I’ll make this short, sweet and to the point. There’s a popular phrase that almost everbody has heard, unless you were literally just born yesterday.

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Does anyone else get tired of hearing that phrase because it either 1) is getting old or 2) doesn’t help you feel better about a situation at all?

I hear a lot of people complain about their jobs. Heck, I can be one of those at times. But would you rather be among the unemployed or would you rather go to that job you dislike or even hate so long as it pays the bills and keeps your head above water?

I thought so….

Lesson over

It’s fun to watch her blush every time I tell her how amazing or beautiful or sexy she is. She tells me she’s not used to hearing it as much as I tell her, so I tell her that much more not only because she deserves to hear it but because I can.

Then I realize it’s not the only blessing I have in my life, God continues to open my eyes to things I had forgotten about. It happened last night…

My wife and I had dinner with family friends that I hadn’t seen in over three years. They are my second parents and they’ve been such an influence on my life and I pray they continue to have an influence on my life.

I thank God for all of the gifts He’s given me and continues to give me. I stand in awe every day…I love this feeling.

The most amazing part about this journey is, this friend and I are chasing dreams at the same time. Though they are different dreams, God has spoke into both of our lives and given us prophetic words that these dreams will come to pass.  We know that it will be in God’s perfect timing and this friend had to remind me that it’s best that we don’t have a date that He points to tell us when it’s going to happen, for the simple reason that we just might screw it up.

I know our dreams are close at hand and I know that when our Father makes a promise, it’s a promise that He will never break.

I’ve heard His voice and I know there’s something coming up that He’s had in mind for me since I was born. This is my destiny and there will come a day where I’ll stop watching the world go by in front of me and make it stop spinning, even if just for a day.

I’ve spent a lot of time praying about this as well as talking it over with my fiance. She’s been incredible supportive and knows that if God has this on his watch for a certain date that we’ll be ready for it. Don’t get me wrong this is as scared and as nervous as I’ve ever been because of the things I’ve been told in the prophetic.

I know this is the future I want for not only myself but the family I’ll one day have. This is going to do wonders for my fiance and I in our new lives together. It will allow us to do the things we never thought would come through our lives but we’re trusting in the Father and knowing that He has only our best intentions at heart.

So whatever may come in whatever time, the Father knows I’m ready.

He blessed a very close friend of mine last night and it was so awesome to hear that these things will come to pass in his life. Something he’s been working so hard towards and it’s a dream that he’s been chasing. I know exactly how he feels as I’ve been chasing a dream of my own, but to hear the encouragement that came to his heart was so awesome that I just couldn’t help but give the glory to God and praise Him for lifting up that friend to a future that he’s been praying about.

God knows the desires of our heart and all we have to do is lift up our prayers to Him. But sometimes we need to understand that the prayers that aren’t answered aren’t meant to be answered. Garth Brooks said it best when he said “some of God’s greatest gifts, are unanswered prayers.” We have a future that only God knows about, we have a future that He had planned for our lives before we were even born. But those futures aren’t going to come when we want them. They are going to come when God says it’s time.

God is an amazing God and He is the ultimate encourager. Thank You Lord for lifting up my friends when they needed it the most and I thank You for the work you are still to do in their lives.

I’ve never been dropped like that before where I’m completely speechless and crying like a small child. I’m usually the one that takes a prophetic word, smiles as big as I could possibly muster and is left feeling good. But this was completely different, this was something that I’ve been praying so hard about over the last month and even further back than that. Just to get that word last night, when it was so unexpected was so amazing and so overwhelming.

I woke up this morning wondering if last night was real, if what happened really happened. But then God speaks and tells me that it was real and He is with me. He has my future in His hands and will guide me right where He needs me to be right when I need to be there.

I’ve been told that I won’t have to sacrifice my faith to do this. Believe me, after all He has done for me in my life as well as in my relationship with my fiance, I want to do things exactly the way He asks me to do it.

I am overwhelmingly blessed. It’s been an incredible journey.

I’m going to deviate from my usual topics here on my blog and get out the word on a new radio show making it’s debut tonight here in Dallas. Yes I might be a tad biased because he’s one of my closest friends but I want to get as many people as I can listening because I know he’s going to be great!

If you have some time today, go to www.fishbowlradionetwork.com and find The Trae Thompson Show. It will go on the air at 5pm CDT tonight and will be on the air for two hours. For right now, the show will just be one day a week but we’re hoping, with enough listeners and support, he will be able to stretch that into an every day show.

So, if you have a chance, hit the above link and give Trae a listen. It may not be all about sports, but I promise you he’ll have an opinion on a range of topics.

Thanks for your support!

What you need to understand is, when it ends, it needs to end. The bitterness, the anger, the hurt need to go away. Things need to be rectified before your eyes close for the night. Apologize, talk things out and finish whatever needs to be finished.

I’m not going to lie and say my fiance and I haven’t fought but we make it a point to finish things and not let it carry into the next day. We just can’t part ways at the end of the night without knowing there won’t be any anger or resentment the next day.

It’s what makes me love her that much more. We disagree, we may argue about our opinion but then it’s over. She’s a tremendous blessing to me in that regard and it’s what will make our marriage so much stronger.

But something more struck me just before we left his office last night. When I brought up the fact that his wife had prayed into my life that another job would come my way before the wedding, he didn’t seem surprised, almost like he expected that to happen as well. I didn’t know exactly how to take that but that’s where the excitement came in. Had he been surprised I may not have thought anything of it. But the fact that he was left me with a new found faith.

It’s not to say I didn’t have faith before but there are times that it gets so strong that you think there’s nothing that can beat you. That’s how I felt last night.

I know this will happen but only by His hand. If God this in His plans for me and the timing is just right, then it will happen. Just got to keep believing and give the glory to Him when it does.

That’s the feeling that I felt inside of me as I drove to work this morning. It was the feeling of excitement, legitimate excitement for the first time in quite awhile.

I’ve been trying to stay even keel, to try and not get so worked up over the wedding that the excitement gets the better of me and I start to stress out about certain things, my fiance stresses out enough for the both of us.

But there I was, driving to work for the first time and really having that feeling of excitement inside of me. This is a day I’ve been waiting for since July of last year and believe me when I tell you it can’t get here fast enough. Not that I want the day over with, but the planning of it I’m ready to be done with. All of the drama, all of the questions, all of the stress, just done with it all.

But, there’s still patience needed as the big day is still over a month and a half away so there’s no reason to be getting too worked up…just yet.