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Bad News/Good News

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:43:11 GMT

We are inundated with news through TV, radio, billboards, social media on our phones

and devises, mail and email and even by word of mouth. We wake up with it and go to

bed with it. The devastating events of our world have overtaken our minds, thinking,

dashed our hopes, optimism and dampened our dreams. Every time we take steps

forward, we’re knocked steps back past where we were due to the news we are

hearing. NEWS is finding out, discovering. learning, hearing, about something we

previously didn’t know. It can even be a clarification of something you knew, but didn’t

have full information or the whole story. News does a lot of things to us physiologically,

socially, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually. Depending on the news, your whole

being can change in an instant. News of death, injury, sickness/disease, catastrophe,

by nature, causes us to go limp, often leaving us speechless and helpless (the feeling of

being thrown overboard with both our hands and feet bound). Bad news changes our

whole disposition no matter how you try and keep your composure. Recovery time is

varied. It depends on the news, the person and the support system a person has.

There’s some other news that can have the same impact on our lives, in a positive way:

That’s the Good News of Jesus Christ. The Good News of Jesus Christ is the birth, life,

ministry, crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and one day coming back of

our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This Good News can not only change your whole

being in an instant, but it can also change your eternal destination. Romans 10:9 says,

“If you shall say with your mouth, that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart, that God

raised Jesus from the grave, you shall be saved (your eternal destination will be

heaven). John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten

son, that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life”. 1 John 5:11-

13 says, “And this is the record that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his

Son, He that has the Son, has life, he that has not the Son of God has not life. These

things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may

know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of

God”.

Accept this Good News today. Extra, Extra read all about it!!!! God loves you and has an

awesome plan, purpose, design, for your life. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “I know the plans I

have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to

give you a hope and a future.” If you have a pulse, you have a purpose. Each person

is uniquely gifted by God. 1 Peter 4:10 says, “Just as each one of you has received a

special gift (a spiritual talent, an ability graciously given by God), employ it in serving

one another as (is appropriate for) good stewards of God’s multifaceted grace (faithfully

using the diverse, varied gifts and abilities granted to Christians by God’s unmerited

favor).” Let’s accept this gift of purpose. Let’s live out our unique design and be all that

God desires for us to be. Don’t ask a child what they want to be when they grow up,

let’s ask them what changes do they want to make in this world. God has uniquely

designed us to make changes; to make a difference; to altar or modify the current state

of mankind and the mess this world has become. God desires that all be saved, and

none be lost. God has saved us and gifted us to reach this world for Him; to change the

Bad News to Good News; The GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ.

There’s a lot of NEWS in this world; good, bad and indifferent. You can’t change the

NEWS but you can change how you respond, react, acknowledge, answer, reply to,

come back, or counter to. Let’s herald the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ. “Go ye

therefore into all the world, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things

whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of

the world”. Matthew 28:18-20

We don't get what we ASK for; we get what we BELIEVE for!

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:41:06 GMT

We’ve been taught from youth up that a closed mouth doesn’t get fed. We must ask for what

we want. Open our mouths and talk. That seemed to work for the most part, however even

after we asked for some stuff, we still didn’t get it. We experienced all the disappointment,

frustration, discontentment and irritation of not getting what we truly wanted. Especially as

children; a favorite toy, a game, a shiny new bike, etc. But even as an adult; a new job, a new

house, a new car, a new start, a little more money, etc., are the all-time favorite requests.

It probably never really dawned on us, especially growing up as kids, about this concept of we

don’t get what we ASK for, we get what we BELIEVE for. It’s through life experiences, a few ups

and downs, trials and errors, that this and most stuff in life really comes into play. Throwing in

the towel should never be an option. Ron Wilkerson, Jr. once said, “If you have a pulse, you

have a purpose”. A famous quote of Napoleon Hill says, “Whatever the mind of man can

conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

I want to impress on our hearts and minds as we start this new year that we don’t just get what

we ask for, we get what we believe for. You must believe your purpose. You must believe your

heart. You must believe your worth. You must believe your destiny. You must believe your

calling. You must believe your vocation. You must believe your wants, desires and yearnings.

