Love phrase of the day

Love is that condition

the human spirit

so profound

that allows one to survive

and, better than that

to thrive

with compassion

and style.

Maya Angelou

Dutty Tough - Louise Bennett

Sun a shine but tings no bright;
Doah pot a bwile, bickle no nuff;
River flood but water scarce, yawl
Rain a fall but dutty tough.

Tings so bad dat nowadays when
Yuh ask smaddy how dem do
Dem fraid yuh tek it tell dem back,
So dem no answer yuh.

No care omuch we dah work fa
Hard-time still een we shut;
We dah fight, Hard-time a beat we,
Dem might raise we wages, but

One poun gawn awn pon we pay, an
We no feel no merriment
For ten poun gawn pon we food
An ten pound pon we rent!

Saltfish gawn up, mackerel gawn up.
Pork en beef gawn up,
An when rice and butter ready
Dem just go pon holiday!

Claht, boot, pin an needle gawn up'
Ice, bread, taxes, water-rate
Kersene ile, gasolene, gawn up;
An de poun devaluate.

De price of bread gawn up so high
Dat we haffi agree
Fi cut we yeye pon bred an all
Tun dumplin refugee

An all dem marga smaddy weh
Dah gwan like fat is sin
All dem-deh weh dah fas wid me
Ah lef dem to dumpling!

Sun a shine an pot a bwile, but
Things no bright, bickle no nuff
Rain a fall, river dah flood, but,
Water scarce and dutty tough

Love phrase of the day

Let choice
whisper
in your ear
and Love
murmur
in your heart.
Be ready....
Here comes
life.

Maya Angelou

Operate with the spirit of BOLDNESS and not of fear!!!

"The Lord is my light and salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1). As humans each day we are faced with many problems..."never-ending problems." As one is solved another pops right up. If not problems we most definately face challenges. At times we tend not to take on these challenges because of fear, not realising that God does not bring us to it if he can't bring us through it. My dear friends we should not operate with a spirit of fear but of BOLDNESS. Fear is not of God but of the devil, the spirit of fear presents itself in many forms: from being nervous when presenting in front of an audience to being afraid to take on new challenges and showing your God given potenial. Fear is a demon that plagues the life of every human being worldwide. If we are not careful we allow fear to control our lives. Believing that we can do anything and can rise above all is a step we all can take in an attempt to get the fear out of our life. But as soon as that idea comes in our heads the "what-ifs" come about. Life is also about taking risks trying different honest ways to make it. If one way collaspe we just simply try another. The problem is when we try and we fail we get discouraged and depressed instead of pressing on. Remember he who never fails is he who never tries.


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frighten us. We may sometimes ask ourselves "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and Fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God: your playing small doesn't serve the world. We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us; it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsiously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others. So why live in fear when taking on a spirit of courage and boldness bring so much good things. It matters not how hard life may be and how hard it is to get by.... IT IS ALWAYS EASY TO TRUST IN GOD. So as we go about our daily lives each day and new challenges and problems arise. Problems that "seem" too big for us to handle, just say this little verse "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?" (Hebrews 13:6). Say this little verse every morning as you rise from you slumber and empower yourself in Jesus' name. Remeber through christ we can do all things !!!!!

Anancy and the lion

Bredda Lion had a new bad habit that he felt was his right an privilege, being the most feared in the village. He developed the biggest belch in the whole village. Every time he ate and went to sleep at night, he would belch really loud all night and wake up the rest of the village.
Anancy loved to sleep. Next to food sleep was the next thing he loved in the whole world. Since Lion had developed this habit he has not gotten one night's sleep. Last night was the worst. Lion had belched every hour on the hour, since 8 pm that night. Anancy’s eyes were blood shot red and he was angry.

He visited Bredda Rabbit and Bredda Snake to see how they were holding up. "Bredda Rabbit, how yuh doing man?" asked Anancy, as he approached Bredda Rabbit outside his home.
"Mi doing just fine." replied Bredda Rabbit.
"Yuh getting any sleep since Lion start dem big belchin?" asked Bredda Anancy.
"Yeah man, nuff sleep since mi buy dem ear muffs whey Bredda Snake tell me bout down a shop." he replied.
"Ear muffs!" Anancy exclamated.
"Yes dem block out every sound, whey yuh nuh go buy some?" Bredda Rabbit explained.
"Is true." Anancy replied.
So he set off down to Mr. Lee's shop and bought him some ear muffs.
That night around 7:45 pm he put on the ear muffs and went to bed.A large "Buuuurrrrrrrrrrp" sound awoke Anancy.

