The Unique View

Welcome to June's author of the month, Deondriea Cantrice.  I have had the pleasure of reading Deondriea's books and I loved them. When Emotions Lie is one of my favorites. I wanted to jump into the pages on a few occasions. Not only is she a wonderful writer, Deondriea is a motivational powerhouse in her own right and just love her shoe game. Lets welcome Deondriea. Bio Deondriea Cantrice is a dynamic speaker, engaging facilitator, and celebrated author who has presented her life-changing messaging to many multifaceted audiences around the country. From CEO's to at-risk youth, she expertly entertains, educates, and inspires any audience with her tales of true life. Deondriea greets everyone she meets with a smile, and endeavors to have a positive impact on everyone she encounters through effective communication, veracity, and affirmative interaction. She believes that, "with direction and discipline, accomplishment is attainable." I asked Deondriea a f...

To all of you men who have fathered children but have no participation in raising those children. You are doing a disservice. You are an insult to the creed God gave. It is your responsibility to be up front and center. It is not your right to ignore one child but claim the other. To the woman who do not demand or allow his participation in his children lives, you are a part of the dysfunction that that child will carry be it birthed by you or another. If you are a wife and you are blocking him from his children before you, you are disrespecting your husband, if you demand him present in the children you two created but not in the ones before you, you are guilty as charged. Turn it around. Get your emotions in check, it is not about you, it is about the children. Stop feeding lies and discord. Stop playing the victim. Stop labeling by calling men who are trying dead beats. Stop thinking the government system will fix your problem just because of a right of child support. That pr...

Happy Fathers Day to my Daddy. I know you are in a place of complete healing and rest. Being self-employed, you taught me how to paint, sheetrock, repair plumbing, lay carpet, and flooring. My fondest memory is of you taking my friends and I roller skating and seeing you for the first time roller skate by me going backwards. My Daddy was Super Cool. You taught me electrical repair, but I knew after a few volts, I was not the one and because of those volts, I DO not jump cars. I got cables though. You taught me that nothing in life is easy and you have to work hard and sacrafice to get what you need. You told me to teach my children as best I could. You taught me how to have a plan even though I did not execute them at times. You taught me to think. You taught me by example of how an honest man is to present himself at all times. Daddy you set the bar high in so many ways. I could not have been prouder to call you my Daddy as a child. I was proud to see you walk the halls at school...

We are six months into the New Year. With summer now upon us and the children out of school, I am sure you are wondering where the time went and you suddenly realize you have gotten off track. Get up. Get moving. Go back and revisit your list. Get back in the game because you are a winner and you can't stop now. I started my life changes in November 2014.  I call them life changes because I am a firm believer that anything you do should result in change in your life, for the rest of your life. One of my life changes was related to my weight and overall health. Most of you know who follow my blog that I suffer from cervical spinal stenosis. This is a chronic condition of the spine where the bones are pressing into the spinal cord. This condition can cause severe pain and numbness. And when I say severe, I mean just that. This condition can leave you in so much pain, you can only lay down and pray for relief.  I am not discouraged, but yet I am con...

I was raised in a home where being respectful was more implied than verbally demanded. I knew that I had better respect any adult and it did not matter whether I knew them or not, whether in our home or not. I had best be very careful on how I spoke to any adult.  As a child this time of growing will show how a child will act and live as an adult and what contribution they will provide either negative or positive. It all starts in the home. Sad to say that many children and adults for that matter lack respect for self and others. Many have no idea the magnitude in which their behavior will have on their lives and how they will be received by society. As I write this post, I think back on the many, many, many, and many more times when I got a serious whipping by my mother, my aunt, and once my oldest sister even got in on the adventure of keeping me line. I even got a swat in school, and that really was not my fault. Now, let me be very clear. I grew up in a time wh...

I have worked for the non-profit humanitarian organization World Vision, Inc. for several years and I learn first-hand the many disasters that affect so many around the world. I see up close and personal through media the effects of hunger, devastation and disaster. My heart goes out to the millions who are affected in so many ways, especially the children. We in the western world really do not know what it is like to be hungry or to live in a land that has no clean water. We can never relate to walking miles just to dig for water, dirty and disease ridden water, and to carry that dirty water back to our homes to cook, clean, and bathe in. We can just go to our taps and turn it on and presto, clean water.  Lack of water is the main cause of death. In John 4:13 Jesus talked about the benefit of water. Not the running water from our taps, wells, or streams, but eternal life-saving water. Jesus replied, Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. ...