You must believe yourself. You must believe your life. You must believe your happiness.

Edgar Albert helps us out with his poem,

Don’t Quit.

When Things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and debts are high,

And you want to Smile but have to sigh.

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is strange with its twists and turns,

As everyone of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won if he’d stuck it out,

Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,

You might succeed with another blow.

Often the struggler has given up,

When he might have captured the victor’s cup.

And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown,

Success is failure turned inside out,

The silver tint of clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar,

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,

It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

CeCe Winans tells us to Believe For It. Let’s start this year having the faith that can reach the

unreachable, fight the unbeatable, remove the unmovable, stand the invincible, see the

invisible, expect the incredible, receive the impossible, Uproots my problems, know God can

solve them, to vision your freedom, FAITH THAT CAN CONQUER ANYTHING!!!!

DON’T JUST ASK FOR IT; BELIEVE FOR IT

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Let’s walk through the door in “2024”

What's my Purpose?

tcbcann371963@gmail.com (Tammy Cannon) — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 21:18:14 GMT

What’s my purpose?

It appears as if the pandemic is turning a corner for the better, but we are not out of the woods. New variances are looming. Triple threat of Covid, Flu and RSV. Over 500K dead, many are sick, (with other diseases, non-Covid related), and here we sit with a reasonable portion of our health and strength. And it behooves us to ask the question, “What’s my purpose?” With so much uncertainty, ambivalence, wavering and indecisiveness; it’s only right; it makes sense to ask ourselves what’s my purpose?

I’m alive, I’m breathing, I’m moving, I’m thinking, my heart is beating, whatever I been through didn’t kill me, I’ve been given another chance so I have to address, give attention to, answer the question, what’s my purpose?

And it’s not just the pandemic we’ve survived, and are surviving, we all have our own story line, our life’s story; and each line is laced; ridden with pain and glory.

Personally, I’ve had 7 family members to recently pass away back-to-back to back-to-back to back with un-covid related diseases. And 4 were first cousins in my age range. As we were arriving home from the graveyard from burying my aunt, my mom’s sister, we got the call and received the news that my first cousin had just passed away in L.A. And a few weeks later, received the news that another first cousin died in Bakersfield.

I/We can’t just survive this pandemic, I/We can’t just survive this evil and cruel world, I/We can’t just survive our circumstances, I/We can’t be mediocre about it, I/We have to “Thrivive”. I/We have to be “Thrivivors”. We can’t be average, fairly middling, nothing to write home about attitude, run of the mill, common place, middle of the road, indifferent, lack luster, God has just performed a miracle in my life; over 500K dead, and I’m still alive, and I want to know what’s my purpose.

What on earth am I here for, and why did God leave me alive? I don’t want to wait on the next pandemic, crises, outbreak, widespread disease, I want to know now.

Viola Davis says there’s a difference between having a goal and having a purpose; she said the 2 most important days in a person’s life is the day you were born and the day you discovered why you were born.

A lot of us are discounting ourselves and taking ourselves out of the equation and not giving ourselves a fair chance at success because of all the bad that has taken place in our lives.

Who said that all of who you are had to be good? All of who you are is who you are!

Own it

Own all of it. Good and bad

Own every heroic deed and experience

Even if traumatic; own it

Seize the sword

No one and nothing can be great unless it costs you something.

To live a life of something greater than a hero’s journey, you have only to follow the thread of the hero’s path. Your existence is an amalgamation (combine, merge) of every triumph, every hard fought and won battle and yet here you are privileged and blessed.

How do you go from:

Broken to Healed

Dead to alive

Sick/afflicted to well

Confused to Sane

Locked up to free

Angry to At peace

Broke to Means/resourceful

What are you going to do with the rest of your life?

