"Protect Yourself"

Happy Thursday – Late last night and this morning, the word protection kept ringing in my spirit. Protection, we know, means to guard or shield us from something or someone. And I got to thinking; in life, we really do have to protect ourselves from people, and even, some family members. Some people might say, "aah, you/we have trust issues," but I say, now-a-days, see things for what they are, and use wisdom. The new craze now, is Face Book; it’s been out for a while, but for some, it’s still fairly new. On this program (FB), people request for you to be their friend. Now for me, I don’t like to accept everyone’s friendship and the reason being, because not everyone who wants to be your friend, really want, to be your friend. And so it is in life. People come into our lives sometimes with their own agenda (some are being nosy, some are trying to use you for what you have, and some are just trying to figure out a way, how to tear you down, because of their own insecurity). Unfortunately, we don’t recognize this until after we’ve been misled, or hurt, what their true motive was from the get go. That’s why, it is so important to make sure of our friends. And the only way to do that, is to protect, and guard ourselves. Take time to get to know the person(s) who want to be your friend. Like anything else, they have to be tried too, to see if they are durable and authentic in heart; because not everyone, is deserving, to be apart of your life. I leave you with this thought, - throughout life, I’ve heard, that people only do to you what you allow them too. And you know what, it is a true statement. Protect yourself today, and protect yourself from people who are destructive in character. Never allow them to permeate the goodness inside of you. Peace and Love…