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Accountability

You have to realize that you are accountable for your life. Your mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, nor grandparents can do it for you. You are in charge of your own destiny.

If you wake up today and don't like the way your life is going you have the power to change it. Just because mom or dad took a certain route does not mean you have to follow their paths, set out to make your own road in life. Now I'm not saying you can't dream of being like your mom and dad, but your life is your life. You can't reproduce everything or do everything they did in life.

If your siblings took the road to crime that does not mean you have to live a life of crime. There is more to life than repeating broken family cycles. Step out on faith and change your fate. Believe me I know it's hard because I struggle with my faith sometimes, but I know God always works it out for me. You might not believe in the Almighty but you know that things are going to work out for your good as long as you put good into the world.

It's a hard pill to swallow, but all of the dreams and goals you had as a child might not be the life planned for you. Don't give up or quit, just sit down at the table and restructure your plan. Every now and then we all have to reorganize and redevelop our goals and mission in life.

My people we have to wake up and be held accountable. No more blaming the way you were raised or saying well my mother or father did it this way so I'm going to do it like them. Just because your mother did something a certain way does not make it right.  Think of the saying if  your (insert person here) jumped off of a cliff are you going to jump too? Stand tall and create your own way.

If you love someone dearly and you see them heading towards a dead end speak up. You can't say you love someone and watch them destroy their life and you don't try to stop them. That is not love or at least the kind of love I want around me. Granted we can't save everybody, some people have to learn the hard way or repeat some lessons a couple of times before it begins to stick in their head. At least you can rest comfortably knowing you gave it your all. By all means don't give up on them, some things in life take time. Rome was not built in a day so you can't think you can fix somwone within 24 hours.

Living your life by these type of standards display the neighborly love God speaks to us about in His word. We can change the world by starting with self. So each day set out to be the person you needed when life handed you lemons and you could not make lemonade right. Remember I love you!!!

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