You can continue to live silent or you can choose to live out loud. I’m here today to advocate for you to live out loud. Find your voice, your vision, your victory, your vocation, your volume.

Nelson Mandela said, “Life is not worthwhile unless you take risks; take chances; don’t be afraid to fail; Think outside. The box.”

Dream

Dream Big

A life without a dream; is a wasted life.

Dreams without goals is just dreams

Langston Hughes says

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun

Or fester like a sore, and then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over, like a savory sweet

Maybe it just sags

Like a heavy load, or does it explode?

Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times…

But that’s not what he was known for, he was known for his home runs.

Thomas Edison had 1,000 failed experments ; 1,001 was the lightbulb

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success

Got to take risks

Don’t fall back, don’t quit

If you are going to fall back, fall back on your faith

Pray, pray and keep praying

P.U.S.H.

Pray until something happens

You may have the training and talent to succeed but do you have the guts to fail?

If you don’t fail, you are not even trying

Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. Are you making movement, or are you making progress? Are you counting your days or making your days count?

I’m sure you’ve heard to get something you’ve never had, you have got to do something you have never done!!!

To truly find your purpose, you. Have to survive and thrive; you have to THRIVIVE!!! You have to announce to yourself and to the world, “I am a “THRIVIVOR

Which Way Now

tcbcann371963@gmail.com (Tammy Cannon) — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:22:04 GMT

(EDUCATE ~. ENERGIZE. ~. EXECUTE )

Do you ever feel stuck? You’ve expended all your options and energy? You take two steps forward and five back or even ten back? With your best efforts and desires, you just can’t get it going? What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Family and friends, acquaintances and even strangers are setting and achieving their goals; getting through entanglements; both small and big. It’s not from your lack of trying, training or trust, whether it’s a relationship, job, promotion, child, starting your own business, a DIY project, planting a garden, taking a well deserved vacation, balancing your month and money, active in ministry, or just praying for and/or wishing for a change, something different, etc. You know there is something on the other side ; one more step, one more push, one more pull, one more thrust forward, one more…(you fill in the blank), and you are there!!!! You know what it feels like not to have it; now you are ready to see what it feels like to have it, to achieve it, to complete it, to accomplish it.

Let’s look at a few things:

What is it that you want?

When do you want it?

What is holding you back? What is stopping you?

Why do you want it?

What have you put in place to get it?

Who have you shared your goal(s) with?

Have you written it down?

Do you have a solid plan?

How much will it cost? (Investment)

Is it out of your heart and head and now in your hand?

Are you plugged in?

One of the computers at the school where I am principal was not working properly and the students came to me to let me know. I asked them to make sure the computer was plugged in and wait for a bit to give it a charge and then try again. They did that and came back to me to say it still was not working. I went over with them to check it out. I saw that the computer was plugged in, but not charging. I got down on my hands and knees to follow the chord from the computer to the power source. BOTH THE COMPUTER AND THE POWER STRIP IT WAS PLUGGED INTO, WERE BOTH PLUGGED INTO THE POWER STRIP, BUT NEITHER WERE PLUGGED INTO THE WALL; THE POWER SOURCE!!!!!! After the problem was fixed and the computer was now working, the kids were totally delighted and OF COURSE I used this experience as a teaching point (smile)

Make sure you are plugged into the POWER SOURCE and not just the power strip. The power strip can be trusting in yourself, leaning on your own understanding, the wrong people, the wrong timing, the wrong resources, the wrong reasons, etc.) And if you are plugged into the power strip, make sure the power strip is plugged into the POWER SOURCE. All that I mentioned in the above list, does not matter if you are NOT plugged into the POWER SOURCE. You will continue to be stuck, expend energy, take more steps backward than forward. Will you agree with me that there is a POWER SOURCE greater than ourselves? For me, my Power Source is God. He is my Strength and my Strong Tower. Who or what is your POWER SOURCE, what are you plugged into?

