The IMPORTANCE of YOUR CIRCLE!

In life we can get so busy and so caught up in the NOW, until we forget about yesterday and tomorrow. Recent events in my life made me STOP and re-evaluate everything and everyone that was around me. I had to literally sit and take INVENTORY of everything and everyone that was a part of my CIRCLE!

Now, the TERM CIRCLE is very significant to me. The TERM CIRCLE means more than just a mere geometrical figure. A CIRCLE is something that ENCOMPASSES.....meaning.....it encloses, it goes completely around, it surrounds, it encapsulates, it engulfs.

A circle has an effect on EVERYTHING that's within it. It can make what's inside BLOSSOM or it can be so detrimental and poisonous that it can suck all of the life out of it.

So, in me doing a 360 and evaluating my CIRLCE....I realized that the life and the light that I had inside of me was slowly seeping and drifting from my very being. It was literally being torn from my soul.

Things were so confusing and discombobulated until I began to question ME! I began to question WHO I WAS! I started asking myself, am I really who they say I am? What did I do to have people treat and do me this way? Why do people insist on lying on ME? Why did they choose ME? I was miserable! I was HURT! I was ANGRY!

BUT...I realized that it was my FAULT! I HAD ALLOWED MY CIRCLE TO CHANGE ME! I HAD ALLOWED PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ME, HAVE ME QUESTION MY CHARACTER!

IT WAS MY FAULT AND I KNEW IT! I ALLOWED IT......

I ALLOWED MY CIRCLE TO CORRUPT ME!

I ALLOWED MY CIRCLE TO USE ME!

I ALLOWED MY CIRCLE TO ABUSE ME!

I ALLOWED MY CIRCLE TO SPEAK DEATH INTO ME!

I ALLOWED IT.....

Yes, I allowed what surrounded me to control me! I realized that I was no longer the honest, intelligent, beautiful woman that my loving parents raised me to be.

I started thinking...I started praying...I started crying! I began cleansing myself of everything and everyone that was not POSITIVE and didn't SPEAK LIFE into ME!

I realized and understood that this wasn't the POPULAR thing to do! I realized that it would come with pain and loss!

BUT....I could no longer think about the NOW! I had to think about my YESTERDAY and my TOMORROW!

I remembered what it was like to have PEACE! I remembered what it was like to have JOY! I remembered what it was like to have people who LOVED me for ME and not for what they THINK I HAVE or how they could benefit FROM THEIR FRIENDSHIP with me. I remembered what it was like to have people around me who knew my character and when it was questioned.....wouldn't doubt it!

I TOOK BACK MY LEASE ON LIFE AND IT'S ON INFINITE TERMS!

I had to erase that CIRCLE....and now I'm starting over! I'm starting over with a simple fraction of a whole!

Don't let your CIRCLE CORRUPT YOU! Don't allow people to SPEAK DEATH into YOU! Don't allow people to MANIPULATE and control YOU!

At the end of the day...what's around you will definitely determine what is birthed out of you.

I don't know about you...but I want LOVE!

I want PEACE!

I want HARMONY!

Ask your self......WHO'S REALLY A PART OF YOUR CIRCLE!

Remember...this is more than just a BLOG! However, this time....it's PERSONAL and it's REAL!