The Day After Valentine's Day: Where is the Love?

So Valentine's Day has now come and gone. Everyone is done running around for last minute gifts to give to their beloved. The stores have already moved on to promoting the next major holiday they can commercialize and bring in the most profit from.  So what happens now to all those high vibrations of love that so heavily saturated the air just yesterday intoxicating us with every breath we took in and exhaled? 

Did all those "good vibrations" expire on Valentines Day at midnight and just evaporate like the carriage that turned back into a pumpkin in the Cinderella fairytale? I most certainly hope not.

I admit, I too am a supporter of celebrating Valentine's Day simply because it is a day we set aside to honor the greatest and most powerful force in the entire universe. Also, because God is love and we are made in His image and likeness. Thus, the true essence of our being is love. For this very reason I believe our thoughts, hearts and actions should not be limited to being open to conscious vibrations and expressions of love for only two days a year...Christmas and Valentine's Day. 

Everyday should be looked upon with the same positive attitude and patience, generous acts of kindness and an open heart of compassion that we do on the day we have set aside as a society to honor and celebrate love called...St.Valentine's Day. 

In truth, everyday is a perfect day to celebrate and honor love. Why? Because everyday you are blessed to awake of sound mind and able body is another opportunity to express the love that God is, expressing in and through us all. So just because Valentine's Day is over do not let your efforts and actions to express love to yourself and other's be over and done as well. 

Let us remember the characteristics of love as defined in the attached image quoted from
1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Love has many attributes but of them all let us make a more conscious effort to remember at least these few most important ones...Love is patient...love is kind...love is not rude...love is not easily angered...love keeps no record of wrongs. More simply stated, above all else, love is... patient, thoughtful, compassionate and considerate of others, respectful, and forgiving.

Now that Valentine's Day is over you may have  been thinking all the loving vibrations in the air are gone and unconsciously closed your heart and mind to expressing love. Instead, remain consciously open and aware of the love that is always readily available to you as the divine love in you waiting to be expressed through you in the unique way God created only you to be. 


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


A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2014
References: Holy Bible,  http://www.biblegateway.com/

Love Light Spot Light:Celebrity Aquarius List Part 2

Happy Birthday Aquarius! Here's my list of celebrity Aquarian's who celebrated birthday's with you this week. Also included in today's Inspirational Love Note, with all you water bearer's in mind, is my Love Light Spot Light artist for this week, famous Aquarius Bob Marley.

So check out the list of celebrity Aquarius below. Then enjoy the short featured article and video featuring, Legendary Aquarius, Bob Marley with today's Inspirational Love Note message through song.


February 2
Rapper - Gucci Mane ~ 34

February 3
Singer - Sean Kingston ~ 24

February 4
Civil Rights Activist - Rosa Parks ~ 1913 - 2005

Boxer - Oscar de la Hoya ~ 41

February 5
Legendary Major League Baseball Player - Hank Aaron ~ 80

Singer (Former member of the R&B group New Edition- Bobby Brown ~ 45

February 6
Legendary Reggae Singer - Bob Marley ~ 1945-1981

Jazz & Pop Singer and daughter of Legendary Singer Nat King Cole - Natalie Cole ~ 64

Actor - Robert Townsend ~ 57

February 7
Comedian - Chris Rock ~ 49

Actor - Ashton Kutcher ~ 36

Actress - Essence Atkins ~ 42

February 8
Actor - Pooch Hall ~ 37

February 9
Actor - Joe Pesci ~ 71
Actress - Camille Winbush ~ 24 ( known for her role as Vanessa on the Bernie Mac show)

February 10
Legendary Singer - Roberta Flack ~ 77

February 11
Singer - Kelly Rowland ~ 33
Singer/Actress - Brandy ~ 35
Actress - Jennifer Aniston ~ 45
Singer - Sheryl Crow ~52
Actor - Burt Reynolds ~78
Politician - Sarah Palin ~50

February 12
U.S. President- Abraham Lincoln ~(1809-1865)
Actor/Comedian/TV Show Host - Arsenio Hall

February 13
TV Show Host - Jerry Springer ~70

February 14
TV Actress - Florence Henderson ~ 80 
(most known for her role as Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch)

And this weeks celebrity in the Love Light Spot Light, is the man who introduced Reggae music to the world, Loss Legend and celebrity Aquarius, Bob Marley.

Here are a few factoids you may not have known about Bob Marley:

He was born to interracial parents, his father was European - Jamaican of British heritage and his mother was African-Jamaican.

