Your past doesn't matter....

For you....whoever you are....

It doesn't matter where you are today, that doesn't stop you from becoming who God created you to be right now and walking in His will for your life from this moment forward. Don't let circumstances keep you stagnant. Don't let your past, your record, where you come from or what you think you lack stop you and don't listen to the people around you who say you can't!

To the young men and women living in areas where all you see are drugs, poverty, broken home, violence and broken dreams...don't let what you see determine what you become. Don't allow the people around you who dare not to dream keep you from realizing the dream you have in your heart. It doesn't matter if you come from a family of crack addicts - that's not YOU. It doesn't matter if you come from a family of hoes (and yes I mean, hoes) - that's not YOU. It doesn't matter if everyone in your family been in and out of jail - that's not YOU.

...AND SO WHAT IF IT WAS YOU? SO WHAT IF IT IS YOU RIGHT NOW BUT YOU WANT BETTER. THEN DO BETTER. Your past is just that your PAST. I don't care if you just shot up or just left a trick's car --- RIGHT NOW IS YOUR PRESENT and it don't matter what you've done YOU CAN TURN IT AROUND. YOU ARE WORTH MORE AND WORTHY OF MORE.

To my young single mothers who had dreams of college graduation...successful careers...and fabulous lives but you had a child(ren).....DO NOT SETTLE. You deserve MORE than just to get by!  Don't let grumbles and mumbles of people who smirked and said "I told you so" when you got pregnant to become your destiny. Don't hold your head in shame and refuse to ask for help. Having a baby didn't strip your intelligence...having children didn't stop you from dreaming and if by chance your baby stopped one dream  DREAM ANOTHER! You can still get that college degree, have that career...be that nurse, doctor, lawyer, judge, business owner...own that hair store, catering company, nail shop, daycare or whatever else you desire. DREAM BIGGER, if not for you for your babies! Sure....you have to work harder...but it can be done.

You might be the ONLY PERSON around you who believes you can do better. You might be the ONLY person who looks at your circumstances and says I WANT MORE. YOU might have to go at it alone before anyone else will support you and encourage you...but YOU DON'T GIVE UP.

Don't let those living the realities of giving up on their dreams deter you from living yours. Don't let the mistakes of your past be all that defines you in your life... right now make a choice to only allow you to define you. Make the choice to fight for YOU. YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN, DEAR LOVE.....

So what you messed up, so did I and so did they who sit on their high horses and tell you what you can't do. But you can do it! You are not what your father, mother, sister, brother, aunt, cousins or three generations of family have been...YOU. ARE. YOU.

Don't let people or circumstances limit you. Don't let past choices define you. Don't let people talk you out of the destiny that's been put inside you.

Sometimes, the only person who will believe in your dream is YOU. Dream bigger loves....dream bigger.

Why can I say this to you? I was once where you are. Judged as you are and I know how it feels when people count you out because of your mistakes. Don't do it for them, do it for you. You owe it to yourself and your future. <3

You CAN do it, through Christ. Selah.

"Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress..." Psalm 107: 6, 13, 19, 28.

"Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men..." Psalm 107: 8, 15, 21, 31