I lost too much of myself......But, when I come back on this, I’m going to come back with an even bigger bag secured, clearer skin, more peace, joy, actual real love, success, accomplishments & adventure stories to boot! 😘✍🏾✌🏾🙏🏾👏🏾💡📖📷📸🎥💰💸💓💗💖💞
Sparks = you're instantly attracted
Chemistry = you have a vibe together
Connection = you bond on a physical,
emotional and/or intellectual level
Compatibility = you're aligned on values
and complement each other
Sex is a plus... but I wanna feel beautiful, wanted, loved and appreciated. I want to be in love... freely. I want a mutual understanding that we are on a mission to keep love alive. I want to never go to bed mad. I want conversations, communication. Fun. Unconditional love.
thank you for reading! i wanted to give her the space she needed to speak from the heart, and i’m thankful for her trust in me and in @Cosmopolitan!! 💖
The amount of Haiti representation im seeing now really fills my heart man. You gotta remember in the 90s it really wasn’t cool being Haitian. To go from all those nasty insults to this is beautiful.
I fell in love with this verse:
“I will be your God throughout your lifetime— until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.”
Isaiah 46:4 NLT
To stop a monitoring spirit, you can read and pray with Psalm 91 for protection and Psalm 56:6 to blind and confuse spiritual spies. Reading Psalm 35 and Psalm 121 invokes divine safety, blocking the enemy from tracking your steps, progress, and destiny.
HOW TO PRAY CORRECTLY AND GET EXPECTED RESULT 🔥💥
1. Pray with sincerity, not just repetition (Matthew 6:7–8)
Prayer is not about saying many words or trying to impress God. Speak honestly from your heart and approach Him with sincerity. God values genuine conversation more than empty repetition.
2. Begin with worship and thanksgiving (Psalm 100:4)
Start by acknowledging God’s greatness, faithfulness, and goodness. Gratitude shifts your focus from problems to God’s power and builds faith before you present your requests. Thanksgiving prepares the heart for deeper prayer.
3. Pray according to God’s will (1 John 5:14)
Effective prayer is not about forcing your desires on God. It is about aligning your desires with His purposes and plans. Prayer becomes powerful when it agrees with God’s will and wisdom.
4. Pray with faith (Mark 11:24)
Doubt weakens confidence in prayer. Approach God believing that He hears you and is able to act according to His perfect will. Faith trusts God even when answers are not immediate.
5. Confess and repent when necessary (Psalm 66:18)
A healthy prayer life includes honesty about sin, mistakes, and areas that need change. Repentance restores fellowship and keeps the heart sensitive to God. A clean heart helps maintain spiritual clarity.
6. Use God’s Word in your prayers (Isaiah 55:11)
Praying Scripture strengthens faith and helps keep your prayers aligned with biblical truth. God’s promises provide confidence and direction during prayer. The Word gives substance to your prayers.
7. Pray consistently, not only during emergencies (Luke 18:1)
Prayer should be a lifestyle, not just a response to crisis. Consistent prayer builds intimacy with God, strengthens faith, and develops spiritual stability. Strong prayer lives are built daily.
8. Listen as well as speak (Psalm 46:10)
Prayer is a conversation, not a monologue. Spend time quietly reflecting on God’s Word and allowing Him to speak to your heart. Sometimes guidance comes through stillness and reflection.
Correct prayer is not about using perfect words, special formulas, or impressive language. It is about approaching God with sincerity, faith, humility, gratitude, obedience, and persistence. God is not looking for perfect prayers—He is looking for hearts that genuinely seek Him.
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
Genuinely emotional watching Haiti play again in the World Cup. No nation has been so thoroughly & repeatedly spat on and humiliated by the Western world for the crime of demanding its own freedom and self-determination as them. Seeing them back on the global stage is incredible.