Are You a BLESSING or CURSE? by Queen Diva 3-29-12

Today's Diva's Diamonds:
Are you a BLESSING or CURSE? I was just having a "tweetsation" with a follower on Twitter the importance of being a blessing or curse to others. I remember saying that once on Facebook a few months ago because so many people do not realize the importance of their words or how powerful their words are when they speak with negative vocabulary or conversation about other people in their lives or read about online. I remember about 10 years ago I used to "CUSS" like a SAILOR! LOL! YES, Queen Diva used to have a "FOUL" mouth!!! I was back and forth living in New York City and I was living in the "world" heavily in trying to get into the music industry working around "Hip Hop & Urban Artists" where the vocabulary is very negative and hurtful. It didn't seem that way when you are in it and always using that vocabulary but one day I said something to a young rapper and he looked at me and said, "Da*n Diva, Why you gotta be so hard on a N***a?" I was like but that guy just said the very same thing! The young rapper said, "Yeah but he's a DUDE!" I was like....WOW, I really need to bridle my tongue! After that I prayed about it and just asked God to help me with my TONGUE. I had to ask God to forgive me and to clean my mind, heart and soul. I just totally surrendered to God and asked God to make me a vessel. It took about 7 years for me to completely change my conversation and my vocabulary.

How did I do it? I prayed, fasted and truly just made a CHOICE to stop using negative words, language and vocabulary. It was hard at first because I was so used to saying "CUSS WORDS" all of the time. I was led to the scripture....Matt 6:21 "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." I had to look at myself and where I stood in my life. I TREASURED cursing and cussing with the men because the Hip Hop industry is a MALE Dominated industry and I wanted to be able to keep up and hang with them as well as be respected in that industry. Did I really want to be known as a woman with a "foul mouth" or "negative conversation?" I was like....NO, I'm not like that! I'm a loving and giving person and I love to help people reach their fullest potential! The more I read the Holy Bible the more I wanted to be like Christ. I truly didn't want to be a child of the devil and I wanted to be a Child of God. As plain and harsh as that sounds it was so true! If we are not of the LIGHT then we are of DARKNESS.

CHOOSE today to walk in the LIGHT! CHOOSE to change your thinking and vocabulary to BLESS others and not CURSE them. When you "CUSS" you are cursing people the names and words you are speaking. You didn't know that did you? Well in the words of the late NOTORIOUS B.I.G., "If you don't know, now you know!"

It's not going to be easy to change your words or thinking it ALL starts with you making a choice every single day, "Am I going to be a BLESSING or a CURSE?" Once you have made that decision then it's up to you to walk in that decision PURPOSELY in a POSITIVE walk and change your thoughts!

CHOOSE today.....Are you a BLESSING or CURSE? Whatever you choose it will not only effect you but the people around YOU! How many times have you gone to work and there was that one person in the office who always had something NEGATIVE to say to everyone about everything ALL day long? How did that make you feel being around that person? Now just think when you are that PERSON? How do you think YOU make others feel? Hmmmm?

I challange you ALL to be mindful of the WORDS you speak and the conversation you entertain. God is always watching and listening to ALL that we say and do! Start today and purposely choose to say something positive to someone you would normally never say a word to on any given day. Compliment their job performance at work or how neat and orderly their desk is arranged. Before you know it you will be speaking LIFE and not DEATH to the people in your life.

I'd LOVE to hear your PRAISE REPORT on what you are doing to be a BLESSING in your life! AMEN! Write your comments on this post!

Just like a diamond you shine resplendently...Keep Diva's Diamonds close to your heart and know that you are already FLAWLESS!

Love, Laughter & Light,
Queen Diva

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Everything is Purposeful by Queen Diva 3-24-12

Today's Diva's Diamonds:
Everything is Purposeful....I will say it again....Everything is Purposeful....maybe I need to shout out...EVERYTHING IS PURPOSEFUL!!! Okay...that was for me not so much for you reading this right now! LOL! Let me explain why I had to write this today...I've had my HP laptop for about two years and the "Backspace" button first came off and then the small button just above that adjacent to the left came off. I've dropped it several times and there's a small scratch on the front toward the tip of the computer where it opens. But that's not why I'm writing this post. Just the other day I finally decided to download a 60 Trial Office 2010 program just until I decided when I would get me a new laptop and prepare for many things God has in store for me to do in 2012 and beyond. I was so tired and I waited to the last minute to download the program while I was listen to "Fly Together" with Ryan Leslie & Red Cafe Instrumental over and over! LOL! I was just waiting for the download to happen then I was going to go to sleep. I remember turning off the computer and closing the laptop but I don't remember taking off my headphones. I wake up the next morning thinking I will be able to check my email and check out the new program I downloaded...

