Don't walk, Honey it's time to Dance!

written by Lisa Morgan                                                                                 3/21/2016

You spend the first year of your life trying to yearning to walk. You spend the following six months of your life learning to walk & the next six months learning to run. What no one told you was that you'd spend the next eighteen years of your life walking or running to somewhere, anywhere but where your parents wanted you to be at the time. You spend the following twenty years running in every direction attempting to meet all of the goals that you'd set for yourself in your youth; only to find out there was never enough time to get all of it done, but there's always tomorrow or the next ten years right? It's frightening how fast the next ten years go by considering how slow the first twenty went, which somehow doesn't seem at all fair or right. Now that you've turned fifty, the big five oh my gosh, what happened to my youth & when did those start sagging?

Welcome to the world of the late bloomers, who thought there would always be time until there never seemed to be enough time. When you finally decide what makes you happy, not necessarily what you do for a living but what makes your heart skip a beat or makes your soul dance, you find out the clock is running faster than an Olympiad sprinter. Nonetheless you have found your passion. Now how do you combine that with making a living? Don't you just love a challenge? Challenges are what we as humans deal with everyday, so think of this as one of the best challenges because the reward is getting paid to do what you love! Remember no one lies on their death bed wishing they had spent more time at the office or washing more clothes & cleaning the baseboards more than when their Mom was visiting.

You have had plenty of experience walking & running by age fifty, that now don't walk cause honey it's time to dance. Parlay that passion of yours into a paycheck. You have a good twenty years left in the workforce so why not spend  those years with a glide in your stride, because let's face it after seventy it will become more difficult to walk much less glide. What are you waiting for? You saw how incredibly fast those last ten years went by! You were looking good one day & the next your hair was filled with these two inch long grey hairs that defied gravity, while your other body parts fell victim to gravity; not to mention the wrinkles appearing overnight accompanied by those annoying aches & pains. You better get off your ever growing backside while you still can & dance to the beat of your inner music. Whatever it is that makes your heart sing & your soul wanna dance, that's what will motivate you to get up every morning & to succeed.

Don't wait till the scoreboard has three seconds left to say "Oh no!", because those three seconds do not go in slow motion. I was with my Dad the last ten days of his life, as were my siblings & my Mom. My Dad fell into a coma & remained in that state until he died except for a brief moment when he woke up asking my Mom where he was. She quickly told him he was in the hospital & had been for about a week due to a series of mini strokes he had suffered along with a more intense stroke. My Dad looked over to see me standing next to him, which meant one thing, that I had driven a four hour drive to be with him at the hospital  & that could not be good. My Dad's last words were "Oh Shit!" Nothing like going out with a memorable two words wouldn't you say?

I knew immediately what he meant. No I'm not ready, there's so much more I want to do & to say, but the time on the scoreboard was running out. No more time outs left in the game. My Dad & I had a heated exchange about six months before he died, which was my fault & we never made up. This was also my "Oh Shit!" moment. As it turns out this would be a life changing moment for me in more ways than I could imagine at the time. I would never be the same, aside from the obvious that within a few days my Dad would be deceased.

I starting closing doors & opening new ones. I had no idea what I was doing but I knew I had to start moving to the beat of my inner music. I started writing again after a very long hiatus. I wrote a few screenplays, wrote a reality check satirical book. I actually had one of my favorite comedians David Brenner tell me that he thought I was funny & continue to write, which I did. The more I listened to my inner music, the more the song led me away from the limelight but to the sunlight. What I mean is that I do not desire fame or fortune but peace of mind, for me that is living simple. I never thought I would want to be surrounded by nature far away from neighbors or a big city but that is what I desire. Serenity, solitude & peace are things that are priceless to me, although I do realize I'll have to keep writing to pay for that serenity but it's the serenity that forges my desire to write which helps me find solitude. Funny how that works isn't it?

I'm going to spend my next twenty years dancing, maybe slow dancing, as I'm not moving like I used to ten years ago, but I'm dancing just the same. I want my soul to shine with such joy that all those mystic types think I have an aura, when in fact it's soul shine. I'm striving each day to be right with God in heaven. I know I'm doing better each day at that job but I'm no where near as good as I should be. I'll keep on working on myself because as it turns out I'm quite flawed. Aren't we all? I will keep on listening to my inner music humming a tune as I dance to my own beat. I want for my last words to be, "Now that was a dance."

