Real Ministry with VeeVeca-- Soft Landing

Soft Landing

As you travel through your Monday through Sunday, I bid you Soft Landing. What does that mean? Come let's board the Life Flight.

• When you get up on the wrong side of the bed, I hope a soft floor will please your steps.


• As you start on your way, may God create in you a clean heart and a renew a right spirit in you.


• I pray you board this Life Flight with confidence and purpose.


• Old bags can't come along.


• But, if they should come along and you stumble on your way, may the attendant of Mercy and Kindness restore you again.


• Remember– The mercy you get is the mercy you extend. Nobody is perfect.


• This flight is for everybody– jacked up and all.


• Board with God and buckle up with His Word.


• Should negativity come your way, I pray a bit of sunshine will lift your head in glee.


• For the moment when you need to be heard, I hope you'll talk to God first.


• I pray you travel in meekness, despite the agony of your past.


• I wish you a beautiful sky to look upon, aside from your clouds of pain.


• May good opportunities to meet you head on, as you wait patiently for the connection.


• If you have some turbulence, don't worry. God is on board.


• Forgive more than you intend.


• Let peace have her way with you.


• Don't fight, murmur or complain.


• Laugh more than you frown.


• If a tear should fall, may there always be a soft tissue or a strong hand to remove the stain.


• Forgive the past and look bright toward the future.


• This Life Flight is long and often there are no perks to the ride.


• Use what you have to make the best of the moment.


• Don't get side tracked, caught up on the time.


• Where you have been isn't where you are going.


• Take a deep breath, may you have Safe Landing.
  

In life we all go through hardness, turmoil, and adversity. May you have a soft landing through your trials and storms.

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.

Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward

Real Ministry: VeeVeca http://www.verbalconquest.net/

Woman Pours Boiling Water on Husband

What would you do?

I read the story below about the woman who poured boiling water over her husbands genitals for cheating while he was sleeping. The question isn't what would you do, if it were you. Rather the question is... What wouldn't you do?

VeeVeca's Two Points--

1. * If you cheat, Don't sleep where cheat
   
2. * Don't cheat where you sleep

Woman Pours Boiling Water on Husband's Crotch

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What happened to NOT cheating at all?

Black Youth Invents Surgical Technique at 14

This article should be posted everywhere, which reminds me of something my 15 year old son said as he is attending an Emerging Leaders 6 week summer camp.. "People always show the bad things that black people do. What about the good things?" How right is that? Black people are doing great things. This article proves it!

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E. Lynn Harris: Dead At 54

E. Lynn Harris: Dead At 54

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African American Author E. Lynn Harris passed away at the age of 54 this morning in Arkansas.
E. Lynn Harris, the best-selling Arkansas author known for contemporary stories about African-Americans, died today during a West Coast book tour. His latest book was called “Basketball Jones.”
E. Lynn Harris, the best-selling Arkansas author known for contemporary stories about African-Americans, died today during a West Coast book tour. His personal assistant confirmed an unspecified health event this morning, but said she was awaiting word from the scene before providing specifics..
Arkansas Sports 360 provided the first formal report that Harris had died. The item did not cite a source, but Harris was close to the UA Athletic Department and had worked as coach and sponsor of the cheerleaders. Black Voices later confirmed the report, citing a spokesman for his publisher.
Word of the health event began making the rounds on Twitter earlier in the morning.
Born in Michigan, Harris grew up in Little Rock. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he was the school’s first black cheerleader. He continued to be a diehard Razorback fan. He has taught adjunct courses in the English department, most recently last fall.
His latest book, “Basketball Jones,” is about the gay lover of an NBA star. Says the publicity blurb: “In Basketball Jones, E. Lynn Harris explores the consequences of loving someone who is forced to conform to the rules society demands its public heroes follow. Filled with nonstop twists and turns, it will keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.” According to his website biography, Harris, 54, divides his time between Fayetteville and Atlanta.

