Love Will Come to You

~Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does 
of the field, do not arise or awaken love until it so desires~
Song of Solomon 2:7

Love is Patient         

Love is Kind

Love is Caring

Love is You           

 

Love is Sweet

Love is Serving

Love is Deserving

Love is You

Love is Stubborn

Love is Forgiving

Love is Helping

Love is You

If Love truly is all of these things, then Love, I will wait for you

Because

I am Helping

I am Forgiving

I am Stubborn

Love, just like You

I am Deserving

I am Serving

I am Sweet

Love, just like You

I am Caring

I am Kind

I am Patient

Love, just like You

Patient

Patience

Love, I will wait for You

Because

Love, true love

It will surely come to You

            You Alone are God

I was almost in tears the first time that I had watched this piece entitled “You” by Amena Brown. In fact I was in tears by the time the video had finished.

It is absolutely amazing how God can speak to each of us at a time when we need Him the most, and He does it in ways and at times when we least expect it. I don’t remember what I was going through when I had watched this video, but I do know and remember that I needed it.

Through her piece, Amena Brown speaks about many of the things that people who have a relationship with Jesus Christ can relate to. God is merely an awesome and glorious God who cares about His people.

God is a Heavenly Father who loves His children more than we could ever imagine. He even loves those who don’t yet love him. He loves everyone of us so much that some 2,000 years ago He sent His one and only son Jesus Christ to come down to this earth to go through what we as human beings go through. Jesus came to serve, to seek, and to save those who are lost and in need of his love, of his care, and and of his protection.

Jesus Christ came to die for the sins of this world so that we may not only live a life more abundantly here on this earth, but so that we may have everlasting eternal life after physical death on this earth in heaven with Him.

Jesus Christ came to die for the sins of this world and to raise on the third day just for you and for me.

Once you gain a heartfelt understanding of God’s love for you and truly accept His beloved son Jesus Christ into your heart, you too will be able to feel what Amena expresses through her piece in such a way, that you feel as if you could have written the piece yourself. That is the way that I feel every time that I listen to it. I love because He first loved me.

~For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believe in him shall not perish, but have eternal life~ John 3:16

God is Love

             

Phillippians 4:13

      

   Spread your wings and Soar

No one ever said that the road to the top would be easy. No one ever said how hard it would be either. College is a journey that can take many twists and turns. Sometimes it can go great for one semester, and maybe even greater the next, and then sometimes one semester can take a total detour and you wind up on a road you never imagined you would end up on.

But despite what you encounter along your journey whether good or bad, and whether you were happy one moment, or sad the next, remember to keep pressing on towards your goal. It is not always about how you start, or even about what you endure along the way, but about how you finish at the end.

Along the journey to the path of your dreams, remember to enjoy the big and the little things, stop to enjoy a breath of fresh air, love yourself everyday, and always keep in mind that neither success nor failure is final.

  

~Do your best this semester, and only you know what your best is~

 Peace    Love    Happiness

Little Did I Know That All I Needed Was to REST

Trying to go throughout each day without a sufficient amount of rest is like trying to drive a car with little to no gas in it; you won’t get very far and you’ll end up destroying the engine in due time.

Rest is the most important thing that every individual must not neglect. Often times many of us, myself included, think of rest as a reward or as something that we should do only if we’ve finished all that needs to be done. But resting each day is something that no one should consider a treat, but rather an every day obligation.

Rest—a period or interval of inactivity, repose, solitude, or tranquility—is the curtailment of energy expenditures that allows the body to redirect energies to restoration.

Genesis 2: 2-3

~ By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.~

Who Are You?

Has anyone ever asked you this question: Who are you?

What did you say?

When I was recently asked this question, my answer went something like this:

“My name is Raenika Ashley Butler, I am junior at San Francisco State University. I am studying Psychology and after I receive my BA degree, I hope to attend grad school here in the Gerontology program. I have a fraternal twin, a younger brother who's nineteen,  and an older sister who's twenty-six….” And so on and so forth I went.

Once I had finished telling the person who I was, I realized that I hadn’t really explained who I was, and that I had only told the person what it is that I do, what I hope to do in the future, and how many siblings I have. I never really told them who I was.

Honestly, the question who are you is a tough question to answer, because the first things that often times come to mind are evolved around the social constructs-- school, work, and family-- that shape our lives. 

For instance, many of us have been students for at least fourteen years. So many of us might begin answering the question by describing ourselves as students or as accountants, or psychologists, or biologists, even though a student, or an accountant, or a psychologist, or a biologist is not exactly who we are.

Taking a second shot at the question after deeper thought, my answer went something more like this:

My name is Raenika Ashley Butler. I am a sweet, loving and caring, goofy, strong-willed, and sensitive young woman. I am a simple gal and I enjoy simple things in life. My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the center of my being and it is in Him that I live, move, and breath. I am a great friend to those that call me a friend. I am a great listener, and I can talk until the end of time, though I can also be quiet for hours. I desire to make a positive difference in someone’s life, even if the only thing that I do is make someone smile. This is who I am.

I now invite you to join me in defining who you are outside of the social constructs that we live in by leaving a comment below answering the question: Who are you?