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Dancing With God (2day @ noon)…

Now of course I can take no credit for the following story.  However, I thought it might encourage all of you, my fellow passengers here on the LiFeTrain to pray with me at noon…and dance with the Father!

Read on…

When I meditated on the word  Guidance, I kept seeing ‘dance’ at the end of the word.

I remember reading that doing God’s will is a lot like dancing.    When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.

The movement doesn’t flow with the music,   and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.

When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead,   both bodies begin to flow with the music.

One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another.

It’s as if two become one body, moving beautifully.      The dance takes surrender, willingness,    and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other.

My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.

When I saw ‘G: I thought of God, followed by ‘u’ and ‘i’. ‘God, ‘u’ and ‘i’ dance.’

God, you, and I dance. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust

that I would get guidance about my life.

Once again, I became willing to let God lead.

My prayer for you today is that God’s blessingsand mercies be upon you on this day and everyday.

May you abide in God as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to leadand to guide you through each season of your life.

This prayer is powerful and there is nothing attached.

If God has done anything for you in your life,please share this message with someone else, for prayer is one of the best gifts we can receive.

There is no cost but a lot of rewards;so let’s continue to pray for one another.

2day @ Noon

And I Hope You Dance…

New Credit Card Scam!

This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information,
except the one piece they want.

Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it…This information is worth reading. By understanding how the VISA & Master
Card Telephone Credit Card Scam works, you’ll be better prepared to protect
yourself.

A friend of a friend was called recently from ‘VISA’, and another was called
on from ‘Master Card’.. The scam works like this: Caller: ‘This is
(name), and I’m calling from the Security and Fraud Department at VISA. My
Badge number is 12460. Your card has been flagged for an unusual purchase
pattern, and I’m calling to verify. This would be on your VISA card which
was issued by (name of bank). Did you purchase an Anti-Telemarketing Device for $497.99 from a Marketing company based in ?’

When you say ‘No’, the caller continues with, ‘Then we will be issuing a
credit to your account. This is a company we have been watching and the
charges range from $297 to $497, just under the $500 purchase pattern that
flags most cards. Before your next statement, the credit will be sent to
(gives you your address), is that correct?’

You say ‘yes’. The caller continues – ‘I will be starting a Fraud
investigation. If you have any questions, you should call the 1- 800 number
listed on the back of your card (1-800 -VISA) and ask for Security.’

You will need to refer to this Control Number. The caller then gives you a 6
digit number. ‘Do you need me to read it again?’

Here’s the IMPORTANT part on how the scam works. The caller then says, ‘I need to verify you are in possession of your card’. He’ll ask you to ‘turn
your card over and look for some numbers’. There are 7 numbers; the first 4
are part of your card number, the next 3 are the security Numbers that
verify you are the possessor of the card. These are the numbers you
sometimes use to make Internet purchases to prove you have the card. The
caller will ask you to read the 3 numbers to him. After you tell the caller
the 3 numbers, he’ll say, ‘That is correct, I just needed to verify that the
card has not been lost or stolen, and that you still have your card. Do you
have any other questions?’ After you say No, the caller then thanks you and
states, ‘Don’t hesitate to call back if you do, and hangs up.

You actually say very little, and they never ask for or tell you the Card
number.. But after we were called on Wednesday, we called back within 20
minutes to ask a question.. Are we glad we did! The REAL VISA Security
Department told us it was a scam and in the last 15 minutes a new purchase
of $497.99 was charged to our card.

Long story – short – we made a real fraud report and closed the VISA
account. VISA is reissuing us a new number. What the scammers want is the
3-digit PIN number on the back of the card Don’t give it to them. Instead,
tell them you’ll call VISA or Master card directly for verification of their
conversation. The real VISA told us that they will never ask for anything on
the card as they already know the information since they issued the card! If
you give the scammers your 3 Digit PIN Number, you think you’re receiving a credit. However, by the time you get your statement you’ll see charges for
purchases you didn’t make, and by then it’s almost too late and/or more
difficult to actually file a fraud report.

What makes this more remarkable is that on Thursday, I got a call from a
‘Jason Richardson of Master Card’ with a word-for-word repeat of the VISA
scam. This time I didn’t let him finish. I hung up! We filed a police
report, as instructed by VISA. The police said they are taking several of
these reports daily! They also urged us to tell everybody we know that this
scam is happening.
Please pass this on to all your family, friends and neighbors. By informing
each other, we protect each other.

Passengers Helping Passengers here on the Train…The LiFeTrain!

All aboard!

