"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

"Chapters To My Story"

As my son celebrated his birthday, I could not help but to think back not too long ago about the impact that his arrival had on my Life. The subsequent impacts that he and his big sister would have on my Life as they continue to grow into the people that GOD has purposed for them to be.

When my Mother took her wings to Glory, it was my children that kept me alive, occupied, busy, Smiling as they wiped away Daddy's tears and brave as I mustered up enough strength to make it through yet another day.

GOD provides you WHAT you need BEFORE you realize that you will ever be in need of IT. And so HE graciously did and I am humbled at the mere thought of my needs being met, way before I knew that an introduction was ever in order.

Who, but GOD?

My children are constantly teaching me lessons on compassion as I "crop and save" the new version of Corey, only looking back so as to make the new better, the best its ever been, with a heightened focus on improving who I am, in order to be the best that I can, all that GOD has purposed for me to be.

If you are not learning from your children, then you are not paying close enough attention to the details.

Although they learn FROM us, they teach us about ourselves so that we can in turn teach THEM better, only after they have made US better.

Who, but GOD?

My son's birthday was another reminder of the Blessings that have been bestowed upon me. I celebrate my children's birthdays by giving GOD the recognized Glory, that HE so chose to add them, as "Chapters To My Story."

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

"I Choose To Worship"

When you know the truth, ignorance is no longer applicable nor acceptable and playing that role in a forward progressing manner becomes intolerable with diminished sustainability, within the realm of the most infinite of infinite possibilities.

"I Choose To Worship"

You cannot conjure up, fabricate or divvy up the amount of praise that needs to go up, so I am compelled to give it up, before, during and after, HE, has already shown up!

"I Choose To Worship"

I've seen the bottom of the barrel, been to the opposite end of the spectrum, know what the alternative is like, a condensed version of everything that I was supposed to be.

"I Choose To Worship"

Yet HE saw past my present and delivered me from my ignorant state, how GREAT, is our GOD? Rhetorical, in fashion, but no less the most compassionate in passion because I should be in the very place that I deserved to be, exactly where my actions lead me to be.

"I Choose To Worship"

But when HE saw past my present and took me to my future, thus creating a path that even ignorance could not ignore, I began to see the most microscopic of the most infinite of infinite possibilities.

"I Choose To Worship"

To GOD be ALL the glory since the conclusion of my story should have been way back when. To the dismay of the devil and to the chagrin of his ways, I can Smile again because "I Choose To Worship," HIM.

"I Choose To Worship"

To GOD I give it all for it was not mine to begin with. I borrowed it, learned from it and returned it, to its rightful owner.

"I Choose To Worship"

I forgave myself, but not before HE forgave me, which allowed me to open up my heart, permitting me, to worship, Thee.

"I Choose To Worship"

No longer broken because HE, healed and mended!

No longer lonely because HE, comforted and befriended!

No longer weak because HE, is impeccably strong!

No longer lost because I, am no longer ambiguous to the fact that I, belong!

"I Choose To Worship"

Glory Be!

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

"The Most"

"The Most" delicate of sensibilities,

"The Most" infinite of possibilities,

"The Most" meticulous of granularity,

"The Most" humbling in all humility,

"The Most" Loving of the vast majority,

"The Most" decorated of all commemorated,

"The Most" compassion amongst the most compassionate,

"The Most" Loving in the presence of,

"The Most" giving in the season of,

"The Most" of anything that is ever needed,

GOD will be everything that you need HIM to be, in the form of, "The Most."

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

"Hater's!"

It's alright "Hater's!"

I'm not looking AT you,
I'm looking PAST you,
Because I see right THROUGH you!

Thank you for the inspiration,
As I get a glimpse of my Salvation,
Over yonder on THAT horizon.

The mere fact that HE rose on the third day,
Allows ME to keep on rising.

Keep climbing,
To the peaks that I was meant and DESIGNED to scale.

I have no choice BUT to succeed,
For I am void of the option to fail.

It is easy to see,
All that you were purposely customized to be,
When you look at yourself the same way that I now see HIM...looking at me.

Or could it be that I now feel HIM completely,
And not as I used to,
Incomplete and partially?

Not due to a lack of effort on HIS behalf,
Just a STRONGER,
More FOCUSED effort so that I can now do the correct math,
Adding up all of what HE has done for me.

But, since I cannot count that high,
I scoff at the notion to even give it a try.

When you see yourself as LESS than,
The "Hater's" see themselves as GREATER than.

But since Math was not their favorite subject,
We should not allow them to be the predicate...

HE sees me the same way that HE has always seen me.
And now I see me the same way that HE has always seen me.

Not perfect, but perfectly!

It's alright "Hater's!"

I'm not looking AT you,
I'm looking PAST you,
Because I see right THROUGH 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

"Ready For Love"

I no longer LOOK for all that is already WITHIN me.

I do not SEEK out what I ALREADY have.

I do not BUY what I already OWN.

I do not FLAUNT what I do not POSSESS.

Yet I GIVE with ALL of my heart.

I am not looking for Love, for I am Love already. I am not seeking out Love, for it already resides within me. No need to purchase Love since it is free. Boastful Love is false advertisement.

The Love contained does not need to refrain from who and what it is, in order to maintain its impeccable brilliance.

The substance composed of past residue to be recycled and made anew confirms the past, affirms the present and solidifies the future.

Love is the only answer to every question.

