Patience + Let Your Light Shine Thursdays!

Happy Thursday!

Hope you all made it over the hump gracefully. It seems like it was just July yesterday and already September! Where has the time gone? Although the seasons seem to fade in lightning speed right now, it seems like some things in my personal life are inching by, bit by bit.

How many of you know when you focus all of your energy on something that you are waiting on, it seems to creep by? I am reminded of my days in grade school when we would watch the clock at the end of the day anticipating the end of the day bell. Every moment we glanced up it was as if nothing had changed and I swear the time went backwards with how dreading-ly long it took for the minute hand to make its way around the clock.

I am sort of experiencing something similar in my life right now. I have been given direction from God on where He is taking me and even some clues on how its going to happen. I've done my part, and now its time for me to have patience. Ughhh, sometimes that word can look so nice and pretty but be annoying at the same time.

Patience, is very important because it has to have its perfect work before things happen. Sometimes, when we are not patient, it can be like taking the dessert we are baking out of the oven early, and once it starts to cool there's no turning back. How frustrating to have done all that work and your little dessert or project doesn't turn out. But it was all due to patience.

I have to stand firm on Jesus and His word. I have to believe every ounce of Hebrews 10:36:
"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."

I have created this lovely printable for those of you in need of something positive to look at, that reinforces today's message. Patience is one of life's greatest keys. Very important.

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Today is Let Your Light Shine Thursday!

You know what time it is, let that beautiful light shine!
Each week we appreciate those of you who come by to share your posts on fashion, beauty, faith, love, and all the in between.

Our feature for this week is Heather at ThriftStories!

Last week Heather posted 10 top staples for fall and styled them out so beautifully.

Visit her to get the details on each piece! 

Thanks again for all of you who participated! Now it's time to link up again :)

RULES: 
1. Link up your favorite post this week - It can be related to faith, fashion, food, family, or whatever else you would like to share that helped you shine your light from the week!
Don't worry if you don't have a blog to link up - just leave a comment with how you let your light shine this week!

2. Follow I'm Perfectly Human & True Soul & Spirit on Bloglovin, or any other social media outlet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, or GFC)

3. Link back by using the button above or your own link.

4. Visit other blogs and meet new blogger friends!

Each week we will be choosing our favorite posts to feature and share with you all!

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Friday's Ramblings: #BeTrueBeYou

Happy Friday!

Thank you for your overwhelming response to my post, here, about me finding my true self, and just trying to be me. I find it sometimes difficult to stay true to yourself the way the world is now. So often our time is filled with looking at others through social media, television, and so on. We don't realize how often we are constantly comparing ourselves. Even in the smallest ways. The way we mother, the way we speak, the way we act and carry relationships with others all plays back to what we're fed. 

Man, We see what others are doing and instead of feeling confident in what we have to offer this world, we relish on that person, their abilities and start to take a disinterest in what we were purposed for. We find faults in our own work, we doubt ourselves, our abilities, until we are in a mode of stuck.

Put two people in a room and tell them to think about the same topic or jot down the first thing that comes to mind when you spit out a word and guarantee their ideas and thoughts will be different. They may even come up with similar concepts, but different words to say them and that is such a precious treasure that we must capture. We are not supposed to be just like our neighbor, or even like our parents or siblings.

I remember finding myself dwelling on how my raspy singing voice would never be like Beyonce's and my shape would probably never imitate her's either. I bottled up my voice, stuck it in a box and didn't look it for quite a few years. I always dabbled in graphic art and I loved it. When I didn't go to school for it or continue working with it, I felt like I was an imposter if I tried to do any art because I had seen other's work and our works were not the same. I looked at other's interpretation of art and figured because I wasn't practicing mine, that my talent was gone. I wasn't singing so the vocals were lost. 

But, Christ, man. 

He's amazing. He is truly the reason I am so open and willing to share my heart with yal. Through Him I have found my true identity and I am no longer afraid to just be me. So in keeping constant from my message this week, I was working on this print and I wanted to share it with you. It's more my style and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. In fact, I don't really care if you don't because I love it and its so me, that I may just print a few off and hand them out to people just to see a smile on their face from the message. :) I am going to be working on building up a portfolio and hope to start a small shop with these and possibly some stationary, because I just love this stuff man. You are the first ones I am sharing this with so I hope you understand where I am coming from and join in the movement of #betruebeyou

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Hope you have a great weekend!

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Freedom Friday + Free Printable!

Happy Friday!

When we are children we can't wait for the freedom to be an adult and operate our lives the way we want! When we become adults we search for financial freedom, freedoms in our careers, and freedom of judgment from our friends and families. Freedom is something we all desire. Some long to live in a country with freedom of speech, thoughts, and rights. 

