Sunday's Food For Thought: He Who Holds My Future (Poem)

I can't control what goes on 

outside my door....

I can't control between

the rich and poor....

who pays less taxes and who pays more.

I can't control the attitudes, opinions,

and behavior of co-workers,

neighbors, family and friends....

And I certainly can't control  if life

as we know it in our country

will soon come to an end.

Yet, what I can control is 

my own state of mind....

I can control if I 

am critical, judgmental, and mean,

Or respectful, peaceful, and kind.

I can control whether or not,

I live in worry, anxiety, and fear,

Or walk by faith and not 

by sight....

I can choose to keep promoting

peace and harmony,

And let love be my guiding light....

I can also control my prayers,

And keep trusting God to be my protector

when I lay down to sleep at night.

No I can't control the future,

but I can surrender my future into

 God's hands....

And I can trust that God's divine
plans for me,

will always succeed over man's.

Dedicated to all those who are overwhelmed with fear, doubt, and anxiety about your personal future and the future of our great country. I invite you and hopefully through this poem have inspired you, to let your faith in God be greater than your fears of the world. And no matter what continue to practice peace and love.

Until next time....remember to keep your heart open and let your LOVE light shine!!!  

A One Love Production

By Anna MsPoet Hendricks

Copyright 2016

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Sunday's Food For Thought: Dream Catcher (Poem)

My dreams are mine alone

both new and old....

They are desires of my heart

I long to behold....

Yet my dreams are no longer

just dreams to grow cold....

My beautiful, precious dreams

have now also become my goals.

So help me God to remember
whether my dreams are big or small....

Always keep an open heart
as my net to catch them all.

This is just a short, yet affirmative, poem from my personal dream journal. I wanted to share it in hopes that it may be an empowering source of inspiration to you as it is for me. 

Until next time....remember to keep your heart open and your LOVE light on!!! 

A One Love Production

By Anna MsPoet Hendricks

Copyright 2016

You can also follow me on Facebook@ https://www.facebook.com/InspirationalLoveNotes/

Sunday's Food For Thought: Loyal To Love...Loyal To God (Poem)

Oh Most High God,

there is none like you....none above,

or before you in all the heaven's

or this physical land

Your Holy Spirit lives forever,

your perfect love only expands

Your heart is so generous

in its giving,

like a river of abundance

that never ends

Your compassion, grace, 

and mercy you never

fail to lend

Your love is like no other,

there is no place, space, or time

it cannot transcend

There is no problem you cannot 

solve...

No broken heart your love

 cannot mend

Why you're so good to me

my human mind may never fully

understand....my human intellect 

may never know

Yet I'm so deeply grateful Lord,

for the loving ways you gently

mold me, shape me, 

help me to evolve and grow

You are my first true love...

my most intimate life partner,

as a matter of fact

I have studied your word

and your ways since my youth,

and still today I proudly tell

all who are willing to listen, 

of your mighty wonderful acts

As long as you allow me to,

I will pour out my heart

and love to you

My poems will be my songs of praise

to say thanks for being 

so faithful and true

I will forever boldly tell

all who are willing to hear,

of all the countless reasons

I remain so loyal to thee

I am so deeply grateful Lord,

for your high favor, constant love,

and generosity....

That all my life you have 

allowed consistently

to follow after me

This is a poem from my personal gratitude journal to God. It is one of my many private love notes I love to write to the Most High, my Source, Substance, and Supply to give thanks for my wealth of creative and abundant talents, gifts and blessings in my life. Today I share it with you as my Inspirational Love Notes message for today.  I hope that it will touch your heart and soul in a way that inspires you to draw nearer to God in your own unique way as well.

No matter what you're going through...talk to God about it. He hears every prayer and answers always in a divinely ordered and perfect way. May this message serve you well as your Sunday Food For Thought to carry you through your week. 

Until next time....remember to keep your heart open and your LOVE light on!!! ~ Your Inspirational Goddess of Love - Anna MsPoet Hendricks

A One Love Production

By Anna MsPoet Hendricks

Copyright 2016 

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Sunday's Food For Thought:Let Go and Let God - A Poem of Serenity and Surrender

Dear God,

Help me to surrender all my hearts desires

into you loving hands

Help me to trust in the perfection of your 

divinely orchestrated plan

Sweet serenity in you Lord,

is what I most yearn

So unto you I surrender

my daily worries, frustrations, 

And worldly concerns

That in exchange you may

fill my mind and heart,
with your perfect peace

Causing every single doubt

I have in me to cease

Help me remember Lord,

You are my true Source, substance,

and supply

Abundant and generous is your 

giving to me from your bountiful

well that never runs dry

This poem is dedicated to anyone who is or has been praying for something, worrying about something, pushing against something, trying to control something that is beyond your human power and control. If any of these descriptions sounds like you and your approach to whatever you've been going through and after all your efforts you still haven't figured out how to make it work out the way you want it to. Perhaps it's time to take a different approach. Let Go and Let God do for you what sometimes only he can. 

