"A Quiet Strength"

Silently, I traverse on this journey, exploring the possibilities, creating opportunities and doing so, happily.

Should my Smile be my umbrella, then bring on the rain! The target matters not when Love is my BEST shot!

I aim at success and fall short of nothing less in any capacity due to my never ending insatiable appetite to solidify, by working towards, thus creating my legacy.

Defeat me not when my contents are composed of the attributes of victory.

Exploit my heart so long as you represent it accurately.

No need to justify your actions when you habitually do the right thing.

When you are in the presence of Love, you will depart with what Love imparts, irrespective of what you bring.

Come in with your baggage, leave with your luggage and a pocket full of forgiveness.

Forgive so that you can be forgiven and live Life not in loneliness.

But, Happiness abound, perpetual joy that can ALWAYS be found, sans the effort of having to search.

"A Quiet Strength" is my foundation in which Corey is forever perched.

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

"Immaculate Form of Love"

I thought that I was done running the race until I got to the finish line to only discover that the finish line is the starting point for the next race, the next chapter.

What future historical context can I create today, that will be revealed tomorrow, and will live on long after my demise and forevermore?

Whatever I create as of late, teeters on the borderline of GREAT, since greater is HE that is in you, than he that is in the world. Right?

GREAT has nothing to do with any single, humanly effort, but a collective Heavenly understanding that what is done is not for you, but for an existence that extends to the far reaches that we are not humanly capable of extending ourselves to, hence the Heavenly intervention.

The same intervention that starts and ends with the understanding that it always has been and always will be about what we have that we should always extend ourselves to, not only for ourselves and on behalf of ourselves, but to others, in the most "Immaculate Form of Love."

On to the next race and the next chapter. I'll see you at Love's finish line, if there is one. Smile.

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

"Now Empty"

The indiscretions of my past were all placed in a box with my name written on it. One by one, I have gone through the laundry list of things that I needed to address, resolve, fix, make better and even complete in the form of do overs.

Upon acknowledgment of the items in Corey's box, in advance I Prayed for clarity and understanding as I embarked upon the sometimes daunting task of putting myself on blast to rectify and remedy ALL of the things of and about my past.

It is easy for you to put someone else on blast and probably just as easy for others that put you on blast. But try doing it to yourself in an attempt to better yourself.

Humble pie is as bitter as it sounds! And a tall glass of humility, no ice, is the only beverage in which to wash it down.

Upon completion and resolution of each of those items, I exposed myself, understood myself in a better attempt to understand myself, asked GOD to forgive me, asked whomever I wronged for their forgiveness and lastly, I forgave myself so that I could effectively move on with the rest of my Life.

I handled each item with the utmost respect that it so deserved because although I did not hear before, there is no misunderstanding or playing ignorant to GOD's Word.

Perhaps me getting it wrong was the fuel that I needed in order to inspire others to get it right. Use me GOD!!!

Having spent the last few years cleaning out the closet that once housed Corey's box, I have happily shred each and every one of those artifacts that used to define me that were once in that box.

You see my heart has been changed, my Life redefined. I no longer straddle the fence or tread on that thin line.

Nothing contrary to the Love of GOD shall successfully captivate my attention in order to tempt me. For it was through the Love of GOD, that I was able to work through it all and my box is "Now Empty."

Glory Be To GOD!

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

"It Carries Me"

After hate has used you and all of your energy up, it so rudely drops you off wherever it no longer needs you, so that it can pick up the next "suspecting" person that is all too anxious to allow hate to use them in order to spew its short term mediocrity across the lay of the land in long term hopes of enduring in the same or like capacity as only Love can.

Too much of the time being used by hate is not "unsuspecting" and much sooner than later the facade of Love that hate has for us is revealed and we begin to embark upon a campaign of forgiveness in hopes that the damage is not irreparable.

But the Love of GOD which knows no hate and resides within the heart of Truth shall always speak nothing but the Truth to a heart that is so compelled to allow the remolding and reshaping of its existence so that it may be an example and demonstration of the one thing that hate can do absolutely nothing with. And that is Love.

Hate will wear you out and weigh you down. But Love! "It Carries Me."

So prop yourself up and release hate before it so rudely releases you! I conquered hate so that I could master Love. Now allow Love to carry you.

Smile.

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

"Love So Amazing"

I left well before I ever arrived, hence the reason why you thought I was never there.

I could not allow the grass to grow underneath my feet, so I had to keep moving IN Love and not habitually AROUND Love.

I concur with Love in all of its glory and salute the humility that is now my story.

I respect you as if you were my Mother and shall never betray nor replace you in lieu of another. I've learned my lesson and right here is where I find you as part of my continued Blessings.

I Loved you well before I ever had an inkling or a clue as to your power and what you can ultimately do.

I simply Love you for being "you," that "Love So Amazing," embroidered in Truth.

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

"You Can Smell The Love"

What an absolute Blessing it is to be able to share in the Love that composes my surroundings and is deeply rooted in my foundation.

Although archaeological efforts had to unearth what Love knew was already there having been previously present, I am proud and humbled to be able to live Life in utter transparency, Loving harmony, complete honesty and happily, ever after.

My wife knows my heart for my heart too was unearthed as a gift in return for her Loving ways that received anything but, once upon a time.

My Life has been transformed through my actions alone and my words serve only as a summary and testimony to the course of actions that directed my actions up to and including a Blog, any Blog, that I have written.

It is easy to see, hear, taste and even touch the Love. But it is within another hemisphere that you would have to exist so that "You Can Smell The Love" before you even step foot into the home that shares in the Love that composes the surroundings that are deeply rooted within Love's foundation.

It is good to be home, where "You Can Smell The Love."

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

"L.O.V.E."

I fell in "L.O.V.E." with you as soon as the availability within my heart finally started to show some resemblance of vacancy. Rather selfish of me to think that there was no room for "L.O.V.E." when "L.O.V.E." clearly always made room for me.

But you Love and learn as you live and learn, continuously.

What used to occupy the vacancy was none other than complacency. Moving targets are much harder to hit and require meticulous precision. So I started moving IN "L.O.V.E." not in an attempt to avoid it, but to not be susceptible to the perpetrators OF it.

I find myself getting along much better with "L.O.V.E." as I understand it more. I am "getting better at getting better" with and in "L.O.V.E."

I write it better.
I spell it better.
I pronounce it better.
I announce it better.
I interpret it better.
I feel it better.
I speak the language of "L.O.V.E." better.
I do it better!

It is safe to say that "L.O.V.E." has made M.E. better.

Glory be for "L.O.V.E."

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 First Loved You When"

Whenever the opportunity presents itself to reveal of itself the single most important attribute that so compliments the existence of Life and our participation in it, I jump.

Allow me to leap, Faith and all, satisfying the request of my presence, standing right next to Love, at its beck and call.

You see, in order for me to "learn" FROM Thee, it cannot be ABOUT me. Not at all.

I give of myself in order to better myself and properly reflect the Love that permeates my surroundings, that now takes up permanent residence within my home.

Whenever I think, speak and author about Love, it is a flattering attempt to accomplish what the LORD needs not "attempt" since everything about HIM "IS."

I shall spend my Life perfecting the art of Love, knowing that my attempts will not mean a mastery of, but will garner me a better appreciation, because.

What better way to spend my time than learning from within the confines of Truth and Love?

