Falling in love
December 2, 2008 by DianeCorriette · 1 Comment
When I first started attending church and learning about God I really didn’t feel anything for him. I was told it was quite natural because after all I was creating a relationship and it took time to feel love. I was really happy this week when during prayer I finally felt a small spark.
I had remembered to approach with praise and reverence and it was during this feeling of being in awe of the presence of Him that I felt a small spark of love enter my heart. Since then it has been growing every day and now it has grown into a much bigger feeling.
No doubt I will be sharing on Sunday with everyone how that felt. I know it has happened because I stopped asking for stuff and instead decided to seek wisdom and understanding.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding.
Would you take them for granted if you knew they’d be gone tomorrow?
November 27, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
Today is Thanksgiving for those in the USA and I want to wish you a very peaceful and joyful day.
I’ve heard the saying “live each day as if it were your last” and I always thought that meant I should go out and do something that I wouldn’t normally do, after all tomorrow I’d be dead anyway so it wouldn’t matter!
But something happened today to make me realize what it truly meant……..
It’s so very easy to take people for granted because you think that no matter what you do they will still be around. Every day my children leave for school and our farewell is the same
“Bye mum, love you, see you later” (children)
(me) “Bye babes, love you, have a great day”
We exchange good byes as I am still rushing around getting ready and they may be in a hurry to get out of the door. Its our usual goodbye because we have the belief that we will see each other again later.
But how different would my goodbye be if I knew I wasn’t coming back?
I would probably stop to give them a hug. Spend time at the door making sure they had everything they needed. Knowing me I would give them a pep talk about staying positive and doing their best 
and I would send them off with a kiss and tell them to stay happy.
That’s a completely different goodbye to just shouting bye babes down the stairs!
Today my daughters boyfriend lost his mentor and trainer. He’s a semi professional boxer and his young life has been turmoil already. The one person he had that filled him with confidence was his trainer. One day his trainer went off to visit his brother at his place of work and was hit by a fork lift truck. The truck hit him so hard he went into a coma and today he passed away. God rest his soul.
This man left his house and said “see you later” and later never came.
This event has taught me how to live each day as if it is my last. It means validating people and letting them know how much they mean to me at all times even more than I usually do. It means spending more time talking, having fun, laughing with people I love. Even though right now I am going through my own challenges it is a time to be thankful. To give thanks for where I am, who I know and how much I am loved by those that know me.
As someone who took the time to read this I want you to know that I appreciate you being a reader of my work. I know there are many things you could be reading and I am grateful that you have taken the time to read what I write.
May your day be filled with love, friendship, and joy.
Am I a christian now? I’m not sure
October 14, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I’m not big on labels. There are a few I will happily accept like mother. I will even take my name as another and my description as a woman but other than that I’m not big on labels.
Wife. Black woman. Tall. Gorgeous (actually I dont mind that one LOL).
All these labels seek to put me in a box and I feel I have spent far too long in way too many boxes to accept another.
The new one is the word Christian. It seems because I go to church and have accepted Christ I am now a Christian. Now I have no complaints about accepting Christ into my life I am just not sure that I like the word Christian and the feelings it brings up in me….. being restricted, following rules, believing to be better than others because I am one. None of these things relate to loving and knowing God.
All I want to do is go to church, enjoy my new family, sing some songs, praise God and give Him thanks for being in my life.
Why can’t I do that without having to give myself a label?
Or maybe I need to ask what the resistance is to accepting the label.
Either way I’m just a woman who loves church. That’s it!
Moving Towards God
October 2, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
Since August 2008 I have been moving towards God. Its a journey that has taken me by complete surprise because I have never been to church in my life (except weddings, christenings etc)
I made a promise to go where I was led and I was led to church. Since then I LOVE it! I have a passion for life that I have not felt in a long time and despite my reality (that I can see with my eyes) crumbling before me I am still at peace and in love with my relationship with Him.
So it seemed a good time to include my journey on this blog because after all the name Inspirational Guidance was “given” to me one day as I lay on my bed and perhaps this was His intention all along. He knew that eventually I would use it as my way to talk about my journey towards His as a complete beginner.
If you are searching for something I invite you to take a look at God. Not religion. But a relationship with Him and with Jesus Christ. If you are spiritual like I have been for a few years now its a natural progression. But rather than do this alone like I have my spiritual path I am in church and being loved by a new family that want to see my new destiny succeed.
And you can’t ask for more than that.
So stay tuned and be blessed.
Diane
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Fasting… you have got to be kidding me!
September 2, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I have been hearing alot in church about fasting and I have to say I am not impressed. Giving up food for any amount of time seems like nothing but torture to me! After speaking to one of my Sisters it seems that when the time is right I will fast because of my love for God. It won’t be a chore but will be something that I do because I love God and want to praise Him
What I don’t understand is why fasting is needed in the first place.
“I am the peace of God”
January 9, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
“I am the peace of God”
A course in miracles exists to teach us that who we are is love and anything else is living at less that who we truly are. It is a course that takes you through a process of releasing your fear, doubt and worry, instead stepping into an all-encompassing energy that exists to show us who we truly are called God (that I will also call Love)
Change the way you look at things and the way you look at things will change
August 29, 2007 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
Change the way you look at things and the way you look at things will change
A change in perspective is one of the best ways to begin clearning out the old conversations and working towards inner peace and self belieft – which normally results in natural energetic attraction!
We spend so much time believing that our cirumstances dictate our perspective on life. So if we are in the middle of a crisis life is “bad” and if we are madly in love life is “fantastic”
Your way of looking at and/or intrepreting a situation that happens in your life is what determines your perspective.
If life is great no matter what happens then your perspective will be one way, if life is awful no matter what happens then the experiences of your life will be another.
When you take on a different perspective and outlook on life you can give yourself some powerful choices about where you want to go or what you want to do next and a simple change in perspective can make all the difference to how you feel.
Try it now. If there is something bothering you see it from a different perspective. I am not going to tell you what perspective to see it from and will trust that you can do that now all by yourself !
Changing perspective obviously works well when things arent going great and can make all the difference to helping you get through it.
If you want help with changing your perspective I recommend success university
A message from the Universe
February 10, 2007 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
Pssst… It’s me again… the Universe.
You deserve more, you know, much more. And I just happen to have “some”.
Imagine.
Try this. STOP trying to predict, and therefore limit, where it’s going to come from. Just know it’s going to come, and let me figure out the rest.
Cool?
By the way, you rock. Shhhhh…
Have a great day.
Lots of love.
XXXX
LIFE=GOD=LOVE
10 Lessons of Life
November 24, 2006 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
Have you heard of the "Rules of Being Human?"
They are rules handed down (so it has been said) from ancient Sanskirt. Personally I don’t care where they came from, I just know they are great rules to follow to live an empowered life.
I have taken these rules and added a modern day adaptation to them! Feel free to download and pass it on! Also feel free to leave any comments or messages.
To our continued success and blessings