His birth name is Nesta Robert Marley and his first but  a Jamaican passport official mistakenly switched around his first and middle name to Robert Nesta Marley.

He was born February 6, 1945 on his maternal grandfather's farm in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaican. And later, after marrying his wife Rita Anderson in 1966, he moved to the United States for a short while in Wilmington, Delaware to be near his mother who had moved there earlier. 

While living in Wilmington, Delaware he worked for DuPont as a lab assistant and on the assembly line at Chrysler under the alias name, Donald Marley. 

He was raised a Catholic by his mom and converted to Rastafari in the 60's after moving away from his mother's influence in Wilmington, Delaware back to his homeland Jamaica.  

Bob Marley, his wife Rita and his manager Don Taylor suffered gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt on his life on December 3, 1976 and he still showed up to perform for the concert he was preparing for two days later called, Smile Jamaica, organized by the Prime Minister of Jamaica at the time, Michael Manley. 

At the end of 1976 Bob Marley left Jamaica and lived in England for 2 years in self-imposed exile. 

Although Marley was a devout Rastafari for several years, on November 4, 1980 shortly before his death, he was baptised into Christianity by Archbishop Abuna Yeseshaq of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston Jamaica. 

He was awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations in 1978.

In February 1981, just a few months before his death, he was awarded Jamaica's third highest honor, the Jamaican Order of Merit making his official name and title Nesta Robert Marley OM. 

Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 in Miami after a long battle with a form of cancer called melanoma that had spread throughout his body including his lungs and brain which was the cause of his death. 

Long after his death he continued to receive accolades and awards for his legendary contributions to music which included a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2001. 

In 2004 he was ranked number 11 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Artist of All Time.

Bob Marley...a loss legend who's memory will always be honored and his music will always be an Inspirational Love Note  to the hearts and minds of generations still yet to come. 
In closing, enjoy this video to one of his most popular songs to date, One Love,  that was named song of the millennium by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and a perfect song with a perfect message to also honor both Black History Month and Valentines Day today. 

Until Next time...I surround you in Love & light! So remember to keep your heart open and your love light shining bright. 



A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2014
References :  http://www.famousbirthdays.com/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley,
http://www.youtube.com/

Ten Ways to Love

My Inspirational Love Note message for you today is the attached list of ten ways to love that include scriptures from the bible that align with and support each point and suggestion. Review each one carefully. Then share it....save it....study the scriptures given with it...and above all else begin to put into practice the wisdom of each profound message on this list.

Begin to consciously make an effort to adopt this string of wisdom pearls into your attitude and behavior in your most intimate and important relationships. As you do you are guaranteed to see your love begin to grow and thrive not just barely survive. 

Why do I feel this list is so full proof? It is because of two things I have tried and seen proven true. That is, as with any plan or idea, it only works if you work it...i.e. put it into consistent practice with patience and stay with it long enough to see results begin to manifest. Secondly, and most importantly, I believe as holy scripture tell us and have seen many times for my self in my own life experiences that Love never fails. 

People fail when they choose to give up on love but love never gives up on you because love is God and God is the one constant in this ever changing world. And here are ten ways to do your love test, draw your own love conclusion, and receive your own proof of all the aforementioned about love being true. 

Until next time...I surround you in Love & light! So always keep your heart open and your love light shining bright. 

A One Love Production

Copyright 2014

Reference: Ten Ways to Love image 

obtained from love images Google search at http://Google.com

February: 28 Days of Celebrating and Honoring Love

At my place of spiritual worship and church home, Hillside International Chapel & Truth Center, in Atlanta, Georgia, we celebrate every month by honoring and recognizing one of the twelve Spiritual faculties that we each embody as spiritual beings having a human experiences in the physical body. Yet, while living in the physical world on this human journey we are in Truth, and in essence, still children of the Most High God made in His image and likeness which is ultimately....Love. 

As beacons of light and vessels of love what better time of year to celebrate, honor and remember our true essence, and the highest power and energy in the universe, than February, the month of love. This is also the same reason and purpose I created and named this blog Inspirational Love Notes. 

That being said, all of my Inspirational Love Note messages to you this month will be focused on celebrating and honoring our love as always. However, I'll be turning up the love light notch to just a little bit higher vibration than usual all this month to ensure that you really feel it and hopefully inspire you to raise the love light vibration in your heart this month as well. 

I'd like to begin by sharing the following quote from today's message from my church homes monthly publication booklet of spiritually based inspiring messages called, The Daily Thoughts from the Hill. 