Truth.
Love.
I will ALWAYS Love you because "I First Loved You When."

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

"Compel Yourself to Expel All That is Within You"

I am compelled to expel all that is within me.

The good, Lovingly.
The bad, intentionally.
My Faith, feverishly.

I am purposed to absorb my experiences and wring them out in the sink of Life, not necessarily for the vicarious aspects of living, but for the intentional aspects of giving.

The Love within my heart bares all and plays no part within the realm of mediocrity, hence the perceived notion that the lack of interest is due to heightened immaturity.

You can give what you do not receive, but eventually you will need to receive what it is that you give, as your heart is so compelled to expel all that is within you. For you cannot give away nothing in the form of depleted resources, expecting everything in the form of unlimited choices.

"Compel Yourself to Expel All That is Within You."

Open yourself up to give and receive, Love. For your heart will compel your mouth to speak whatever there is on the inside. Until then, you Smile, awaiting the arrival of the moment to "Compel Yourself to Expel All That is Within 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

"Void Of Any Ambiguity"

Let me be perfectly honest and crystal clear in my integrity. How I feel about you is the world's worst kept secret. You cannot hide what is too big to ever be concealed. You cannot reveal what was too big to ever be hidden. To be perfectly honest, with you, I have always been smitten.

The origins no longer matter within a world that consists of only chatter, so long as the latter does not negatively influence a Love that needs not to be convinced.

My adamance with Love has everything to do with the fact that GOD, is Love.

With absolute certainty, in complete transparency and utter vulnerability, my feelings for you are forever, "Void of Any Ambiguity."

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

"Until My Last Breath"

I have not happened upon a better way to spend my time than with the heart of the woman whose heart was purposed to be with mine.

I long for the day when your distance from me is just an arm's length away.

I circulate the flow of Love in the same manner that my heart circulates the flow of blood..."Until My Last Breath."

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 Am Getting BETTER At Getting BETTER."

She walked in the door and her Smile said it all. I knew right then and there, that I would be able to "Trust and Fall" (http://allthebestallthetime.blogspot.com/2011/06/trust-and-fall.html).

The chemistry was impeccable and has yet to cease to amaze me. Focusing in on the goal to continue the same Smile, initially.

I do exactly what it is that I am supposed to do and hang out with Love as if there is no curfew. The things that we would do over again, had the wherewithal been with us and we considered it to be a friend.

Should I take out a full page ad, in the romantic form of a Love letter? Or declare my intentions by way of my actions, that "I Am Getting BETTER At Getting BETTER."

The latter always fares better because the former didn't know any better.

Love was there, but I didn't see it.

Love was talking to me, but I didn't hear it.

Love kept showing up, even when I was absent.

Love Loved me so much that it knew one day I would be, and kept marking me present.

I recognize it!
I hear it!
I am forever in the presence of it!

With no curfew and no more fences to mend, it is time to start hanging out with Love again.

The 2nd chance to get it right the first time, as soon as you begin to realize, "I Am Getting BETTER At Getting BETTER."

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

"Trust and Fall"

When I first fell in Love, I scuffed my knees in an attempt to break my fall. And all I had to do was trust the reason why I was falling to begin with. With no coercion and zero persuasion, "Trust and Fall" was the only call that I chose not to make.

The scars that reveal themselves serve as a daily reminder that there is no need to break a fall that was not brought on by anything that wasn't supposed to happen in the first place.

Love is the presence that you know will catch the fall that you find yourself in and not the never ending drop that you are trying to avoid even when you first make the conscious decision to let yourself fall.

My knees have since healed and now I embrace the scars that will take me farther than breaking my initial fall ever could, ever would or ever will.

Perhaps age has taught me to be more aggressive and less resistant within my pursuit. Only I will know the answer to that, unless of course one should check my knees for newer and fresher scars that would tell the redundant story of Corey not giving in and not giving it his all, because he simply refused to "Trust and Fall."

For easier confirmation, I'll wear shorts.

This Summer,
Next Spring,
This Winter,
"Trust and Fall."

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

"When I First Fell In Love With You, I Fell In Love With, You"

"When I First Fell In Love With You, I Fell In Love With, You."

Nothing could ever steer me away from the Love that I HAD for you.

Nothing could ever steer me away from the Love that I still HAVE for you.

Everything that we have grown through, all that I have shown you, up till this day, even in this very special way.

"When I First Fell In Love With You, I Fell In Love With, You."

I publicly profess all that I have privately confessed. For the only way that Love exists is in the midst of Love's cleanliness.

Therefore, I bathe for the chance, to submit at Love's first glance. And to think that I used to fight, the very real possibility of Love at first sight.

How foolish I once was in an attempt to climb the ladder. Now wiser is the latter in my ascension to all that matters, Love.

"When I First Fell In Love With You, I Fell In Love With, You."

And I still do.

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

"The Source of My Strength"

I am thankful that the moments that could have taken my breath away, and ended my Life, were overridden by the breath that Jesus blew my way, to spare my Life.

In an act of preservation, to take what my Life once was, reshape and mold all for the sake of restoration.

How gratifying it is to come to know that dying was not an option when it very well could have been. But it was nothing that Corey did or said, for the reason had a bigger and deeper meaning that I have sought and continue to seek out as a way to continue down the contribution trail depositing seeds of Life wherever, with whatever my Life experiences have bestowed upon me.

Whether it is the subtle reminders or the blatant broadcasts, I forget not what I should lovingly remember for all of the days of my Life. The same Life that did not have to be, had it not been for GOD's Grace and Mercy.

All that I have is not in accordance to all that I have done. You get what you deserve, when you think that you have won. I keep pressing forward because I know that my work is not done, since all that I have is not in accordance to all that I have done.

The strength that I have is independent of any exercise regimen that gives me the perceived strength to lift me through the difficult times. For it is within those trying times that an exercise regimen is insulting to the very real and realized, not perceived strength of Jesus, that lifts me through and delivers me from.

The nucleus of my strength resides within my knees. Whenever I am feeling weak and need to replenish "The Source of My Strength," I can always find it on my knees, in a humbled state!

Glory Be, to G.O.D.

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

"Whatever Happens"

The upside to the downside are the lessons learned that are garnered.

The downside to the upside are not adhering to those lessons learned that were garnered.

Foolishly repeating the same mistakes due to that comfortable bed commonly referred to as a rut, that we continuously find ourselves in. We make our way INTO them and are dumbfounded on how we should or need to get OUT of them. We look for answers that we are already in possession of. We answer questions with answers contrary to the ones that we are already in possession of. We cry foul when it is US that hit the ball foul to begin with. It wasn't the pitcher, all the pitcher did was what the pitcher was supposed to do, pitch the ball.

The onus is on the batter, you and me, to connect with the truth by way of hitting the ball and making the necessary progress in order for us to at least reach first base.

Irrespective of what Life, the pitcher, throws our way, we should be able to make the most out of our situations and put ourselves in scoring positions that would have us on track for VICTORY! But victory is not just in WINNING! No, VICTORY is in the participation of the game itself!

The determination of "Whatever Happens" should not be "left" in the hands that have no intentions on doing "right" by you. Said determination requires YOUR participation!

Victory is MINE because I am YOURS! Thank You Jesus!

Thank You for participating in my Life so that "Whatever Happens," I am more than prepared to learn from, adhere to, claim victory in the name of, do "right" by, not feel "left" out of, because "Whatever Happens," I choose to never let go of Your hand.