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

Author of the reality check satirical book "Get Beach Slapped"
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Spin Doctors establishing what the word "Establishment" means to the voters?

written by Lisa Morgan                           3/9/2016

                Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton & Melania Trump at the Trump's wedding
(Were Republicans such as Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal invited? Maybe they were not established enough in the circles of the millionaires & billionaires club to be acceptable or maybe they simply did not know Donald Trump or his bride Melania. )

I find it quite interesting when people use the term "establishment". What has that term become to mean in the last year or two years? Does it means those in Washington in Congress, in the Senate or those as acting Governors of states? Does it mean those working for the current administration or both? Well if it does then all of those angry at the "establishment", as it is called, should remember that many Republicans, some Independents have been working tirelessly to fight the Democratic administration that is in place namely Barack Obama. These who have been fighting for Americans doing their jobs have met opposition, therefore you can not or should not lump all the Republicans, Independents into the same bowl with the so called "establishment". What you may be angry at is those with money & power misusing their power for gain while they try to convince you that they are just like you. What you may be angry at is Obama's failed policies & those who have protected him such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, along with other crony Democrats. We can also throw in John Boehner & Mitch McConnell who neither one did enough if anything to stop Obama. It would appear John Boehner wanted to bide his time as Speaker of the House to get a nice cushy paycheck for life, this was the major accomplishment of his time as Speaker of the House from where I sit. I definitely would love to hear what he did to stop Obama in his reign of tyranny against the United States of America. 

Stereotyping all those who are working to defend the Constitution, defend the American Citizens is not right. Just because some keep screaming establishment, it's like screaming "the man" back in the early 60's, which was nothing more than a way to get the masses riled up in a frenzy. Be smarter than the talking heads. Do not fall into the pitfall, that the PC types would have you fall into, because of you fall for that ploy then they begin to brainwash you. It's so easy for the liberal left to convince people that anything spoken enough is truth; when nothing could be farther from the truth. They cling to repeating an insult, repeating a lie as fact with no proof over & over until it sticks makes falsehoods truths. It is a fact that many can be fooled by the tactic used by many cult leaders, politicians, salesmen, heads of state, con artists by simply repeated a phrase or a word in a paragraph, many can be swayed to accepting this word or phrase, especially if the person giving the speech keeps reiterating repeatedly how they are telling the truth. Subtle brainwashing the masses to believing lies to be truth is nothing more than propaganda. We as American citizens should be more intelligent than those would would seek to make wrong right & right wrong. Calling someone a liar with no proof is nothing more than slander just as Hillary Clinton saying a planned act of terror in Benghazi, which led to the death of 4 Americans, was the fault of a little viewed video. As one GOP candidate like Donald Trump calls Ted Cruz liar, check to see what the facts are about the one accused of being a liar & the one calling names. Somewhere in between will lie the real truth. For the record the FBI does not have 150 agents assigned to the Hillary Clinton email scandal unless there is something to her deception & outright lies. It's the same thing as saying you are a conservative when you actually are a liberal. A person's character can be judged by those they surround themselves with or their friends.

                                         Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg & Bill Clinton 
(Two Billionaires & a hundred Millionaire all of whom want you to believe they are just like you the average working Joe or Jill, when they are all three the best Spin Doctors in America.)

Spin doctors became infamous with the Bill Clinton presidency especially while the Monica Lewinsky affair was looming over the White House. Spin  doctors now are an accepted part of the media culture, which sometimes smells so atrocious that one would think it would need a thorough cleaning with bleach. Yes they also know how to whitewash over the facts, to wring them out replacing a fact into their web of lies, whereby to them with some fact in place, now it is all truthful. Not hardly! If it smells of BS it probably is, but what is the meaning of "is" the Clintons would ask you?!