Yet so many of us live in bondage. We are bound by our environment, bound by our jobs, bound by our families, and even bound to our own thoughts. Bondage is a true reality for so many and freedom is a hope, a dream, a parallel universe where everything works out, and every day is a good hair day! Freedom can seem so far for so many of us. 

In my life I experienced bondage like many and I saw it as well. I saw bondage to religion and religious standards and ways. I saw bondage of routine, same ol' same, everyday living for a God. After watching so many living for Christ that were not genuinely happy, I questioned it. I was bound by the idea that my own works/merits were what drove the love that God had for me. I was bound to the idea that if I ever made a mistake, I would be sent to hell, sins in hand, never to return. Bound by the idea that God was waiting for me to mess up, and when I did my world would be over. I would no longer be close to Him. I was bound to the pressure of pleasing people and going along with what people thought, instead of finding Jesus for myself. 

Oh, but He found me. He chose me. Right in the middle of my mess, he looked up on me and told me I was His. At that moment, I knew my life would never be the same. I did not understand how different my relationship would be with Him than it was before. I soon realized, I never had a true relationship with Him. Or not as deep as He would have wanted it to be. I had a relationship with religion. Each week I went to church was to please my parents and those in my church. Each time I prayed was because of a routine practice. I became so routine in my ways that I was knowing religion vs. knowing Jesus. 

What opened my eyes was when I started to truly read about how Jesus was so different than religion. How he walked and talked with those who were in sin. He truly came to give life and to open the eyes of the blind - spiritually, and naturally. The more I read, the more I started to think He was pretty cool ;)

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What I have learned about Jesus is that He is love. He is true divine agape love. That's a deep love that never fails, never quits and covers a multitude of mistakes, failures, and mess-ups. I learned that He is always standing with arms wide open to pick me up when I fall, dust me off and tell me to keep my focus on Him. He knows the deepest parts of me and would never want me to think I had fallen so far that I couldn't call on Him. He wants me to call on Him in those moments - so He can show me how much He cares!

 I learned that He is abounding grace and is truth and can be nothing other than just that. I came to know that He is strength in my times of darkness or sorrow. He is joy in my life every day. He is an escape and refuge from this destructive world.

And He is Freedom. 

While religion was bondage; Jesus is always freedom. 

Choose life. Choose Joy. Choose Freedom. Choose to have a relationship with Christ.

I promise He won't let you down. 

Hope you have a great weekend! Enjoy the free printable!

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Joy Free Printable + Let Your Light Shine Thursdays Link-Up!

Happy Thursday!

I hope the week is wrapping up nicely for each of you. I have been experiencing an instant release of stress and burdens as the wedding is now in the past for us. They are lovely events, but man do they take up space in your head! LOL. I will share more photos from our special day with you, but for now you will have to settle for a teaser :)

One thing that has been resonating with me over the past couple days is how sometimes when we are going through things or our minds are so clouded with life's to do's or issues, we really lose focus on the important things that matter. 

The most important part of a wedding is that two people are dedicating themselves to become one with each other. The decor, the dress, the colors, and the dinner are all just added extras. Some of my weakest moments over the past few months were spent worrying or stressed about the extras. 

The things that were not truly important at all. 

There have been times where I felt weakened by thoughts of Lupus, or by the pressures of my own self-image, by the words that someone said about me, or worried about how I was going to take care of our finances and be the best new mom to my baby Grace. I am reminded that in those dark nights, when my tears seem to weigh me down, that joy does come in the morning. Joy is on its way, waiting for me to come out of my thoughts, come out of my issues and just rely on God. 

Please enjoy today's free printable as a great reminder that storms don't last always. And in the midst of it all, you can still choose and have joy. Have joy when things are going great, have joy when things are topsy turvy. Joy is yours to keep and hold on at all times. 

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Today is

Let Your Light Shine Thursdays!

Thanks so much for all of you that linked up last week!
Me and Aisha loved seeing all of your posts!

Our favorite from last week's link-up was from Kimberly @ Diary of  a Brown Eyed Girl


She posts about a great story and reminder, that God is ALWAYS there.

Thanks again for all of you who participated! Now it's time to link up again :)

RULES: 
1. Link up your favorite post this week - It can be related to faith, fashion, food, family, or whatever else you would like to share that helped you shine your light from the week!

Don't worry if you don't have a blog to link up - just leave a comment with how you let your light shine this week!

2. Follow I'm Perfectly Human & True Soul & Spirit on Bloglovin, or any other social media outlet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, or GFC)

3. Link back by using the button above or your own link.

4. Visit other blogs and meet new blogger friends!

Each week we will be choosing our favorite posts to feature and share with you all!

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Look Towards the Sunshine.... + LYLS Link Up!

Happy Thursday!

