Eden’s Positivity Week starts today.
Day 1: Yourself
Day 1 is simple. Write about yourself, write a small biography or whatever you want to do, but it has to be positive about yourself.
Sometimes it’s hard to not feel bad about yourself. We live in a world that seems to constantly be judging. I’m not here to judge, but just to say write something positive about yourself, something you love about yourself. You can even write about your flaws and why you feel they may be positive for whatever reason.
“Lynard Skynard! Parliament Funkadelics! Willy Wonka!” ~ BA Spears
“Greatness” ~ studiavena
A friend asked me to write about my spiritual journey. I thought I would start Positivity Week with the beginnings of that series.
It’s a long way from a conservative Southern Baptist family in the rural south to where I am today. My father was a Southern Baptist minister. I’m also a Southern Baptist minister. We’ll get to that.
As a child my life was church oriented. Not only did I attend church twice on Sunday, on Wednesday night, during VBS, and during revival weeks, I lived next door to the church. The parking lot and cemetery were part of my turf. Mom was always fussing for me to get out of the cemetery. She’d tell me one of the grave markers might fall on me and kill me.
Like a lot of ‘church’ kids I was born again and again and again and again. Finally, one night at a Billy Graham meeting it stuck.
God, religion, and spirituality have been part of my life from the beginning.
I left home after my first two years in college and transferred to Samford University. God had spoken and I was going to be a minister. I changed my major from art/mathematics to religion and philosophy with a minor in psychology.
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Nov 11, 2013 @ 18:36:16
Can’t wait for part two 🙂
Nov 11, 2013 @ 19:01:29
rofl…which part two? hahahaha Part two of the spiritual journey will be after positivity week ends and probably after I post some more picture blogs. You know how I am about the picture blogs. 🙂 Have a Terrific Tuesday!
Nov 11, 2013 @ 19:02:23
Really enjoyed this entry. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s entry. I have lived next to quite a few cemeteries as well.
Nov 11, 2013 @ 19:15:06
Cemeteries are cool. I enjoy visiting them. I don’t know if it is a warm fuzzy from childhood or something else. I just feel at home there. lol
Tomorrow is
Day 2: Looking To The Future
Focusing too much on the past or future is never a good thing. However, it is good to visualize what you want in life, what you want to achieve, something you want to happen even if it is just a simple vacation. For this day, let’s look to the future for a few minutes and share what good, positive things we want in the future.
It can be achieving your dream, buying a new house at a good price or even something you are really looking forward to next year.
Nov 12, 2013 @ 00:19:17
HA! Love your photo! So cool, Dude!!! Hip to the max, Funk-ster!!! 😀
I eagerly await Part 2. You seem to have taken a journey that I can relate to.
I think cemeteries are so interesting. I got to visit one last week that had graves from the 1860’s.
HUGS!!! 🙂
Nov 12, 2013 @ 18:41:01
And what a long strange trip it has been. rofl Did you see the gravestone I posted for Taco? He was buried in an 1800’s cemetery.
Nov 12, 2013 @ 22:06:11
I don’t remember seeing that gravestone. Where would I find it?!
Dec 05, 2013 @ 08:37:02
Here is Taco. http://instagram.com/p/f0LKCmqErz/
Nov 12, 2013 @ 07:32:30
righteous photo. looking forward to more of the history too. i also dig cemeteries- i mean like. i like looking through the dates and imagining people’s lives. or deaths. but anyhow.
Nov 12, 2013 @ 18:46:43
Glad you like the photo. I like costume dress and on occasion I have a lot of fun with it.
I visit cemeteries pretty often. Most the ones I’m visiting these days are way out in the woods with grave markers in the 1800s. It is sad by today’s standards that there are so many children’s graves.
The history will be spread out after positivity week.
Nov 12, 2013 @ 09:54:27
Positivity week. That is a good start. Although right now I can only think of negativity, as I a quite a judgmental person. 😦
Nov 12, 2013 @ 18:47:24
It’s tough being judgmental. hugs
Nov 12, 2013 @ 15:38:23
Ha! I was thinking about your photo and thought of some more adjectives…you look fly, you look dope, you look smoooooooooooooth!!! 🙂
Nov 12, 2013 @ 18:47:58
hahahaha….loving the adjectives. lol
Nov 12, 2013 @ 21:31:57
Really enjoyed this and loved the photo.<:)
Nov 13, 2013 @ 21:36:09
Thank you.
Dec 04, 2013 @ 21:44:41
this is interesting – I was raised Pentecostal, not Southern Baptist, but I do understand the constant several times a week church attendance, and being reborn many times. such interesting career choices!
j.
Dec 05, 2013 @ 08:41:22
I’m a truth seeker. Was then. Still am. That is really what was happening during this period. The religion I knew was the only route to truth and meaning that I was aware of. That quickly changed.
I still love a good Pentecostal church service once in a while. They know how ‘get in the spirit’. I can hoot and holler with the best of them. Hands waving in the air.
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Dec 05, 2013 @ 17:12:55