So, I ask, are you "Ready For 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

"Something To Hold On To"

Many people grab hold of many different things when they feel like they are falling, having already fell, needing to break their fall or just a lift up from their fall.

We are LOOKING for something tangible to grab ahold of, but it is always what we do not see that supports us during the most dramatic falls within our lives.

Instead of looking AROUND to see who saw us fall, we should be looking UP to the one that will support us as we get back up and dust ourselves off, again.

That's right, I said again. Until we find ourselves hitting our stride, we shall continue the need to dust ourselves off from time to time. Prayerfully, it will not be due to the fact that we are tripping over the same things, in the same place that we previously tripped over them at.

As long as we are tripping over new things that we have learned and not the same old things that we oft times churn, do not worry about WHO saw you fall, so long as you continue to get back up AGAIN, so that Life, Love and GOD can give you "Something To Hold On To."

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

"Greater Purpose"

Something bigger than you, but not smaller than you, because it requires your participation.

A "We're Open" sign on the door of your establishment to indicate your intentions and to signal that you are AVAILABLE to participate.

To serve WITHIN this world and not on the outskirts OF this world for a purpose that may not even be defined before you turn on that "We're Open" sign.

But the fact that your heart is trusting and compassionate enough to make the difference and not excuses for the differences that have been made, signals your willingness to serve something not smaller than you, but bigger than you, by way of a "Greater Purpose," than you.

"We're Open."

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

"Chalk on the Blackboard"

The possibility of spending the remainder of a Lifetime in complete and utter clarity quenches my thirst and satisfies my otherwise insatiable appetite.

To no longer make a mockery out of Life's plethora of opportunities that illuminates the otherwise dark corridor that leads me "straight" to the door, that I need to walk through.

When my Life is no more, may I have imparted all of my Life Lessons having used all of the "Chalk on the Blackboard."

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

"Back Where I Belong."

After making my way back to the front of the line, I could not ever see myself STEPPING OUT of line again, giving up my spot for something that gave me nothing but heartache in return.

It is a LONG arduous road back, but I have earned back what I initially gave up, having surrendered what was originally mine, further acknowledging that "perceived" greener pastures do not equate to prettier vines.
Whenever you give up your GOD given path, expect nothing but the wrath in the form of Lessons Learned. But the silver lining comes in the form of having re-EARNED what I previously squandered.

Thank goodness, that sometimes silver linings have multiple layers. Back to the front of the line I went, having re-earned all that I ever spent, only to realize that what I thought I "squandered" was stored away as my future inheritance.

When you move out of your skin, it feels good to come home, back within.

The road was arduous and LONG, but it sure feels good to be home, "Back Where I Belong."

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

"Epiphany"

Have you ever been clobbered by an Epiphany that made you come to the realization that the VERY purpose that you had been serving had absolutely everything to do, with NOTHING?

Glory Be To GOD!

That extra pep in my step is not arrogance, but the joy that is finally within my HEART.

Glory Be To GOD!

That swagger on full tilt is not over exaggerated confidence, but happiness, derived from the LORD having re-directed my path.

Glory Be To GOD!

Those new italicized thoughts in BOLD have boldly replaced the timid ones of old.

Glory Be To GOD!

I Love you better than I did before because my relationship with GOD has made my heart available to Love you better than I ever have....before.

Glory Be To GOD!

I forgive myself without you forgiving me, so that while you work through your forgiveness process, I can still Love you better than I ever did....before.

Glory Be To GOD!

Angry no more, so I understand your anger from the door, yet I open it anyway to invite you in and be the example that my past has taught me to be, anger-free, so that anger no longer, controls me.

Glory Be To GOD!

Have you ever been clobbered by an Epiphany that made you come to the realization that the VERY purpose that you are now serving has absolutely everything to do, with EVERYTHING?

Glory Be To GOD!

...What has your "Epiphany" taught YOU about 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

"To Love Like HIM"

"I" Loved you before you even knew what Love was.

"I" forgave you before you even had enough wherewithal to forgive yourself.

"I" protected you when you were most vulnerable.

"I" sheltered you to make you more comfortable.

"I" replenished your strength when you were at your weakest.

"I" raised you above when you were at your lowest.

"I" breathed Life into your thought process to alleviate your stress.

"I" fight for you, "I" battle beside you and "I" give you the victory in the eye of the storm and amongst your most virulent enemies.

"I" give you, ME."

I will spend the rest of my Life trying to emulate the Love of GOD. And as each day brings me closer to my demise, may I one day realize, that although the possibility is indeed slim, I shall keep and die trying, "To Love Like HIM."

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

"allthebestallthetime@gmail.com"

I have been writing my Blogs for over 3 years now. And in doing so, I write in complete honesty with respect to what I know, what I have learned and how I have grown in the process.

Depending on your perspective, growth may indeed be optional, but there are pitfalls to not selecting growth as a viable option in Life. I firmly believe that growth should be mandatory with the caveat that it is YOU that accepts that as an option, knowing the consequences if you do not as opposed to someone mandating growth for you.

My walk with GOD might be personal to me, but why not share in what was initially shared with me? So, I do.

GOD is good!
GOD is great!
And anything to the contrary is complete and utter gibberish!

When I give "my" testimony on how GOD has worked within "my" Life, it is "my" testimony to the goodness and greatness of the LORD.