Until next time....Remember to keep your heart open and your LOVE light on!!! Yours truly ~Anna MsPoet Hendricks - Your Inspirational Goddess of Love

A One Love Production

By Anna MsPoet Hendricks

Copyright 2016

You can also follow me on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/InspirationalLoveNotes/

Something to Tuck Under Pillow:The Love You Seek Starts Within

What I have come to learn about love is likened to what I have also learned about happiness. Everything you seek is not only seeking you too...it STARTS with you. 

As adults we have all, at some point, experienced deep hurt and disappointment in our relationships with others. I'm sure we all have stories we can share where we have loved deeply and hard. Only to find the object of our affection did not see reciprocate the same level of love we gave. When this happens once or twice we find a way to recover. And in most cases we try at love again.

However, when we have repeatedly given our hearts fully and found our relationship experiences to be a reoccurring theme of disappointment we tend to develop a fear of loving again. When then close our hearts in order to protect ourselves. Yet in truth, the fear we feel is not really a fear of loving again. Rather,  it is a fear of being hurt again. But True Love doesn't hurt you...people do. 

The fortress you have built around your heart to protect you is really a false sense of security. It not only blocks love, or anything else, from getting in. It also blocks love from getting out. This creates a self-imposed prison you now are living in that serves you no good and blocks you from all the wonderful blessings that TRUE LOVE can  bring. 

And so it is that when you become truly ready and courageous enough to do the spiritual work within that is necessary to remove all the barriers around your heart you have built, your heart will naturally begin to open up to love again like a beautiful flower welcoming the falling rain.

When this natural process of healing happens, the Holy Spirit will answer your call to heal ALL your wounds from the past. As you become realigned with the vibrational energy of love again, Love will begin radiating from every fiber of your being. And as you allow genuine love to begin pouring forth again THROUGH you...you will also begin to see all that is in perfect alignment with genuine love attracting to you. It is the Law of the Universe in which we live that EVERYTHING you seek, including Love, starts within. 

This is just a little "Something to Tuck Under Your Pillow" to ponder as you drift off to sleep tonight. 

Until next time...I surround you in Love & Light! Sleep well and have a peaceful night! 


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A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2015

A Special Inspirational Love Note:From My Heart to Yours

With Thanksgiving now behind us, and the Black Friday shopping madness kicked off this weekend as well, the holiday season is now officially in full effect. Part of my Thanksgiving was spent in quiet reflection, prayer and praise for the many things I am grateful for this year. Among my long list of things I gave praise and thanks to God for was you. Yes...YOU!!! 

Allow me, if you will, to share a little of my backstory of the last four years since Inspirational Love Notes first began with you. It will give you a better understanding of why I started doing this and how by doing so has brought me to appreciate all of you so much.
 
I created this blog in August of 2010. It was a Spirit inspired Divine Idea and a life rafter from God. I say that because I truly believe the idea to create Inspirational Love Notes was God's way of giving me something to float on and keep my head above the turbulent waters of life, I felt like I was drowning in, at that time. The idea to start this blog came during a time I felt life had blind folded me and tossed me into the middle of the ocean with no warning or swimming lessons. And I was desperately trying to find my way back to shore mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

If you live here in the United States I think it goes without saying that 2010 was a rough year for most Americans. We were still in the thick of our struggling economy and almost everyone in our country was being hit badly by the recession....including me.  I was experiencing my second lay-off over a two year time period that summer. On top of that, our Government was going through a lot of conflict with President Obama during the second year of his first term. And for some reason, still unclear to me, they decided to put a freeze on distribution of all unemployment funds, which was the only income for thousands of laid-off Americans...again, included me. That decision resulted in many Americans, myself included, suffering for months without receiving unemployment benefits at a time when finding new gainful employment was nearly impossible.

As if that wasn't enough to endure, that same dreadful year, my Father made his transition from this life unexpectedly. So, despite the fact that I was going through a serious financial hardship situation at the time, I had to figure out a way to get back to my home town in Michigan and be with my family as we laid my Dad to his final rest. That was in June 2010. Then just six months later following my Father passing my Spiritual Mother,whom I had a very close relationship with, made her transition from this life as well in December 2010. 

She was my anchor, my "go to" person, my confidant, my spiritual teacher, mentor, life coach and very dear friend. She was the first person I always went to for comfort, love and wisdom to help get me through all the other challenges life threw at me over the twelve beautiful years I had known her. There was no one in my life at the time who could compare to the bond I had grown accustom to sharing with her. Needless to say, I was devastated by the news of her transition from this life. Yet, I am grateful that I was able to be there by her side during her final days.