Establishment to me is the people who have lived off of the American citizens, taxpayers backs at our expense while they have done nothing but weigh us down with more debt, which we as taxpayers are obliged to pay. The establishment are those in political office to avoid work, line their pockets with kickbacks, bribes, insider info that leads to them becoming multi millionaires while making $125,000-$250,000 in salaries per year. Somehow Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid have both become millionaires while in political office. Something definitely smells of a dirty diaper in the hamper there. Spin doctors twist the facts in their PC way to distort truth, talking in circles till most peoples heads are spinning, thus the name. I do not believe everyone holding a political office is bad or is lazy, nor do I think all of them have turned a deaf ear to the public outcry against Barack Obama, his corrupt administration or his corrupt misuse of power. There are good people working to save this country that they love, but for the others who have loved corruption, power, greed more than they have fought it, well yes they are the establishment, for they have firmly established that this is the way it will be as they attempt to force their ideology down our throats. These same "establishment cronies" have also given us the bill after slinging lies, wasting Our money/taxpayer dollars as they deem fit. They never once cared what we thought or wanted to hear what we were saying. Nancy Pelosi famously said of Obamacare, "You have to Pass the Bill to see what's in it." WTH kind of sense does that make? After the 2012 election was over some months later Harry Reid was asked in an interview about his "obvious repeated lies" while speaking on the Senate floor & to the media concerning former Governor Mitt Romney's not filing his taxes. Harry Reid glibly chided, "Well he didn't win did he?' As if Harry Reid's lies were all justified? Apparently this is how Harry Reid lives his life with no remorse for his lies and smirking over having gotten away with fooling the American people once again.

Don't allow the spin doctors, the politicians whether they are new to the game or old hat at the game to deceive you with parlor tricks a psychic would use while preying on a grieving spouse.  What "We the People" have is the power of our vote, especially in this election cycle of 2016, where so much is at stake for American citizens & our freedoms. We should use it wisely to protect us from tyranny, fascism, socialism, wasteful spending, egregious trampling on the Constitution & laws. "We the People" have rights that illegals, visitors to our country do not have, as "We the People" are the citizens, the taxpayers. Be wise, be informed, be an active participant in the elections as a citizen because many of your ancestors, many of the nations forefathers died defending our rights. Don't let their sacrifices be in vain. God Bless America! 

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

www.getbeachslapped.com
Author of the satirical reality check book Get Beach Slapped
@thebeachwife on Twitter 

Game Changers in America

written by Lisa Morgan                                                                                    3/3/2016

Do we have a game changer here? The GOP Republicans might pull Romney out of the magician's hat & The Liberal Dems might pull Biden out of the court jester's hat; meanwhile the American citizens are screaming WTH? Exactly why have we been force fed political campaign commercials for over a year if when we are in the homestretch of the election year, the establishment of both parties freaks out as Hillary Clinton is looking at facing jail time or being disqualified & rightly so for her email debacle (She knew exactly what she was doing when she purposely broke the law); Bernie Sanders a self confessed socialist wants to empty all the pockets of the American taxpayers to redistribute the money as the government sees fit; Donald Trump a bombastic no holds barred tycoon promises to fix what Obama has ripped apart; meanwhile Ted Cruz is saying similar promises as Trump but Trump has painted him as a liar; Marco Rubio has become "Heckler of the Year" surpassing Trump in insults. The establishment of both parties does not like that their "intended choice" of candidates either was spit out by the American voters or might not meet the qualifications or various reasons; therefore they now signal foul on the playing field. The Dems & GOP both may change the rules of the game in midstream to justify their goals of having their intended choice become nominee, not the "Will of the People" or the American Citizens who vote.

The fact that the two political parties have decided that "We the People" will be force fed the nominee they want regardless smacks of tyranny. It is "We the People" of American Citizens that decide the outcome, just as "We the People" are protected by the Constitution, a document that as the late Justice Scalia correctly pointed out, the Constitution is Not a living document, meaning it does not change as we change, it is to be set as it was created at the time it was written. Case in point if you play a ball game you have rules that do not change as the game progresses, or you would have chaos & a ball game that had a predetermined outcome based off of the ever changing rules, so should the Constitution be the same & Not a ever changing living document.

How funny would it be if "We the People" got behind a ticket of Trump/Cruz & Hillary/Bernie despite what the two established parties wanted? We are on a roller coaster ride from hell as it is anyways, so why not ride it on out at this point. What choice do we have? We can stand up to the political system that is obviously broken & Demand that government officials who Serve "We the People" & Not the other way around, that they be held accountable for their actions by charging them when they break laws & convicting them, as they should be regardless of party affiliation. Politicians, government employees are Not Above the law & in fact should be held to a higher standard, thus "We the People" should Demand that all those form the Senate, Congress, IRS, DOJ, EPA, Secretary of State, President of the United States & all others be held accountable for their actions & where they spend OUR Taxpayer Dollars!