Merry Monday Fellow Passengers!  Let me start this week’s train ride journey with this:  Thank you all for a great Birthday!  I appreciate all those who commented here on the train sending all those kind words!

This week let us all remember the following:  “If we never emptied the trash in our homes, there would soon be a fowl smell.  It’s the same with our mind.  Your mind is the home of your thoughts.  If we don’t release old thoughts, our lives become bitter with stinkin’ thinkin’ and emotional clutter.    This week, let’s all join hands and encourage each other to empty our mental and emotional trash can of any stressful or painful thoughts.

Each day this week, starting today [Merry Monday] we have the choice of living in a state of grumbling or gratitude.   Let us not allow the irritations and challenges of this day or your past to steal your joy.

Holding on to toxic emotions is not healthy or productive.  Our toxic
emotions can negatively impact our health, peace of mind, relationships and work.  Just as we empty our trash at home often, we have to do the same
with our mind.”

So fellow passengers, let us start this week by counting our blessings and changing our point of views.

In closing look around, hear the news, we are losing folks left and right [Michael RIP].  So let us remember that each moment is a gift to us all!

Let’s focus and think on good things.  Start giving God thanks right now
and praise Him for the wonderful break through about to happen in your life. It’s only a matter of time before your change comes.  That’s right …
smile…sit up straight…shake off the heavy stress, think positive and
walk with courage, faith, peace, love and joy.  Remember that God is in
control.

Have a blessed day in Jesus Name!

All Aboard, “The LiFeTrain!”

I was driving home thinking…

What happend to this lil guy?

How he get so old so soon?

2 DAY….this 2 year old is…

50 Cent

And…Then…I thought some more

And then I realized…

I betta Thank the Father Above that I am…

ABOVE GROUND!!!

So Bring it on!!!

Let The GoodTimes Begin!

Hey LifeTrain passengers! All Aboard for another “Merry Monday!”. You know the rule on this train, we look at the glass half full, NOT half empty, so spread that peanut butter, finish packing that lunch and hop aboard! Let’s make Monday be the kick-off to a happy and positive week (see below for a tip or two)!

Too often we expect happiness to come as a result of our relationships rather than as a premise upon which to build one. If we truly wanted to be happy, we would not be so eager to sacrifice happiness for nonsense—jealousy, possessiveness, anger, fear or any other function of the ego. Nonsense renders us downright miserable. Happiness requires that we be honest, trusting, trustworthy, respectful and mutually considerate. We cannot realize true happiness when we entertain nonsense in our hearts and minds. Individually and collectively, we must work to clear ourselves before entering a relationship. If we wait until we are in the process and wading through the nonsense, the ego will be well on the way to eroding the happiness we seek.

Today, I say ….Let’s exercise our duty to be happy! And today when someone says…Hey U, How ya doin? Look them in the eye, produce that great smile and say: “SUPER FANTASTIC!”

All Aboard, “The LiFeTrain!”

I am gonna be a little selfish today…Happy Father’s Day – 2 me.

As I approach what I perceive as the time in one’s life where there are more years behind then in front.  I reflect on one of my life’s biggest disappointment.  I neva got to have my twin boys, Charles and Prince.  Yep I decided that one would be Charles Prince Daniel II and Prince Charles Daniel.  I day dream about them all the time…but before I digress.  Suppose I would’ve had a little girl!  Man, I just know she would have been drop dead gorgeous (and I would’ve have a drop dead shotgun).  And her name, and remember this is MY little gurl!  Her name, Charla Princess Daniel…the apple of her daddy’s eye!  And oh yeah…I would’ve allowed visitation (supervised!) to the mommy….remember these is MY chillins.

Today, I write about my little gurl…”Charla” …and how I would’ve loved and raised her.

As I reflect back on my childhood, for some men in my culture learning how to love was not always easy.  Hmmm…I am glad that my Daddy can now tell me that he loves me and that he is proud of me…but it took time…and we still can’t get that hug thing down (LOL).  I suspect for me though, love for my little girl (or my beloved twin boys) would’ve been a natural emotion that would’ve flowed as freely for them as the air that I breathe. But for some of us, it’s simply harder to understand.  Anyway let’s picture for just a moment, ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’…Charla

Every little girl desires to have that ‘little girl’ experience. To climb up in the lap of her father, where she feels loved and protected.  Charla would know that my love for her is unending, and unconditional. I say this so as she became a women, she would know what that place of safety should look like, having been wrapped in my arms where no harm could come.