However, at the time of her passing, I was also going through a personal health situation that resulted in me having an out-patient medical procedure. So I wasn't even able to attend her funeral because my medical procedure was scheduled for the same day as her funeral service. Losing my Spiritual Mom, especially on the heels of losing my Dad, was the blow to my heart that hit me the hardest. It was also the breaking point of my emotional pain tolerance. It was the worse of everything else I had already endured that year. Because she was the first, and main, person who would have normally been there to help me overcome the other series of devastating events that unfolded back to back all within that same year.

Needless to say, I was drowning in an ocean of emotional turmoil and despair. I've always been a deeply spiritual person of strong faith. But I had never experience that much, or that kind, of loss, hurt, disappointment and pain all at the same time in my entire life. I desperately needed an outlet, a place I felt emotionally safe to express what I was feeling at that time and allow my heart to heal. 

Then I remembered, my spiritual practices have taught me that the best and fastest way to receive from the universe what you're most in need of is by giving that very thing away. So after countless nights of endless crying, grieving, and constant prayer for healing I was led in spirit to create Inspirational Love Notes for the following several reason. 

First, I created it as a means of using my talents and gifts in a way that would honor God through service to others while waiting for my personal prayers to overcome my intense grief, restore my broken spirit, and heal my severely bruised heart to be fulfilled. Secondly, since my childhood, I have asked God  to use me in a way that allows me to be a source of inspiration to other's. And to allow my unique talents and gifts to touch somebody else's life in a positive way. 

Lastly, I created Inspirational Love Notes because I wanted to help others who may be going through some of the same painful experiences I went through in 2010, or worse. I wanted to encourage others to hang in there and keep the faith when life gets rough. More importantly, I wanted to do my part to ensure that no one going through such painful and difficult times in their life as I did, in 2010 and other times in my life before and after that dreadful year, to ever feel like they're gong through it alone. I wanted to help other's heal their wounded places within and in their relationships with others by awakening the love light that is innately in all of us and has the power to heal all things.   

So, I started this blog and named it Inspirational Love Notes. My intention was for this to be a spin off of my radio show, Love Notes, that I created, produced and hosted here in Atlanta, Georgia in 2003-2004, that had the same concept of encouraging and inspiring others only through music rather than the written word.

Without a doubt, I have gone through and overcome a great deal of painful experiences over the last four years since I created this blog and began sharing  my Inspirational Love Notes with you. Yet, as the scripture says in Romans 8:28, "...we know that all things work together for good to those who love God."  This is one of my favorite scriptures that has stood the test of time. And it has proven true repeatedly in my life. I have come to realized that none of what I went through in 2010, the last four years since then, or my entire life, has been in vain. Nope...None of it! Because all of it has led me right where I need to be and prepared me for what I now realize I've been called in Spirit to do. All that I have gone through has brought me to this moment in time sharing the wisdom and lessons I have come to learn from it all with you. And for that I am so deeply grateful. 

Sharing my daily inspirational messages with you has allowed me to inspire others while heal my severely wounded heart and soul. It has allowed me to give my gift to the world by doing what comes to me so naturally. While spiritual growth is an ongoing process, I can say with great certainty, that since I started this blog and began sharing my daily inspirational love notes with you, I have received in return, the blessing of evolving spiritually and seeing my talent as a poet and writer grow as well in ways I never imaged. And for that I am also deeply grateful.  

I never thought when I began sharing my daily messages of love with you on my Facebook Group, Inspirational Poetry & Love Notes, that I would have the positive response from so many people as I now do. But it has  been a two way street. 

You all have been just as much a blessing and source of inspiration to me as many of you have let me know I have been to you. Your feedback is important to me. And many of you have shared with me how my positive articles, poems, and quotes have been so helpful to you while coping through your own personal life struggles you are working to overcome. So this Inspirational Love Note is a special dedication to you to express my heartfelt gratitude for letting me know we have been growing and healing together. 

As a result of your continuous support, by sharing my daily Love Notes with your Facebook family and friends, I am excited and delighted to share with you that I now have followers on my Facebook Group, Inspirational Poetry & Love Notes, from all over the world. For this reason, the time has come for me to expand the way I share my Love Notes with you. I have recently created an Inspirational Love Notes Page on Facebook that allows me the ability to reach more people.

With that said, I salute you and thank you for your continued support over the last four years. I look forward to continue growing with you and serving you. Most importantly, I look forward to continue being a source of light, love, and inspiration in your life and to the world through each and every one of you who read my daily messages and share them with someone else. Together we can heal hearts all over the world...one Inspirational Love Note at a time. 

So rather you're a new follower or already an established member of my Facebook Group, please click the link below and Like my new Inspirational Love Notes Page on Facebook to continue following me. 

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Until next time...I surround you all in Love & Light! 



A One Love Production
By Anna MsPoet Hendricks
Copyright November 2014