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

"Change In Your Situation"

In order to change your situation, you must first CREATE change in your situation. Some folk do not believe in reinventing the wheel. But, if you have been riding around your entire Life on a flat tire, then perhaps it is TIME, to reinvent the wheel.

Acceptance of less than is not your friend, contrary to popular subconscious belief! Consciously we would never settle for less than, yet here we are increasingly doing just that by way of the outer mind AND body experiences that we put ourselves through, all for the sake of....

We lend ourselves to things that never have or had any intentions on ever paying us back, even after we have more than picked up the slack. Our patience goes broke, the burdens anchor us down and before we know it, we find ourselves riding around on not only fumes, but a flat.

The "change" that we are seeking will not come by way of someone else's creation, but rather ONLY through the elation of our own motivation to CREATE "change" within our situation.

If you ever want your situation to change, then you must first CREATE "Change In Your Situation."

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

"Recognize Them As Such"

My accomplishments pale in direct comparison to the adversity that first gave birth to my accomplishments. Had it not been for the adversity, the labor pains of success might have otherwise been camouflaged as anything but, pain.

The purpose of the pain was not solely to inflict or thrust itself upon me, but to gauge my willingness to recognize it and be able to fight through it, yet simultaneously appreciate all that it has brought to my Life: good, bad and otherwise.
The silver lining never conceals itself. It is incumbent upon ourselves to identify the silver lining and what it represents by way of our experiences, directly attributing them to the overall process.

Blessings come in all shapes, sizes, colors and demographics. We must deploy our senses to pick up and receive them. But prior to, we must first "Recognize Them As Such."

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 Got My Smile Back!"

From the onset, we are taught that attendance is a vitally important part of Life that just so happens to "show up" in every aspect of our lives.

It starts off with school, includes Church, goes on to college, includes Church, winds up at work, includes Church and is littered all throughout our existence: Our need to show up!

And along our journey's path, it behooves us to bring along some peripherals to help us out along the way.

Well, somewhere along the way, I inadvertently or intentionally, subconsciously or consciously made the self, ill-advised decision to abandon my Smile.

The one peripheral, accessory and much needed commodity that I needed was no longer within my possession and the succession of trials and tribulations would soon feed off of the one need that for whatever reason, was no longer existent.

But GLORY be to GOD Almighty!!!

Somewhere along my way, I FOUND my way thanks in ALL part to my GPS, my GODLY Positioning System!

I lost my way when I lost my Smile. But I found my way because I NEVER stopped being GOD's child.

I affirm that I have BEEN confirmed and the wounds from Life's battlefield are a testament to that fact. But even bigger than that is my presence in being MARKED present whenever attendance is or has been taken.

Your need to show up is not just a requirement, but first a prerequisite in order to BEGIN the requirement.

Bringing along those much needed, much ado about EVERYTHING peripherals in order to help out along the way will undoubtedly make a difference when and exactly where a difference needs to be made.

For no apparent reason, I Smile.

For all that I have been. Blessed through, I Smile.

And after a rather lengthy hiatus and many situations that were much ado about NOTHING, it Smiles me to say that, "I Got My Smile Back!"

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

"Let Love Find Me!"

The harder that I try to Love, the greater the resistance to the Love that I am trying to demonstrate to and for the one that I Love.

But discouraged is not an adjective that I would employ to do the job that I already know it does not have the education nor the skillset in which to do.

What kind of performance review would discouragement actually garner outside of its discouraging disposition? Rhetorical, but food for thought nonetheless.

In the interim, I shall allow me to be me and to Love unconditionally, with a healthy respect of unselfishly discovering the infinite possibilities that exist within the realm of the same, with the only exception being that of the name, of the inevitable targeted recipient.

Therefore, I will continue to be the best that I can be, and "Let Love Find 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

"The Past!"

Although it is impossible to undue the past, the past does not have to continuously undue you.

I see the pain in your tear filled eyes, I feel the anguish that still torments you and I hear the sounds of the instrumental heartache that composes the soundtrack to your Life.

But I am here to tell you:
The days do get brighter,
You no longer have to be that fighter
Peace is just a Prayer away,
It is alright to receive Smiles your way
Exempt from the Love of GOD you are not,
Happiness is STILL Happy, even if that is all that you got.

One day the past will be just that, "The Past!" A faint memory of all that attempted to define you, but did nothing BUT, refine you.

You will become everything that the past never wanted you to be, all in the name of and for the sole purpose of, VICTORY!

Take a closer look around you. The mere fact that you are still here is proof that losing had no place within your repertoire, within your arsenal and within your existence.

The past doesn't even know or realize that it no longer has any relevance over your future, starting here and now, with your present.

You shall continue to win because with GOD, you have already won!

Although it is impossible to undue the past, the past does not have to continuously undue you.

Soon, the past will be just that, "The Past!"

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

"For Your Purpose"

Doing what you want to do, going where you want to go and saying what you want to say is living within the purpose that you have identified and defined for yourself.

But have you ever similarly pondered the same outside of and excluding the "you" part of doing, going and saying?

Could you possibly fathom an existence that would remove "you" from the equation and reduce the "you" in your persuasion, in order to accomplish and achieve the things that are meant for "you," by way of the removal of "you" from ALL things pertaining to "you?"

Who's purpose are we meant to serve as we live out our Life's existence in an attempt to live "our" lives?

Should it not be about "us" since it is indeed "our" lives that we are living and starring in?

Have you ever watched a movie where the supporting cast upstaged the stars, thus making and paving the way for a better experience within the movie, the script and each of the scenes?

It is through the selfless role of supporting cast that we are first introduced to the next level and all of the potential contained within. You see they are abundantly aware of their role and its importance to the overall "picture."

So is Life, when we begin to accept our supporting role and acknowledge the same importance that our lives "serve" as we live out "our" lives in as selfless a capacity as possible, fathomable and doable.

We reap the benefits of the seeds sewn as we begin to sow additional seeds for others to bare witness to as an example of the purpose that we are to "serve" in "our" lives.

We begin to get IT, when we forfeit the "you" that would prevent "us" from getting the BIG "picture."

In my supporting role, I do not live my Life for "my" purpose, rather I live my Life "For Your Purpose."

Glory Be To GOD!

Always and forevermore.

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

"Love Compelled Me To"

No, I didn't have to do what I did and go where I "went,"
I didn't have to go "there,"
I wasn't brought "here,"
And no I wasn't "sent."

I followed my heart, lead by my intuition,
That whatsoever I feel in my heart,
I will act out in complete submission.

I will do whatever needs to be done, fulfilling the purpose within the plan and mitigating any deviations that might be out on the horizon.

I have tried it my way and since I am attempting it again, I concede that my initial attempt had entirely too much to do with me.

Therefore, I have removed the "me," flipped the "m" to a "w" that now includes and states "we."

I do not pretend to know what I do not know, but I am so compelled to go where I must grow.

GOD is efficient with respect to what I ultimately need, thus providing the food FOR the thought that shall continually feed, my soul for the sole purpose of making me a better me, by way of relinquishing "me" in lieu of "we."

"Love Compelled Me To" tell you,
By way of my physical presence,
That, I'm here!

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

"Love Me"

An ounce of doubt could never replace the pound of Love that this ton of emotions spills over for you.