"But wait," he thought to himself "dem ear muffs nah work." You see, his spider senses were just as sensitive as his ears and could pick up the sound. The others in the village did not have this type of sense so the earmuff worked for them. So again Anancy had a sleepless night.
The next morning he was very angry. He was so angry he walked over to Bredda Lion’s home to talk to him.

Anancy pleaded "Bredda Lion, Mi a beg yuh please stop de all nite belching. Mi cyaan get nuh sleep a nite."
"Yuh mad Anancy? A mi run tings in dis village, an mi will stop when mi feel like." Bredda Lion replied.
"But how yuh so bad mind. Nobady cyaan sleep wid all dat noise yuh a mek." said Anancy.
"Is ongle yuh cyaan sleep. No one else is complaining." replied Bredda Lion.
Anancy was getting really upset.
"Mind yuh belch out all the food you eat for the day while you sleeping." Anancy said in anger.
"Nuh mek me dead wid laff. Mi neva hear nuttin go suh before in my life. Gwan yuh way, Anancy" Bredda Lion replied with a big smile.

At that very moment Anancy had a plan. He secretly started to follow Bredda Lion for the whole day, watching what he was eating. He took a big bag with some containers with him. Every meal that Bredda Lion had, he collected some of the same thing in a container.
That night at 8:00pm, Bredda Anancy snuck into Bredda Lion's house under the bed. He waited to hear the first burp.
"Burrrrrrp"
He snuck from under the bed and quietly placed a mixture of all the meals beside Bredda Lion’s mouth.

Bredda Lion had a sensitive nose. The smell of the food mixture awoke him. He jumped out of the bed and screamed, "Lawd have mercy, all de food me eat come right back up. Whey me ago do? If this continue me will not be able to full mi stomach. I know what I will do. I will eat this mixture." So he ate the food and went back to sleep.
" Buuurrrp"

Again Anancy put some more food by his mouth. And again Lion woke up and ate the food.
This continued four times. On the fourth time he put food by his mouth, Anancy snuck out of Bredda Lion’s bedroom window. He crawled under the cellar to listen.
Bredda Lion ate the food but this time did not go back to sleep.
"Lawd mi belly a hat mi. Mi nuh know ef I can continue this belching business, cah mi cyaan sleep." Bredda Lion whispered under his breath. He had eaten so much food that he was in pain. He was unable to go back to sleep.
Anancy smiled and walked back home.
This is why lions eat big meals but less frequently. Jack Mandora, mi tell yuh no lie.

http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/anansi/anancy_intro.shtml

Love phrase of the day

Let choice whisper in your ear and LOVE murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

PATOIS THURSDAYS.....Jamaican poems, stories and phrases

Mout-amassi - Louise Bennett

Mout-amassi Liza, yuh no
Hear yuh mumma dah call yuh?
Meck yuh mout so galang plang?
Hear yuh mumma duh call yuh!
Yuh mout so fly, yuh mils tell lie.
So member seh me dah warn yuh:
Liza, kibba yuh mout!

De way people wash dem mout pon yuh
Yuh naw go strive, missis;
Far everywhe yuh tun yuh hear
Seh Liza do dat an dis.
Yuh hear dat Liza chat to much,
Yuh hear dat Liza seh,
Yuh hear seh dat is Liza meck
Mass Tom black puss run weh.
Liza, kibba yuh mout!

Yuh meck Miss hlattie husban put
Har sinting outa door,
Yuh meck Sam do fi purpose
An hat up Jem sore toe.
Yuh can gwan chat, but doan figat
Yuh gwine reap what yuh sow.
Liza, kibba yuh mout!

Counta yuh, Dan set him grampa
Duppy pon Sta Rose,
An counta yuh Jane teck grudgeful
An pwile up Fan new clothes;
De way yuh chat yuh meck Jinat
Go obeah Laura nose.
Liza, kibba yuh mout!

Yuh meck dem lock up Tayma fi
So sen her bwoy a school;
Yuh meck dem lock up Geral,
an It tun him mumma fool!
Yuh meck dem bring up Dora,
seh She overwork her mule.
Liza, kibba yuh mout!

Dem mussa put yuh so, missis-
Is weh yuh dah go do?
From me bawn me never see
Nobody chat lacka yuh.
Me hear Miss Della she dah swear
Fi tun yuh mout backa yuh.
Liza Kiba yuh mout!


