http://ramseyssoundandstyle.com/?p=4 the official blog of Ramsey Lewis Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:38:19 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://ramseyssoundandstyle.com/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-19 Anna Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:38:19 +0000 http://ramseyssoundandstyle.com/?p=4#comment-19 God's creations are perfect and full of potential. Trusting yourself is what's most important because God did not create us to fail but to do the best we can and strive to endless opportunities he provides. Good message, it takes long time of trial and error to come to this realization. Unfortunately, what people fear most is taking a step back in financial security and making dearing decisions carries that fear... -Anna. God’s creations are perfect and full of potential. Trusting yourself is what’s most important because God did not create us to fail but to do the best we can and strive to endless opportunities he provides. Good message, it takes long time of trial and error to come to this realization. Unfortunately, what people fear most is taking a step back in financial security and making dearing decisions carries that fear… -Anna.

]]> http://ramseyssoundandstyle.com/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-17 TheOnlyCatte Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:47:13 +0000 http://ramseyssoundandstyle.com/?p=4#comment-17 Perhaps some of what you're suggesting to me is to Trust Him. Your perspective is most compelling. (It is evidenced through your thoughts and compositions.) Letting Go and Letting God is not as easy as it sounds. Surely we should practice our faith; but relinquishing, surrendering control is scary sometimes...oftentimes. The fear of failure, whatever we may deem it to be is typically fueled by self-imposed limitations derived from comparisons, defined by what we determine to be the experiences and or expectations of others. God teaches us that we should let tomorrow "worry" about itself. I am trying to do that, in a balanced sort of way; Cognizant all the while of the importance of "being prepared," yet of the need to simply "breathe," deeply, enjoy my life, and know that in these hard economic times, for instance, where the what ifs are pounding at a door that I am learning to reinforce-in the closed position, that the person that is me, this individual, has only to live---experience "my" life's journey, and recognize and appreciate the many blessings that continue to fall upon me in so many, many ways as I go along. No longer do I need to grip something that doesn't need to be held onto....some things are temporary, some things serve a purpose and are dissipated. Kind of like being molded, even pruned. In that sense, true there is no failure, no lesson. Just blessings. Then we grow. Learning, though, to live/walk by faith does help. What I can control or should for that matter I certainly will, and what I cannot or should not control I must accept that I won't. From that perspective I guess I never lost control, anyway. Hummm, perspective. Thank you, Ramsey for being you. Thank you God, for Ramsey! Perhaps some of what you’re suggesting to me is to Trust Him. Your perspective is most compelling. (It is evidenced through your thoughts and compositions.) Letting Go and Letting God is not as easy as it sounds. Surely we should practice our faith; but relinquishing, surrendering control is scary sometimes…oftentimes. The fear of failure, whatever we may deem it to be is typically fueled by self-imposed limitations derived from comparisons, defined by what we determine to be the experiences and or expectations of others. God teaches us that we should let tomorrow “worry” about itself. I am trying to do that, in a balanced sort of way; Cognizant all the while of the importance of “being prepared,” yet of the need to simply “breathe,” deeply, enjoy my life, and know that in these hard economic times, for instance, where the what ifs are pounding at a door that I am learning to reinforce-in the closed position, that the person that is me, this individual, has only to live—experience “my” life’s journey, and recognize and appreciate the many blessings that continue to fall upon me in so many, many ways as I go along. No longer do I need to grip something that doesn’t need to be held onto….some things are temporary, some things serve a purpose and are dissipated. Kind of like being molded, even pruned. In that sense, true there is no failure, no lesson. Just blessings. Then we grow. Learning, though, to live/walk by faith does help. What I can control or should for that matter I certainly will, and what I cannot or should not control I must accept that I won’t. From that perspective I guess I never lost control, anyway. Hummm, perspective. Thank you, Ramsey for being you. Thank you God, for Ramsey!

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