What I see today, is what I felt on yesterday, which has me looking forward to tomorrow, knowing that you will be a part of it.

Stop reflecting on the past by embracing the future happiness, that forgot to remember the mistakes of before.

No need to knock, for I have intentionally left the door open for you to make your grand entrance to the corridor of my heart.

When I first said "YES," I knew that you were the "ONE."

I continually feel Blessed from both the Father AND the Son.

The Smile that you bestow upon me could never be replicated for another and what I have come to know about you, I Love the fact that you are a dedicated daughter, sister, future wife and Loving Mother.

The physical beauty needs no introduction because the internal beauty speaks for itself.

You make me Smile as if I've never Smiled before.

You make me want to open up each and every one of the previously closed doors.

You are the representation of my infatuation that has turned into, all of the Love that I have reserved, solely for you.

The way that you "Love Me" has everything to do, and is one of the very reasons, why I Love you too!

"Love 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

"ALL, Not Some"

Over my Life I have been conditioned to fight for what I believe in, who I believe in and what is ultimately right in addition to the right thing in which to do.

Good, bad or otherwise, it is far too easy for us to fall back on what we know, what we "think" we know and what we are "used" to doing: good, bad and otherwise.

But Faith! That ALMIGHTY component and daily ingredient compels us to relinquish all of what we know, what we "think" we know and what we are "used" to doing in lieu of, Faith, the size of a mustard seed.

Stillness does not equate to weakness. Stillness is the window to GOD's strength. And you cannot admire it, if you are constantly moving, hence.

In recent times, I have caught myself "moving" and "responding" as opposed to "witnessing" and "admiring" the impeccable brilliance of my Loving Father!

I chastise my son in order to show him that there is only one...way in which to do the right thing.

But, I am not just a Father, for I am ALSO a son, that needs to be reminded from time to time, even in most recent times.

I Pray for,
I choose to,
Live and reside in Peace and Happiness.

Therefore, it is incumbent upon me, you and us to rise, stand, and let "GOD" fight our battles, "ALL, Not Some," good, bad and otherwise.

For we belong to "HIM," by way of "ALL, Not Some."

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

"Cannot Afford It"

Once upon a time, I heard someone say, "If you have to ask the price, then you cannot afford it."

As a young boy this concept baffled me because I did not see it that way. Perhaps the person asking needed to know in order to take the information and make an "informed" decision with respect to what they intended on purchasing?

How could someone just make a blanket assumption as to whether or not another person could afford it or not? But when you do not reside within that demographic, perhaps your perception of their reality is skewed.

Truth be told there are a lot of things in this world that we have a tendency to want, pursue and even purchase that we knowingly cannot afford.

Truth be told, we have a tendency to live beyond our means with champagne taste, beer money and no disposable cash to claim via our name.

But this Blog is not solely in reference to the physical items that we adorn ourselves in and with or the pricey cars that we like to see ourselves riding around in. No this Blog is all encompassing with respect to how we truly live our lives.

Can we really truly afford to break up our families thinking that the grass is greener on the other side?

Can you really afford that indiscretion that forever shattered the bond of trust, for a moment of selfishness?

Can I really afford to not be the Father to my children that I am for the sake of doing whatever it is that "Corey" wants to do, in a non-selfless capacity?

Can we really truly afford to exist within this world without any knowledge of the greatness of GOD and all that HE has to offer us should we only be obedient to HIS Word?

Can we really afford to not put our best foot forward knowing that GOD will more than meet us halfway? Especially with the caveat being, that Faith without works, is dead.

Perhaps they were indeed right all along?

"If you have to ask the price, then you "Cannot Afford It.""

I can ill-afford to position myself on the outskirts of GOD's Grace and Mercy, the Love of my children, the Blessings of today, the promise of tomorrow, the future fervent and devoted Love of my Life, my Wife, and the protection that my LORD and Savior offers me as HIS child.

If you have to ask the price, then NO, you "Cannot Afford It."

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

"Milestones"

Life is chalk full of "firsts" and "next's" so long as we are willing participants moving towards progression and not regressing at the sight nor sound of fear.  The next chapter in our lives is contingent upon our completion of the current chapter in our lives.  We move when it is time for us to move and we do so Prayerfully compatible with not necessarily what "we" want, but what HE wants for us to do and be.
 
It has been an honor and a privilege to have finished with one, knowing that my preparedness for the next is on tap and just an opportunity away.
 
Congratulations on the next chapter in your life.  May the previous chapter have provided you with all that you will need for the current chapter that is about to unfold.  But since GOD is ever present, the need to know is superseded by our smidgen of Faith, that whether or not we know for sure, the mere fact that HE knows is all that we need to know, until HE so deems it necessary for us, by way of revelation.
 
I'm here, I'm ready. I'm there, I'm gone!  The next chapter is yours, to graciously carry on.
 
Congratulations on your "Milestone" Mrs. Tibbs!
 
I look forward to reading the next chapter.  On this your last day, in all actuality your "first," it is time to turn the page in order to begin your "next."
 
Continued Blessings and thank GOD for our Life's "Milestones."

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

"Nothing But Joy"

I have never missed out on anything that was meant for me to have. If it was never mine, then it was never meant for me to begin with.

I have never experienced anything that was not meant for me to experience. If I experienced it, then it was to mold me from the old figure into what the experience would create thereafter.

I have nothing but the strongest, propping up the weakened, casting out the weakest, only to invite it back into the vision, stronger than when it initially left.

I have been sucked of my resources to only have them replenished, stronger than what they previously were.

I have been weakened to only have my batteries recharged at a voltage, greater then what I previously was.

At my weakest, I was cast out, only to be brought back in, thus compelling my witness to lend itself to my testimony, further invigorating those that have lost their strength, feel weak or are at a completely weakened and vulnerable state.

But, Glory Be To GOD Almighty!!!

Yesterday's news is still relevant to today's story, especially if have never even read it.

The unspeakable, yet must be spoken ABOUT,

The Smile upon my face,

The Smile that you hear in my voice,

The Smile that you read within this Blog,

I have been BLESSED!

Having gone through the OTHER side to only emerge from THIS side, taking note of all that is IN and AROUND my Life, now and forevermore, "Nothing But Joy."

No, you cannot STEAL it!
No, you cannot BORROW it!
No, you cannot HAVE it!

But I can and will share with you how you can go get your own.

Just so you too can walk around EVERY day, ALL day, with "Nothing But Joy!"

GOD is Great!

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

"Wisdom and Love"

My wisdom was first conceived of my experience and later born into what has become my testimony.

My Love was first conceived of the Love that was first bestowed upon me by the greatest Love known to man.

I am privileged to be in the presence, to be in the midst and to witness all that is happening when it is happening, how it is changing what would have happened, preventing what could have happened and demonstrating what should have and what will happen because I am in the midst of.

I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to have, to be and to do all of the things that are tasked under my Life's purpose. Such a Blessing it is to be in the midst of my Blessing and to know as the Blessing is occurring, as it is in the midst of the Blessing within the Blessing.

That "Wisdom and Love" that dances around my circumference and sings praises in unidentifiable octaves, reaching the unreachable, touching the untouchable, Blessing the non believers, seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard and forgiving even the unforgivable.

"Wisdom and Love" is too much of the best thing, that could never even admonish the worst thing, for the Blessing exists within the experience of everything.