Some people are afraid to publicly discuss GOD for fear of being challenged by someone that might be more familiar or knowledgeable with HIS Word. But, not me. I could feasibly read scripture, Pray for clarity and understanding of that scripture, recollect on how that scripture was played out in my Life and turn around and write a Blog surrounding "my" story and how GOD worked THROUGH me in order to get TO me. Personal, TO "me."

Why would anyone keep a story worth telling to themselves? So, I do not and I opt to share.

Now keep in mind that "that" scripture and how it is relevant in "my" Life does not dilute the importance of that scripture and it's relevance to "your" Life should we not have the same experience at the same time during our respective walks or vice versa. My walk is not identical to that of another, but according to GOD's plan for "me." We all arrive at our destinations at different intervals throughout our lives and our experiences, levels of commitment, endurance and overall Faith are all unique and for many reasons will indeed vary. But the Blessing shall continue.

Perhaps that is why we should refrain from leaning on our own understanding? I do my absolute BEST to remind myself of this whenever "my" thoughts start creeping into the equation.

"I" might not understand the path of "your" walk with GOD, but should I be mindful of that walk or harmonize the differences? Or should I sing and mind my own "Spiritual Business" so as to not impose what I "think" you or someone else's walk should be? Hence the very reason why I tell "Corey's" story relative to "Corey's" experience.

And in doing so, so many people have responded not only to "my" story, but to how GOD can, will and does work in their lives so that they too can realize that "everyone" does indeed have their own story. The Blessing shall continue.

Variations and interpretations are just that, variations and interpretations. There is no variation with respect to what GOD has done in "Corey's" Life. GOD did it and it is not something disputable with respect to what HE has brought me through. There are no interpretations to what GOD has done in "Corey's" Life. From a first person narrative, I capture and share in HIS Blessing because it is not just for me, although it was "my" experience. Sharing has one purpose and that is to share. There are no variations or interpretations to the word "sharing." HOW you "share" is a completely different thing. I choose to share through my Blogs. So, I do.

Now someone might not like HOW I construct and share in my story, but ALWAYS, to GOD Be the Glory! "If it does not apply, then let it fly," as my cousin would proclaim. "If it is not for me, then let it be," as I would say.

Fear of dialogue does not garner or further expand upon what you do or do not know. Every opportunity to add TO as opposed to subtract FROM puts a Smile upon my face, provides me food for thought and is engaging for all the right reasons, namely to talk, share in and hopefully walk away better than when you initially came into the conversation.

If providing or receiving additional clarity makes me a better communicator, then growth is not optional and I will be the first to extend myself at the opportunity for continued growth.

I Pray for continued growth, greater understanding and the Love of GOD for all that "know" and Love HIM, up to and including the one's that are just getting to "know" HIM, over to the one's that are not afraid to talk "about" HIM, with continued Prayers for the one's the know "nothing" about HIM.

GOD is good!
GOD is great!
And anything to the contrary is complete and utter gibberish!

I gladly share with you "my" story and since everyone has one, what is "your" story ("allthebestallthetime@gmail.com")?

Irrespective of whether it is "my" story or whatever "your" story contains, to GOD be the Glory and that is "unchanged."

But in the meantime and in between time, as always, I wish you, "All the Best, All the Time!"

With GOD, the Blessings shall continue.

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

"The Inspiration"

When weakness has you walking around in broad daylight with a flashlight looking for strength, unbeknownst to you, you are also looking for something and/or someone to grab a hold of for Love, comfort and support.

But at the time, there is seemingly nothing there...

When you finally wise up and grab a hold of GOD's hand, you miraculously find that strength that you were so desperately looking for.

And then...that something or someone finally shows up and they do not even begin to understand your newfound bravery, courage and strength. Ignorance and their quick attempt to "label" you causes them to misconstrue that "New Relationship" with the LORD as arrogance. In their feeble attempt to blindly judge a book by its cover, they fail to realize that "everything is not what it appears to be," as Mother would so frequently chime to me.

Do not allow someone or something from your past to dictate your present since they clearly have no respect for the future.

For once you have graduated from the pain, the time comes to celebrate the Glory and if they want to be a part of that, then make yourself available. Should they desire to remain "there" and "unchanged," then do not make yourself available. You cannot hold GOD's hand with your left and hold on to the painful past with your right. You will not be able to fully embrace HIM the moment that HE so requests that you fully embrace "HIM."

If they fail to understand, then encourage them to listen with their hearts and not just their ears so where you now are is clearly articulated in not just your words, but demonstrated in your actions.

For you cannot GROW if you are not willing to let "it" GO!

I believe in recycling! Always in search OF, so I thank you FOR, "The Inspiration."

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

"Invisible Communication"

Remove all ambiguity and allow the promiscuity, of your WORDS (ONLY), to get around. People should not have to "figure out" what you mean or the intentions behind your unspoken words. Your unspoken words are like saying something to someone when they are not there. It goes unheard.

So, why do we get upset when people do not respond to what we never said, to THEM?

Why do you get upset when you did not get the response to the email that you wrote, but never clicked "send," TO?

Why are we mad that THEY did not accurately read our minds like we thought they should have?

Fundamentally speaking, we parents implore our children to "communicate" with us so that they can tell us "what hurts," "where it hurts," and how they got their "boo-boo's" to begin with.

But somewhere along the way, we lose our "directional sense of communication" and set ourselves so far back that our very own children become better communicators than we are. All the while we are trying to get THEM to talk to US, but it is US that forgot all about the fundamentals of communication. No wonder they look at us strange. Quiet as kept, most of the time it is US that are out of touch!