It's time America spit out the BS we have been force fed for decades & feed on fresh truth for a change. Truth is not always what you want to hear but it will point you in the right direction whereby you are not misled. Maybe it's time America had a reality check. We can not keep giving away Our Tax Dollars to people who Hate us & want us Dead! We can Not keep allowing illegals to enter our borders giving away our jobs & threatening the security of Our Citizens. We need to coalesce around our nominee on either side to ensure that the established powers that be do not destroy this country any further. There is only so much money that your family can give away before your bank account is empty & you are starving, same goes for the Taxpayer Dollars that fund our Country. Wise up America, quit being brainwashed and have your own thoughts with clarity.

Why would you allow a criminal in your neighborhood to keep breaking the laws & stealing? You would demand justice through having them arrested & tried in the court system, well the same goes for government officials from the top down. They are stealing Our Taxpayer Dollars! They have no problem confiscating your bank accounts, your home or land & all possessions while they act as mobsters. They pit us against each other in race wars, class war fare to deflect from what they the politicians are actually doing like magicians do, so that you do not catch their deception. They the governmental system made of politicians & government employees act as court jesters who laugh at us & mock us "We the People". We should throw our hats off & say listen to us or we will all stay home & not work, we will shut down the country as we demand you listen to us. Then we say,"Now that we have your attention things are going to change around here & you the politicians will be the ones hoping for change."
I have just started the "Beach Slapped" party to give the politicians a good slap! I wonder if I can still run for President? Maybe this is a game changer? LOL!

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

www.getbeachslapped.com
Author of the satirical reality check book Get Beach Slapped 

You Never Saw it Coming....Until the Trump Sounded!

You never saw it coming....until the Trump sounded!

 written by Lisa Morgan                                2/27/2016

I ran across this show on Newsmax TV last night called "Unfiltered". I watched a documentary film titled "They Come to America 3: Obama's Legacy", which was very enlightening. Not living in a metropolis, a southern border town or a northern border town, in Michigan or Minnesota in particular, I did not fully comprehend the extent of the Muslim invasion, the invasion of Illegals. Unless you experience it first hand, you truly do not get the same perspective on the situation. My eyes were opened to exactly why many thousands or hundreds of thousands of Trump fans are concrete in their position to align with him come what may.

When you live in the aforementioned areas or a large city, where your daily life is infested with illegals & Muslims who are living off of the entitlements that we taxpayers foot the bill for, or you have your children coming home from school with stories of how they are being taught about Islam, then you can not fully appreciate the anger in America. I am also angry but my vision was blocked, as I did not see the entire picture. I believe many of us are blinded to a certain extent. My small area is not flooded with Muslims like other areas but when the sun goes down the illegals come out to Walmart & rarely in the daylight. Odd but true.