I am eternally grateful for any and everything that has crossed my path. Good, bad and otherwise, it has all contributed to the "Wisdom and Love" that I have and feel.
I am better because of it!

More understanding having gone through it!

Strong enough having withstood it!

Experienced enough to now recognize it!

Smart enough to stay away from it!

Too Blessed to ever succumb to it!

Better off than I once was because of it!

"Wisdom and Love," the latter the former, individually and collectively, I am both, individually, collectively and respectfully.

Wisdom humbled me,
Love resuscitated me,
And Jesus saved me!

May the Praise that comes out of my mouth forever recognize that even when it was happening TO me, it still was not ABOUT me, so glory BE, to GOD!

You are the inspiration that you think you are. Thank you Nastashia!

"Wisdom and Love"

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

"New Normal"

The chemistry was unlike any periodic table that I could recall, but all of the elements were still present.

It is hard to fathom what normal is like when you have lived and experienced any and everything but. Yet when you readily identify the areas of improvement that you can indeed improve upon, you can then begin to paint a normal picture to commit to your photographic memory and to frame on your wall of Life as an accurate representation of what the "New Normal" should and will look like in your Life going forward.

Getting acclimated to your new surroundings is a part of the process that ultimately cancels out what the "old" used to represent, and begins to solidify all that the "new" now represents.

All of the elements on my Life's periodic table were for me to figure out so that I can make sure that the compatibility was and is not somewhere lost in the presentation.

And then she comes along and does not question the elements within my periodic table, but she challenges the "old" in order to make the "new" even better. And I get it.

What was once normal is no longer even cordial to any of the "new" elements that beautifully represent the "New Normal" as my brilliant inheritance.

I had to go there, in order for me to get here. And now I must go where, the sound of her voice and the beat of her heart, I can hear.

This is my "New Normal."

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

"Reservations"

It is always a big deal whenever you "have" plans or you are "making" plans to do something by yourself or with someone that you would like to spend "your" time with.

You get the tickets.

You reserve the seats.

You block off the time.

You prepare to get prepared.

You figure out what to wear.

You decide how to wear your hair.

And as that day inches closer, your level of excitement grows higher.

You have "plans."

In Life, when it comes to being successful, the process is just as tantalizing. We constantly play it over in our minds, just like our new favorite song or that one song that we just can't seem to get out of our heads.

Determined people usually MAKE "Reservations."

Ambiguous people usually HAVE "Reservations."

Which one best describes you? Do you MAKE or do you HAVE?

When it comes to your success story, you either MAKE or you HAVE..."Reservations."

Adopt the determination by removing the ambiguity. No longer HAVE, but MAKE "Reservations" to attend and play a leading role in YOUR success story.

Afterall, it belongs to you.

Smile and make it happen!

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

"Everywhere You Are"

You cannot just lay verbal claim to Love if you are anything but.

You should not attempt to become a stakeholder of Love if your intentions are anything but.

You do not have to look for Love when Love already exists within you and resides within the house that Love has built, that is now occupied by you.

There is no place that you can go where Love is not adequately represented.

There is no place that you will ever come to know where Love is not marked present.

Love is who and what you become when you first accept and embrace the notion that if it is Love, that nothing else matters, that you are entitled to Love and that you deserve to be Loved.

It matters not what you do, where you go, who you become, what you learn along your journey and all of the other many intangibles.

Love is...Love shall be...Love shall remain..."Everywhere You Are."

Love like your Life depends on it. Truth be told, it actually does.

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

"Welcome Home"

I Missed You!

You have been gone for quite some time. A lot has changed since I last welcomed you into my Life. And now I am ready and willing to appreciate you and all that you do for me.

The Love that you give me,
The Smile upon my face,
The way that you make my heart race,
The immense joy that I feel whenever you are around,
The limitless potential that I realize in your presence.

You are truly good to me and without fail you have always been about your word and what it means. And for that, I am grateful!

Admittedly, it has been difficult without you and how I have managed to survive this long is a mystery that I thankfully no longer have to solve.

I Promise to be better to you this time around and take you for granted, never. For I now know what the alternative, without you in Life, is like. And I want no part of that, irrespective of the influence.

I have missed you entirely too much and now I understand and wholeheartedly appreciate every cent of your worth. And I shall demonstrate that to you from this day forth, until my Life is no more.

I Love You!

"Welcome Home," Peace & Happiness.

Please come on in. I'll close the door behind you.

If Peace & Happiness do not reside in your home and they are not an active part of your Life, they might already be knocking at your door. Go ahead, invite them in and welcome them home.

"Welcome Home."

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

"Restoration"

There are so many projects that people I know are embarking upon. With the plethora of television shows that showcase what can be done with relatively small investments, sparked is a certain level of energy into the hearts and minds of those that are so inclined to "fix things up."

Redoing your bathroom, having hardwood floors installed, painting, fixing up an old car, cleaning out the garage, purging the old, making room for the new, adding shelves to occupy more and so on.

Some even cover up or remove tattoos that are no longer relevant or serve any importance in their lives.

Those "projects" are all fine and dandy, but they represent the physical aspects of materialism, thus misrepresenting the well-being of your heart, mind, body and soul.

We take and make those small investments in hopes that they will alter our state once they have altered our surroundings, placing a false sense of hope in the same basket that we have stored all of the rest of our eggs.

If we only take a fraction of that energy, minus the investment because it is free, and reinvest it into ourselves, we might not need to alter our surroundings in hopes that it will alter our state of mind, thus positively impacting our hearts, providing healthier bodies and happier souls.

I am of the firm belief that you do indeed reap what you sow. So, if you were to invest nothing within your being, you should effectively expect just that in return. Nothing.

And when you invest in those misrepresentations, expect a return that exists only in the form of the presentation.

Projects are great and always looking to improve upon things are even better. But do not forsake one for the other. YOU are just as important of an investment as the projects that you are planning to work on. Just do not forget about and plan to work on YOU as well. You are just as and even more important. Believe that!

Restore and claim your joy at no less than 100%.

The happiness surrounding your situation(s) are strictly contingent upon the installation and subsequent "Restoration" of your joy!

Claim it because it belongs to YOU!

The "Restoration" of your Faith shall alter all of your surroundings with the explicit intent of serving up the only true representation for the presentation of 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

"Healing"

I miss her terribly so!

I had not the leftover strength to carry me TO or THROUGH for that matter. But "Glory Be To GOD" that I had within me, all that she deposited within me, in order to understand that HE shall provide all of my needs if I have BUT, only the size of a mustard seed.

My upbringing may not have been traditional but the Love that I received was definitely unconditional. I firmly believe that what was in store for me years later on down the road would be executed to precision due to my previous experience and the overdraft protection that my Mother's Love would one day provide my Life's account.

You can only "bounce" what is not there to begin with. You cannot "withdraw" what was never first "deposited." You are only "insufficient" if you have been negligent.

But that was not the case with my Mother. My Life is so full of my Mother's wonderful memories and her tireless legacy, that it is like she never left.

I talk about her as if she's still in the room.

I hear her voice as if she's right here, right now.

I appreciate her wisdom as if she just whispered it to me.

I draw off of her tree of Life's branches of knowledge.

Today, my Life is filled with happiness because we deserve it so.

Not a single hour in my Life passes by without my Mother popping up to remind me...

Not a single day went by in my Life without my Mother showing up to help me find me...