But how could we possibly ever really be IN touch if our communication is INVISIBLE?

How can you TOUCH what you cannot see?

How can you FEEL what is not there?

Unless of course we are talking about FAITH, "Invisible Communication" will always run the high risk of falling on deaf ears.

Speak so that THEY, can hear you.

Give THEM, something to feel.

Extend YOURSELF, so that they can TOUCH you.

Do not beat or dance around the bush. Use your words to go right through the bush and expose the "Invisible Communication" for what it truly is: NOTHING, IF YOUR WORDS ARE NEVER ABSORBED BY THEIR EARS.

WHAT hurts?
WHERE does it hurt?
HOW did you get your boo-boo?

Thank GOD for the effective communication of kids. No more "Invisible Communication" for me!

This is HOW I feel and WHY...

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

"The REASON Behind Your Motivation"

Motivation is one single thing that can lead you down a path to do right or to do wrong. That motivation is strictly contingent upon the REASON that shadows directly behind that motivation.

Motivation can be used for building or destroying.

Motivation can be used to Love or spew hate.

Motivation can be used for helping or hindering.

Motivation can be used to inspire or ridicule.

...Motivation can be used for countless things.

But just as important, if not more so, is the REASON behind your motivation.

What drives a person to build or destroy?

Why do some Love and others choose to hate?

What compels others to accept help, but hinder others from the same help that was first afforded to them?

And if someone so inspired YOU, then why would you turn around and ridicule another?

I am always intrigued by the REASON behind the motivation of people.

Perhaps if we take a "Closer" (http://allthebestallthetime.blogspot.com/2010/12/closer.html) look, we can begin to truly understand why we do what we do and make the determination to continue the positive things and permanently eliminate the negative REASONS that fuel our motivation to do the things that are not right.

Our "reasons" for who and what we are do not have the jurisdiction over the remainder of our lives to dictate the negative that was first "spewed" AT us, that was meant to "destroy" OUR Spirit causing us to "ridicule" OTHERS in order to satisfy what is lacking and lurking beneath our fleshly surface, preventing US from giving and receiving "Love" and "inspiring" others to do the same through the example in how we live our lives.

Good or bad, make sure that you understand "The REASON Behind Your Motivation" to do what you do. The jurisdictional boundaries can be readjusted, so long as you are "motivated" to do so, for all the "right" REASONS!

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

"Full Blast"

The first time that it happened, I did a presentation in Church the next morning.

The second time that it happened was after I participated in a presentation for Church that morning.

And at both times, the devil, in all of his infinite wisdom attempted to defeat me. But, how do you defeat victory I rhetorically inquired? How do you become victorious when you have already been defeated?

Since the first question is rhetorical, the answer to the second question is one syllable, three letters, one word, the ONLY Word.

Well, the enemy is not about to partake in the "Word," since he represents everything to the contrary of what the Truth and Love are all about. Good thing I figured him out ala GOD's TRUE infinite wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
I do not just "have" the victory, I "AM" the victory! My flesh may not be impenetrable, but when I put on the full armor of GOD, how could you possibly EVER convince me that I will not ever BE, victorious?!

That infinite wisdom is synonymous with what is done for GOD. They are the only things that will ever last, so I implore you to hold fast, study and post mortem the recent past, so that you can readily identify and recognize when you are being tasked, disguised as, but in reality an attack against, the Love for GOD that you have on "Full Blast."

Do you have on your full body of armor today?

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

"Closer"

Every step in the direction of Righteousness, yields at least a bunch of speed bumps and hurdles that are much ado about absolutely nothing.

Simply put in a colloquial sense, "don't waste my time with these meaningless distractions!"

As you get "Closer" TO the LORD in your walk WITH the LORD, you start to appreciate not only the Blessings that you have been in receipt of FROM the LORD, but you appreciate your time more than you have ever before. Borrowed time compels you to better manage your time, hence the need to rid those meaningless distractions powerless over your "Closer" jurisdiction where you and the LORD are getting better acquainted.

Let no ONE or no THING impose upon your growth, your walk, your talk, your well-being, your physical health, your Spiritual wealth, your vibrancy, your GOD given agenda that may or may not include that ONE or that one THING.

If you are not doing anything, then there is nothing to distract you from.

The more that they attempt to DISTRACT, the easier to discern if you should even INTERACT...

It feels good to be back!

Glory Be To GOD for allowing me to get even "Closer!"

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

"You, To Be"

I have had some trying days right alongside some very trying times. But, through them all and "growing" forth, I shall allow or permit nothing to alter my mind, thus killing, stealing or destroying my joy.

As you get closer to where GOD wants you to be, you become a bigger target for the thief to see!

You start getting random things thrust in your path, just hoping you take the bait so that they can give you the wrath.

The attention is packaged in an assortment that could very well be to your liking. But it is nothing but a facade that under normal circumstances wouldn't even be striking.

Deviation is just an alienation of where you wind up as opposed to where you ought to be. You have become the illumination that is fueling all of the senseless negativity.

In you is what GOD wants others to be able to bare witness to. Those trying days right alongside those trying times, oft times, have nothing to do with you.

GOD is in the process of setting up HIS plan, in order to disrupt the detrimental actions against his Faithful, led by the faithless, irrespective of what's at hand.

So, hold strong and hold true to all that you do not currently see. You are only getting closer, to where GOD wants "You, To Be."