Hope your week is going lovely! I have been learning a lot of beautiful things lately and I cannot wait to dive deeper into them for the blog and share them with you all. Yesterday, I met an amazing woman who I just know I was supposed to know and connect with.

Have you ever had a moment, when you are doing something or talking to someone and its almost a weird feeling, similar to a dejavu, where you just instantly know that you are in the right place and everything that is going on is supposed to be happening? It's almost as if God is giving you an insight into where the future is headed in that moment. Well, I have only had this a few times in my life but yesterday when meeting with my new catering contact for the wedding, we just connected and started talking about God. It was beautiful!

I was having such a difficult time during the week in my own self, trying to figure things out, and taking on the burdens that God told me to give to Him. The load was heavy, of course, as I wasn't supposed to even be carrying it. However, during our meeting and afterwards I was filled with so much joy and I knew God was going to take care of all of my stresses! It was as if in that moment, he was saying "Hey, remember me? I got you." And I released all of the load I was carrying.

I hadn't felt that joy in about a week, so being filled with it again - made me realize that stressing didn't help change my circumstances! Only God did! :)

It reminded me of this saying, I fell upon about a week or so ago. So, naturally I made a printable for you all to take with you! :)  The focus of your life should always be on the good things, the sunshine. The shadows will fall to the wayside. Going through a stressful situation helped me to remember that sometimes when it seems impossible to stay positive, or think positive - we need reminders like this.

I hope this uplifts anyone who needs it or is a good reminder to those of you for future struggles!

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Today is

Let Your Light Shine Thursdays!

Thanks so much for all of you that linked up last week!
Me and Aisha loved seeing all of your posts!

Our favorite from last week's link-up was Natasha from Acquainted Joy

Natasha's post on the love she has for her family, here, reminded me of mine and how great having close ones family or friends can be so important to helping push you into being who you are! 

Thanks again for all of you who participated! Now it's time to link up again :)

RULES: 
1. Link up your favorite post this week - It can be related to faith, fashion, food, family, or whatever else you would like to share that helped you shine your light from the week!

Don't worry if you don't have a blog to link up - just leave a comment with how you let your light shine this week!

2. Follow I'm Perfectly Human & True Soul & Spirit on Bloglovin, or any other social media outlet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, or GFC)

3. Link back by using the button above or your own link.

4. Visit other blogs and meet new blogger friends!

Each week we will be choosing our favorite posts to feature and share with you all!

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Love Is Contagious (Free Printable) + Let Your Light Shine Link-Up Party #14

Happy Thursday!
In the spirit of this week, I figured I would keep up the talk about sharing love!

No matter what someone looks like, or is dressed like - its important not to judge a book by its cover. It's funny because you know how they say a smile can brighten someone's day, well how many of you know it to be true?

In some of my most trying days, seeing someone I don't know or talk to on a regular basis smile at me and say a simple, "Hi!", can change my attitude for just one second and sometimes for the entire day.

Also being greeted by a nice, chipper person at the coffee shop can always set you off for a great day! Love and happiness is so contagious, it's mind boggling it isn't shared more!

It starts off as just a smile to a stranger, and turns into rapid fire across the community. And you know what else I love about how contagious it is, sometimes just a small deed can be wonders for others!

You know the pay it forward mentality? Paying for the person's coffee behind you is how a lot of people share a little love during the day. The next person could be having a rough morning, on the verge of a breakup, or even worse debating suicide.

You never know what the person next door is going through, and its wonders what a little bit of love can do for both of your lives.
So when someone shares love with you, pass it on!
And enjoy this free printable while you are at it! ;)

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Today Is

Let Your Light Shine Thursdays!

Thanks so much for all of you that linked up last week!
Me and Aisha loved seeing all of your posts!

Our favorite from last week's link-up was:

Ashley from Le Stylo Rouge

Ashley is a midwest girl with an amazing smile and style to match!

Thanks again for all of you who participated! Now it's time to link up again :)

RULES: 
1. Link up your favorite post this week - It can be related to faith, fashion, food, family, or whatever else you would like to share that helped you shine your light from the week!

Don't worry if you don't have a blog to link up - just leave a comment with how you let your light shine this week!

2. Follow I'm Perfectly Human & True Soul & Spirit on Bloglovin, or any other social media outlet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, or GFC)

3. Link back by using the button above or your own link.

4. Visit other blogs and meet new blogger friends!

Each week we will be choosing our favorite posts to feature and share with you all!

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Love is Calling You {Free Printable} + Let Your Light Shine Link Up Party #13

Happy Thursday!

I hope everyone is bringing the week to an end with a positive attitude!
To add a little sunshine to your lives I've created, yet another free printable for all of you who join the link-up party!