The Love of my Life may not be physically here WITH me, but her presence in and around my Life is proof that she has never left me. And to think that she promised that she never would. "I will always be with you my son," Mother would say, over and over again.

I Pray for those who's Loved ones have gone on. May you find the Peace and happiness that I have found in order to compliment the comfort of what that Peace and happiness sounds like.

One day soon it will commence and time will allow you to let the "Healing" begin.

You've got a friend in me, always.

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

"Host of Imperfections"

It is through my many mistakes that I have arrived at the experience that is providing me my expanded growth, allowing me to occupy a space within the place that I now reside, called Peace.

When you have already dealt with the confessions within your Life, it makes it all possible for you to move on with the rest of your Life, as if you were never held back to begin with.

It is not a right, but an honor and a privilege to receive a second chance to get it right the first time in the presence of GOD's eyes. The ability to redeem yourself as if you never stepped outside of yourself during all of the times when you were wrong.

No less than humbling as I initially stumbled outside of the gate, but eventually got back in stride as I pace myself towards my destiny, and my fate.

I did nothing on my own and would not even attempt to plagiarize my very own story. I am home, at Peace, happiness abound with remorse and regret nowhere to be found.

I have been nothing short of a "Host of Imperfections" that now offer me my Life's direction, as if I was never lost to begin with.

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

"No Matter What!"

I have made the very conscious Life decision to be "Happy." To not allow anyone to beg, borrow or steal my joy. Sharing is a great thing, but joy is customized FOR you and TO you.

Therefore, you cannot expect people to adequately share in something that was customized per your specs. How could your customization satisfy their needs when it is according to the needs of you?

So, do not allow yourself to become unhappy when someone does not appear to genuinely share in your joy and enthusiasm. Like I said, sharing is a great thing, but.

Even with everything that I have ever been through with everyone that I have been through it with, nothing can supersede or replace....

The Joy,
The Love,
The Peace,
The Harmony,

All of which I simultaneously celebrate at the expense of the alternative, as opposed to me being miserable at the expense of....

The Joy,
The Love,
The Peace,
The Harmony.

The celebration shall continue, "No Matter What!"

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

"After HIS Heart"

Although it does sting and often hurts, I am not surprised at the condescending and demeaning manner in which people have a tendency to treat you. But if they did it to King Jesus, then they surely and most definitely will do it little ole' Corey.

But Glory Be To GOD that whatever is said or done to or about me does not have dominion nor jurisdiction over me and what LORD GOD sees and ultimately has planned, for me.

I fashion myself after nothing that can be replaced, but a remarkable image that I long to trace. HIS.

Although my ways are no longer at the opposite end of the spectrum, I kindly remind myself of where I once was in Loving appreciation of how far I have trekked to THIS end of the spectrum.

There is a colossal difference between "before" and "after," "then" and "now," "here" and "there," "me" and "HIM." Which brings me to the true "Heart" of the matter.

In order for me to ask the question: "How About I Start, With My Heart?"

Or in order for me to be "A Man of Your Heart," I must first get all of my ducks in a Loving row and be a citizen of GOD's Loving kingdom so that I can trace that image and be a man, "After HIS Heart."

It is not "me," but what HE has so chosen to do WITH me, hence the very reason why HE shall ALWAYS receive the glory.

After I have successfully traced HIS likeness and image, allow me to color it in by demonstrating that my every effort relative to Love, shall always be one, that is "After HIS Heart."

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

"How About I Start, With My Heart?"

Sometimes what we plan on doing and what we wind up doing has everything to do with what we want or what we think the other person should be planning on or actually doing themselves.

But as experience has so humbly taught Corey and humbled Corey in the "process, " I now strongly beg to differ.

What "I" need to do has nothing to do with what "you" need to do.

What "I" need to say has nothing to do with what "you" need to say.

For if the existence of that person was never realized to begin with, chances are you would still have to Love, say or do what you were waiting for them to Love, say or do themselves. Now, wouldn't you?

So, move according to what needs to be done.

Say according to what needs to be said.

Show according to what needs to be shown.

And grow whenever you witness an opportunity for said growth.

And in the "process," do not remove or subtract Love from Life's equation.

Love when Love is in search of Love in the form of and to compliment, that of Love.

There exists the very real chance to still do what you were waiting to be done or said by somebody else. Only this time around, do it YOURSELF!

YOU can Love,
YOU can care,
YOU can yearn to take all that YOU know and open up and share.

Experience has paid for my wisdom, thus making me a tad bit smart.

So, this time around, "How About I Start, With My Heart?"

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

"A Man of Your Heart"

The winds of change have finally decided to blow your way and give way to the shift in what you used to know, to what you will now grow to Love.

Even if you were remotely unaware that this gust of wind would one day embrace your beautiful face, then please now understand the gentleness in which it does.

It was just a matter of time before it was your time to release the anchor that has held you down and break the cycle that has perpetuated your frown, for far too long.

The ease in which you inspire me, ignites a fire within me that forces my every action to keep fanning the flames in hopes that they never burn out.

But if my efforts are any indication, preparation from the warmth that will comfort any doubt, shall continue to play its role and satisfy its part, for I am, "A Man of Your Heart."

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

"New Kind of Something"

Old days, old ways and old habits shall all soon pass away, if they have not already done so or are in the process of doing so, making way...

Left over will be the lessons learned from the opportunities spurned and all of the wasted churn, making way...

I am grateful to all of my wrongs for once and for all showing me how to get all of my rights, correct, thus making way...

I am not worried about where she is at. I am more concerned about being ready for her as soon as we meet, having already made way...

...for a "New Kind of Something" to take root within the new foundation of my new found stimulation that boldly introduced ITself, further restricting me from hindering MYself back to a place that existed before the lessons learned were first documented.

For the first time in a long time, if EVER, the season is ripe for all to be construed, understood and embraced, for a "New Kind of Something" to happily take place.

Find your PASSION, move in and live within it!

Identify your PURPOSE and do not live outside of it!

Making and having made way...for a "New Kind of Something."

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

"Compassion Within My Heart"

The thought or mention of Your name brings a Smile to my face, an extra beat to my heart, more joy to my cheer, more cheer to my joy and an overflow of glow, even in the darkest hour, of the lowest times, in my Life.

You become what I need for You to be and do so in such an abundance, to ever prevent me from NOT seeing that Your presence is not just marked by the "Footprints in the Sand," but the "Compassion Within My Heart."

I am so glad that we met. I search no more, but instead give even more, making withdrawals off of all of your deposits, knowing that my Life's account can never be overdrawn since your Blessings are never ending and forevermore.

You know who You are!

But, in the event that there are those that wonder why my glow is even visible in the middle of the day, I tell them that it has everything to do with U!

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

"THIS Very Moment"

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Everything that you were doing yesterday has or should have prepared you for everything that you are now facing today. If you have yet to be able to apply it, just live a little longer, Pray a little stronger and reminisce.

So many moments in time, so many moments that were defined. But, how many were designed by U?

I cannot undo whatever I did or did not want to do or say on yesterday.

I do not know what tomorrow holds since I am not there...YET!

But in "THIS Very Moment," I can choose to be the Purpose that I was Purposed to be with an undeniable illumination, void of any instant gratification, since my understanding affords me the knowledge that although the story might include but a GLIMPSE of me, it is not at all ABOUT me, but how I give back all that has ever been given TO me.