You see after watching this documentary, doing more research on the web, I now understand the cries of the masses who follow Trump. It is a travesty what the Democrats, the Liberals Progressives have done to this country under Obama & with his blessing under his reign. The Republicans should have done much more to stop him but they have not. The country has suffered, much like in a nasty divorce where children are the ones who suffer, Americans have been the pawns in an ugly, vicious fight among the political parties. The Democrats have lied, stripped away rights, crammed gay marriage, transgender surgeries, partial birth & late term abortions down our throats like geese being force fed before their slaughter, so the wealthy can dine on pate. Americans have been oppressed by political garbage paraded as Political Correctness, whereby if you have any normal, rational, average thoughts you are rapidly demeaned by being called a bigot, racist, offensive zealot, therefore Americans were shamed into complying with the PC police or thought/speech police headed up by the Liberals. Democrats slowly moved into be called liberals, the progressives & now the Democratic socialist. Slowly bit by bit acclimating society to their extreme views & abnormal values. The more they have you accept the more you will accept as normal until abnormal is the "new Normal". TV & movie, music industries have been doing this for decades, the political ideologues of the 1960's & 1970's who followed socialism have wormed their way into the white House via Bill & Hillary Clinton aka Hill-Billy along with Barack & Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Al Gore etc. Google them to see what they have done. They are all socialist progressives who are for One World Order, as they want America to walk lock step with them in a Hitler manner. They know America will Not Willingly do this at first BUT given time, patience, redefining words, renaming what you know to be right as wrong & vice versa some where along the way you will become accustomed or conditioned to accept certain changes, until one day you realize that the America you knew has been Changed. While you were working to make a living wage to feed your family, the progressives were scheming their way into political positions where they are paid with American Taxpayer dollars, to implement their Alinsky/Lennon ideology. They knew you wanted to give your children a better America, so they took advantage of that & of Americans going one step further to indoctrinate your children while they were in public schools or colleges. When you awoke from what seemed like a nightmare to find that your hometown now has 20% unemployment, although the federal government under Obama admit to 4-6% at any given time, you see that can not possibly be true. You see Muslims on every corner not assimilating, many of them not speaking English especially the women, yet they demand special dietary considerations for their children in public schools. They demand their rights even though many thousands, hundreds of thousands are Not even citizens yet they demand, that we cower to their demands. You see illegals from Mexico, the Middle East being trained for jobs Americans once held, but the Progressives try to hypnotize you into believing that those jobs are not wanted by Americans. More lies!

 The brainwashing began with Bill Clinton asking the most ignorant question in the history of mankind, "What is IS?" Let's face it from there it was all downhill when a disgraced sitting President can ask such a obviously redundant question while being questioned on impeachment charges. Bill Clinton is a blight on America! Just this week he attempted in a feeble cracking voice to verbally assault a vet who asked about Bengahzi at a Hillary rally. Well what about it Hillary? What about Bengahzi? You see if you are the POTUS to the Secretary of State you were not hired to be  asking philosophical questions like "What is IS or Bengahzi is a video tape or is it?" The Clintons failed America, just as the Obamas have failed.

Mitch McConnell, John Boehner neither one held Obama accountable for his feckless, reckless executive actions. They failed as well! Obama has broken several laws & now it seems Paul Ryan is walking down the same path of the GOP, down the yellow brick road of the Washington Beltway. It is unlawful to allow a POTUS to put radical Islam before the security of the American people. You can not expect to have the American people respect the law if the sitting President, the former Secretary of State, the IRS as a whole are all breaking laws including the DOJ who were running guns into Mexico under the guise of Fast & Furious. How about some of these people in the White House admin face charges? Now that would check up some of the lawlessness. The White House thinks they can brainwash America into falling for their racial divisive rhetoric, assaulting police officers with upholding such groups as BLM or Black Lives Matter while disregarding All Lives Matter. Anything less than All Lives Matter is racist! The brainwashing of good is bad, bad is good, wrong is right, right is wrong has got to stop. America is fed up with sugar coating BS & force feeding it to us under the branding of "Health Food", the entire PC culture is nothing more than BS or plain old crap!


The more you accept, the more you will accept much like a hostage being brainwashed or a spouse who is abused, at some point your view of normal becomes skewed, you are told 3 or more times repeatedly in sentences the same lies until you begin to accept the lies as truth. One day you wake up to this madness of ghost towns where thriving towns once were, Muslims demanding Sharia Law & that those around them not cook pork as it offends them. You see bus loads of Mexicans none of whom speak English disembarking from the bus onto a construction site, yet you friends in this industry can not find work.

Trump has struck a chord with Americans of many races fed up with the Federal Government, fed up with bureaucracy, fed up with lies, fed up with having America hijacked by illegals who came here illegally & feed off of our system like ticks. Obama has played the magician far too long asking that you look at the right hand while the left hand waves in illegals. You are so distracted that you never see that the border fences were left wide open in spots strategically next to Cartel warehouses where drugs are being made & illegals flow through, you never saw it. You never wanted to be handed a name tag that would stick to you, a name such as racist, heartless bigot so when Nancy Pelosi calls Illegals the new term of "Undocumented Workers" well you just accepted that as a nicer version, a more non-offensive version of the real word Illegal.
Let's cut the the reality check shall we? All BS aside no hold barred, the truth is if something is not legal it IS illegal. If someone is not here legally, then they are illegal...period. No more sugar coating the issues! America has allowed fast talking liars like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary & Bill Clinton, Barack & Michelle Obama, John Kerry, Joe Biden to hijack America!