Real Ministry with VeeVeca-I am not ALONE

I am not ALONE

This morning, I walked out of my parent’s house. Fat Mama, my mother’s cat, was at the door whimpering affectionately. In the past, I didn’t do cats. They looked evil, in my eyes. Or maybe I was just a scarey cat, as I have been teased before.

I grabbed the bag of cat foot. Fat Mama strolled right alone to the cadence of my steps. I poured the bits into her silver bowl. She looked at it and turned her eyes at me signifying that my job was done.

As I walked away, I peered over my shoulder. Fat Mama wasn’t eating. She was in fact looking and watching her surroundings very carefully, as if on guard duty. Out from underneath the rubble, came four or five mini-Fat mama’s. The kittens were so small, cute, and cuddly. They ran to the bowl, jumping frantically over the other.

Fat Mama stood still watching the area gaging any harm or threat.

At that moment I heard so clearly, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" [Matthew 6:25,26]

Right there in my parent’s yard, God shared a moment of inspiration, in an amazing scene of a mother cat caring for her babies! A consequence that could have easily gone unnoticed by the human eye. But dare we believe God is not looking out for us?

Fat Mama watched her babies eat. Then she made her way to the bowl.

I stood back in awe allowing the moment to sink deep into my heart and mind. God, creator of everything, showed up in the nick of time (I wasn’t supposed to be there) to show a bigger pictures through an innocent almost unseen phenomenon!

Why worry, you are never alone. I got you. I am looking out for you. So go ahead... I got you!

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.

Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward

Real Ministry: VeeVeca http://www.verbalconquest.net/

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What can you do for FREE but get PAID for it?

This morning as I was driving in to work. Familar words popped in my head from a prophet friend of mine, "What can you do for free but get paid for it?"

I love writing and ministry. I felt born to do both. Over the years, I have been connecting the dots to what I want... to what I had. Before the internet days, I was mailing a quarterly encouragement newsletter called, Arise and Shine. It was about reaching out to real people with real problems helping to see a real God as the daily answers to life. As technology advanced, I started sending exhortations (encouragement expressions) to the group that has grown over a few hundred people. Eventually, I began writing novels. The first one .... well I had to re-work it and learn about the book business.

Face it-Nothing is a quick advance. But if you work what you have and don't give up, the fruit of your labor will be rewarded.

What are your hobbies? What can you do on the side for free and people will pay you money to do it? Can you...

• Sing, Dance, Draw/Paint? Make up a flyer and advertise your skill.


• Are you good at talking to people? Register as a Motivational Speaker and seek out groups that need what you have to speak about.


• Do you like to have fun? Make it a business helping others to find fun in the city where you live.


• Use your skill-set to make life what you would like it to be. Life really is what you make it!

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.
Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward

Real Ministry: VeeVeca http://www.verbalconquest.net/

Bill Cosby says it All

'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.

I can't even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain't, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouthIn fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around..

The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2?Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

And where is the father? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something? Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from?? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .....

I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

I was born here, and so were my parents and grandparents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland, England, Ireland, or the Netherlands .

The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! ! With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... and all of them are in jail. Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs.

We, as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..

We cannot blame the white people any longer.'

Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.

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  It's my Life
  
  Motivating Scriptures: "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." [Colossians 3:2,3]
  
  Are you caught between your life and the life others want you to live?
  
  How many lives do you think you have? Do you have 9 lives as a (folk lore) cat does? A life that can be discarded when things go wrong and a new one zapped into reality at will?
  
  If this were true, it would be no big deal to let other people run your life and there life too. Why not let others run 8 of those lives and you run the last one for yourself. Go ahead. Fork over those lives to those who feel they can run it better than you. Smile big and hand it over to them saying, "Have fun with it, okay?" Nine times out of ten, they will not do much better. Of course one person may show you up, but who cares. They may be smarter, older and even more experienced. But the fact is simple– there is only one life to live!
  