NOT! I took the headphones off but they were in between the keyboard and the computer screen all night and I must have pressed hard against it and when I turned the computer screen on it looked liked a cracked window and all of the pixels were going haywire!!!! I was such shock because I couldn't believe this was happening to me!!! I need to see the screen to do my work and all the things I need to prepare for as well as write my blogs and communicate with family and friends all around the world!!! How could this be happening to me???

I was about to just CRY!!! Then I just heard the LORD say in my spirit every peacefully and quietly..."Don't Worry..." It's going to be alright...just get ready for your day...That was two days ago. I called my brother who helped be before when I got a virus on this very same laptop in December 2011 and he said that maybe it will go back in place if you just leave the computer open and leave it alone. So for the last two days I've just been checking to see if the screen will get back into it's original state. It looks better than it did...it still has that cracked window look but the rest of the screen just looks like a plaid print in rainbow colors! LOL! Awwwwwwwwww!

I have to share this though...all this week since Wednesday I have been attending a Bible Conference in Elmendorf, TX. An amazing conference by the way! Today the second to last preacher spoke on "Anxiety" or as we all know it as "Worry!" As Christians we are not suppose to worry about ANYTHING!!! I mean "NOTHING" because we are to "Cast our cares unto the Lord!" I was worried about how was I going to communicate with others, how was I going to do my blog, how was I going to prepare proposals and make flyers for events that I'm planning without using my computer. The preacher said, "Seek ye the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you." The small still voice of God told me, "Don't worry...I got you...keep going." So I just went to the last day for the conference with the church family I attended the conference with and I was at complete peace.

My computer still isn't fixed but one of the sisters from the church is allowing me to use her computer when I need to go online. I realized I was spending far too much time online and anytime that happens God makes a way for me to be offline for a while or at least limits my time. So when I say...."EVERYTHING IS PURPOSEFUL" .... it's for a reason. The flyer can wait, the proposals can wait and everything else can truly wait. I have to make time for God....read the books HE told me to finish, fellowship with the people around me for I won't be around them for long and prepare for a new laptop which HE already promised me that I would receive very soon.

I shared this detailed testimony to say this....when you have a plan to do things and its exactly what God wants you to do....sometimes either the enemy will try to trip you up and get you off course or God will allow things to happen to see how you will handle it in hopes to redirect you back on HIS course and not your own. It wasn't that I was so off course but more my time management away from being online was getting in the way of other things that I needed to take care of in my everyday life. Yes, I'm doing "Kingdom Building Business" yet there is also a time when I need to just read the Holy Bible, fellowship with my church friends and family, take a nap, sit outside and enjoy the sunshine and so on.

Thank you, Lord for this gentle reminder and I'm casting ALL of my cares on you! Lord you know what I need and what I need to get done both with and without my computer. As so many of you that read my blog and YOU in particular reading this blog right now! What are you doing right now that you should be doing to help build the "Kingdom of God on Earth?" What are you doing that God has placed in your heart to BLESS others and you haven't even gotten started because you get easily distracted? Everything that may be shutting down on you or cut off is happening because "EVERYTHING IS PURPOSEFUL!"

I challenge you to take some quiet time and prepare a petition to the Lord what should you be doing with your time? What is next on the list for your to accomplish? What is going on in your life that God is shutting down and placing road blocks or detours before you can get to your next destination? Once you've formulated your questions then take it to the LORD in prayer and be ready to do what GOD says to do! I encourage you to be OBEDIENT for if you are not you will be going in a circle for a long time until you pass the test or complete the task that God has for YOU! I needed to be still, enjoy my life right now where I am with the people I'm around and not be so consumed with being online. I know once I do that God will fix the computer for me and I will also get a new one very soon! I'm looking at the SONY Vaio 15 inch screen within the SONY Signature Collection! Ohhh la la! LOL!

