Something To Tuck Under Your Pillow: Hello Sweet November (Poem)

Hello Sweet November....

With open arms I welcome you

May you bring us all fresh blessings,

With the autumn morning dew

Hello Sweet November....

It's good to see you again too

May you help us gently release the

things and people that we outgrew

While giving thanks for those who have

remained with us genuine and true

Hello Sweet November....

You are the month where we begin

Our year end review

And as we look back at all that we've

come through

Help us forgive ourselves and other's

For the things we can't undo

Hello Sweet November....

To old dreams may you give us

new courage to pursue

And for lovers who's romantic hearts have died

May you revive....restore....and renew

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

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By Anna MsPoet Hendricks
Copyright 2016

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Something To Tuck Under Your Pillow: The Flagship of True Friendship

There comes a time along our human journey where we all will experience a temporary season in life that will challenge you to your core....stretch you beyond your comfort zone....and take you to your darkest places within. If you haven't gotten to that season yet don't worry....keep living, it will eventually come.

Yet, what I've come to learn from those testy seasons in life the most is that:

a) Those same seasons in life that feel like they have come to BREAK you have really come to BLESS you by making you stronger, wiser and better than you were before.

b) No matter how ugly those times in life look or how awful they may feel, truth is they have only come to pass THROUGH your life NOT stay with you forever. Although it may feel as though it's taking forever for things to get better to where you can see the light at the end of tunnel. Hold on, there is a rainbow in the mist of those clouds and it sure does have a pot of gold waiting for you on the other side for all that you've been through. 

c) When the dark clouds that come during a storm in nature, the light of the sun is still shining even in the mist of the storm. Although the clouds of the storm may block your view from realizing this to be true while the storm is still underway, once the storm has completed its, sometimes vicious, other times scary, but most times just very uncomfortable, cycle and moves on the light of the sun reveals itself again. 

The same is true with the light that is shining within you. Your inner light is eternal because it is the light of the Most High, your holy creator. It is the light of your soul where the true essence and divinity within you lives. 

It can sometimes be dimmed by the clouds of the dark seasons in life that come to pass us like thunder storms. But NOTHING and NO ONE can ever destroy or put out your inner light. After that storm in your life has passed, just like the sun following a thunder storm, your inner light will reveal itself and RISE within you yet again. 

d) I have found all the aforementioned processes during those dark seasons in life, that eventually leads back to your inner light shining again, are all much easier to GO through and GROW through when you are shown the loyalty, support, understanding, compassion, patience, kindness and love of a true friend.

And the irony to this is that you only discover who those true friends are when you are actually in eye balls deep in the mist of that season that feels like an horrific storm passing through your life.

So if you have at least one person in your life who has proven to be a lasting and loyal true friend through your spring, summer, winter and fall seasons in your life, then share this message with them and let them know how much you appreciate their presence in your life. Thank them for standing by you during those rough times in life and celebrating you during your best times in life.

This is just a little "Something To Tuck Under Your Pillow" to ponder as you fall asleep tonight. 

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




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Characteristics of a Winner

In every winner there's a desire,

to do what is said cannot be done;

A persistence to win the race that 

others believe cannot be won

There's an attitude others simply

do not understand

that says, " the power to create my destiny

lies within my own hands!"

If there's a will you can believe a winner

will find the path that leads the way;

And the words, "I can't" 

are words you'll never hear

a winner say

The power to manifest and turn dreams

into reality,

is the power every winner has deep

within and holds onto passionately

In every winner there's a hunger

that's not easily satisfied,

that keeps them affirming;

"To prosper is my divine right,

therefore I will not be denied!"

Winners give their very best

at all that they do

So look inside yourself and know

that a winner lives in you

A One Love Production

By Anna "Ms.Poet" Hendricks

Original Copyright 1997

First Revision 2008

Second Revision 2014

Count it all Joy: Focusing on the Sweetness of the Bittersweet in Life

"...count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing."  ~ James 1:2-4

Depending on ones individual perspective yesterday should have been a bittersweet day for me. You see, yesterday, June 3, 2014, was the four year anniversary of the memorial service we had for my Dad following his transition from this life and my world. That should have been the bitter part. Yet, the day was not bitter for me at all.  Instead, it was a day saturated in the sweetness of joy and love life also brings. I say that because June 3rd was also the celebration of my baby girl's two years old birthday. Consequently, this also meant I have successfully survived the first two years of my new role as mommy as well.  From my perspective that's the sweet part.

Although I definitely held my Dad's memory in thought, I felt no sadness or sorrow. Where there once was deep hurt and pain over missing him, only peace and joy resided in my heart. The peace of knowing my Dad no longer has to endure the long-suffering of pain from his health condition, that eventually lead to the outcome of his passing. And the awareness and respect that he was tired of living that way thus, ready to leave here and return to the loving light of our holy creator.

I also felt peace from the truth that my Dad is still with me in spirit because bond of love we shared can never die. Love and Spirit transcends the life of the physical body.
So as I hold my Dad in heart and mind each day knowing he remains alive in and through me this way as I reflect only on the fond memories that we shared while he was here, which also gives me peace.

While I miss my Dad immensely, I deeply appreciate the 74 years he was here of which 39 of them I had the opportunity to share with him as his baby girl, which was a gift from God within itself. So from my perspective I see all the aforementioned as a huge blessing that gives me no reason to feel bitter on the day that marks another year of his passing. Instead, it gives me every reason to feel gratitude, peace and love.

I am also thankful for the spiritual insight and understanding that whenever a so called, "void" is created in your life God always fills it with something else to balance out that empty space. In my case, the void created in my heart, my life, and my world following the passing of my Dad, was filled by God with the birth of my beautiful baby girl exactly two years to the day later of his memorial service. 

So rather than bitterness yesterday, I chose to place my focus on the sweetness of God's goodness, grace, and perfection of His love expressed and proven to me time and time again in the most wonderful and miraculous ways. The result in doing so was all the joy I was able to see around me and the peace I felt in my heart. And the extra bonus to my having this positive perspective, on my otherwise "bittersweet day", was the revelation I received that made it all so simply and clear.

It occurred to me that if we make a conscious choice, as I did, to place our focus only on the good in everything that unfolds in life, even when it's unfolding in a way we neither understand or desire, we will be able to always see just how good and gracious God truly is, not some of the time...but ALL of the time. I share this experience with you as my personal evidence that He really does work all things together for good. 

With that said, I leave you with this scripture from  1 Timothy 4:4, "Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks..."

Until next time, I surround you in Love & light! So remember to keep your heart open and let your love light shine bright.



A One Love Production
By Anna "Ms.Poet" Hendricks
copyright 2014
References: Heading Quote, James 1:2-4, New King James Version, biblegateway.com
Closing Quote, 1 Timothy 4:4, The Good News Bible Translation,