Heart line..

'I put my heart on the line for you, My heart on the line for you...'  

                                                   - Craig David

Once again, back is the incredible.. Lol.
Hey people :). I wanted to talk about love..

Now this is not one of those soppy emotionally driven posts about finding the one (lol though I know some of y'all wouldn't mind that). This is mainly a post to share what's been on my mind. About a week and a half back I put up a status on my facebook asking 'How do you know if you love someone?'. 

Fresh from a trip to go see a friend I was taken aback when they told me they loved me and I was trying to figure it out. I mean this person was someone I'd known for a while, but in certain ways we hardly knew each other. So this made me think, can that profession be legitimate? Can I love someone I'm in the early stages of really getting to know?

Now most of the people who really know me, and even those that don't, know I get my direction from my faith and that I try to walk inspired by the words God gives. As I've been reading I've been noticing a lot lately that in the Bible there's more than one occasion where someone 'loved' someone within minutes of meeting them. 

Now love at first sight.. is that a thing?
Well I think it may well be possible.

When I asked this question last week someone described the symptoms of love in the following manner..

...you have a connection based on shared experience, you feel like 'you get them' and want to see them thrive, you have empathy and compassion for them, affection, kindness, respect, etc. It's cultivated over time if there's a mutual willingness to be authentic and to grow together...

In the end I realised it was not so in the case with the friend mentioned, though on my part I think a seed of love was there. I mean, I genuinely did sense all of those things and sought growth for this potential partner. I think love is greater than romantic feelings, but all true romantic feelings that will last will be built on a foundation of true love, as long as it is present. Love grows, but the truth is, the seed of it must always be present beforehand.

With God's help, we can grow and mature into all we're meant to be. But as we do, let us not forget to mature in love..

Unleashing the voice..

So, I'm back.
Funny this is the second time in a month. Wonder what's happening to me. It's beautiful I guess when the writing bug comes to say hello..

I have been all over the place in the last week, both physically and internally. Busking and freestyling have become parts of the 'things that I do', and since starting I've been steadily progressing with my new found passions. This has brought me to Ladbroke Grove, Harlesden and Shepherd's Bush, attempting to share some of what I've been gifted with.

To be honest, the feeling is quite liberating. The last time I did anything like this was when I used to do street preaching a good 7 years back. I feel the gift I have seems to have been repackaged, but the heart remains the same.

From early, God has placed in me a desire to connect with the human heart and so now I use my music to fulfill that desire. Everything I do and study tends to come from that place of connecting.

Today I was watching some clips from the last of Obama's white house correspondent dinners. This was interesting as I tend not to watch Obama talk so often. When he was president I never watched a speech, never read an article he wrote and the only thing I remember hearing from him was that address he made after they killed Bin Laden.

Not that I wasn't interested but, to put it plainly in hearing the general overview and seeing some of the things he said while on the election trail, I had no respect for the man and didn't really wanna get caught up in the hype..

I know.. shocking.. :-o

But anyway, in watching this I learned a lot, simply through seeing the charisma the man speaks and moves with. I mean it's documented, but I feel you can do a lot with charisma, with lightheartedness, and with a thirst to see things change.

At the moment I'm learning a lot about  what is needed for my own voice to break through. I'm learning from people I can get with and people I can't really get with, because the truth is, no matter who you are, people draw to people often because of something they have.

Whether that thing be charisma, freestyle ability, the ability to dream big or outright confidence, attraction is the key, and these things often open up the door for conversation.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings 

(Luke 16 vs 9) 

We all have things which will only serve us in this world. Things which we can use to build relationships

Let's work with and work on what we've been given. Even if it's not for ourselves it's worth the trouble, as you never know. Someone's future may depend on it..