I'd love to hear your PRAISE REPORT on what God is doing PURPOSEFULLY in your life! AMEN! Write your comments on this post!

Just like a diamond you shine resplendently...Keep Diva's Diamonds close to your heart and know that you are already FLAWLESS!

Love, Laughter & Light,
Queen Diva

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Diva's Diamonds Beautiful Person of the Week by Queen Diva 3-20-12

Diva's Diamonds' BEAUTIFUL Person of the WEEK:

Jermaine "Red Cafe" Denny...An American Rapper, Producer, Songwriter and Actor raised by Afro-Guyanese parents in Flatbush, Brooklyn, who's name "Red" was his father's nickname and added "Cafe" later, he spent some time in prison in 1992 and once released signed with a rap group called "Da Franchise" with Violator Records. He was also signed with Arista in 2003 and now he's signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik and Diddy's Bad Boy Records. He's known as the "Hottest In the Hood" and the "King of Mixtapes" for he has been signed to many record labels, but has never released an album. He is known in the music industry circles as a well sought after "ghostwriter" for many of Hip Hop's BIGGEST names such as Busta Rhymes "Pass the Courvoisier Part 2." He caught the acting bug and was in NOTORIOUS as the "Battle Rapper" against Biggie's character in the streets of Brooklyn. He's presently on Hell's Kitchen Mixtape Tour in Europe and the U.S. with GREAT anticipation of his DEBUT release of "Shakedown" this year!

I met Red Cafe back in the Spring 2003 at Texas Southern University Spring Fest with the Youngbloods when I was the Producer of Kidz Jamm, the longest running Hip Hop Show in Houston at KTSU 90.9 FM. I remember him as a young man with beautiful freckles who loved baseball caps, Hip Hop and was just humbled to be doing what he loved to do! He was simply known as "Red" and just had a peaceful spirit and a pure LOVE for Hip Hop! I reconnected with him on Twitter last month! LOL! He's a GROWN man now! I caught up on ALL of his music recently and he has plenty of stories from "Da Hood" that millions of listeners can totally identify with compared to their everyday life.

Red's BEAUTY stems from sharing words of #ShakedownTRUTHS daily and even hourly to those who follow him closely. He reaches his fans right where they are without sugar coating or hand holding both spiritual and everyday life wisdom. Not many rap artists take the time to feed their fans positivity and LOVE to show that they appreciate their support, but RED takes the time to do it and he really doesn't have to do it. I believe he does because he's been so FAITHFUL in pursuing his DREAM to share his music and rhymes to the world for many years and NOW his time to SHINE has arrived. He knows that there are many people watching and following him who have the same DREAMS as he does and he encourages them to keep going too.

This is a video of the making of the music for "Fly Together" with Ryan Leslie who composed the music. Red Cafe has a new video out called "Let It Go" and you can see on his page but I'm in love with this video. LOL! It's the musician and songwriter in me! 

Check out his links:

https://twitter.com/RedCafe

https://www.facebook.com/RedCafeMusic

http://www.myspace.com/redcafe

http://www.red-cafe.com/

 

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It's a NEW Season...It's a NEW Day! By Queen Diva 3-20-12

Today's Diva's Diamonds:
It's a New Season...It's a New Day! Happy SPRING 2012!!! It's a NEW SEASON called SPRING!! What plans do you have to accomplish in this new season? I know that I have many goals that I'm working on one by one diligently and faithfully! What's so GREAT about a new season you may ask? Well, a new season is the beginning of a new quarter, the awakening or closing of nature and also the beginning or the end of a relationship. Many times we know when a new season is coming and we neglect to prepare for it or just think I will get to preparing when it comes. Well guess what? Waiting for it to come when it arrives is not PREPARATION! LOL! It's time that YOU start getting ready for what's next instead of waiting until it happens because it may never happen. Seasons come and go and it's a given that Winter will turn to Spring and Spring to Summer and Summer to Fall and then Fall to Winter. But if you don't prepare yourself for what to come you will either have to scramble around to get ready, lose out on great relationships because the people that come into your life will not wait around for you to be ready or you will wondering around trying to keep up with the season. None of what I mentioned is good for you or the people in your life.

