Reflections With Eb

I know it’s been a minute but I’m back! Inspiration comes and goes, and life continues to go on with the many things we have to do but I always try to make time for what’s important to me. I’ve had some moments here and there where I had the time to write but it’s still important for me to be inspired to speak on something meaningful and I didn’t want to write until I was (If you haven’t read my Seek Inspiration post, please go back and check it out in the archives)! As I’ve continued to seek God for inspiration to write, I started to reflect on my current state and it lead me to this thought: Who’s winning in your life right now? Your faith or your “feels” aka feelings? Sometimes we can get so caught up in wishing that we were currently living the life of our dreams and we see others living what appears to be our dream and then “the feels” kick-in and we start asking God, why hasn’t my time come yet? If you have read some of my earlier post, then you would know a bit of my ...

It’s so funny how God works sometimes, my last post was literally just a few days ago talking about seeking inspiration in our everyday lives (if you missed that one, please go back and check it out), and just a few short days later He speaks again! Considering some recent and projected current events, the Lord pressed on my heart to discuss fear. Yes, fear is instilled in us and is essentially a part of our human nature, however if we let it consume our heart, mind, body and spirit, it can manifest and lead into some dangerous territory. I’m sure that everyone has become aware of the devastation that hit Houston, Texas and other surrounding Texas cities as well as parts of Louisiana this past week with Hurricane Harvey. This storm brought flooding to Houston like they’ve never seen before and my mother being from Houston and all the maternal side of my extended family still residing there, it was hard to see on the news on over social media given the close connection, but by the ...

Over these past few days I kept thinking about how I haven’t written a blog post for almost three weeks and how I need to write one soon. When I first started this blog, I knew that I did not want to come out of the gate strong and consistent and then have it eventually fall to the wayside and be a distant memory of a passion project, but I also did not want to write something just for the sake of “being consistent”. It was (and still is) very important to me to be inspired to write so my words come from a genuine place and don’t feel forced or come off as fake. My hope is that as result of my moment of inspiration that I would help to inspire others. I said all of this to say that sometimes we may feel a lack of inspiration but a lot of times it does not take a grand act or gesture to be inspired, but instead it’s the little things that we reflect on throughout the day that can spark inspiration 💥. This blog post literally was inspired by a moment of reflection sitting at my d...

Throwback LOL Today is officially my 25 th birthday (well technically not at the exact moment I’m writing this, it’s actually 3 weeks to the day away, but it’ll be August 14 th when I’m posting this, lol)! It’s crazy to think that I’ve lived a quarter of a century; time has flown by and I’m grateful to God that He’s brought me this far to see a new year! I may still have a baby face (similar to the throwback you see above) and not look my age but I believe that God has blessed me with wisdom beyond my years (you’d be surprised at the amount of people that think I’m 16 and still in high school, I guess it could be taken as a compliment… but just one I would prefer to receive later in life; when someone says it now I just want to say I’m Grown Y’all!!! Lol, but in reality I just take it in stride)! I usually don’t have pre-mediated blog posts prepared because so far, every post I’ve written was on the spot the same day of post with God given inspiration, and this post was a Go...

So today I was sitting at work and I had some music playing in my headphones as background noise while I work as always (to drown out the awkward silence and random bits of conversation in the office space, but that’s beside the point…just a fun fact 😊 lol), and depending on how “in the zone” I am at the moment or how busy the workload is, I’ll sometimes find myself drifting in and out of paying attention to whatever song is playing. I like to mostly listen to something to keep me alert and uplifted in energy throughout the day, and I do like to mix things up in variety but gospel music has always been a frequent go-to of mine because it was what I was raised on, it’s very inspirational and uplifting and I just love the musicality of it. I was coming back to consciousness from a drift-off work moment and heard “Best for Last” by Donald Lawrence and Yolanda Adams playing and I began to pay closer attention to the lyrics and it got me thinking of the outlook that I should have on ...

Society has ingrained in our minds from a very early age that if we aren’t keeping up with the Jones’, then we have to do all we can to catch up and then surpass them. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with admiring what someone else has and also aspiring to have your own version of that one day; it can serve as a great source of motivation to become the best version of yourself in order to receive those things, but it dabbles into dangerous territory if the only way that you measure success in life is through comparing yourself to other people. A lot of times we get caught up in comparing ourselves to others  based on where they are in there life and what they have, and seeing where you line up to match or level them up a notch. At times I know it’s seemingly hard fighting against basic human nature, but as they say comparison is the thief of all joy and by doing so, we can potentially miss out on the beauty of fully embracing our own unique journey to a joyful, fu...