"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