My Success And Spiritual Journey | Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will...

one of my gifts that I have had since I was a little girl growing up in Mississippi, being raised on a small one acre farm with my grandmother, I knew how to pay attention, I was a great observer of life and I grew up believing that I was in fact son of God, it's because every Sunday I sat in our little church at the end of a dirt road from where my grandmother lived, there was no running water, there was no electricity, there was no vision of hope or possibility and I listened to the preacher preach about Jehovah your God is a loving God and sometimes he said Jehovah your God is a jealous God but the most important thing is that I heard him say you are a child of God and through God all things are possible so my vision, my perception, my understanding of what What it means to be a universal citizen has grown as I have come to understand Acts 17:28 my favorite Bible verse that says in God I move and I breathe and I have my being having that belief system that something bigger than me was in charge of my destiny of my faith that It was not just me that had to survive on my own, it is the rock that has sustained me when you look at where I come from, a small apartheid town in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954, where there was no vision and no hope for you, my grandmother's.

Her greatest wish for me, as she had been a servant and her mother before her had been a servant. Her greatest wish was that I would grow up one day and be able to do the same. Hell no, hell no, my ability to literally step into the flow and grace that I call God is what has brought me here and I constantly think that because having a

spiritual

life is not something you can achieve because you are already a

spiritual

life, there is no one else in creation like you, there is no one like you and what you have come to do and what you have to offer is like no other, no one brings the level of uniqueness and authenticity that you can bring, no one it does as you do, the understanding that what you have to offer is what you have come to give. to the planet it is your gift that you are offering in a way that no one else can and how much it matters, it matters to you, it matters to the people you love and it matters to our planet that you are here, it is a miracle that we receive it . being here and when I think about my life and the fact that no one really loved me at the beginning, my father had sex with my mother once, can you imagine like a powerful seed?, he wasn't in love with her, he said that she She was wearing a poodle skirt and he wanted to know what was under there and she showed it to him by an oak tree and to think that something as random as my mother's poodle skirt, to think that something is random like that would create a little black boy in Mississippi, which grew up and had, has had and continues to have the opportunities that I have had.

I can assure you that it is nothing but grace, grace, grace, because I was allowed to enter the current and let it carry me. up to this point and I'm not telling you what to believe or who to believe or what to call it, but there is no full life, there is no full, meaningful, sustainable, joyful life without a connection with spirit. I haven't seen it happen. I believe prayer mindfulness kindness empathy compassion consistent gratitude all spiritual practices you must have a spiritual practice which one is yours in the late 80's someone introduced me to the idea of ​​a gratitude journal I guarantee if you did it for a week you would see a difference every day five things I write that I am grateful for or that brought me joy or that opened up my heart space.

There comes a time in everyone's life when you've really done all you can do and you really want something so bad, but it's not there yet. approaching you in a way that you feel should be that way. I know that what is for you

will

come to you. I know this for a fact and I know that many times when it seems like something is happening to you, it always is. For you the three things that I want to leave you

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take you if you let them first of all know who you are know who you are be able to answer this question who I am and what I want I am not asking for the roles you play I am asking the most important question: Who am I?

Who am I really? My answer is: I am a child of God. I am that which is born from everything. He is a spiritual being who has a human experience following the breath of angels. and understand that because I am connected to the source of everything, everything that is possible is possible for me, that is who I am and what I want. I don't want to just be

success

ful in the world. The answer to that question for me. is I want to fulfill the highest and truest expression of myself as a human being I want to fulfill the promise that the Creator dreamed when he dreamed the cells that made up me what I want you must have some kind of vision for your life even if I don't know the plan, you have You have to have a direction in which you choose to go.

I was never the type of woman who liked to get in a car and just go for a ride. I had a boyfriend. I'd say let's just go for a walk. ride I want to know where we are going if we have a destination there is a plan or we are just traveling what I have learned is that it is a great metaphor for life you want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if not it is life that will drive you, so knowing who you really are in this space and time that we embody in the number two, you must find a way to serve.