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

"Just Be Honest"

We waste so much time and energy pretending to comfortably exist outside of our comfort zone when our heart is nowhere to be found. Our heart actually stutters instead of beats when we our NOT within that comfort zone and for some, they cannot exist within those newly defined parameters, hence the perception of the absence of the beat and the presence of that stutter-stepping heart.

But are you being honest or just wasting time and energy by prolonging the obvious, giving those on the other end a false sense of reconciliation, perpetrating anything but?

Perhaps what you know IS as much as you will ever grow...

I mean your heart is where your action is, right?

The impossibility due to the inability of you expanding your territory causes nothing but confusion and selfishly wastes the time and energy of all that are involved.

Being conscious of your actions makes you guilty as charged.

Being knowledgeable to what you already know will not work, yet requests and you oblige by your presence, means to settle.

Changing all of the above requires but one thing of you...to

"Just Be Honest."

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

"Length's And Freebie's"

It is remarkable the energy that will be exerted and the effort that will be made for the enemy to try to ruffle your feathers and take you OUT of your game while infiltrating your level of focus with nothing MORE and everything LESS of what you actually need.

Ha! In all actuality, that is the elephant in the room! The big red flag! If it is not working WITH you, than it is working AGAINST you and the LORD does not conduct business like that. Therefore, by default, we should be readily able to identify the representation of GOD versus the representation of the "other," giving way to continued focus and remaining in the game mentally, giving GOD the Glory, Spiritually.

Ha! Fool me once, shame on you!
Ha! Fool me twice shame on me!

Yeah, once upon a time, I gave you that "Freebie!" But today...
I am anew!
Fresh blood!
New body!
New Love!
Renewed strength!
Profound conviction!

Immovable Faith!
Smile upon my face!

Conditioned for my position!
Love in my heart!
Impenetrable fence guarded by my Savior!

Your stones may connect every once in a while, but greater is HE...

...As for me, the "Length's" that the enemy goes THROUGH in order to get TO...

Ha! Fool me once, shame on you!
Ha! Fool me twice shame on me!

...But no more "Freebie's" for you!

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

"And No One Else"

We divulge our JOY in hopes that they are going to be happy FOR us.

We share in our VICTORY in hopes that they will celebrate WITH us.

We slide a tad bit of Faith in their direction thinking that they will never let us down.

But, who the hell are we kidding?

Your joy is YOUR joy!
Your victory is YOUR victory!
And that Faith? Well, THAT belongs to GOD!

He's a jealous one alright!

Stay in the game of Life and give HIM the Glory!

You cannot share YOUR joy that was customized just for you, with your name on it.

That victory that you obtained, well it now serves as a testimony, with the author deserving the credit of Glory that will serve as an example for others to renew their Faith so that they too can get the same kind of joy, with THEIR name affixed as the recipient.

That joy, it is YOURS!

That victory, it is now your testimony!

And that all mighty Faith? Well that belongs to the Father, "And No One Else."

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

"Speak And Love Anyway"

If you only speak when you are spoken to, what happens if no one were to ever speak to you?

If you only demonstrate Love when Love has clearly been demonstrated to you, what do you do when Love has not been so demonstrated?

Unfortunately too many people would choose to NOT speak, to NOT Love, because it was NOT first done to them.
Such a sad state of affairs because more often than not, the willingness to speak along with the willingness to Love are both readily present. The only component that is absent, thus preventing the tongue from speaking and the heart from Loving is ACTION. Action on YOUR behalf!

Do not look for or complain if someone does not speak to you or attempt to Love you. If you do not speak to them or Love them, then you yourself are ill-prepared to do the same. So, how could you possibly be receptive of the things that you yourself are NOT doing?

I'm just saying!

That is exactly why it is called reciprocity!

But Glory Be To GOD, that my LORD and Savior Jesus Christ did not wait to SPEAK to me. HE did not wait to LOVE!

HE came to me SPEAKING! HE came to me LOVING!
HE came to me!

It does not even sound right to say that because I should have first gone to HIM, SPEAKING and LOVING.

But advanced reciprocity...that is what it is all about!

Advanced reciprocity compelled HIM to do so to me first, so that I can not only witness how it should be done, but to inject that same ACTION and to do so myself.

I'm just saying!

That willingness to speak along with that willingness to Love are both readily present, so take the necessary ACTION
to "Speak And Love Anyway."

I am grateful to GOD that Jesus did TO and FOR me, being the immaculate example of what TO do.

"TYJ!"
http://allthebestallthetime.blogspot.com/2010/10/tyj.html

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

"Spiritual 5th"

I do not defend my past, because I plead the "Spiritual 5th."

Since my latter will be greater, my former was absolutely necessary.

I bridged the gap by first crossing over it.

I came to the fork in the road and I went straight (is the road), but narrow is the gate.

I have already surpassed 100% of the doubt from the naysayers, yet I keep that smidget of Faith and that ounce of effort on standby as I relinquish my daily Prayers.

Once I learned better, I grew better.

When I first started to realize that I actually did belong, my strength (in HIM) became impeccably strong.

When I found out that you could never again cramp my style, I enlisted and deployed my pearly whites as my calling card, to Smile.

I became who I am by way of who I once was.

No I do not defend my past, for I am grateful for all that it has afforded me by way of growth, by first allowing me to plead the "Spiritual 5th."

And I give it ALL 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

"With Love In My Heart and Action In My Words"

Do not ever say what you mean unless you TRULY mean what it is that you say. If you should ever be in doubt as to whether someone likes "it" or not, just replace THEM with YOU and ask the same question.

