Inflation and Prices Rant

The world is changing at an alarming rate. A dollar doesn't go as far as it once did. Some days, I find myself in shock and awe at the cost that the average costumer in the United States is contending with. It cost $6 for a gallon of milk; a tray of chicken wings can run you $25 easily and $7- $8 for a large bag of chips. This year has been rough for many of us that once believed in the America dream. 

While I believe things will improve eventually... the lack of funding for social programs like food pantries has created a major gap for those enduring financial insecurity. It seems though scrapping by has become a regular expectation in this society. Social media was once used to show lavish lifestyles but as of late it has become a venting place for everyday people enduring changing. 

For instance, TicTok was primarily used for trendy dances, but a sentiment has taken hold on the platform that once focused on good times. Many users are now coming online to express their dissatisfaction with the economic turmoil and inflation. Users are showing themselves in their most vulnerable moments which includes but are not limited to eviction, homelessness, hunger, layoffs and financial strain. There is a part of me that longs to say were living in the last days but that would be too easy. 

Instead, I will speak to the situation that many of us currently find ourselves in. According to 2 Timothy 1:7, God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. So, no matter what you're going through or hard the wind may blow you will not be moved. Because God planted you in good soil. Not only will you endure. You will prosper and live a full life. There is no limit to what you can do and achieve in Jesus Christ. 

This is a time to focus and lock in. Because many people panic but this is a time for those who are determine, prayerful and eager to see miracles. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. There have been so many times in my life when I wanted to give up. When I assumed that the way was too narrow or the journey was too steep but little did I know that God was building me. Even now he is encouraging my soul and making a way for me out of no way. 

I will close with a short story. Towards the end of covid, I was having financial problems, and I didn't know how I was gonna make it. I spent the last of my money fixing my car and due to job loss, I wasn't working. Bills were overflowing and I was at a loss for words, but I kept on believing that God would make a way. One day, I received money from the bank because they said I was over changed. I started receiving random jobs here and there that pushed me along and before you knew it, I was in the clear. 

This experience taught me that no situation is too big for God. He owns cattle on 10,000 hills He made the universe, and I know he will provide for his children and then some. I will leave you with psalm 37:25, I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

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Best, Ayesha 

Right Season

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Peace, ease, laughter and hope 

The beautiful of the moment 

And the time to cope 

Surrounded and wrapped in dreams 

That knows no bounds 

Prayers sent to heaven 

From quivering lips, dripping in hope 

And answered with love 

For once to know my tears, struggles and triumph

Are well thought of 

I was fashioned and designed for a special reason 

While I thought Jesus didn't care about my pain... 

He was just waiting for me 

To enter the right season  

Love always, Esha 

Burning Wick

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The warmth generated by the candle sways with desire. It burns with intensity, wax melts under the strain of the fire's all consuming beauty. The wick is eaten by the flame of the present circumstance. But the memory of the smell will stick around forever. The hot intensity of a dream igniting is enough to wake any slumbering soul. 


Love always, Esha <3

Travel With Hope

 

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Ride on 

Move forward

Traverse to destinations unseen 

Only experienced in dreams 

Inch closer to the desires 

Placed in your heart 

Push through valleys

Pedal up mountaintops 

Thrive in the midst of the wilderness

Sail over running rapids 

As robust waterways swell 

Let the dirt road 

Build the level of your endurance 

The challenge will make you reach higher 

The time spent fighting will make you travel lighter

Because smooth highways 

And byways are meant for driving 

But it is the difficult terrain that builds us 

Shaping our hard days 

Into faith and trust 

Creating a spirit than can withstand 

The journey in no man's land 

Love always, Esha <3

God: A True Friend

 

When my Dad died and my boyfriend turned into a nightmare on squeaky wheels. God held my hand and gathered together the pieces of my broken heart and for that I am forever grateful. Because my life has been one train wreck after another. But now I don’t feel so alone anymore. I have a heavenly Father with cattle on a thousand hills and the things I am unable to do my God will. I gotta be honest. I gotta keep it real. Sometimes, it gets cold out here….

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Way Maker

You make the dream worthwhile. Creating and reinventing prayers that your love brought back in-style. By answering my desperate cries for help and letting me know that I’m not in the struggle by myself. You are the savior that the comics ignored. You are the way maker that the outcast adore. You are bigger than the gold that coats hardened hearts. You break the yoke of iniquity and set the captives free. And in my hour of need you comforted me. For that and so much more you are a true friend indeed.

Love always, Esha

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Is it too late to say, I miss you?  Could you stay for a little while? Are we too far gone to say, I dream of your wide smile? Is it beyond the point of no return? Does your heart call for mine? Does your head burn? If we could start over again, just be friends. Oh the lessons…we would have learned. 

– Esha

God's Love

Faith has been known to move mountains. It is the substance that dreams and blessings are made of. Just a bit of it is enough to garner God's love. 

Till next time, Esha 

Unexpected

I can't see you sometimes. So I feel around for the shape of your face. I sniff the breeze for the scent of your cologne. I lay soft intent to raw feelings in hopes of finding you somewhere among the clouds. My heart moves before my thoughts and I'm thinking out loud. But I am the midst in a broken town looking for the breath of you. Until I realize that a vulnerable dreamer should never look for love. It comes like rain and falls when you least expect it. So accept thee unexpected. 


Love always, Esha <3

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Peace

Thankful is an understatement when you’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel. All the darkness you’ve been through falls away. The expectation of kindness is returned to its rightful place. And peace returns to dreams unbridled by fervent passion.

Love always, Esha

Corona Culture Rant: Rich Vs. Poor

Corona Culture Rant: Rich Vs. Poor 

It's easy to tell people to stay inside if they don't feel well. It's simple to see the benefits when you don't live pay check to check. When you have the option, the privilege, the ability to work from home and receive paid sick leave that's wonderful! But what about the rest of us? The working class Americans.

We are the silent majority that makes the country go round but we are also those struggling to survive. Those who fall in-between the cracks of the American dream trying to dig out of the concrete and barely scraping by. Now we are being called on once again to pull ourselves up by our proverbial bootstraps with no shoes! What do we do? When our bellies growl but no stimulus check comes in?

Part of me is concerned over what the nature of the economy will be when this pandemic ends. When the demands for work are unable to fulfill our need because small businesses have taken a hit! When homelessness stands in the way of self preservation and the cost is paramount to our livelihood. What is the baseline of assistant that can be provided for the homeless, struggling, working poor and ailing among us?

In the midst of this pandemic, we look to our state and federal government for answers, for assistance, for calm but we receive silent in return. It is my solvent hope that our elected officials answer that call. But I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket. So I propose that we all look out for one another during this time. You never really know what people are going through be hide closed doors and now a large number of us are confined to staying in doors. And sometimes it feels unbearable.

There were so many things I took for-granted before Covid-19. Going to the movies, library, hitting a party, attending a conference, lecture, or just going to a theme park had no real value in my mind. I was just doing stuff but now I realize that I should have been more grateful for the little things. life is what we make of it. So even though I'm in the house, I am content. Because some people didn't wake up this morning. So I have to push forward in a world full of inequity and hardship. I have to make a way out of no way and help those I can along the way. Because no matter what we see and hear on social media we are all in this together.

Till next-time, Esha <3