"Buried Right on the Surface"

One quick glance out around your surroundings and you quickly begin to silently hear the testimonial heartache that is permeating within that same circumference.

You begin to subsequently realize that your heartache and pain is but a microscopic microcosm. For not only is it already small, but it is even smaller than you initially thought in contrast to what others are going through.

Right then and there is where you muster the nerve to put your selfish needs to the side and Bless someone else with your presence. Within that Blessing is exactly where you will find the Blessing that God has for you. It is "Buried Right on the Surface," hidden in plain sight, should we stop looking through Life with our own vision, but looking at Life from a perspective that is bigger than that of our own.

For God does not hide what He has in store for us, but we should be encouraged to seek it out. Not just for the purposes of possessing whatever it may be, but the journey that we embark upon that will ultimately and not only present itself to us, but change us, better positioning us to be in receipt of something greater than we could ever fathom.

Our outstretched arms need to stretch even farther, so that we may receive a deposit within us that makes us even greater, for the Glory of God.

In your new vision, I encourage you to seek your Blessings outside of you, letting them reveal themselves to you. For they shall not be hidden from you, just "Buried Right on the Surface," before you.

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Out"

Cry it "Out,"
Pray it "Out,"
Work it "Out."

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Rules of Forgiveness"

May the confessions of my heart forever relinquish the actions that brought about said confessions to begin with. Through forgiveness, I am forgiven as I too have forgiven, with zero exception to the "Rules of Forgiveness."

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Loves Embrace"

"Loves Embrace" has never relinquished me from its grasp and continues to Love me despite an admitted immature past.

But, what could I have possibly garnered by way of experience, knowledge, Life lessons, lessons learned, coupled with the sincere appreciation of what God's Grace and Mercy are all about, had I actually been mature, all throughout?

It was an honor to once be a fool if the Lord was sharpening me, His tool, to be able to rebuild again, as if I always knew the true meaning of what it is to be a friend.

May I Love as Love has so Loved me, forever changing the selfish me, to the selfless we.

The cost of being an example for God is more than some are willing to ever pay. But He has satisfied any outstanding balance that I could not have ever afforded to pay.

The cost to me was the relinquishment of me, so that His demonstration of Him, could be something for others to see.

If immaturity was the leader of my ambiguity, then God's revolution was the only, natural solution. His great compassion blot out my transgressions and through forgiveness, therein lies all of my Life Lessons.

The thought of His face and "Loves Embrace" that has never relinquished me from its grasp and continues to Love me despite an admitted immature past.

Maturity has arrived ever so beautifully!

Thank You Jesus!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Find the Silver Lining"

Deeply marinated within or skimming the surface of is where you will find and where exists the lesson within the Blessing that has been disguised as adversity should you only stand in the midst of and allow it to reveal itself to you in the form of experience.

Do not run from or shy away from things that seem uncomfortable to you. For you do not grow within the confines of comfort but on the exterior where discomfort reshapes and your thought process to get you acclimated with what used to be uncomfortable, but is not so anymore.

Growth is not optional when Love is unconditional. It becomes a mandatory necessity in the absence of ambiguity. We continue what was started, irrespective of the departed and we look towards Heaven to acknowledge what has been imparted, to us.

Our goal in Life becomes a single action item, which is to: "Find the Silver Lining." What positivity can be derived from this negativity that is in and or around my Life? Where is the good in this perceived or realized bad?

The Love of God is truly unconditional, so our growth is not optional and whatever we may face in Life shall always pale in comparison to God's Grace. The overall silver lining is God. The underlined silver lining are Blessings from God that will reshape and remold us so that we become better acclimated to our growth.

It matters not what you grow through, but what you ultimately become when you always make a conscious effort to "Find the Silver Lining," in and for your Life.

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Had They Been for You"

Things are either for you or they are against you.

When things are for you, you will see the Love within them.

When they are against you, you will see any and everything BUT the Love that you would have seen, "Had They Been for You."

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Liberate Yourself!"

You will always be held hostage by the things that you fear in Life, out of your refusal to confront them. "Liberate Yourself!"

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Nobody But Jesus!"

You need not look far out on the horizon or go anywhere up yonder in order to find people that are hurting and crying out in pain, be it self-inflicted or the recipient of.

Just take a solemn look around and look beyond what you see aesthetically, cosmetically and superficially. You see we have learned to hide it well, but thank God for being able to see right through us. Thank God for prescribing just what we need way before we learn that we are even sick to begin with or that a need even exists.

Who knows better than He, what we stand in the need of...

Be it at work, in the home, YOUR home, in the Church, or just out and about, know that someone, somewhere stands in the need of reassurance, a warm embrace, a genuine Smile, a happy "hello," a kind gesture, a delicate touch, a gentle something to give them just an ounce of encouragement that everything is going to be alright.

Sometimes we soon forget about the greatness of the Lord and that our efforts alone are efforts in vain because we struggle to maintain when we foolishly fight battles that were not designed for us to win, rather designed for us to bare witness to His ability to defeat our adversity in any situation or circumstance, depositing within us an unwavering Faith that directs our path and rids us of the hurt and pain that we know we can escape, because through Christ Jesus, we are already free!

But freedom is not free! When you become liberated, you must show others how to they too can become free. On the other side of hurt and pain exists joy and happiness. And although hurt and pain cannot recognize joy and happiness until it is formally introduced, joy and pain can readily identify who and what hurt and pain resembles and looks like, since it used to be a representation of who and what YOU used to resemble and look like.