The Democratic party who I once was a member of many years ago, allowed whack jobs like Debbie Wasserman Schultz along with her progressive buddies to push the lines farther & farther left, until Bingo you have hit socialism as a political party. It happened quicker than anyone thought thanks to the PC police & their minions through social media branding people with the "Race" card branding iron.
Trump struck a chord & the choir behind him sang a Twisted Sister tune, "We're not gonna take it!" America has had enough of being fed a diet of BS. America will not tolerate the arrogance of people like Hillary saying to a crowd of mostly black Alabamians, "They are going to take away your rights, your right to vote." Lies All lies! America has awaken from the Party From Hell & they are mad as hell! America will undoubtedly overwhelming vote in Donald J. Trump to be our next President of the United States of America. Regardless of what you may think of him or his lack of policies other than to hire the right people, he will no doubt be 1000% percent better than the alternative of a untrustworthy Hillary who just this last week barked like a dog to get votes. The bitch has barked! Then there would be the Feel the Heartburn Bernie who promises to complete the transformation that Obama began in making America a third world country to atone for her sins of being successful.

I know see why the Trump fans have firmly planted their feet into the ground for The Donald, they are afraid that we do not have another 4 years to gamble with anymore, after what Obama has done in the last 7 years. It's beyond reprehensible! So Trump fans I am coming to accept your choice. I see why you are asking Republicans, Conservatives, Independents & Rhino Democrats, hell any Democrats to coalesce around Trump to save America! We may not have another roll of the dice. We gambled with the last 23 almost 24 years & look what we got for it. I will encourage all who are not Progressives & Socialists to rally around the GOP nominee to defeat the Democrats & save America! It would do no good to speak to Progressives or Socialists as they are too busy trying to find new ways to correct the wording to be non offensive. So to coin a phrase or word from Donald Trump & Vicente Fox "F#$k 'em!" What time is the Trump train leaving? God help me!

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

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The story does not end when one leaves the stage

    

                           written by Lisa Morgan                                               2/21/2016

 

 

The sands of time will never erase the impression you have made upon my soul. ~ Lisa Morgan

It was laid upon my heart today to write this blog post. I'm not sure why. What matters is that it will hopefully touch one person out there with a heavy heart or a hardened heart.

There is always that day in your life when someone close to your heart & soul passes away from this life leaving you asking why. Why is that person dead? Why is the world still turning? Why are people laughing? Can't everyone see the anguish you're feeling, the heart wrenching agony of a love lost or a friend lost? Why is the world not stopping as I mourn? It does not seem fair.

The truth is it is not fair but your mama always told you life was not fair or she should have told you that anyway. The reason the world keeps turning, the reason people continue to laugh, marriages take place, first kisses happen, the birds sing, women go into labor with the newest arrivals to this Earth is quite simple, so simple in fact, that while you grieve it makes no sense.

Life goes on after each life passes away because it must be that way. God is no respecter of persons; meaning no one is more important than the other. Whether you are a king or a pauper, a rock star or homeless person, from America, Africa, Saudi Arabia, China, Israel or anyplace in between. no one is greater than the next to God, for we are all equal in his eyes. if everything stopped for one then it would mean that life was more important than the next life or the previous life. The only time the skies went pitch black in the mid afternoon without the sun was when Jesus Christ died on the cross at Calvary. The earth moaned at what had taken place as the Son of God was crucified, after the people prayed for a savior & God sent his only begotten Son to the world, they rejected him. They were foretold centuries earlier how his birth would take place & of the holiness but the people were of the world, so they refused to see Jesus as the Christ. When you are of the world or emerged in the ways of the world, then you can not see what is right in front of your face because you have the sight of the world & not the sight of grace.
When you have the sight of grace or you walk with God, having accepted his Son Jesus or Yeshua (in the Hebrew language, there is no "J" sound in the Hebrew language, Ye-shoo-ah) then you see things with more clarity, as your spiritual eyes, ears along with your physical eyes & ears are opened; whereby you see the ways of the world for what they actually are which is not of God.