A story is told about a little boy who wanted to surprise his mom and vacuum for her. He excitedly grabbed the vacuum and started going back and forth over the floor like he had watched his mother do on numerous occasions. He was becoming frustrated because as he went back and forth with so much energy and excitement, nothing was being picked up. He thought if he’d go faster or work harder, he would pick up trash with the vacuum. Still no results. He began to cry and wanted to give up because he was disappointed that he wasn’t able to help his mom. He disappointedly went and told his mother what he was trying to do, she came into the room and assessed the situation, and realized the vacuum was not plugged in and went over and plugged it in and told her son to try again. The boy tried again and it worked and he said, “mom, mom, it’s working, what did you do”? She said, “son, I plugged it in”. Once the vacuum was plugged into the power source, it was able to be used for the purpose in which it was designed for.

What on earth are you here for? You are not just here to make a living, you are here to make a difference. The world is waiting on you to KNOW (EDUCATE) God’s purpose and plan for your life, (BE) plug into (ENERGIZE) the plan, and then DO (EXECUTE) the plan. The world will be a better place when we are all OBEDIENT to our DIVINE DESTINIES!!!!

GO DO IT!!!!!!!!

My Story

tcbcann371963@gmail.com (Tammy Cannon) — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:34:31 GMT

The Red Pick Up Truck

We had taken many trips and been many places in the “Red Pick up Truck”; Church, shopping, fishing, school, mostly in town. I absolutely loved riding in the passenger seat with my dad anywhere, especially in the red pick up truck.

Summer of 1975, this time, it was another truck, it was a U-haul truck. I was 10 years old, and I was sitting in the passenger seat, and we were on the freeway riding for a minute, when I looked up at my dad, and said, “daddy, wer’e not coming back are we”. He looked at me and said, we’ll be back to visit, but not to live, we’re moving to Oakland. That was the first day of the rest of my life.

That was 49 years ago and it’s been quite a journey of faith, family, friends, finesse, fun, failure, fear, foolishness, folly, fascination, forgiveness , fortitude, fight, frailty, floundering, fortitude, firmness, feebleness, fullness, feats, fulfillments.

Given the opportunity, I would do a lot of things different, but I live with no regrets. Decisions have been made and consequences have been experienced and I’m the better person for it.

I was eight months pregnant, with my 5th pregnancy ( 2 miscarriages; one was really a fetal demise, but it was just easier to say and explain miscarriage, had an 8 year old boy, and 2 year old girl, 3rd child on the way, and my husband and I separated, eventually divorced. It was one of the worst days of my life, so I thought. How would I pick up the pieces and move on; raising 3 children as a single mother; (what if I had had 5)???? I didn’t realize the grit, resolve, tenacity, resiliency, that was in me, until it was released through a plethora of life’s painful experiences, with the right amount of time-released doses to heal me and not hurt me, develop me and not destroy me, raise me and not ruin me.

By the Grace of God, support of my family, and broad support system, I completed by doctorate after 50, I started my own group home business, helped to start a school which was a long time vision of my dad/pastor, became a licensed insurance agent, and became the CEO of Expansion, my very own Coaching/Consulting business.

I am living my dream. I did make it. The child I was 8 months pregnant with when I was going through a divorce, is now 24, my 2 year old, is now 26, and my 8 year old, is now 31. They are all doing well. I have 5 grandchildren. My parents are alive and well. My brother is good.

[It’s my time!!!

It's my time to rise

It's my time to shine

It's my time to live

It's my time to fly

It's my time

I can see it

Time has come now to refill it

I've been waiting for a long time

I gotta do it

I won't let nothing hold me down

Gotta do it

'Cause I might not get another chance

I believe it

That I want it, I can have it

I believe it

Got me falling,

I can do it

I think I'll tell myself again

That I can do it

And I am not gonna stop till I win.

I decided that I was born to be

Deep in love and happy

And my best days are still in front of me]

(Excerpts from It’s my time by Kelly Price)

It’s my time to do what I was put on this earth to do, be a Master Coach/Consultant.