What is contained within your heart cannot and will not allow its presence to ever be denied. You may be able to camouflage and conceal the true contents contained within, with the strict caveat, of that being temporary.

But sooner than later, Prayerfully your latter will be greater, the revelation of who and what resides within your heart shall reveal itself and your efforts to further contain it will find themselves reduced to nothing more than an exercise in futility.

A clean and pure heart will always respond in a clean and pure manner. If not, then it is not.

I will not inquire about the intentions of others because the residential status of its occupants will demonstrate the actions that are garnered from the feelings of the heart that houses what is TRULY intended from them to you.

Substitutes can not ever constitute the destitute or the desolate. It too will prove to be temporary, constantly in a state of flux while your Love remains stationary, awaiting the return of the home owners. Home is indeed where the heart is.

So, follow your heart and part ways never, to again go astray or deviate from the one that was meant to coexist within your world, as a population of two.

With "Love In My Heart and Action In My Words," my path has been determined with the footprints of my past, present and future clearly representing where I have been, where I am and where I will ultimately reside, in the home that houses the only thing that truly matters, Love.

"With Love In My Heart and Action In My Words."

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

"TYJ"

Random bursts of thanks precede my day, occur throughout the day and conclude my day whenever I am reminded of the greatness of GOD coupled by the fact that HE has so allowed me to see another Glorious day, partaking in all that this Blessing of Life has in which to offer.

Blessings might be free, but the cost was indeed paid in advance, hence every single one of my outbursts of THANKS!

I am compelled to yell, even when it is in my truck where only HE can hear me. I am sure that others have witnessed my joy, which cannot be contained by closed windows on a vehicle.

Do you not see the Smile through the glass?

Do you not smell the Cologne of Glory that creates a path of my scented presence?

Do you not see the Holy swagger on full display as I pop my Spiritual collar?

How about that positive aura that refuses to dumb DOWN in order to accommodate what refuses to step UP?

Glory..Be..To..GOD!

How could you NOT give thanks, silently, outwardly, internally, hysterically, admirably, honorably, all for the Glory...that is to.."Be To GOD!"

TMI is not "Too Much Information" when the glorification is "TYJ"...Thank YOU Jesus!

...silently, outwardly, internally, hysterically, admirably, honorably...

Thank You Jesus! "TYJ!"

Rest In Peace Deacon Reuben Alvin Naylor.

Thank You Jesus! "TYJ!"

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

"HE Reads My Blogs"

If you knew that everything that you were doing was being WATCHED, how would you DO things differently?

If you knew that everything that you were saying was being HEARD, how would you SAY things differently?

If you knew that everything that you wrote was being READ, how would WRITE things differently?

Or would you change anything at all?

I am consciously aware of the fact that I am being "watched, heard and read" in each of those individual and collective areas.

It is easy to write a Blog for someone else to READ and even memorize it for someone else to HEAR. But it is in the "application" and not the "memorization" (http://allthebestallthetime.blogspot.com/2008/08/application-not-memorization.html) and how I actually apply it to and in my Life so that it can make an outward impact for all of those that are indeed WATCHING.

You can not solely partake with zero intentions to participate. It does not work like that, nor that way. The energy that you expel to this world shall always boomerang itself as you consume the same energy that you dished out in the first place.

WATCHED
HEARD
READ

Would you still NOT do things differently if you knew that you were being WATCHED, HEARD and/or READ?

Considering the fact that we all do "something" in private for a reason, I am sure that you too would CHANGE if privacy was no longer a luxury that even poverty can afford.

Perfection may not be a viable selection, but working on my ways to brighten and strengthen all of my days so that I may live out my Life's Purpose and complete HIS Will, shall always keep me conscious of the fact that somewhere, someone is WATCHING, LISTENING and READING, everything that I do.

Therefore, my ways were compelled to yield to and embrace change because HE is WATCHING, LISTENING....and I take comfort in knowing, that "HE Reads My Blogs."

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

"The Sting Of Regret"

As I got older I made a Promise to and for myself to never live Life to solely arrive to the point of regret. Although we will undoubtedly experience regrettable times during our Lifetime, those moments should not take ownership of the remainder of our Lifetime, but serve as a testimony to someone else to and for their Lifetime.

What we go through is not just what WE go through, but what other people WITNESS us go through. GOD's plan is bigger than any single individual that I am aware of. And if they think that it is not, pardon my absence from your Life because chances are, there is no room to accommodate me AND your ego concurrently.

In my Lifetime "The Sting Of Regret" pertains to me, contained within thee and now serves as a testimonial of my Lifetime's history.

I went THROUGH in order to come OUT! And THAT is the Glory OF GOD, Glory TO GOD, Glory BE To GOD!

I came out! "The Sting Of Regret" only exists if you exist as an island to one's self.

Otherwise, GOD's plan is bigger than any single individual that I am aware of.

Glory Be To GOD!

Embrace every bit of your Life, so that you may one day offer comfort to someone else during theirs!

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

"Done, Here, To"

Even when the situation looks bleak, you can still open up your mouth to speak, to the Heavenly Creator, the all encompassing Navigator, that can help you bypass the million steps in front of you by placing you in the confines of an Elevator, if you so believe.

Whatever is in front of you shall always pale in stark comparison to what is behind you whenever you so choose to appreciatingly glance in your Life's rearview.

Every chance is a chance anew, to cement your past by confirming that you grew, with all that you have learned by expanding on all that you once knew.