  Each person is born with the gift of life. It's one life, one chance, and one shot. There is not a collect $100 and swing around the board game of life again. It's a one shot journey. Sometimes you win the most and sometimes it's errrh– too many losses to contend with. But the fact is, this is life. The one shot living that can't be erased or vacuumed away.

• Make room for mistakes
• Open up to face reality
• Be the bigger person to say "I'm sorry. I don't know it all."
• Find a reason to smile every single day.
• Sneak in some chocolate
• Then get some growing room-- Growth to be a better you.
  
  Ultimately, we must remember– "I am a work in progress. God is not finished with me yet."
  
  No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.
  
  Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward
  Real Ministry: VeeVeca http://www.VerbalConquest.net

My favorite song: Blame it on Me-Chrisette Michele

The Herald: Living with children

The Herald HeraldOnline.com - Living with Children
By JOHN ROSEMOND - McClatchy Newspapers

Q: You've often said that parents should not be "involved" with their children, but rather should establish a clear boundary in the parent-child relationship. I agree in principle, but as a homeschooling mom, I have no choice but to be highly involved with my kids. Can you help me resolve this conflict?

A: In relationships, boundaries are essential to respect. One of the stumbling blocks in contemporary parenting culture is the general lack of a clear boundary between parent and child. The symptoms include the so-called "family bed," married couples who are more involved with their children than they are with one another (in terms of attention paid to, time spent with, interest shown in, and so on), and families that are organized around children's activities. The underlying problem is that today's parents are more concerned about being liked than respected by their kids.

This modern social fashion is by no means confined to the parent-child relationship. The need to be liked by children has infected the teaching profession (in some school systems, for example, students actually rate teachers on "likeability"), and manifests itself more generally in such imprudent things as adults wanting children - even very young children - to call them by their first names.

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DISCUSSION with VeeVeca:

Like vs. Respect. The writer of the article said, "The underlying problem is that today's parents are more concerned about being liked than respected by their kids." Is it possible to have both? Or am I just fooling myself?

For me, I do care if the children like me. However, I won't go out of my way to be liked. Meaning, if I have to discipline roughly I will because I am responsible for their lives. And because I am fully founded in the stand that kids belong to God first and then to parents second, they must adhere to the rules of the parent (who hopefully is listening to God). There is a thin line of befriending your children. Respect absolutely must be expected. But respect goes both ways-- from parents to kids, from kids to parents... ultimately all to God.

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Are you looking in the right spot?

Scripture in View: [Hebrews 12:1-3]

What are you looking at? The problem. The drama. What is and what isn’t. Are you constantly looking through the woulda/shoulda glasses and coming up short on the reward of your life’s reality. If _________ was ___________ I would be____________. If this is where you are looking, you are clearly looking in the wrong place.

• Point 1: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses– Everybody’s got drama. You are not the only one. Stop being the penny with the hole in it.
  


• Point 2: let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us– Put the smack down on garbage and sin in your own life. If you are violating your temple (your body), detox your lifestyle. Check your closest before somebody brings you out of the closet. You yourself already know what your problem is. If you are lying, stop lying. If you are a messy, stop being messy. If you are promiscuous (whoring), stop giving up your goods. Nobody has to out you but you! Just get out of it and...
  


• Point 3: and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,– You are somebody. God never created a mistake. Purpose brought you, and you should run with patience (the margin to of a stride) to live to be your best self. It’s like a marathon, at some points you can run fast to build up your lead. But at other times, the pace is slower. Not because you can’t run, but moreso the slow down is necessary because the distance is further and you must slow down to gain the momentum to finish the race. But how do you get there?
  


• Point 4: Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; The only way to cross the finish line is the same way into and out of the world, looking to Jesus. What does that mean? Jesus who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
  


• Point 5: In whatever you go through, whatever surfaces, hurdles to leap, pains to endure– look to Lord for the strength, power, refuge, and help to get through it. Simply pray. "Lord I am in ___ and I don’t know what to do. Please help me. You are my strength and hope. Amen."
  