"The more we delve into the spiritual idea that all of life is connected and birthed of the same spiritual substance, the easier it will be to see our relationships as spiritual practice-even the challenging ones. Our relationships are perfect mirrors for us to see ourselves. They show us where we need to grow, where we are holding judgment, where we have forgiven, and where we have not. Everyone in our lives is there for a divine purpose."  

So as we kick off celebrating the month of love, now four days in, let us also use this month to take a good look in the mirror...the mirror of our closest, most intimate relationships, including and especially our most important relationship of all...our relationship with self. 

As you look in that mirror allow yourself to see and accept the truth that is being reflected back at you through that relationship with your spouse, romantic partner, significant other, or mate and the relationships you have with close friends, family and co-workers as well. 

They all have some kind of important and essential message or lesson they bring for your personal and spiritual growth. And while some of them may be challenging to be a part of, they are on your life path to help you learn, realize or change some aspect about how you perceive, approach or respond to life and love. So as as you look in that mirror look with compassion and know that it's not one sided because you are on their life path to contribute to their personal and spiritual growth and development as well.

Don't be afraid. Go look in that relationship mirror before this day is done with an open heart and non-judgmental mind. You might be surprised to discover just how long love has been trying to get your attention through that particular relationship. Likewise, you might be equally surprised to realize what life and love has been using your most challenging relationships to try to tell you or get you to see something very important about yourself and your own perception of love. 

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



A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2014
References: Daily Thought from the Hill, February 2014 issue, 
Hillside International Chapel & Truth Center

Love Light Spot Light:Celebrity Aquarius List

Happy Birthday Aquarius! Here's a list of celebrity Aquarius who celebrated birthday's with you this week. Also included in today's Inspirational Love Note, with all you water bearer's in mind, is my Love Light Spot Light Friday song artist for this week, famous Aquarius R&B singer, Anita Baker. 

So check out the list of celebrity Aquarius below. Then enjoy the short featured article and video on Anita Baker with today's Inspirational Love Note message through song.


January 26th

Ellen DeGeneres-TV Show Host/Comedian, turned 56

Kirk Franklin - Gospel Singer/Song Writer, turned 44

Anita Baker - R&B Singer, turned 56

January 27th

John Witherspoon - Actor, turned 72

January 28th

Rick Ross - Rapper, turned 38

Anthony Hamilton - R&B Singer, turned 43

January 29th

Oprah Winfrey -TV Show Host/Owner of Station Network OWN, turned 60

Charlie Wilson - R&B Singer, turned 61

Tom Selleck - Actor, turned 69

Adam Lambert - Singer (American Idol), turned 32

January 30th

Christian Bale - Actor (Played Batman), turned 40

Phil Collins - Singer, turned 63

Charles Dutton - Actor, turned 63

Jody Watley - R&B Singer, turned 55
(former member of 80's group Shalamar and Soul Train Dancer)

January 31st Aquarius:

Justin Timberlake -Singer/Actor, turned 33

Kerry Washington - Actor (Star of ABC's drama Scandal), turned 37


And this weeks celebrity in the Love Light Spot Light, is R&B singer and Aquarius, Anita Baker.

Born Anita Denise Baker, January 26, 1958 in Toledo, Ohio, she was given up at the age of two by her teenage mother to live and be raised by a foster family in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of twelve her foster parents died and she was raised by her foster sister until adulthood. She began singing at the age of sixteen at various Detroit night clubs where she was discovered by bandleader, David Washington, who invited her to audition for the funk band, Chapter 8.  

In 1975 she joined the group Chapter 8 and toured with them as their lead singer. In 1979 the group signed a record deal with Ariola Records and recorded their first album, Chapter 8  featuring singles like, "Ready for Your Love" and the more popular classic single from the group with Anita as lead singer, "I Just Want to Be Your Girl". That same year Ariola was bought out by Arista Records and both Anita and the group she was a part of, Chapter 8, were dropped from the label. 

But as fate would have it, Anita received a call in 1982 from a former associate of Ariola Records, Otis Smith, and convinced her to sign to his Beverly Glen label and her solo career as we know her for today was born with the release of her debut album, The Songstress, which produced classic singles from it like, "No More Tears", "You're the Best Thing Yet", and one of her most popular songs yet still today, "Angel". 

Since then Anita has put out numerous albums with chart breaking hit singles that are timeless classics likes, "Caught Up in the Rapture, "Sweet Love", "You Bring Me Joy" from her second album, Rapture in 1986. And the classic hits kept coming with her follow-up third album, Giving You the Best That I Got, which included classics like, "Just Because", Fairy Tales, and the title track that's still heavily requested at urban weddings all over today, "Giving You the Best That I Got".