We had to go through our PAST in order to arrive at our PRESENT as we boldly march our way into our FUTURE.

September is almost done. October is almost here. And I'm already looking forward to November. The Past, the Present and the Future.

In your Life, what is almost Done? In your Life, what is almost Here? And in your Life, what are you looking forward To?

As long as GOD is part of the equation, EVERYTHING shall balance out.

"Done, Here, To"

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

"As Is"

When I first began to fall in Love with you I was so afraid that like everyone else, you would hold my past against me. What I failed to realize and the mistake that I initially made was holding you in a "like regard" to and with the same people that were and could not ever be on your level, of your caliber.

Never one to have believed in "Love at first sight," yet your account of the possibilities compelled me to reconsider my immaturity within that realm of possibility.

You made me see what was right before me, having cleared a path offering me complete visibility.

Although you have indeed taught and expanded upon my concept of Love and all of its impeccable attributes, I must thank YOU for first Loving me the way that YOU found me, "As Is."

I am eternally grateful! I thank "YOU" LORD. I Love "YOU" too.

"As Is."

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

"One More Time"

I could not even begin to fathom, let alone contemplate what my Life would be like without the blanket of Grace and Mercy that has kept me covered from the coldness of the world, all the while foolish pride trying its best to convince me that, "I'm good."

You are only as good, as you are good.

And this feeble attempt to have me believe that I can do this Life thing without the Provider OF my Life, is as silly as me thinking that I can be a husband without having a wife.

You are only as good, as you are good.

Still trying to persuade me that I can be a remote Father or that of one by proxy, common sense is an unwrapped "gift" that has unfortunately become fashionable to "re-gift."

You are only as good, as you are good.

Failing to OWN up to your responsibilities or to hold yourself accountable is equivalent to an attempt at drawing a line of equity on a home that has already been foreclosed.

You are only as good, as you are good.

My eyes have opened and the air circulates through my lungs on its own. I have been afforded, "One More Time" to not SAY that "I'm good," but to demonstrate it as well.

For you are only as good, as you are good.

And to GOD Be The Glory!

Forever and a Day!

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

All the Best, All the Time!

Smile and Love Always!
Corey

"Collage"

My future represents a magnificent "Collage" of every aspect of my entire past adequately represented through all of the layers of experience that have afforded me many Life lessons to be shared so that I may in turn enrich someone else's Life.

Such a burden on the narrowly focused perspective that can only bare witness to an effort that bares the name of the same.

But once you broaden your horizons in order to capture the horizontal perspective of things that truly differ from you in a selfless capacity can you then extend BEYOND "your" capacity to allow yourself to receive the enrichment that someone else's Life has to offer.

I am THERE and HERE, is where I am!

"Corey's Collage"

What does "(your name) Collage" say about you?

It is never too late to re-write the present, that will eventually document the history, that will one day help to create your future, that will ultimately compose YOUR "Collage."

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

"Inspiration Is Free"

I wake up and immediately slide down on my knees,
Giving all of the honor, glory and praise, for I can still breathe...

Consumed by nothing related or relative to STAGNANCY, for inspiration is the most palatable of delicacies.

Giving back EVERYTHING that was ever charged, donated or given to me,
I am permanently inspired to inspire, for "Inspiration Is Free."

...As is the Love of 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

"Everything Is Going To Be Ok"

I knew that my daughter was going to be a little apprehensive about attending the "Homegoing Celebration" of my grandmother, her great grandmother. So, ahead of time, I had already prepared the seating arrangements in order to be there for her to accommodate the emotions that she would undoubtedly be feeling.

I watched her movements and felt her uneasiness as I embraced my Princess, reassuring her that GOD is present and where GOD IS, fear is not permitted, thus it cannot be.

She started settling down and a sense of calmness made its presence known.

As she sat there to my left, she turned to her right, postured herself, looked up at me and said, "Daddy, "Everything is Going To Be Ok.""

My GOD I Love being a Dad!

And I am grateful of the opportunity that GOD has so afforded me.

I am a much better person.
I am a much better man.
I am a much better brother.
I am a much better Father.
I am a much better son.
I am a much better all the way around.

Glory Be To GOD sweetheart and because of, "Everything IS Going To Be Ok." You WERE and ARE absolutely right!

As my Father sat in front of me, she stood up and touched the left shoulder of her grandfather to comfort him with the same calmness that made its presence known to her and told him the same thing that she told me: "Everything Is Going To Be Ok."

How can it not be, when GOD is everywhere that you need HIM to be? But the Blessing of the LORD through the presence of my daughter took her fear and transformed it into bravery for her to then share in her courageous effort of Deliverance.

Her great grandmother would have been proud.

Her grandfather and Father were equally so, because she was absolutely correct in her assessment: "Everything Is Going To Be Ok."

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

"Look to Love"

I look to my children, for Love.

I look for my children, to Love.

I am grateful to GOD for softening my heart in order to receive and administer Love.

And if I never do anything else right DURING my Lifetime, so long as I give and receive Love, I will have done my PART, in complete WHOLE.

I come baring, wearing my heart on my sleeve, in a completely vulnerable STATE, ready for my destiny to dictate my FATE and to alter my shot in the final seconds just to APPRECIATE, the beautiful release, of Love's winning shot.

When you do not know WHERE to look, Love.

When you do not know WHEN to look, Love.

Should you not SEE at first sight, Love.