In my journey in faith, I have discovered that God is true love and He is calling us all to live a joyful, abundant, promising life! Love is truly calling you...

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Today Is

Let Your Light Shine Thursdays!

Thanks so much for all of you that linked up last week!
Me and Aisha loved seeing all of your posts!

Our favorite from last week's link-up was:

Cynthia from My Rose Colored Shades

She's a mother, a woman of faith, and a fashionista! This girl has it all and she looks good doing it all! Check out her blog for some fashion, faith, fitness, recipes.. the list goes on! :)

Thanks again for all of you who participated! Now it's time to link up again :)

RULES: 
1. Link up your favorite post this week - It can be related to faith, fashion, food, family, or whatever else you would like to share that helped you shine your light from the week!

Don't worry if you don't have a blog to link up - just leave a comment with how you let your light shine this week!

2. Follow I'm Perfectly Human & True Soul & Spirit on Bloglovin, or any other social media outlet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, or GFC)

3. Link back by using the button above or your own link.

4. Visit other blogs and meet new blogger friends!

Each week we will be choosing our favorite posts to feature and share with you all!

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Just Breathe Printable + Let Your Light Shine #12 Link-Up Party

Happy Thursday!
Have you entered the ASOS giveaway, here?

This morning was a test of my perseverance and patience. I talked to you all about how I have a lot going on lately - I'm moving, planning a wedding, new mom, and work as been super busy. This morning I had to sit down and have a serious conversation with God (after talking to my mommy :)).

I said, "God, I can't do it all! I am only one person. I cannot think straight. I am drowning. I need you to take care of everything and show me how to get all of these things done and taken care of.
I need you."

After I said this, it was as if I could feel a load lift off me. And I could feel Him telling me to "Just Breathe." Which, is inspiration for today's free printable. Sometimes, we get so down on ourselves for not having it together. We make mountains of lists of things we need to do and expect ourselves to get them done in a 24 hour period. My mom told me, it will all be there tomorrow if you don't get it done - it will still be there so just do what you can and don't worry about the rest.

I have heard that so many times, but this morning in my time of frustration - it rang so true to me. I am thankful to God for a great mom that can help and guide me and always points me to talk to Jesus about my problems. So, my advice to anyone who feels that way is in today's printable. I hope you love it as much as I do!

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Today is 

Let Your Light Shine Thursdays!

Thanks so much for all of you that linked up last week!
Me and Aisha loved seeing all of your posts!

My favorite from last week's link-up was:

Carrie from A Lovely Little Wardrobe

She gushes about how much she loves summertime and wearing shorts and summer dress! I am such a fan of dresses because they are simple and make you look put together so easily. Carrie looks great! :)

Thanks again for all of you who participated! Now it's time to link up again :)

RULES: 
1. Link up your favorite post this week - It can be related to faith, fashion, food, family, or whatever else you would like to share that helped you shine your light from the week!

Don't worry if you don't have a blog to link up - just leave a comment with how you let your light shine this week!

2. Follow I'm Perfectly Human & True Soul & Spirit on Bloglovin, or any other social media outlet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, or GFC)

3. Link back by using the button below or a link back to here.

4. Mingle! Visit other blogs and meet new blogger friends :)

Each week we will be choosing our favorite posts to feature and share with you all!

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I can do ALL things Printable + LYLS #11 Link-up Party!

Happy Thursday!

First thing is first, have you entered the Urban Decay & Sephora Giveaway? - Last day to enter here.

Hope your week is winding down properly.
It's time for our link-up, but before we go there I'd like to share another printable with you all... This should empower you to know you can accomplish any and everything. Often times we let the situations in our life, rule over us. 

Well, it's time to take control and know that you can do ALL things!

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Like I say each week, these are great to print out and put on your desk, save on you phone as a screen saver, or print out and put at bookmarks in your bible. They can work for all types of things!

Today is 

Let Your Light Shine Thursdays!

Thanks so much for all of you that linked up last week!
Me and Aisha over at True Soul & Spirit loved seeing all of your posts!

Our favorite from last week's link-up is:

Mary from Eat, Drink and be Mary!

She has great posts about faith, scriptures on certain topics and other things like recipes, how to's, etc! Check her out!

Thanks again for all of you who participated! Now it's time to link up again :)

RULES: 
1. Link up your favorite post this week - It can be related to faith, fashion, food, family, or whatever else you would like to share that helped you shine your light from the week!

Don't worry if you don't have a blog to link up - just leave a comment with how you let your light shine this week!

2. Follow I'm Perfectly Human & True Soul & Spirit on Bloglovin, or any other social media outlet (FB, Twitter, Instagram, or GFC)

3. Link back by using the button above or your own link.

4. Visit other blogs and meet new blogger friends!

Each week we will be choosing our favorite posts to feature and share with you all!

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