I was diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphonia in 1980, where I lost my voice down to a whisper. It was raspy and I had to strain to get it out. It sounded like I stuttered. There was no known cause nor cure. I cried and was confused as to why God would allow me to be stricken in the areas of my gifts; speaking, teaching and counseling. I did all three with ease, passion and was effective. I bargained with Him to remove it, but He didn’t. I started shying away from speaking because it was too hard to get my voice out. I would break out in a cold sweat. I would just tell people I was hoarsed. I tried a Botox shot, it brought temporary relief, but nothing lasting. The doctor suggested permanently paralyzing one of my vocal chords so the other could function properly, but could not guarantee positive results. He said I could lose my voice altogether. I declined the surgery and just chose to live with it. This was a decision of faith. I knew I was not designed to sit behind a desk and shuffle papers or some other obscure career. I was put here to use my voice!!!

I absolutely know and am confident I was put on this earth to help, support, motivate, and inspire others to EXPAND; live out their divine purpose. Help others not to accept status quo or mediocrity as their destiny, to fall forward and to dream big. I’ve failed big time to get to where I am today, but those failures have grown me up, and taught me lessons, and refined me, making me ready and excited and eager for God’s promotion as a master coach and consultant to His people. He has left me alive to tell my story. He’s given me a voice, vision and victory, failures and feats, purpose and passion, direction and a destiny, triumph and tribulation.

My mother tells the story that as a young girl, I was ALWAYS so excited to ride with my dad in the Red Truck to anywhere, esp to church. One Sunday, my dad was about to leave and I rushed to finish putting my clothes on so I could ride with him. After we got to church and during service, I fell asleep, and my mom laid me across her lap and noticed my brother and male cousins were dying laughing. They were pointing at me and laughing and said I didn’t have any underwear on. She scurried to find something to throw over me. I was in such a hurry to ride with my dad in the passenger seat of the Red Truck, that I rushed to get dressed and forgot my underwear.

All of those rides in the Red Pick up Truck and the ultimate ride in the UHaul truck and all the other “shot gun” rides with my dad over the past 59 years ( from a girl to a woman) have helped to shape and mold me for today. Everytime I see a Red Pick up truck today, I see myself sitting in that passenger seat; I smile, I reminisce, I even cry, I didn’t know then, but I know now, it all was for such a time as this, such a time as now.

Almost 3 years ago, I moved home for what I thought would be 3-6 months while my house was being remodeled that my parents purchased for me. During this time, however, my dad became very ill, and he and my mom lived alone (both in their 80’s). Had I not been home, it would have been way too much for my mom to handle alone, then soon after, we were in the throws of COVID-19. She’s in good health but does have nagging health issues that have slowed her a bit... As my time at home extended past, way past 6 months and counting , what I soon realized, is that whereas my house was being remodeled, there was another remodeling project in progress; it was me. I thought I had been through enough, learned a lot, but God had another plan. He needed to add a few more lines to my story before releasing me, like a mother eagle releasing her eaglet from the nest to “EXPAND” her wings and fly.

Just as my dad had taken care of me for all my life, it wasn’t strange or odd at all, for me to be taking care of him at the end of his. Nothing was too big or small for me to do for my dad.

I rode shot gun from the little red pick up truck, to the uhaul truck, to big black, to the truck he just bought ( maybe my mom will see fit to sell it to me, soo I can keep me and my dad’s truck tradition going. I rode shot gun with him; towards the end, he rode shot gun with me. If I could, I would drive that hurst to Rolling Hills, to drive him over final time; so he could ride shot gun with me one final time.

I said in the beginning that My father purchased me a home and my father called me home to live with them; and I would stay with them until my home was ready; as it turns out, I was staying there til his home was ready. February 28th, at 10:20 pm, his home was ready, and his Heavenly Father called him home to live with Him.

So join me on this journey. Let’s expand, thrive , soar together into the purpose, destiny that God has in store for all our lives.