I said all that to state the obvious, no one among us, before us or after us will cause the world to stop, except Jesus/Yeshua. No one is greater than the next, we are all children of God our creator. We all have the exact same opportunity to love God, to honor him, to serve him, to accept his Son Jesus/Yeshua as our savior, as God loves us all the same. We will all be judged based on our deeds. You see the world must go on, children will continue to laugh, people will still fall in love, babies will enter into the world screaming to declare they have arrived. It is just as it should be. The lovers kissing, the puppies playing, birds singing, babies cooing & children laughing are to bring hope to the grieving soul, with the knowledge that life will go on with promise. The laughter, singing, sunshine, rain & yes the screams of a new born babe entering into the world are here to bring joy to the grieving soul.

Grieve for the ones who you have lost. They will not be coming back to you in this lifetime thus you are saddened as you should be but rejoice after that knowing that one day you will again see them in heaven. After the pain subsides, one day you will smile again as you hear laughter, you will laugh as your soul heals, you will most certainly never forget those that have made a lasting impression upon your soul; this is as it should be. There is a time for everything. I say this to all who are saddened, "This too shall pass." You will find you soul shine again just wait for it.

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan
Go to my web page www.getbeachslapped.com 

Author of the satirical reality check book Get Beach Slapped.
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Postmarked: Fragile Handle with Care

written by Lisa Morgan                                                                                   1/25/2016

 I suppose you could say if Life were to have a title it would be "Fragile Handle with Care". We all are born into this world small packages with no manual or directions sent with us. It would be far easier for all involved if God had seen fit to send a manual with us to guide us from beginning to end of our lives. I suppose in a way he did, he sent us a book called the Holy Bible to lead us through good times, bad times, times of sorrow & times of triumph. We need only to read his word to have guidance, which many forget that God's word is our shield against the world, sent to us to protect us.

Life is very precious & fragile, as we all know to well. You can not love with out joy or pain be included in the love process, as they go hand in hand. The pain reminds of us how great the joy has been in our love. We as human tend to gravitate to the memories of joy tossing aside the pain, whether it be in childbirth or in the death of a loved one.

How great is the love we have for each other as we walk through life? Great enough to cause the heart to ache, as if it would shatter into a million pieces if not for the inner strength you find in faith. Great enough to give one the confidence to conquer anything & move mountains for that love knows no limitations. You can not truly be alive on this earth without having loved, which means you have also experienced loss while walking upon this earth. The loss though extremely painful does allow us to appreciate & revere the joy, laughter, intimacy & the silence when no words need be spoken, that we have with our loved ones.

I write this today after having news that a classmate from high school has lost her brother who was my niece's step father. Brad was killed in a tragic car accident leaving behind 4 children & my ex sister law Tammy. I can not fully express how I am shocked by this news of Brad's passing or how grieved I am for his family. There will be forever be a void in their lives. My brother in law Jonny was also killed in a tragic car wreck 25 yrs ago & yet it feels like yesterday. My Dad passed away 8 years ago & I still get chocked up talking about it. The loss never goes away; we simply learn to cope with it. Also about ten years ago my sister law was killed in a car accident. I know that loss, as you are given earth shattering news, that feels like an earthquake has simultaneously struck, while lighting knocked you to your knees. The days, months ahead will be difficult & sometimes almost unbearable & in these times reach out to God for healing, strength & support.

 Reach out to loved ones & friends to lean upon as none of us can be strong all the time. Animosity, anger are sometimes harbored in relationships, when they go sour. It never does anyone of us good to have an unforgiving heart. We all fail & fall short of the kingdom of heaven. I have been guilty of this un-forgiveness. I had to truly seek to let go of harbored useless emotions that weighed down my soul. When I forgave those who had caused me harm, I prayed that those whom I had harmed, would also forgive me. I hope that they have or will one day. Not one among us is without fault. When tragedy strikes we must come together to heal. No one knows the loss a another feels when they lose a loved one, we only empathize with them or sympathize with them based off of our experiences with loss, each loss is different. God be with those who have felt the loss of a loved one & whose soul cries out in agony from each breath they take.