In your new vision, the Blessing that you have been Blessed with needs to now pay it forward and turn someone else's hurt and pain into that same joy and happiness that Christ uses to sustain us as we "stand in" all the while that we "grow through."

When they see the face, hear the voice or recognize the actions, may the familiarity be "Nobody But Jesus!"

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"May I Love You With All That Exists Within Me?"

Do I wait until an ill-conceived timeline has passed in order to convey the feelings that I have, in the form of Love?

Who said that it is too fast with the right one, while so much time was spent marinating with the wrong one?

What to do, when so very few, cannot begin to comprehend, what was only meant for you.

Explore the possibilities, bathe in happy's luxury, the same joy, the same happy, the same affordability.

"May I Love You With All That Exists Within Me?"

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"I'm Grateful!"

The Blood of Christ has cleansed my defeats and forever placed me in the winner's circle with the nucleus and the center of my joy being the reason for my being, the spark to my fire, that tireless desire, to take aim, strategize, claim and ascend to something higher.

To not ever flee from adversity, for it lasts contrary to infinity, yet its existence changes the course of my existence, by making it even more mightily. "I'm Grateful!"

It is not what was done, rather what He allowed, in order to prune the irrelevant, for a path to plow. "I'm Grateful!"

I first understood not, for it is not about you, irrespective of the fact, that it is happening to you. "I'm Grateful!"

It is about Him, and what He has deposited within, in order to demonstrate His might, their defeat, which culminates to your win. "I'm Grateful!"

I fear not what I can't see, because my sight is by Faith. So, whatever takes aim at me, is nothing but a waste. "I'm Grateful!"

No need to stand in line, in order to receive what is mine. When your Faith has been restored, your sight is no longer blind.

"I'm Grateful!"

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Spiritual Deposit, Spiritual Withdrawal"

May the Lord make a "Spiritual Deposit" within me, so that someone can make a "Spiritual Withdrawal," from me!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Where I'll Start...Turn the Page"

Life is not about how you start, but indeed how you finish. So, as you are crossing the finish line in this chapter of your Life, you may not be able to restart what you have just concluded, but you can and should will yourself to start the next chapter of your Life better off than you did the previous.

Do not spurn what you have learned, just because it is not your turn. For no one exits their season of harvest empty-handed when the sole purpose was to replenish your soul with all that was missing before.

Trust that what is meant for you has a non-transferable clause affixed to it. Therefore when the blessings have your name squarely written on them, no one else can cash them in because they are not, nor do they represent, you.

Customized Blessings are like tailor-made suits. They never quite fit the way they will undoubtedly fit the intended recipient, who they were initially made for. So, do not worry yourself about what someone else has or have going on. It has their name written on it. And soon enough, yours will too.

With that said, forge through your Life knowing that irrespective of what others have, you too have something that they do not have in the form of customized Blessings that they too cannot cash in because they are not, nor do they represent, you.

When you know that you have something on the horizon that awaits you, you are then able to walk about and be about your business with joy in your heart, Love in your Spirit and Peace within your soul.

Joy, Peace and happiness unified, the single source to that of my heart. By way of Love, that is "Where I'll Start" the next chapter of my Life, compliments of joy, Peace and happiness.

The next chapter just requires one thing for you to do: "Turn the Page."

Smile and have a wonderfully Blessed day!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford

"Happiness Ball"

As a child, there was no bigger spoiler than, and I never quite understood the person, that would get upset and selfishly take their ball and go home.  I never knew that the significance of this would become such an incredible Life lesson that would continue to give in the form of understanding what is most important in Life.

Whenever this event occurred, it was a sour moment for all that were involved, those who were participating and playing with the source of our perceived happiness.  And then, just like that, the ball and our happiness along with the owner were gone, for whatever reason, mostly and unfortunately out of selfishness.
 
Years later as I reflect back on this same event that repeats itself across playgrounds all around the world, I am thankful for the seed of inspiration that has been planted in order for the experience to take root and spring forth an understanding that is more rewarding than playing with that ball to begin with.  You see Life is not about what happens to you, but instead how you respond to the things that happen to you in Life.
 
It is easy for your happiness to be sabotaged when you are dependent upon someone else to define your happiness.
 
That happiness resides within you! 

By the time you arrive at Life's playground to play, your happiness should have directed and lead the way.  So, if and when that ball is taken away, it matters not because your joy and happiness are both here to stay!
 
The same rule applies to relationships as well.  Do not look for someone to make you happy or to complete you.  You should already be happy and complete by the time and before you even first meet.  That way you will be able to add to that happiness and have a deeper sense of completion.  You wouldn't dare turn in a paper to your teacher or professor that wasn't complete expecting them to complete it for you or on your behalf, would you?  So why would you offer yourself in the same form for someone else to complete?  Afterall, what if you did not like the results of what was completed and it was not the best representation of you?  Then you would have no one else to blame, but you.  For only you can best represent you.  No one else can do it better than you.
 
So, in order to avoid that, fill your own void with Love and happiness and do not allow either to be sabotaged and remain independent so no one else has the right or the privilege to define your happiness.
 
And irrespective of which one of Life's playgrounds that you find yourself on, you will already be in possession of your very own "Happiness Ball."  It is better than that other thing that they say you should never leave home without.

Smile and have a wonderfully happy and Blessed day!

Love and My Mother are My Inspiration!
Love and My Mother are My Motivation!
Love and My Mother are My Celebration!
Love and My Mother are My Dedication!

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey A. Ford