The list of timeless classic hits by Anita Baker continue on long and strong well into the new millennium even after taking a long hiatus from 1996 to the early 2ooo's to raise her two sons. More recently, Baker returned to the spotlight with the release of her recorded version of Tyrese's hit, "Lately" in August of 2012. She not only made national headlines with the release of the song she made history with it as well. The single was played in heavy rotation every hour on the hour on urban contemporary stations across the country making Anita Baker the first artist to ever make a song debut of this kind. 

Anita Baker...A classy Lady, a Living Legend, and a Songstress of Love who's body of musical work will remain timeless classics for generations to come.  

Fun facts fans may not know about Anita Baker:

Did you know Anita Baker's singing career almost didn't happen? When the 70's group, Chapter 8, she began her professional singing career in and sang lead for was dropped from Arista Records in 1979, the label told Anita she didn't have a "star quality" singing voice. So she returned to Detroit and became a waitress and law firm secretary. Can you believe that? The world was almost deprived of her gift that is clearly a God infused talent.

Anita Baker is also an eight time Grammy winner from seventeen nominations, four American Music Awards from nine nominations, and seven Soul Train Awards from twelve nominations. 

Anita also received a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 1994. And she won the 2005 Artist of the Year at the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. 

Now here's Anita Baker with this weeks Love Light Spotlight song, "Lead Me Into Love", one of my favorites by her, from her third album released in 1988, Giving You the Best That I Got.   

Until next time...I surround you in LOVE & light! So remember to always keep your heart open and your love light shining bright. 



A One Love Production
By Anna Ms.Poet Hendricks
Copyright 2014
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Baker,
Anita Baker, "Lead Me into Love" video, http://www.youtube.com/,


  

Be Ready!:Expecting Your Blessings in an Unexpected Way

Are you going through a situation that feels like you're stuck between "here and there"? Sometimes the transitional process getting from where we are to where we wanna be in life can be frustrating and fearful. It can also bring  on high levels of anxiety when it looks like we're not getting any closer to our desires, hopes, dreams or even a need that we have prayed over and are doing our best to remain patient as we wait for God to fulfill it.

If this sounds like you and something you're currently going through know that you are not alone. Everyone is processing and growing through something.  However, you never know in what way God will move in your life and answer your prayers. You never know what day, hour or moment your blessings will come.

So while you're waiting don't allow your frustrations and impatience to get your mind and emotions all worked up because progress is happening in God's time instead of our time. A much more productive use of your mind space and emotional energy is to do as scripture tells us in St. Luke 12:40 and "be ready..."

With that said, here are a list of promises from scripture you can stand on to help you mentally and emotionally get ready while waiting on your expected blessings that are sure to come in an unexpected time and way.

Promises to Stand On While Waiting On Your Blessings to Unfold

Psalm 46:10 ~ “Be still, and know that I am God; I am exalted among the heathen and I am exalted in the earth.”

Psalm 23:5 ~ “Thou preparest a table for me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”

Luke 12:36 ~ “And be like men who expect their master when he will return from the wedding house; so that when he comes and knocks, they will immediately open the door for him."

Luke 12:37 ~ "Blessed are those servants, whom their master, when he comes, finds them awake; truly I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down, and come in and serve them."

Luke 12:38 ~ "If he should come in the second or the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants…."

Luke 12:40 ~ "Therefore, you also be ready; for the Son of man will come in that very hour which you do not expect.”

Isaiah 55:10-13 ~ “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth and makes it bring forth and sprout and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall do what I please and it shall accomplish that for which I sent it.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and if shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

In the mighty name, nature and consciousness of Jesus the Christ…Thanks God! So It Is!

Until next time...I surround you in LOVE & light! So always keep your heart open and let your love light shine bright. 

A One Love Production

By Anna M. Hendricks

Original Copyright September 2011

Revised Copyright January 2014

References: The Holy Bible, Lamsa's Aramaic Translation

The Prayer of Faith

 God is my help in every need;

God does my every hunger feed;

God walks beside me, guides my way

Through every moment of the day.

I now am wise, I now am true,

Patient and kind, and loving, too;

All things I am, can do, and be,

Through Christ the Truth, that is in me.

God is my health, I can't be sick;

God is my strength, unfailing, quick;

God is my all, I know no fear,

Since God and Love and Truth are here.

~By Hannah More Kohaus