My best friend lost her husband almost 4 years ago. I saw first hand what the intense loss of a spouse can do to your soul. Time has passed by & my friend smiled, laughed and shared moments of happiness with me as we shared dinner last night. It was a blessing to see her soul shine again. Soul shine is a wonderful thing. I have friends who are expecting a child late in their lives, when they thought they would not have another child, as they are in their forties & fifties, but the child is due any day now. As one life exits this world swiftly without any notice, another life eagerly enters the world. My best friend's son got married a few months ago & is embarking on a new course in his life as a young married man, where the possibilities are limitless for the newlyweds. I spoke to a woman who in her mid fifties had given up on finding love again after a divorce & being single for almost ten years, then she found her soul mate last year & married two months ago.

  I'll send this out to anyone who might read it with a heavy heart from grief or a weightless heart enthralled in the passions of love; we do not know the day, the hour or the moment we will be called to leave this earth to join our departed loved ones & our creator God. Today one has a heart ripped from them as they grieve intensely the loss of a family member, while another has witnessed the miracle of life through a child entering into this world; at these times we feel the presence of God much greater than we do in our everyday mundane tasks of life. Appreciate the time you have with those around you with whom you cherish, for at the blink of an eye any one of us may be called to be with the Lord.

There is a passage in the Bible that reads "Be still & know that I am the Lord", which is of comfort to me because in times of pure bliss or times of extreme pain God is always with us to shine his light upon us, to share in our experiences on this earth also to guide us with his loving light.
Though we walk, we never walk alone.

My prayers are with those who are grieving the loss of loved ones. My prayers are with those bringing a new life into the world. My prayers are with the newlyweds who are starting a new life together. May we all place perspective in our lives to clearly see the importance of life, to love without holding back, to embrace joy, laughter & smiles that come our way, to lean upon others when we are not strong, to find comfort knowing God is always watching & always here with us. Be blessed each day to find the good you have been blessed with even in a bad day, for each day that we are alive & breathing is truly a good day.

Smile as your loved one tells that same old joke or story you have heard one hundred times before, place the smiles you receive in a mason jar for safe keeping in your memory bank, you will need them again one day. Let go of the anger, resentment, past pain someone had thrust upon you, it is not worth your precious time to hold onto emotions of anger or resentment, when you can not hold onto love or joy when you are clinging tightly to anger & resentment. Soul shine happens when your soul experiences bliss, happiness, joy, forgiveness. Soul shine is as dim as a candle light on a moonless night, when a soul grieves. Help those who are going through loss in their lives. These are among the good works spoken of in the bible than will make up the fine linen you will wear in heaven. The grieving process will take significant time maybe several years, for the one grieving to once again have their soul shine, be relentless in standing with them to catch them when they collapse or to hug them when they need an embrace. Be mindful to listen when that is all you can do for the grieving soul. One day maybe many days away soul shine will return, be ready to share that soul shine.

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

Author of the book Get Beach Slapped
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Tribute to Glenn Frey

 written by Lisa Morgan                                                                                                   1/18/2016

                                                                Glenn Frey

I sit here tonight listening to Eagle's music as I realize one by one the musicians from my glory days are taking a final bow & leaving the building never to return, for an encore performance. Iconic artists, songwriters, singers memorialized in their music. Actors frozen in time on film waving goodbye. My middle age self is watching as the candles are being blown out on my youth. 

Musicians of today do not harmonize like the Eagles did. They don't have the talent or the desire to hone their craft, as many of the music legends of yesterday. Guitarists like those in the Eagles are few & hard to find.

Friends & Family have left this earth to wait on the other side, where each will travel down the seven bridges road leaving a hole in the world tonight. There's gonna be a heartache tonight as music mourns Glenn Frey.
I actually understand the way my mother felt on the day Elvis died. I'm watching my own mortality be peeled away before my eyes. When the icons of your youth pass away, then you know there's no going back, the past is gone. It went by like dust to dawn.....you know that tune from Aerosmith.

Thank you Glenn Frey, for helping me get through the good days, the bad days and all the crazy years since the seventies. Heaven sure has an awesome band with the addition of Glenn Frey! My prayers go out to Glenn Frey's family, the Eagles band & to the world who lost one of the good souls today. My soul shine is dimmer tonight but I'll play some more Eagles tunes to turn up the old soul shine again.

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan
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