Sorry, I have been away…..I’ll be back soon! Want to know where I’ve been??? SCHOOL!

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Happy New Year everyone! WE MADE IT I am so excited for 2012 and what it has to offer. My 24th Birthday, Summer Internships, College Graduation…ahh! I’m screaming just thinking about everything. 2011 was indeed a stressful, and emotional year for me. I was able to learn a lot though.

I learned about the relationship or lack of relationship I had with GOD, and how i often depended on others for answers instead of him. I learned how I didn’t truly trust him when things got rough when the bible tells us to “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him,and he will make your paths straight.”-Proverbs 3:5-6. I found myself at a point where i hit rock bottom, and for a minute I didn’t know if I could make it through.  I found myself dealing with people who I had once let go, but let them back in my life and my circle of friends turned into a circle of associates and the casual “hello’s”.

But I made it, and 2012 doesn’t scare me. I know that I will have bad days, and things might not work out exactly how I may currently see them. But GOD is directing my paths, and I trust him. I want to encourage you all to make 2012 a great year. Make moves and be great!

She often lived a life trying to get acceptance from other people. So who was she? She was naïve, and young. She believed life was a fairy tale and had happy endings until her prince never came looking for her with her glass slipper. She believed that families would last forever until her mother died 3 years ago. She believed that it was actually possible to graduate college within 4 years until she changed majors three times. She was the one who had lots of friends till she realized she was the only one being the friend. She was the one who always smiled but cried inside. The one who often let people go but somehow always let them back in. The one who settled for less when her mom always taught her to never settle for any mess. The one who was often taken for granted, and under-estimated. The one who could give the advice but wouldn’t take her own. That “she” was me…

But I’ve realized that life is not a fairy tale and we have to be ok with the fact that sometimes we’ll have bad days, all relationships don’t work out, and that you’ll probably only have a few people in your life you can ever really call your friend. Loving that pivotal moment when you learn to be okay with who GOD made you to be, and no one else. Learning the lesson that when its time to let people go let them go, because some people are only meant to be in your life for a reason or a season. I’ve realized despite how long I’ve been in school the end is near and I can smell it. Despite it all, I’m just me, learning and growing everyday trying to be all that I can be. My name is Ashley; I’m thankful, humble, content and blessed. Who are you?

***I don’t know if I would call this poetry…but these were just some thoughts, and reflections….(*Sigh) oh how things have changed***

I thought we’d be friends for many more years, but as time goes on, our pictures fade and all of our good times seem to drift away.- Anonymous

Taken from the play “Madea goes to Jail”….This is one of the realest things I have ever heard, and someone mentioned this analogy in a meeting I went to today and I just had to share it!

“If somebody wants to walk out of your life, let – them – go!- Some people are meant to come into your life for a lifetime, some for only a season and you got to know which is which. And you’re always messing up when you mix those seasonal people up with lifetime expectations.

I put everybody that comes into my life in the category of a tree. Some people are like leaves on a tree. When the wind blows, they’re over there… wind blow that way they over here… they’re unstable. When the seasons change they wither and die, they’re gone. That’s alright. Most people are like that, they’re not there to do anything but take from the tree and give shade every now and then. That’s all they can do. But don’t get mad at people like that, that’s who they are. That’s all they were put on this earth to be. A leaf.

Some people are like a branch on that tree. You have to be careful with those branches too, cause they’ll fool you. They’ll make you think they’re a good friend and they’re real strong but the minute you step out there on them, they’ll break and leave you high and dry.

But if you find 2 or 3 people in your life that’s like the roots at the bottom of that tree you are blessed. Those are the kind of people that aren’t going nowhere. They aren’t worried about being seen, nobody has to know that they know you, they don’t have to know what they’re doing for you but if those roots weren’t there, that tree couldn’t live.

A tree could have a hundred million branches but it only takes a few roots down at the bottom to make sure that tree gets everything it needs. When you get some roots, hold on to them but the rest of it… just let it go. Let folks go.