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Time To Shine Welcome and welcome back! It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here.  This has been a long, full day.  It's after 7:30 p.m. and I'm finally creating the time to work on this.  It has been such a crazy amazing week and I have been waiting for this day to come. Of all of the days in the month of February, this one is the most important to me: February 25.  February 25, 1930 is the day my maternal grandmother (my mom's mom) was born ⭐. Cora Dean Lee Sanders, my Nana (nah-nah not nan-na), was a regal woman and cared for me while my mom worked. Her husband, my grandfather, Alexander, (MeMe is what we called him) was equally regal with length to his stature. I Love these two people. I have fond memories of both 😍.    I remember sitting between my Nana's legs getting my hair braided. That conjures up memories of me sitting on the chair in the kitchen waiting for the hot comb to heat up on the stove. She would use it to straighten

Bringing Dignity to OUR Poverty Welcome and welcome back. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here.  There are so many themes that have resonated with me this month. But for today... for THIS special edition of Motivating Monday (on Thursday) the theme is "bringing dignity to OUR poverty".  "Bringing dignity to poverty" is the overall mission of the NEW Emancipation Proclamation project I've been working on. There is very little about poverty that is dignified so this might seem like a tall order to fill. To be clear, for me "bringing dignity to poverty" simply means giving people the opportunity to choose again.  Many people, including those who are involved in helping others, do not realize how they strip people needing help of their power to choose. With so many of those people being Christian or working for organizations or programs influenced by Christians, it is hypocrisy to strip people of their right to choose.

God's Divine Time Welcome and welcome back. Happy Monday! It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here.  Ya know something? I'm still learning. I've been on this journey with God for quite some time now. And the one questions I ALWAYS neglect to ask, when given an assignment, is "when is this due?"  Last week I had so many grand plans. God stopped me in my tracks mid-week and NOTHING  I had planned was going to play out how I wanted it to. If you are wise, hindsight is 20/20. Clear vision is easier to achieve when you're reflecting not reacting. So I reflected, trying to see where I missed the cues God had tried to give.  Sho' nuff. There they were. And He had not even been subtle. I just wasn't paying attention. I wasn't asking. I was just going forward. This experience reminded me again... once again taught me, having a relationship with God goes two ways.  I'm not just a slave to His directions. I can ask quest

Black Love Celebrations Nya Akoma! It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for joining me for this special Wednesday edition of Motivating Monday. We are just a few days from celebrating Black Love Day Weekend and the beginning of Akoma Days. And that's what today's edition is about: Black Love celebrations! It's Black Love Day weekend and the start of Akoma Days too. Regardless of what your cultural background is, this post is for you. We can all do better to know one another. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I Love Love! I especially Love Black on Black Love  for My People . When I say "my people", I mean  All My People . Click those links and hear what that kind of Love is like.  To think there are inspired individuals who have been led to create wholly days to celebrate Black Love officially, gives me great pleasure. Here on MY L.U.V. platform, I get to support them. Let's start with Black Love Day.  To give some personal backgro

It's Time For L.U.V.!  Welcome and welcome back. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you for joining me again and so soon! I want to start by mentioning a few things I missed LAST Monday. First of all,  Happy Black History Month  (nationally celebrated February 1-28, 2021, privately celebrated daily; so many links, so little time)!  Second, Happy  Black Love Day  ❤ and Black Love Day Weekend (celebrated on February 13, this Saturday)!  Third, Happy  Akoma Days  💝Month (celebrated February 14-20, starting this Sunday)! Also, Happy Resurrection Month to  L.U.V. Enterprises ! The time is NOW! It's time to Love. It's time for L.U.V! #spreadLove #spreadLUV Yes! YES!! YAAAAAASSSS 🥳📯🥂!! Whoot! Whoot!  How I Love Love! I Love Black Love especially! I am who I am today because of Black Love. I am  where I am  today because of Black Love  so it means everything to me (second only to the Love of God). If you click on the links above they will take you to events I'm

The Best Is Yet To Come in 2021 (Continued from Part 1 ) Welcome to Part 2. You can find Part 1 here . Let's continue, shall we? Usually I have a theme for my year. Last year it was "Two-Oh-Two-Oh Get Ready For Your Overflow" (thank you Cynthia Roberts).  In so many wonderful ways  we got so much overflow. I am so grateful for all those who contributed to our " Two-Oh-Two-Oh Overflow".   Honestly,  I expected that overflow to come in the form of money.  I wasn't ready for it though. Now I am. That's probably why God didn't reveal my theme for this year until last week, the first week of the second month of the year. What is crazy is I have been saying it to so many people since the year began. In fact I was speaking with a friend and mentioned not having a theme when I said, "the best is yet to come".  That's when it hit me. I've had my theme for the year: "The Best Is Yet To Come in Twenty Twenty-One". I just didn't r

Portraits of Our Poverty  Welcome and welcome back 😀! Happy Monday 😎. It's another amazing day in paradise 🌴. Thank you so much for being here 👏.  For those of you who are first time visitors, my name is Kara Lynn "Kai" Sanders. I am a mom. That is my career of choice. On December 23, 2015, I gave birth to an amazing, dynamic, charming, intelligent, handsome young Black man 👏. His name is Wisdom. He is my dream child, gifting me with the career of my dreams.  I am also the C.B.B., Chief Bushel Blaster, for L.U.V. Enterprises. L.U.V. is an acronym for " l earn u r v alue". Our motto is "building the village, raising the child". You can find out more about L.U.V. and the C.B.B. title in this blog post from December 2019. This week's blog posts will be a little bit different from the norm. Mondays are when I generally release my weekly post called Motivating Monday . Today  I am producing two of four different editions that will post this week