She grows up with nothing but love surrounding her, love is what she learns. Mommy (my wife) there to ease the pain and show tenderness.  I would be there offering the protection of, and the pride in, my little girl.  She would grow in the knowledge of the love from her daddy and that [my love] is as precious as the blooming of roses in the spring.  To the best of my ability, she would be surrounded by nothing but the goodness of life and the knowledge of Christ. This I hope would teach her how to share her heart, and extend love to her own family.  And finally, to know the right man when he came along, because she would know and remember that a true man would love and respect her (healthy sense of self-esteem) as her Daddy had.

And I would’ve looked forward to her call each Father’s day to say…

Daddy, I love you…”Happy Father’s Day!”

Gotta stop here…

To the woman (man secrets revealed)…

Music to set the mood/tone while reading this article

I’ve said many times here on the train that as a man, I could never tell you what it is like to give birth.  I could tell you what my Mommy (Yeah, I still call her Mommy…always will) told me and I can get pretty descriptive…in a good way in terms of the good and the bad.  However, I will never be able to tell you about it from experience.

Having been a husband and having many friends who are still husbands, here is a little tip for the wives this week as we come into what I feel is a very…VERY important celebration, the celebration of the FATHER.  Not the sperm donors, who shirked their responsibility, a most cowardly act! But… the true fathers and just as important, the Step Father. Father’s day.

Remember this week…if you have a man…a HUS-BAND you need to know that this could save and or improve your marriage by remembering these things on Father’s Day.  Hear me now, believe me later, these things are important to us as men.  We need it, but most of us won’t or can’t verbalize it because we need it to come from our women without a prompting from us.  So actually, with no shame in my game…I am going to MAN-UP and put it out there for all the fellas.

“ACCEPTANCE!”.   Acceptance it is one of the secrets of our (the man) contentment.  We really need to know that as long as we are trying to do things legally, morally and ethically, that we are accepted by you…The Woman.  Real men take the title of husband very seriously.  It took me a long time to become one, actually I never thought I would, but I finally took the plunge.  When I did, hand on the bible, I wore that title as a badge of honor.  And as such in the spirit of taking the title seriously  it comes [came] with alot pressure.  Wives, I beg of you, remember, we aren’t supermen and there was only one man…Jesus, who walked on water and did not get wet.  So, flaws and all yall…show you your man that you accept him…just as he is.  Yeah sure, encourage him, not manipulate him, but encourage him to be all he can be.  Sometimes I have often thought that as wives sharing your greatest good is the key.  But in support of my point here, sometimes it is just as good to reveal to your husband his own riches contained within himself.  Remember, the world does a good job everyday of showing him his flaws…

Here’s a little known secret, we are all still little boys inside with fragile egos.  And remember, alot of us did not have a role model in the home, so we’ve had to figure it out in some cases.  Therefore, having no blueprint mistakes were made.  Woman, call yourself a christian?  Forgive, Forgive him…if he is still trying…forgive the fact that he is not…Perfect.  Question:  R U?

I still clearly remember the effort I put into trying to be perfect [husband/step father], trying everything thing I could…and when I came up wet (see above)…I was so thankful that Jesus was there, and in the sand, those footprints that were once two sets in the sand…

Were one set…

And he had me in his arms…

Until he knew I could walk again…

Sorry…had a flashback…LOL…see I told I was not perfect.

Anyway my sisters, point is, try to see the glass as half full…not half empty.

And now…DRUM ROLL PLEASE…“Appreciation” is the secret of our happiness.  Nothing makes a man want to try harder, fight harder, love harder than to know that he is appreciated.  This Sunday, show some love, show some appreciation…

I’ve been told that some of my posts are a bit long…so tune in tomorrow for part II – The week of the father.

Just a thought, to follow someone else’s truth could sometimes be a trap.  As for me, I want to acknowledge that my best strategy is to know my own truth, face it and live by it.  It’s what I, your faithful LiFeTrain Conductor endeavor to do here on the daily ride, just share my truth.

In some cases, when inspiration hits, just know that I am trying to inspire, guide, share my truth for you, my fellow passengers to consider.  However,  know that I realize that it is you that ultimately must cut your own way through the jungle, laying down your own tracks. For example, we could always be asking others where North is, and they might tell you.  Someone will say North is this way and someone else that North is that other way – and both would have been sincere.  But we alone must find our own true North.  So as I go jogging into another day, my hope is that we will all meet at the Northern most pole…Heaven.

Okay…so I went a little out there…but you get my drift…Right?

All Aboard…The LiFeTrain!

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