that will be revealed in me. (Rom 8:18) So the next time you find your self asking Why? Don’t! Rather, ask What? What is God trying to teach me from this situation. Rather than complaining try to find the purpose in your pain.

PTL ladies I feel like I missed so much I have been present in something but blank in my brain I took a couple of falls and yes one of my fear triggers. Before it happened in my mind I would see my falls and each time I either got hurt real bad or died. I was shaking it off reburking it and praying. So my knee pop fell hard on the floor and hard time to get up, 2nd time was bad it time hurt a part of me that was already in pain. Found myself praying and crying then hearing or thinking see sons not here, church family busy with their family or problems you alone just like them what you going to do now. A slap in the face then I was giving an assignment where I felt unworthy and asked why. But each day I have been reading or praying exercising I'm on a slow hill but with the shaking pressing and push I'm going to work on my trust and faith in God because this storm cloud has to move.

When this ministry was first placed on my heart, I had several ideas for names. Rev1211 was the first choice but realized once I googled it that it was already taken. Then I thought of IAMSK - I Am My Sister Keeper & IAMFB or I’m About My Fathers Business but again very popular when googled. I went through my list… HEAL - Helping Encourage And Listen, HEAL4REAL, IPH - In Praying Hands pronounced “If”… anyhoo, either it was already used or just didn’t quite feel right. Then I looked at the inspiration scripture again, Revelation 12:11 and I read the part where it says “word of their testimony” and said to myself WOTT? Uhm uhmmm… lol but as I was telling others I kept finding myself saying Word of OUR testimony and then I heard WOOT in my spirit! And said ah ha!! That’s it! The enemy tried to discourage me but It grew on me and now the officially registered faith based nonprofit W.O.O.T. is accomplishing exactly what God intended! A huge thanks for all your prayers and support. I couldn’t be more proud to see within a couple months how much we’ve grown as a community. The lives that have been positively impacted and the testimonies that have been shared! 🙌🏼 All Glory to God! If you read this far I say all that to say this new category is here to encompass all of those titles that were significant. This will act as an advocacy board to post questions about everyday life and get positive feedback. It’ll act as a community prayer board, to share clean inspiring memes or articles minus the compromising content you may have to scroll by on social media. It will be a safe space to share special life events and accomplishments with people who genuinely want to congratulate your growth! We are our Sisters/Brothers Keeper. We are better together. Ultimately our experiences can help or encourage someone else even if it’s just to say you’re not alone. Please feel free to post, like and leave feedback! Let’s be about our Fathers business!