The next great moment starts with U!

Again I ask, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

...at "THIS Very Moment."

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

"Loving and Lasting"

Literally, I roll out of bed landing directly on my knees, giving Praise and thanksgiving FIRST! When you set your day off right, you can handle anything that is desperately trying to go wrong!

I do not welcome the unflattering, but I am more then equipped to deal with it, if and when it decides to rear itself. Unfortunately, it knows not the fact that it has already been defeated since my relationship solidifies my standing and the reason why victory is always at hand, no greater than an arms length away.

All day, everyday, Thank You Jesus!

With everything going on in the world, from revolutions to natural disasters, I am eternally grateful for the "Loving and Lasting" relationship that I have with my LORD and Savior.

GOD Bless!

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

"Belongs To You"

Eight years ago I knew not the true meaning of unconditional Love until I witnessed, first hand, the miraculous way in which you instantly altered my mind, my thoughts, my actions and my heart.

You have shown me so much and taught me even more! I cherish our time together, for you are growing up almost too fast for me to savor your youth.

You mean everything that you are supposed to mean to me and more. What a privilege it is to watch you grow, learn and even teach, as you familiarize yourself with your navigational compass, learning your own way, in a way that so compels me to appreciate you every day and especially on your birthday.

To my beautiful Princess! Happy Birthday my dearest most sweetest Love. My unconditional heart "Belongs To You." Daddy Loves 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

"The Need To Give Thanks"

When I left "yesterday," GOD simultaneously Blessed me to see "today," by way of breath in my body with the additional functionality of my limbs and in my right state of mind.

What more could I possibly ask for? How can I begin to repay a debt that I already know that I cannot afford?

What so compels a man to explore the possibilities, that extend far beyond his very own capabilities, landing him smack dab in the middle of GOD's tranquillity?

My GOD!

You saved my Life when people and things cared about everything BUT!

My GOD!

You Blessed me with a spectacularly wonderful Wonder Woman that has left a gigantic void in my Life, yet you have filled that void in My Mother's absence.

My GOD!

You strengthen my every weakness thus allowing me to speak to your greatness whether I am scaling that mountaintop, standing at its base or shouting Hallelujah as I am perched upon its peak!

My GOD!

When I was broke as a joke that everyone was laughing at, YOU, smiled upon me because YOU, knew that one day I would be giving YOU, the Praise through my writings, my Blogs and my books, with the talent and the gift that YOU, gave me!

My GOD!

You gave me another chance to dance around Your Grace and sing Your Praises in the presence of Your Mercy.

My GOD!

How could I not relinquish my thanks to the One that is so deserving of ALL that I have to give, if for no other reason than the fact that it would not be mine had it not been bestowed upon me, by You, to begin with.

My GOD!

It is not a multiple choice option, but a mandatory selection, hence the very reason why "I" feel, "The Need To Give Thanks."

Glory Be To GOD!

I Thank You LORD!

My GOD!

I Thank 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

"Through It All"

When I was in IT, I caught myself falling victim in and to the same pitfalls that everyone else said that they would avoid "if it was them." Once upon a time I even made the same bold proclamation!

The boldness of such winds up being your ultimate crutch in your pursuit to do different, as IF your way would prove to be so much better, when in all actuality, it was and is never about "them" or the "situation," but WHO navigated you THROUGH and delivered you FROM.

The fact that our common bond is our connection to the human race, it is and should not be surprising that we fall short, come up short, quit too soon, move too fast, respond too slow and are in that eternal quest to "get it just right."

No matter WHAT you go through, know that we ALL go through IT and come out on the other side, not necessarily unscathed, but better than we once were, forever untied to the naïve bond that used to represent our decision-making process, subsequent thoughts and scattered about actions.

IT represents anything that we ALL go through.

But it is WHO, that navigated you THROUGH, thus delivering you FROM, "Through It All."

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

"Me Within Me"

I used to hear the naysayers more than I used to hear myself! So much so that I started ignoring the voice within me, thus dwindling the "Me Within Me."

But Glory Be To GOD, for what I started to hear were the WHISPERS of GOD, that spoke louder than ANY of the shouts from ALL of the naysayers.

I could hear the silent whispers of GOD that began to drown out the decibel level of noise emanating from the less than truthful as they attempted to riddle integrity of its pure intentions, in hopes of shattering ANY and ALL of my hopes and dreams of being everything that I was first destined to be.

But as GOD spoke softer and the noise grew even louder, my ability to hear HIM was fine tuned even more.

Just preparation for the time when one day the stage will be grander and the noise will be earth shattering and through it ALL, I will STILL be able to hear the silent whispers of the LORD, confirming the "Me 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

"That's A Lot of Work"

I see GOD in my children everyday that I am so wonderfully Blessed to lay my eyes upon both of their beautiful Spirits.

As I was making up my son's bunkbed, he witnessed the bed pulled from the wall and his Father dressing both the top and bottom bunks as he stood there and quipped: "That's A Lot of Work."

The presence of GOD is humbling in ANY format, presentation or articulation. And this instance proved to be no different.

As my son stood there in awe of what he deemed to be a lot of work that "his" Father was doing, I could not help but to immediately think about all of the work that I have witnessed "my" Father doing. The humbling aspect had everything to do with the fact that the vast majority of things that HE does for me go on behind the scenes, with or without my knowledge, most applicable to the latter.

Children are a constant reminder, that GOD is ALWAYS in the midst!

Looking back over the course of my relatively short Life, I can attest and testify in the same manner as my son did to "his" Father, the same to "my" Father, that had it not been for the Grace of GOD, I do not know where I would be or even IF, I would be.

I said, "The presence of GOD is humbling in ANY format, presentation or articulation." And this instance proves to be no different as well.

Since perfection shall permanently evade me all of the days of my life, all the days of my Life shall always be a work in progress. And "That's A Lot Of Work."

Thank you for the lesson son.

Thank you for your presence GOD!

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

"Already Exist Within You"

Love

Forgiveness

Patience

More Love

Kindness

Respect

More Forgiveness

Tenderness

Willingness

Even More Love

Consideration

Participation

Even More Forgiveness

Peace

Purpose

Whatever you think you need "More" and "Even More" of, add it to the list and start applying it to your Life today, so that you are prepared.

Before you go looking for something someplace else, make sure that it "Already Exists Within You."

Demonstrate the attributes that you yourself are looking for so that you can lay the expectation foundation by first illuminating the fact that what you are looking for is not due to your lack of, but as a nice compliment, in addition to, what is already there.

It should "Already Exist Within You" prior to you taking an itemized inventory and pointing out the deficiencies in others, hence the reason for my key attributes being Love and Forgiveness. We can never have too much of either and can ill-afford to do without them in ANY capacity.

Love and Forgiveness allows us to move forward and not regress to the point of zero advancement due to a hardened heart and an unforgiving temperament.

Love will allow me to forgive. And Forgiveness will lead me to keep pressing on, in spite of.

My two, "Love and Forgiveness."

Are you abundantly aware of what it is that should "Already Exist Within 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

"Opportunities of Tomorrow"

Not only is it a Blessing to see the dawn of a new day, but it is a miraculous undertaking to be afforded the chance to change what didn't go right the day before and make it right at the very next chance that you get, tomorrow.