Should you be BLIND to the fact, Love.

"Look to Love," for Love.
"Look for Love," to Love.

No better way to spend your time than spending it to "Look to Love," so that you may "Look for Love," all for the purposes of the softening of the heart in order to receive and administer Love.

"Look for Love," to Love.
For Love, "Look to 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,
Corey

"Angels"

During the "Homegoing Celebration," the Reverend asked, "why do WE always inform people that WE are "sorry for their loss" whenever someone's Life has come to an end? When you LOSE something, a LOSS implies that it is LOST, that you do not know WHERE it is...."

Quite the contrary when the subject is that of the children of GOD that claim HIM as their Father and HIS Son as their LORD and Savior.

Nothing is ever truly LOST that the Love of GOD cannot find or reveal to you.

The Spirit of our Loved ones is well in tact and in fact their ABSENCE, is only confirmation of their PRESENCE, with the LORD.

I know WHERE all of you are!

Not only do you live IN my heart, but your stories are read about IN my Blogs. But Glory Be To GOD that I am so fortunately Blessed to be able to remember you and use you as a form of encouragement, inspiring others to hold fast in their belief that the uncomfortable feeling of NOT having you physically around does not change the disposition or the position of your Spirit, that permeates our physical circumference.

"Angels" you are.

"Angels" you shall be, forevermore.

Rejoice in the fact that none of our "Angels" are LOST at all. We did not LOSE them, for they were on loan to begin with. The perceived LOSS is only confirmation that their ABSENCE, means that they are PRESENT, with the LORD.

They are simply, our "Angels."

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

"The Importance of Family"

We may not be able to pick and choose who and what shares our DNA, but we are indeed able to make the B.E.S.T. out of all of the members that compose what we commonly refer to as Family.

We may not agree, constantly be on the outs and share "disagreements" as the sole thing that we have in common, besides our scientific make-up, but glory be to GOD that we STILL have what we commonly refer to as Family.

Far be it from me to arrive at a conclusion that would be void and even slightly contrary to "The Importance of Family," but rather speak and act on the one thing that matters MOST outside of Love, and that is, Family.

Let there be zero confusion on what matters M.O.S.T. whether or not you have the B.E.S.T. out of all of the members that compose what we commonly refer to as Family.

I accept and Love you all, if for no other reason than the fact that HE so Loves me. And that is good enough.

I'm going to miss you Grandma!

I Love you very much!

Thank you for helping me comprehend, "The Importance of Family."

Love,
Co.

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,
Corey

"Get Me Back In Focus"

The intentions of others will not always be crystal clear and could very well be camouflaged to hide the true desire of their thoughts and subsequent actions that pertain to YOU as they proceed to do what is important to THEM.

I have never been one to readily identify myself with a group or a clique, therefore my thought process is adamantly contrary to the thought processes of any of the such.

If I know not who I am, then how and more importantly WHY would I trust you to define who and what I am? Rhetorical of course.

Gentle-natured does not translate to fool-hearted, but the origins of the insults are too selfishly ignorant to know otherwise.

A very near and dear person reminded me of something to help me, "Get Me Back In Focus." My Mother would have done the same and in her absence she has once again decided to lend her thoughts to someone else's voice, for the benefit of my ears.

Never be afraid to say something to someone that YOU Love, that THEY need to HEAR, to help them "Get Them Back In Focus." They will Love you for it in the end.

"Keep your witts about you Corey," Mother would always chide. Thank you for the vicarious reminder Mother. I Love you both, the message AND the messenger.

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,
Corey

"Get Back Up Again!"

The best part of reflection is the fact that the projection no longer resembles you, if you were paying attention.

The change that you see is "Life's Rearview" displaying a faint picture of the past that you have progressed FROM, as you steadily move towards everything that GOD wants you to BECOME.

The further you progress, the smaller it becomes, the more likely the blip that it represents will no longer be representative of you and will only serve as an example for others, in which NOT to follow.

It is quite humbling to put yourself on blast, to rid yourself of your hideous and heinous past.

To confront what you once denied, especially if all of the itemized negativity truly applied.

To reintroduce yourself from what they USED to "know," to what you "now" SHOW.

After having successfully completed your transformation, eradicating all past, present and "future" stagnation, having faced and conquered that self alienation, rebuilding your once towering impenetrable motivation and determination, you are all set for your reclassification: "Get Back Up Again!"

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

"I Am, That Better Man"

But, believe not my words if my actions are in absentia.

The past five years of my Life have taught me everything that I never wanted to know along with everything that I ever needed to know.

A hodge podge of my greatest accomplishments and my worst fears coming to realization within a relatively short span of time.

I see the man that I used to be as a complete and utter stranger, having made way to the man I am now, akin to that of a butterfly reflecting back on his Life when he was once a caterpillar.

It is hard to fathom once UPON a time when there is nothing about you that is reflective OF that time. Not even in remote retrospect does the image even vaguely resemble any familiarity.

Even what you know to be true, holds no present day truth, we hold fast to the memory and how much we actually grew.

Need not I advertise nor solicit all of which that has made me whole. But give Glory to GOD, for the undeserved redemption of my soul.

I may have been late, but I eventually showed up.

A fresh start from the gate, having more than made up.

From the winding to the straight, continuously Prayed up.

All of the Honor and the Glory, I forever give it up.

To GOD.

But, believe not my words if my actions are in absentia, for "I Am, That Better Man."

And Mother would be proud.

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,
Corey