Me, Charlotte, Today
I posted this at HCR a few minutes ago, but I figure that I better not be lazy and not post it here too. Read on for the Charlotte story.
Hey folks, I know that I haven't been here to chat much (lest its mobile tech). As some/most of you know, I am on the verge of moving to Charlotte, NC. I am done in MD today. I am leaving my apt, and only taking what can fit in my Civic LX.
A few people have asked why am I moving and I have been deliberatly silent on the matter. For good reason, up until today I have been a wavering dude left and right. As it is that I am in the last 24hrs of calling MD home, I am finally settled. This is what I've been wanting to do for 8 years and now I am getting there.
I first went to Charlotte 8 years ago with my college, Millersville University, gospel choir. That year I was assistant chaplin and due to some issues, I basically had chaplin duties when the time for spring break and our first choir tour came around. Upon getting off the bus in Charlotte, the air smelled different, I felt completly relaxed, and just had the overwhelming urge to not want to leave.
We left of course, but I purposed in my heart to get back there. Much prayer and a plan was given to me by God as to how to get thru each semester and what classes to take. You see, until that point, my grades had been in the under 2.0 range and I was in danger for a few semesters of not making it. No, I am intelligent, I wasn't focused. Charlotte, and the other things spoken with it, gave me the focus that I needed to grow in college.
I spent my years after college trying to get to Charlotte. In 2004 I thought I had an opportunity but I was told by the Lord to go back to Philly. It was there that I reconnected with my mom and sis, and basically got some extra training in. Fall of 04, I moved to Manassas as my cousin who lived there hooked me up with a job that would help me get outa debt. God called it a training ground. I was to be here to build.
In summer of 05 I moved to Laurel, when I got the apartment the call was simple, two years and then to NC. Unfortunately, things seemed bleak when I left my job last summer because of emotional, health, and management reasons. I was quite discouraged and Charlotte (and the rest of the vision/dream) was a distant thought. I was out of work for two months (to the day) and got on board with another company that at gave me a good bit of experience.
I left that contacted position May 31 of this year. In Novemeber, before my 3 month evaluation the decision was prayerfully made to move. Scared, not sure what my finances would look like, and with just me, I'd make the move. When my contract was over in March, I thought that I would go, but various spiritual mentors showed me the timing issue. Right call, not yet.
At the end of April I heard and have since basically been getting myself ready to go. Like Santigao in The Alchemist, I have had my share of challenges, and by no means is getting there the end of things. It's the beginning of a lot. My closest friends and family who have heard me spit Charlotte for the last 8 years know this.
For me, this is huge. And I share this with HCR in part because I am too lazy to click over and write this on my own blog. But I wanted to also encourage any of you in that position of being that person who is turning your familiy, community, city, nation, the world in another bend. Where you are going others have done similar, but not exactly. You are walking out and ahead of folks. IF you are anything like me, you are a few years ahead of where anyone wants to listen. But stick to the vision, stay in the Word, stay devoted to God's heart for Himself and His people. Things will pan out and you will get there, and proably have a lot of people walking better because of it.
As for me, I still have no job. I'll be staying with a cousin for a few weeks and hopefully I shall find something. But in the meantime, I have devoted my life thus far to God because of this [huge] vision. I'm learning again that there is a cost to dreams like these. But there is also a God gloryfing ending that happens in the mist of walking it out. Please be encouraged, and please also keep me in your prayers.
Thanks to all who have been so very encouraging during this time.Read More
Hey folks, I know that I haven't been here to chat much (lest its mobile tech). As some/most of you know, I am on the verge of moving to Charlotte, NC. I am done in MD today. I am leaving my apt, and only taking what can fit in my Civic LX.
A few people have asked why am I moving and I have been deliberatly silent on the matter. For good reason, up until today I have been a wavering dude left and right. As it is that I am in the last 24hrs of calling MD home, I am finally settled. This is what I've been wanting to do for 8 years and now I am getting there.
I first went to Charlotte 8 years ago with my college, Millersville University, gospel choir. That year I was assistant chaplin and due to some issues, I basically had chaplin duties when the time for spring break and our first choir tour came around. Upon getting off the bus in Charlotte, the air smelled different, I felt completly relaxed, and just had the overwhelming urge to not want to leave.
We left of course, but I purposed in my heart to get back there. Much prayer and a plan was given to me by God as to how to get thru each semester and what classes to take. You see, until that point, my grades had been in the under 2.0 range and I was in danger for a few semesters of not making it. No, I am intelligent, I wasn't focused. Charlotte, and the other things spoken with it, gave me the focus that I needed to grow in college.
I spent my years after college trying to get to Charlotte. In 2004 I thought I had an opportunity but I was told by the Lord to go back to Philly. It was there that I reconnected with my mom and sis, and basically got some extra training in. Fall of 04, I moved to Manassas as my cousin who lived there hooked me up with a job that would help me get outa debt. God called it a training ground. I was to be here to build.
In summer of 05 I moved to Laurel, when I got the apartment the call was simple, two years and then to NC. Unfortunately, things seemed bleak when I left my job last summer because of emotional, health, and management reasons. I was quite discouraged and Charlotte (and the rest of the vision/dream) was a distant thought. I was out of work for two months (to the day) and got on board with another company that at gave me a good bit of experience.
I left that contacted position May 31 of this year. In Novemeber, before my 3 month evaluation the decision was prayerfully made to move. Scared, not sure what my finances would look like, and with just me, I'd make the move. When my contract was over in March, I thought that I would go, but various spiritual mentors showed me the timing issue. Right call, not yet.
At the end of April I heard and have since basically been getting myself ready to go. Like Santigao in The Alchemist, I have had my share of challenges, and by no means is getting there the end of things. It's the beginning of a lot. My closest friends and family who have heard me spit Charlotte for the last 8 years know this.
For me, this is huge. And I share this with HCR in part because I am too lazy to click over and write this on my own blog. But I wanted to also encourage any of you in that position of being that person who is turning your familiy, community, city, nation, the world in another bend. Where you are going others have done similar, but not exactly. You are walking out and ahead of folks. IF you are anything like me, you are a few years ahead of where anyone wants to listen. But stick to the vision, stay in the Word, stay devoted to God's heart for Himself and His people. Things will pan out and you will get there, and proably have a lot of people walking better because of it.
As for me, I still have no job. I'll be staying with a cousin for a few weeks and hopefully I shall find something. But in the meantime, I have devoted my life thus far to God because of this [huge] vision. I'm learning again that there is a cost to dreams like these. But there is also a God gloryfing ending that happens in the mist of walking it out. Please be encouraged, and please also keep me in your prayers.
Thanks to all who have been so very encouraging during this time.Read More
On Thursday or Friday (forgetting at the moment), I had an opportunity to speak on the phone with a person at a major handheld company about some issues that I had been having with one of their devices. As we spoke about the issues, I explained not only what the issues were, but why the issues mattered and what more I was looking for out of the device. In one part of the conversation, I even remarked that I would not ask about future devices, but see that their aim was functionality, I only wanted to pique their minds as to what more they could reach for.
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