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Thoughts on Tuesday Testimony

Tuesday Testimony was one of those features I struggled with for months deciding if I would make it a featured post of not. On one hand, it went well with the theme of the blog. But, I always try to see if there’s a lot of content to make a featured post.

Finding testimonies has been slightly difficult. This featured post is my least favorite, straight up, yo. This does not mean I dislike it though and will be working on it to see where it can be improved. For instance, I could create video testimonies of people I interview. All I gotta do is go to church and bam! Or look for videos in general (though I kinda want Wednesday Word to handle videos).

I’ll have to really improve my research skills. This is the newest feature too so it needs time. This baby ain’t going anywhere yet.

Can this ever become the staple of the blog? I don’t know. I know that this thing can be a lot better than it is right now.

Do you like this featured post? Is it the favorite? What could be added, taken away, or changed? Let me know. Thanks for reading.

-Dante Writes

Thoughts on Monday Motivation

Monday Motivation has been pretty good. I enjoy writing out the messages. You notice they are typically short and straight to the point. That’s just how I am.

Recent weeks it’s become a challenge to think of areas of motivation. Sometimes I’ll look at quotes on motivation and use those to inspire a post.

What’s funny is that I don’t look back on my posts (that goes for just about everything I’ve written though) so it would seem that I don’t motivate myself, or at least give it a chance.

Monday Motivation is for me too at the same time. As I’m writing it, that’s when it touches me. I think it fits the DALANEL mold so it’s here to stay. This is one featured post that a member of team DALANEL could add to so my mind can rest.

On a performance scale, Monday Motivation does okay out of the four current featured posts. Is it my favorite? I can’t say. What I love about this post though is that, out of the featured posts here, this is the most original. The other three stuff rely on outside sources. My motivations come from the heart.

Future plans of this post are to keep it going. I don’t think it needs a change. I don’t think it needs a shakeup. Maybe one day I’ll do a video motivation but I don’t plan on using outside sources as the primary motivation (ah-hah!) of my posts.

So, do you enjoy the motivations? Has one really got you moving and grooving? Let me know.

-Dante Writes

Tuesday Testimony: Deliverance from drugs, drinking, and more

I was born in 1959, I was never very goods at making friends, I always found it easier to make friends with girls than boys. I sometimes played dolls with my cousin, and would play dress up with a girl at her house when I was in elementary school. I was molested in elementary school, that event in my life caused me to block out the molestation, I have since forgiven that person.

I continued to cross-dress and became confused about my gender-identity. As I got older I started dating girls, but I would always sabotage the relationship. After high school I had a few homosexual affairs dressed as a woman. I was smoking cigarettes as well as marijuana, and drinking at the age of 16. knowing I could get the alcohol at the liquor store because he sold to minors. I never really got addicted to drugs, and I had lost many friends and relatives to drug use.

I got married in 1996 the marriage broke up in 2000 when she walked out, she knew how I felt about drug use, and she was not willing to give it up. I started cross dressing again near the end of the marriage. By that time I had been in the hospital for health related problems.

In 2008, at the age of 49 I had my first stroke, as well as other health related problems, if it was not for the stroke I would not have given up smoking, or been delivered from my cross-dressing. I was still struggling with my porn addiction in the early part of 2014, I have been delivered from my addiction to porn.

I know as we get older we put away the foolish things we have done in our past. I have prayed for many years to be delivered, but was not sure I wanted to give it up to god. I am so thankful that God has been patient and has delivered me.

This testimony came from here.

Monday Motivation: Keep your pace

Sometimes, I literally have nothing on my mind to use for a Monday Motivation. When this happens, I search for a quote to either inspire a post, or to simply share with you. Today, I’m sharing this quote:

faster than couch

That is true, is it not? So, don’t worry about how fast you’re going to reach your goal. At least you’re making progress and are not just standing or sitting around.

-DALANEL

Good News Friday: Firefighters donate crib

Who said firefighters only fight fires? They can do other things too, like giving a crib to a mother in need.

See, firefighters were responding to a distress call about a baby struggling to breathe. Turned out, the call wasn’t very serious. However, the firefighters saw that this baby didn’t have a crib. So, after talking to the mom about it, they…

“I asked her if she had a crib; she said no,” said Costa, “and I asked her if she would like one, and she was very positive and said that she would really enjoy it cause she had no other means to get another crib.”

“So, at that point it was 3 o’clock in the morning. We cleared that call and came back to the station,” said O’Shields, “got a crib, went back to the house, put it together, my partner put it together.”

That’s great. Turns out, this is something that happens.

“And if we find a baby who’s sleeping with their parents, and a mom is unable to find a crib, get a crib, borrow a crib, we’re able, through a partnership with the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies of Broward County and Cribs for Kids, to get them a crib,” said Carroll.

Awesome stuff. The entire story is neat.

Wednesday Word: Let go of the negative people in your life

Wednesday Word. A short sermon followed by my commentary.

We really do need to learn how to say goodbye and let go of people in our lives that aim to suck us into their hole of despair.

I do want to add that saying goodbye does not mean that you no longer care for that person’s well being. My comments actually are from my book and the chapter called “Let It Go”. I’ll link you to that post.

Anyway, you have to let people go; but that person still needs help. I like to say “love from a distance”.

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