SPRING is a time of awakenings and new beginnings. Think of this time of year as a chance to start fresh with your year if you haven't done anything so far in 2012 to get started with plans and goals you've set on New Year's Day. Whatever you have always wanted to do such as learn to fly a plane, write a novel, go back to school, get married, move to a new city, have a baby or just clean out your closet NOW is the time to say a PRAYER, ask God for guidance and direction towards making your goals a REALITY! Your dreams, goals and plans are ALL purposeful! You don't have all of these desires for no reason. God places all of these goals and dreams purposely in you to achieve so that God may be glorified in ALL that you do. Did you know that? Well now you do! LOL! We are created in God's likeness and God wants us to have a purposeful life! Your dreams and goals are ALL to be achieved if you PRAY, PREPARE & PLAN diligently and faithfully according to God's will for your life!

In this new season called SPRING I encourage to awaken those goals and dreams you put off for so many years and get started TODAY! Just start by WRITING it down, say a PRAYER for direction, guidance and assistance to make it happen. Once you've gotten clarity from God on what to do then NIKE=Just Do it! I can tell you whatever is in your heart that will not go away is what God wants you to do with your life. It's up to you to seek guidance and direction to make it a REALITY. If you seek WISDOM you will find it to do what your heart has been nudging you to do for YEARS! Start this SPRING 2012 and give me your PRAISE REPORT!! I'd love to hear what your dreams, goals and accomplishments are for 2012!

Water the seed and watch it GROW! It's a NEW Season...It's a NEW Day! Happy Tuesday, P.I.N.K. Diamonds!

Just like a diamond you shine resplendently...Keep Diva's Diamonds close to your heart and know that you are already FLAWLESS!

Love, Laughter & Light,
Queen Diva

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Moving Forward by Queen Diva 3-18-12

Today's Diva's Diamonds:
It's been a month since my last post and so much has been going on professionally and personally for me! I took a month off to move to San Antonio, Texas to see what God had in store for me and I've been preparing all of my online presence so that it is all on ONE accord! I'm planning to do a music showcase in New York City in June 2012 along with attending the Full Figure Fashion Week! I'm totally trusting in the Lord to work all of this out for me while I still do what is required of me right where I am. God told me it's time to get back to posting on Diva's Diamonds and encourage the world. It's time for us all to keep "MOVING FORWARD!"

I can hear Israel Houghton's song in my head as I write this post and the lyrics are so REAL! "I'm not going back, I'm moving ahead, I'm here to declare to you, my past is over in you, all things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ, I'm moving...MOVING FORWARD! I basically paused after Whitney Houston Home-going Service and just did a lot of reading, revamping to my website and various webpages for the last month. I truly thought I would meet her one day and now that it isn't possible I hope that all that I do will inspire, empower and encourage someone who watches me to be the BEST that they can be!

It's time for us all who have been on hold to keep MOVING FORWARD! Whatever has happened to you to make you stop living or pursuing your DREAM I'm here to tell you keep MOVING FORWARD! Great is thy faithfulness! God sees all of your efforts and it will not go unnoticed or unrewarded! Your DREAM is in you for a purpose and it's all about "Divine Timing" when your season will come to pass! I know that sometimes it may seem like no one is listening to you or paying you any mind. But know that GOD sees you and that's all that really matters! The WORD of God (Holy Bible) says that God will make room for your talents! So it is important for you to be ready when the time comes for you to share your gift to the world no matter what it may be! I'm talking to myself too! I've been waiting on many promises of God to come to pass and they have yet to materialize but I just BELIEVE God at HIS word that it shall come to pass!

Whatever you are BELIEVING God for in your life know that God doesn't want you to stand still and not do anything while you are waiting! DO all that you know to do and ALLOW God to do the REST! Keep praying, fasting, believing, working, studying, practicing and preparing until your VICTORY is WON! Keep MOVING FORWARD! God is with you every step of the way! Your BREAKTHROUGH is almost here!

Just like a diamond you shine resplendently...Keep Diva's Diamonds close to your heart and know that you are already FLAWLESS!

Love, Laughter & Light,
Queen Diva

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