No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken.

Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward
Real Ministry: VeeVeca http://www.verbalconquest.net/

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Life Lesson froma a card game

Uneventful turns eventful. Playing cards with my family is fun, but I didn’t expect God to show up just like that.

During the first hand of 5000, I only got 10 points. My sister, daughter, and son had several hundred points. We laughed and poked fun at each other. My daughter said, "I hate losing alone. Now, if I am on a team and we lose together it’s okay because we lost as a team– but I can’t lose alone." I’d heard her say that before. I smiled as my sister wrote down the scores, 525, 480, 435, and 10.

I said, "Sometimes life comes and it looks like everybody else is getting ahead and you are stuck behind. But the key is to not look at what others have or don't have. Where you are is just a moment of position. The tides will turn-- they always turn."

The next hand was dealt. Game faces were pronounced in detail across the table. Within minutes, my son won the hand and cooped the remaining points in everybody's hand. My sister and daughter had several hundred points added to their score. Me on the other end earned no added points at all. The scores was tallied and I was still at 10, while the others were bursting the seams at over 1000. My daughter said, "Oh wee, I would be so mad about that."

I smiled and winked my eye. "Just because opportunity comes doesn't mean it's your turn to win. But the key is to hang in there anyway. Play the hand you are dealt to the best of your ability. Stay positive. Laugh some more and keep on moving."

By the end of the game, guess who ended up the winner? Me. I ended the game saying, "I won because of meager beginnings." And what a phenomenal lesson a simple card game gave.....No matter the climb or struggle within, trust God with every heavy situation and circumstance. He is still the God of catching cares. His glove is never frayed or broken. Stay encouraged in the heavy– and move Forward

Real Ministry: VeeVeca www.verbalconquest.net

Steve Harvey Mentoring Wrap up-Day 4

The weekend was phenomenal. Lives were changed. "My hope is that these boys left the ranch so inspired that they, in turn, will set the example for other young men in their neighborhoods," Harvey said. "The weekend was a complete success, and I appreciate everyone who contributed to making it happen."

Steve Harvey Mentoring-- Day 2

Day 2-- Friday, June 19, 2009

The first day the campers are on the ranch without their parents. The day began with food, prayer, and fun.

The paint ball battle really got their attention, as Steve Harvey along with a band of celebrities, athletes, mentors and ministors guided the young men to better steps for their living.

What goes with talking, how about a relaxing time on the lake with a fishing professional.

The boys were also given hair cuts.

Dorian "Charlotte" Fade Barbershop Kyle "Philly"

Steve Harvey-Flight School

Airline and Harvey Unveil Online Tribute Chronicling Weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkkQQ3KPfW0

Fort Worth, TX (BlackNews.com) - One hundred boys from around the country got perhaps their first look at what it takes to be a pilot -- and some life-changing advice on how to make their own dreams come true -- from entertainer Steve Harvey, who was hosted by American Airlines over Father's Day weekend.

The boys attended the first-ever Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend this past weekend at his Dallas ranch. The actor, comedian and best-selling author created the mentoring weekend to support boys ages 13-18 who are being raised without fathers in their homes. During the camp, they visited the C.R.P. Future Pilots Flight School, which is sponsored by the airline. The school, based at Executive Airport in Dallas, teaches at-risk children in the Dallas and Tarrant county school systems to become pilots and aircraft mechanics.

Harvey also called on celebrity friends, business leaders, and other corporate sponsors to lead seminars on topics that included getting in and staying in college, making the best impression and other areas of self-development.

"My hope is that these boys left the ranch so inspired that they, in turn, will set the example for other young men in their neighborhoods," Harvey said. "The weekend was a complete success, and I appreciate everyone who contributed to making it happen."