Today I indulged in a delicious cup of gourmet, hot chocolate. I was pleasantly surprised at its delicious taste. For a short time only I will be happy to send you samples of my gourmet coffee with a purchase of my novel, Looking for the Promise. Curl up by the fire, read a great book, and sip your hot beverage. Please email me at pclovesong@gmail.com for your copy of Looking for the Promise and your holiday treat. Happy Holidays - Patrice



The Game of Life

Life is like a chess game. Sometimes you make some really great moves.

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From the Butterfly Journal of Patrice Baylor Leigh

 

Every day I think about the prophecy to write the book that would help women who were on the verge of committing suicide because they have lost everything. “You are to write the book because you have lost everything but yet you have not lost your joy.” (Todd Hall)  I wondered how that latent joy would help me get up on this particular morning. Would it be a joyous day?  I faced the fact that joy had nothing to do with reality, that I couldn't go around acting as though nothing negative was happening in my life.

                Was it God's will that these things were happening now? Was it my entire fault? My repeated question was “What, Lord, do I learn from this? When will this nightmare end?” What exactly I was supposed to be doing I didn't know. I attempted to apply for teaching positions, but my hands froze just before sending off for transcripts, I didn't have the extra money anyway to pay for them. Besides that, I still suffered from a bureaucratic setback from the last teaching position I held. As I surfed the internet for positions in Louisiana I thought, surely New Orleans will need teachers. If not teaching, what?

“Infinite Spirit open the way for the Divine Design of my life to

manifest; let the genius within me now be released; let me see clearly

the perfect plan.”

The Game of Life and How to Play It - Florence Scovel Shinn

I was doing my personal reading this afternoon when my sister in Chicago called at 3:40pm to share a dream she had about me the previous night. Earlier that day I had an impression of the word spoken over my life by a man of God, “You will have multiple residences in various places.” This morning as I listened to the Millionaire Mentorship broadcast, “Need X Faith = Motivation” by Organo Gold VP of Sales and Marketing, Holton Buggs, I took note of the comments he made about having abundance because it was not just for you. It is that people need to see you having more; big houses, nice cars so they could dream for themselves. (Paraphrasing) He remarked on how he and his wife had several nice cars, four homes and the need for each. Of course I would say I was feeling pretty mellow today, so when my sister called and said, “I dreamt you had a head full of hair, were wearing a gray two piece suite and you and I were riding around in a Rolls Royce”, my mind quickly went to the inspirations of the day. What a mighty God we serve. Infinite Spirit you have shown the Divine Design for my life.

As a footnote I will add that having suffered a great loss of hair this vision with a head full simply meant healing. The two piece gray suit symbolic of a "banker's gray", could put me as the banker; the lender not the borrower. The Rolls Royce - self explanatory. Board Walk!