A Repost....T.D. Jakes....Let Folks Go!

By T. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]

People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.

Let them go.

And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead.
You've got to know when it's dead.

You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains............

LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and
see your worth.....

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you.

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude.....

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......

LET IT GO!!!

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him........

LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.......

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves......

LET IT GO!!!

If you're feeling depressed and stressed..................

LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,' then you need to.....

LET IT GO!!!

Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2009!!


LET IT GO!!!

Get Right or Get Left ... think about it, and then.

LET IT G O!!!

'The Battle is the Lord's!'

National Honor Society

Congratulations to my son Josh(11th grade)....we went to his school ceremony tonight for his induction into the National Honor Society. He is also student of the month. We are proud of our son!!!

Tea & Sympathy

**Our local Tea & Sympathy Tea Room in the Newport Area is gone... sad to say. I drove to the place where it was....feeling a sense of nostalgia when the area was all rebuilt and a furniture store in its place. We had many happy tea dates there. That was one of me and my daughter Sharayah's favorite places to go together for mother/daughter days. I took her there the day before she began Kindergarten and gave her gifts and enjoyed tea time. She still enjoys her tea time today @20 yrs. She wakes up most mornings to make a tray with hot cream tea(fav. flavors vary), she's good a making scones also. This past year we had a lovely mother/daughter trip to New York City. Next time I hope to find this tea room that looks like a unique tea room & the reviews were very good.





Neighborhood: West Village
108 Greenwich Ave
(between 12th St & Jane St)
New York, NY 10011

(212) 807-8329
www.teaandsympathynewyork.com

English Tea...by Paul McCartney

My baby girl turns 20 years old in March....time has flown by!

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The Melting Pot:

Tea Time!

Coffee Filters

Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar store for almost nothing, even the large ones. Better than paper towels and a lot less expensive. . .

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome. Coffee filters are lint-free, so they'll leave windows sparkling. 3. Protect china by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.

4. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

5. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.

6. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.

7. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.

8. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.

9. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant holder. Line a plant holder with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.

10. Prevent a popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.

11. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. It soaks out all the grease.

12. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers."

13. Use as a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliquéing soft fabrics.

14. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.

15. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.

16. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.

17. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.

18. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies. It saves on having extra bowls to wash.

19. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.

20. Use them to sprout seeds. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout.

21. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phonebook.

22. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.

OH YEAH, THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS TOO!

FUPC Youth Group 25 yr Reunion...class of 80-87

We were blessed to be invited to speak at the reunion of Tom's first Youth Group/Church pastoral ministry experience in DeRidder, Louisiana. He enjoyed his time there starting in 1980 when he graduated from Bible College and was invited by Bro. Glass to become their full time Youth Pastor....until we left in 1987. So many wonderful people there. The "kids" have grown up to be great/successful people and Christians. Was a lot of fun to share old memories, catch up on what is happening now, meet spouses and children and see where everyone has ended up!! What a great time it was. Thanks to Kevin & Suzanne Reeves for heading it up with other members giving their contributions also. Enjoyed our weekend immensely.