P.I.E.S.

Hey Queens
                 
          Last Friday was the start of new clubs for my students & I. The club I chose was the girl empowerment club I began last year. The reason why I began the club last year is because I notices my students, specifically my girls students had been thinking about the wrong things to be the ages of 7 to 9. All of them have beautiful hearts but like a lot of us there were some things that they needed to work on. Those things are attitude, they way they behaved as girls, as well as self image meaning self esteem.

    It had weighed heavily on my heart before I came to the conclusion that the girl empowerment club would be perfect resolution or at least a great start to building my girls up. P.I.E.S is an acronym meaning Positive Intelligent Extraordinary Sisters. I want to teach them and show them the effect of having a good attitude, how treating.others with kindness stands out, how to resolve conflicts, about sisterhood, but moat importantly to love themselves. The area our school is located in is a low income area, some of what they see may not be so positive or like my sisters in I, single family home and mom working and going to school to provide, and also some are in the judicial system . They need that positive reinforcement when mom or dad isn't around to provide it, they need to know that regardless of what may go on at school, or at home that they have someone or a group of people that loves them and truly wants the best for them.
  
     I would like my P.I.E.S. to be one of the  foundations for my girls to encourage them, empower them to be better and do better. Last year P.I.E.S. made small strides with some of my girls and I pray this year we can make even bigger strides in helping my girls succeed. Today is our Breast Cancer Awareness day at our after school program and my girls made a Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon created from their hands. They know what Breast Cancer is, they're aware and we fully support the fight. I am truly excited to see whats to come with the blog, Queens Stand Up movement and P.I.E.S.
   Looking forward to sharing more stories with you all.
               Peace &Blessings
                     Queens. -DW

No Nonsense, Best Policy!

Hey Queens,

     I hope you all are enjoying the Fall weather so far. The leaves changing colors is so wonderful. Today I was thinking as I made my way to work, that the Fall season is just like the seasons we have spiritually. So many people may come into our life, but they may be there only for a season. After they have fulfilled their purpose for being in your life whether it be good or "bad", God orders their steps to lead away from you. Unfortunately because we don't know when to use discernment (wisdom) we mistake those temporary folk, for permanent friends.

   The people that come into our life is like the saying parts of a tree. One tree is the roots that represent those that have been in your life, foundation (God, morals and lessons). Then you have those that represent the branches that are in your life for long periods of time. The "branch people" can be there helping you, supporting you, encouraging you, praying for you and then you have those "branch people" that can be so negative, draining and not good for you but because you have known them for so long you don't want to let them go. Oh yes, and don't try to hold on to them God will snatch them right out of your life. Then you have those that are like leaves, not exactly associates but they are not meant to be there longer than a season. It's already order by God that they have to leave you..unfortunately along with those leaves sometimes come with pain. This is where wisdom comes in and you have to pray and ask God to help you use that wisdom.

   There will be many leaf like people that come into your life. They talk to you, start to build a friendship or relationship with you but they could also be placed in your life to trip you up. Now this is when you would pray and ask God if they are there for a purpose, because they could be sent by satan himself to trip you up, to distract you from what God has called you to do. These type of people will turn you off and on like a light switch, they will say all the "right" things but their intentions and spirit is the complete opposite. One way to figure them out is their consistency and also actions. Their true character will appear and it won't be anything like they portrayed it to be in the beginning. If it throws you off and something in your spirit is telling you things are NOT quite right with that person that something is God, trying to warn you. That is the spirit of discernment listen to it and walk away from that person before they are able to cause you harm.

  Don't ever let anyone take advantage of you, the person you are growing into, or your time. Show them too will NOT take any NONSENSE and that you are bold enough, smart enough, and down right courageous enough to walk away. If they take offense to your actions or by your words, they just showed you who they truly are, they were NOT there for good intentions, they were there to distract you. Ladies actions always speak louder than words, so please pay attention to what God is trying to show you and tell you.

  If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. -James 1:5

When you don't know what to do, ask God for some help.
                     
                              Peace & Blessings
                                   Queens -DW
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