Everyone Can’t Be In Your Front Row

This was an email I got from my boy D back in September. He knows I was starting my "house cleaning project around that time & this email represents the reason for my cause & helps me stay focused when I'm conflicted. I know others can relate so enjoy:

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Life is a theater – invite your audience carefully.
Not everyone is spiritually healthy and mature enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you LET GO, or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships/fellowships.

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention to:
-Which ones encourage & which ones discourage?
-Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
-When you leave certain people, do you feel better or feel worse?
-Which ones always have DRAMA or don’t really understand, know, and appreciate you and the gift that lies within you?

When you seek growth, peace of mind, love, and truth, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.
You cannot change the people around you.., but you can change the people YOU ARE AROUND!!! Ask the Lord for Godly wisdom and discernment; and choose wisely the people who sit in the front row of your life. Just because no one has shown up on your level doesn’t mean you have to sink to theirs!

Love Shouldn't Leave Bruises

I wrote this 2 yrs ago for a friend of a friend:


Love shouldn’t leave bruises


Love may be blind but you can’t even see thru your eyes,
Because they’re both swollen shut from trying to speak your mind.
You’re losing weight because you’re scared to even eat.
He’s pushed away all your friends.
To him we’re just a bunch of nosy, scandalous hoes, bitches & freaks.
Getting jumped by his other baby mamas?
You’re supposed to be his wife!
All while he sits back and condones and that shit just isn’t right!
You say “Y’all don’t understand our love; he’s nothing like y’all talk about!”
Because your family wants to help and you just shut them out.


Baby girl PLEASE, don’t take back that man!
Love shouldn’t leave bruises, get away while you can!

There’s some statements I’m gonna make and you might not find it nice.
You have a history of thugs running in & out your life.
You use your body to love, to talk, and mesmerize.
Should’ve spent more time w/ their minds.
Then you might have noticed the signs.
Now you’re another man’s punching bag, and it almost ain’t a suprise.
Again, you have to go out in public covered in a disguise.
When are you gonna wake up and see that man don’t love with his heart.
Or are you gonna wake up at all when this man can’t see y’all apart.
And it ain’t an open casket funeral because you’re just body parts!
Will your child grow up without you because daddy’s obsession went too far?
Or will they be doomed the same fate instead of growing up to be a star?


Baby girl PLEASE, don’t take back that man!
Love shouldn’t leave bruises, get away while you can!