Interpretation of the poem:

"Mout -amassi" is basically about a girl name Liza who cannot seem to keep her mouth shut. Chatter is the order of her day and anything that happens she informs. She is disgustingly rude and pushes her nose in things that really does not concern her at all.

About Louise Bennett

Louise Bennett was a Jamaican poet and cultural icon. She was born on September 7, 1919, and has been described by many as Jamaica's leading comedienne and the "only poet who has really hit the truth about her society through its own language".

Through her poems in Jamaican patois, she not only raised the dialect of the Jamaican folk to an art level but also captured all the spontaneity of the expression of Jamaicans' joys and sorrows, their ready, poignant and even wicked wit, their religion and their philosophy of life.

Her first dialect poem was written when she was fourteen years old. A British Council Scholarship took her to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she studied in the late 1940s. After graduation, she worked with repertory companies in Coventry, Huddersfield and Amersham as well as in intimate revues all over England

In 1974, she was awarded the Order of Jamaica. She also received the Norman Manley Award for Excellence in the arts and a honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of West Indies. In 2001, she was made a Member of the Order of Merit for her contribution to the development of Jamaican Arts and Culture. She died on July 26, 2006, in Toronto, Canada.



http://www.loiusebennett.com/

Love phrase of the day

Love flies around us like eagles on the wind. It has settled on your shoulders, in my eyes, in the palm of your hand, and in my hair.

Maya Angelou

A present help in the time of need......God our Shield and Buckler. .

Have you ever been so discouraged you just don't know what to do? Have you ever been in a situation where you feel like all hope is lost and there is no way possible for you to get out or recover? These are situations that millions of people face each day around the world......both christians and non-christians.


No one ever said that life would be easy, with enjoyment and pleasure comes alot of challenges, sacrifices and pain. Getting what you want through clean and honest ways is never easy because there is always that person who will step on your head to get where they are going. The system of the world is unfair and so it is important that we go about our daily activities with faith and God. God only requires that we have the faith as small as a mustard seed for us to experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities (Matthew 17:20). Standing firm on God's words and trusting him even when you are at your lowest point is what God wants us to do.


We must remember that the lord works on his own timing, "he is an on time God". The lord is our refuge and strength a present help in the time of need. We should never come to think that he has forgotten or forsaken us because his words says "Never will I leave you nor forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5). The lord showers us with blessings at the point in our life or turmoil where he knows that we are Really in need of it. By him doing so we will come to have a greater appreciation for the blessings that we recieve, he will work in a way where we can only say "if it had not been for the lord on my side where would I be or what would I do ?". As humans when faced with situations that seem too much for us to handle or too much to bear, after a few tries or even without trying we easily give up. We should persevere and carry on with God. There is nothing too big for God, no situation too big to handle because with God all things are possible. As stated in Luke 18:27 "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God". He will always be there for you. You see, we need to understand how God operates, he is indeed a very jealous God. So if we do not give him what he requires of us, if we go about worshipping other gods and idols then the blessing that is meant for us is delayed and as a result we suffer because of our actions.

We should learn to stand firm on his word, trusting every line, phrase and verse of it. Consult God in everything we do and communicate with him daily just as how we communicate with our friends. Acknowledge him and give him the credit when he comes through for you and even when it seems hopeless and your back is against the wall, you might even ask the question "where is God?" still give him thanks. After all he deserves it he is THE MOST HIGH GOD . God comes through for us by doing things we take for granted, such things are: granting us life each day, giving us the opportunity to function as normal human beings -being able to smell, touch, see, hear and feel. He blesses us with the opportunity to have an impact on other people's life and to just get one more day and chance to make it right with him. These are things alot of people often take for granted, but remember life is not a right but a privilage which can only be granted by The true and living God.

So what should we do when:

• We are at the end of the rope.
• All hope seems lost.
• Our friends turn their backs on us and we have no one to turn to, no where to go.
• We experience massive attacks from the enemy and their plots and plan against us succeed.

THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS THE SAME IN EVERY SITUATION..................................

"Trust in the lord with all of thine heart and lean not to thy own understanding. In all thine ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path" (Proverbs 3:5-6).

Love phrase of the day

LOVE keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the the ocean tides. Each of us is created for it, and I suspect each of us was created for it.

MAYA ANGELOU