Martin Luther King said that not everyone can be famous but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service. Now we live in a world where everyone wants to be famous and where we admire people just for being famous. We believe that being known gives us value. The truth is that all that will fade over time. In three years, you won't be able to name The Housewives. house are a banana service and a meaningful service, and the meaning that you bring to your service is that which is lasting,

whatever

your occupation, job, talent or gift, what you have in common is service using the spoken word to the service to the community and the world if You look at the most

success

ful people in the world, whether they know it or not.

They have that service paradigm. You want to be able to own yourself and make your own decisions. You never want to be in a position where something is that important to you. what you have to do and can't do it because the boss says you can't when you change the paradigm of

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it is you choose to do to serve and bring importance to that success. I promise you that you will continue your service and the importance is equal? success is number two, number three, it's so simple but so hard to do, always do the right thing, always be great, people notice, think about how you realize when you go to Taco Bell, does someone tell you?

He gives you an extra napkin and some sauce and you realize you want to go back. that person because even at Taco Bell excellence shows up let excellence be your brand everyone talks about building a brand I didn't even know what that was when people say you're a brand I would say no I'm just Oprah what I recognize now is that my choice is in every way in every example and every experience to do the right thing and the excellent is what has created the brand and what I know is that when you are excellent you become unforgettable people remember you you stand out we We have what it is and that is what we all want, we want to be unforgettable and not forgettable, so doing the right thing, even when no one knows you are doing the right thing, will always bring you the right thing.

I promise you that why because the third law of motion is always at work for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction that is so true in all of our lives, so you don't have to worry about revenge or getting back at someone, making sure it pays, you just have to do it. Right and right will follow you even when people do not support it. I remember a lot of times on my show there are a lot of shows that you never saw and the reason you didn't see them is because I got the last vote. and I remember in 2010 they had done this interview with a woman who happened to be a Sunday school teacher by day and a sex addict by night and during the interview process I told her why are you doing this?

I told him: do you have children? He says yes I have a ten year old son that I met at that time this will never see the light of day so we went off air and I told the lady we are not going to air that show my producer said why I said because your son will never outgrow it your son will never get over it and it's not worth a grade point to me to know that there is a ten year old boy who is devastated because his mother went on The Oprah Winfrey Show and told everyone in her business: You do the right thing even when other people think you do. maybe it's not like that.

You always know what is right. When there is peace in the end, you are rewarded by peace and knowing that you did the right thing. Those who leave here have the potential to achieve enormous success. There's a price that comes with it: people don't always like you and they're not always happy for you, and if you surround yourself with people who aren't used to your success, they become fearful. They get scared because you are reflecting something back to them, but they don't recognize that this only happens when you are surrounded by people who don't want and aspire to the best for you, people who want the best for you, they want you to be you, so my biggest advice to you is that you surround yourself with people who are going to fill your cup until the cup overflows, once the cup overflows, you cannot spend your life with your gallon-sized offerings offering them to the tiny people you have.

Surround yourself with gallon-sized people who can be in the same company with you so you don't offer your gallons to those little pipes out there and what I know for sure is that the most important decisions begin and end with you, your inner Big Ones. questions: Who do I want to be in the world? My relationship with Source Energy and all that is God. I'm not talking about what you believe in God. I am speaking of your experience of that which is all life, which is divine and universal. I'm talking about how important it is to be connected and aligned with that when you are attuned and charged with that, every time you feel empty, you go within yourself and connect with the source and know that anything is possible.

Choose to do what is right in service and meaning. I promise you that first you will create a vessel of service for yourself because first you have to honor yourself, you first have to give of yourself, otherwise you will have nothing to give, you will create a vessel for yourself for your family your community and the world and those three things will not only lead you to a blessed life. I am a witness that my life is so blessed that I can't even take it in sometimes it will lead you not only to a gifted life. life and a rewarding life that fulfills you but a sweet life that is what you want even when the storms come and you will know it this too shall pass this shall also pass the storm is passing and you will not move because I know who you are when you can do that the grace will be follow the glory that God has in store for you is unimaginable for you you can't even imagine it you can't even imagine it take your glory is waiting for you and run with it thanks to you