We can forge ahead but we cannot "forge" our names next to opportunities that we did stake a claim to when they were in our midst. We cannot rescript our past nor can we plagiarize our futures.

But we CAN rewrite our future's past by doing everything today that tomorrow might not one day afford us, by way of time.

The time is now. The opportunity is here. And what you make of your stake is entirely up to you and your efforts, coupled with a healthy dose of Faith!

But do not take my word for it today, see for yourself in the "Opportunities of Tomorrow."

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

"Hi, Princess!"

As soon as my eyes have established their presence on the inside of the door, they go to work, searching for the two reasons why I am even there to begin with.

Not satisfied with what my eyes have happened upon, I follow the direction of my feet, directed by my heart, with the sole intention of locating my hearts desire.

The absence of what will make "my" heart content compels "me" to continue "my" search until "I" have found what it is that "I" am ultimately looking for (Marinate).

As I turn the corner, my Smile says it all!

"Hi, Princess!"

"Hi, Daddy!" She responds.

At the very moment that I greeted "My Princess" I was politely confronted by a collection of stares accompanied by Smiles, practically simultaneously. Some were other little girls, one was a single Mother of a little girl herself and the other adult was a married Mother of two teenage children.

The backgrounds of the faces that composed the array of stares that my "Hi, Princess" to my very own daughter garnered, taught me something that I already knew, but, to GOD be the Glory, presented itself in a whole new form, in an entirely different place, with a vast collection of new faces to represent.

You see, it matters NOT your demographic, when all "Ladies" young and older should be placed on the highest level. The attention that my "Hi, Princess" achieved leads me to the belief that EVERY woman has it in her heart to be that special someone TO someone, irrespective of the relationship, their age, height, weight, hair, skin, place, space, face, accomplishments, failures, struggles, beliefs, efforts, trials, successes and the list can go on until infinity.

The response FROM my daughter of the greeting TO my daughter had zero difference amongst the newly represented faces, as if they were ALL my daughters.

In other words, their hearts desire was no different than my own hearts desire when I set out on my initial search to begin with.

The absence of what will make "your" heart content compels "you" to continue "your" search until "you" have found what it is that "you" are ultimately looking for (Marinating still).

Their need to feel special in the eyes of that someone should make everyone happily oblige and aid in that search, thus shortening the duration of their journey, by greeting the special ladies in your Life with a, "Hi, Princess!"

To your Mother, "Hi Princess!"
To your grandmother, "Hi, Princess!"
To your sister, "Hi, Princess!"
To your wife, "Hi, Princess!"
To your daughter, "Hi, Princess!"
To your girlfriend, "Hi, Princess!"
To your niece, "Hi, Princess!"
To your cousin, "Hi, Princess!"
To yourself, "Hi, Princess!" You see you cannot expect others to think of you as such, if you do not think of yourself as such, as a Princess.

To all of the special young and older ladies whose hearts desire is to be a Princess in the eyes of someone, somewhere, here, there, near or far, from me to you, I say...."Hi, Princess!"

...And to My Mother, I still say, "Hi, Princess!"

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

"In A Better Place"

I have not moved, but I have rearranged all of my surroundings.

I have not quit, but I have fired all of my dead weight.

I am not obese, but I am heavy with Love.

I keep winning because GOD said that I cannot lose, if I so choose, by way of HIS obedience.

I have restructured my infrastructure to better withstand the disasters that will undoubtedly come my way, by way of people or nature.

Completely competent and no longer negligent at the expense of my happiness, resulting in self-inflicted predicaments.

The enemy can longer disrupt me because ever since I rearranged all of my surroundings, they are no longer familiar with my territory.

When I fired dead weight, I rehired success to commandeer my fate.

And Love's obesity, well I plan on shedding and distributing Love's weight to all those that read "All the Best, All the Time!"

I'm happy to say that those winning ways are due to the fact that I failed at failure because I so chose to succeed at success.

I have the same face,
Until my work has concluded, I'm still in the race,
No longer pre-occupied with someone else's pace,
Constantly covered and protected by GOD's Grace,
And HIS Mercy has delivered me all the way....dropping me off, "In A Better Place."

Hence the very reason WHY, Glory Be To GOD!

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

"Proactively Speaking"

It feels so amazingly wonderful to rise to another day knowing that there are Blessings that are patiently awaiting my arrival.

Once upon a time I had not because I asked not. And even when I was too naïve or too afraid to ASK for what I wanted, those Blessings were still patiently awaiting my arrival, for GOD knew and was not naïve or afraid to provide me what HE knew I would one day be in need of.

Love, on every corner, in every crack, seeping through every crevice, constantly and blatantly rearing itself in the form of, to Bless me because of, the fact that HE knew and me being naïve or afraid would never hinder HIS effort, even when I was blind to the fact.

WAS, blind to the fact and reacting as such, as if I had no clue because the truth of the matter WAS the fact, that it was indeed a true statement.

By far, the latter shall always be better than the former by way of lessons learned and subsequently greater than the former once you apply those lessons learned and put them into action, not reaction, "Proactively Speaking."

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

"Smile Again"

The greatest day of my Life before my Life was to be, I can lay claim to complete clarity and absolute certainty.

Understood is the past, coupled with a healthy dose of forgiveness.

Crystal clear is the future, with Faith the size of a mustard seed.

Unrelenting was my pursuit to recoup the last thing that is now the first thing on my agenda in which to do.

To live exactly how I feel and to reflect that Life and those feelings in the only way that I now know how, with complete integrity!

I arrived at the present by way of departure from the past.

I am here because I was once there, an appreciation of here, as if I have never been here before.

I Love you, I Love me, but I Love HIM even more.

The reason why I am different and why everything around me has changed,

To reflect that Life and those feelings, emphatically stressing the gains,

That were ultimately realized once I made the difference in my Life, long after the greatest day of my Life, before my Life was to be.

I am happy,

I am free,

To GOD be the glory!

Guaranteed victory, the only thing I can do is win. The victory is within me, since I can now "Smile Again."

Happy Birthday Mother!

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

"Roses In My Hand"

Sometimes you need that 2nd chance in order to get that 1st impression right. How naïve we would all be if we did it right the first time, every time.

I do not think that a collective brilliance could be accomplished if we all had the same and did the same like we were supposed to and perhaps should have done.

In the absence of ignorance, our achievements are beyond our predicaments and settle nicely right into their inheritance. For what is for us, is strictly for us and us alone.

Which brings me to Love.

That 1st impression may have had us entirely too baffled to get it right the first time. But sometimes, just sometimes, you need, I need, we ALL need that 2nd chance in order to get that 1st impression right.

"I" stand corrected.

And now, I stand at the front door of Love, awaiting her response to my knock, with
"Love In My Heart, A Smile Upon My Face" and "Roses In My Hand."

Corrected, "I" stand.

My 2nd chance,
That 1st impression,

"Roses In My Hand."

Glory Be To GOD!

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

"Love In My Heart and A Smile Upon My Face"

Smiling may not be a prerequisite for Happiness, but Happiness shall compel you to Smile as IF, Smiling is a prerequisite to Happiness.

Emotions may not be a prerequisite for having a heart, but having a Loving heart shall compel you to display and share in those emotions as IF, emotions are a prerequisite to having a heart.

I arrived at today with "Love In My Heart and A Smile Upon My Face" as IF, the prerequisite for the day was for me to have, "Love In My Heart and A Smile Upon My Face."

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