Don't Be a Dead Beat Dad!

I feel like posting these song lyrics to all the Dads who are MIA on Father's Day..

Don't Be a Dead Beat!

Always talkin 'bout the big deal
Grandiosity to growns
For yourself showing you don't care
Till you want to feel like home

No reply on the other end of the phone

Don’t be a dead beat
Your word is incomplete
You had everything
And you gave it away
Don’t need a dead beat
This ship has finally sailed
I try not to be angry but I've got to ask...

Is that really who you wanna be?
Just a dead beat?
Don't be a dead beat dad!

Tell me how's that working for you?
Boy you really show your ah...
Hiding underneath the table
All you'll ever get is scraps

No return never paying back tax

Don't be a dead beat!
Will you ever complete?
You start so many things
Keep running away
Don't need a dead beat
This ship has finally sailed
I try not to be angry but I've got to ask... 
Is that really who you wanna be?
Just a dead beat? 
Don't be a dead beat dad!

Actions speak..Checks in the mail?
Always blaming someone else
Missing disappointing them
Trading love you’ve lost yourself

You choose that dead beat
Your word is incomplete
You had everything
Why'd you give it away?
Don't need a dead beat!
This ship has finally sailed
I try not to be angry but I've got to ask...
Is that really who you wanna be?
Is that really who you wanna be?
Man up man 
Step up and be a good Dad

by Shawna Ray, 4/24/12

Rainbows From Rain

Jump'n in puddles, lett'n it splatter
Haters will hate but it don't matter
Bubbling up I'm saved by laughter
Coming in from the rain

Contrasting the dramedy
Love lights up the sky
Finding rainbows from rain
Rainbows from rain

Happily after dreaming of better
Sing'n along dog days are over
Keep'n it mov'n, pushing the chatter
Out of my brain

Contrasting the dramedy
Love lights up the sky
Finding rainbows from rain
Rainbows from rain

Holding my own pot of gold
Giving to lighten the load
Playing to level the field
Sharing the stories that beg to be told

Contrasting the dramedy
Love lights up the sky
Finding rainbows from rain
Rainbows from rain

Forecasting bright futures ahead
Finding rainbows from rain
Forecasting bright futures ahead
Finding rainbows from rain

Jump'n in puddles lett'n it splatter
Haters will hate but it don't matter
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Inspired by Tyler Perry's Interview with Oprah on OWN and my Dad, who taught me to keep looking for the rainbows through every storm in life
By Shawna Ray, today 5/27/13
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Optimism

I found these creeds on my cousin's mirror this morning. Even if you are not a parent, we are all mentors in one way or another and this can also help to understand our own childhood, heal from any past wounds and make choices regarding how we want to live moving forward. Some of us are single parents because we did not want our children to live with hostility. I believe that as we learn from the past and keep moving forward, with healthy boundaries, blessings will come. Even when it doesn't always pay well in this lifetime or follow systematic religious rules taken out of context, I believe that God's love, happiness and true riches are realized when we choose to find the good in all people and all things...

THE OPTIMIST CREED:

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true
To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

PARENTS CREED:
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to disconnect.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.

Live, Give, Love, Laugh, Learn,

Shawna Ray, today 5/19/13

#optimism, #parenting, #praise, #shawna ray, #open, #love
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Birthday

Turning of an age I see the candles on a cake and wonder am I where I'm suppose to be by now?
Looking forward, pulling back I picture what lies up ahead and make myself get out of the bed to take next steps...

Into chapter two
On to three
Bring in forty
Birthday, celebrate
Life is good
When living presently

Friends and family call to wish me well, posts on the wall bring out a smile
Inside I still feel like a kid
Do I blow a wish? Or is it more about the breath that I take in to capture moments of alive

Moving into chapter two
On to three
Bring in forty
Birthday, celebrate
Life is good
When living presently

Learning to be healthy is happy
Loving and feeling it all
Now choosing what I want to receive

Writing a new chapter two
On to three
Forty and fifty
Unafraid!
Celebrate
Life is good
Loving and living
Presently

-shawna ray, today 5/10/13

#birthday,#presents,#living,#presently, #friends,#family,#20,#30,#40,#50
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Everything

Note: Read the quotes at the bottom that inspired this song I've been singing in the morning shower to help me through the full time work day in an office. I do hope to record more soon because lyrics are sometimes hard to grasp without hearing them with music. It's coming! I'm just broke and trying to raise two kids as a single Mom. Someday...

Everything
-shawna ray, today 4/25/13
I can feel the stress hormones releasing in my blood
I need to find a way
To let go of weight and peacefully engage
By riding out the raging wave

It's all good
When you're looking for the good
I know that's right
When I'm doing things right

Happiness is not about having everything
It's about doing my best in everything
Loving me may never be that easy
But I will love you well; hope you love me back
Silently I'm drawn and answering the call Of what I love so naturally
Lifting up my voice its time I made a choice
The only one to live my life is free

It's all good
When you're looking for the good
I know that's right
When I'm doing things right

Happiness is not about having everything
It's about doing my best in everything
Loving me may never be that easy
But I will love you well; hope you love me back

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow
It takes the strength out of today
You can think that nothing in life is a miracle
Or live as there are miracles in everything!

It's all good
When you're looking for the good
I know that's right
When I'm doing things right

Don't shrink, don't settle
Don't fade away
Your light is needed
There are no mistakes
Don't shrink, don't settle
Don't fade away
Your light is needed
There are no mistakes!
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Based on quotes on my fridge and bedroom mirror:

he happiest people don't necessarily have everything; they just make the best of everything!
Unknown source)

I know that's right
When I'm doing things right
(based on quote by Peter Drucker "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.)

"It's all good
When you're looking for the good"
(Shawna Ray quote...It irritates my boss when I say "Its all good" and he always wants to point out that it's not ALL good. And I say "if you're looking for the good, it can all be good" He then makes that face and walks away thinking he's right and I'm crazy

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow
It takes the strength out of today
(quote by Corrie ten Boom "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength")

You can think that nothing in life is a miracle
Or live as there are miracles in everything
(Albert Einstein quote-"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle")

Don't shrink Don't settle
Don't fade away
Your light is needed There's no mistakes
("There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you" -Gregg LaVoy, from the book, Callings)

And don't forget the ortune cookie quotes:
"The minute that you settle for less than you deserve, you get less than you settled for"
"He who never makes mistakes never did anything that's worthy"

"Make it a great day!"
(I say this to my kids as they get on the bus every morning and we made it into a fridge magnet. After watching the recommended movie "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" my daughter now jokes with a quote from the movie"That's too much pressure", which makes us laugh.)
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Behind the Line

-John 8 Jesus drew a line in the sand and said, "You who are without sin throw the first stone"

-Vs 1
Hands held high so quick to stone you
Those who hate resisting change
Setting up the argument so
Power is a binding chain

Jesus said you are forgiven
Lord of grace you wiped my shame away, away, away away...

-Chorus
He draws a line
Disarming weapons
He draws a line
Where we are safe
He draws a line
To keep us running
This race that we will win to give him praise

-Vs2
All have sinned and have been covered
Hearts of children sanctified
We are cleansed and now empowered
Walk this line and be revived

Jesus said you are forgiven
Lord of grace you wiped my shame away, away, away away...

He draws a line
Disarming weapons
He draws a line
Where we are safe
He draws a line
To keep us running
This race that we will win to give Him praise

Jesus..
You see me
Free me
Redefining
Who I am
See me
Free me
Rolling
The stone away again and again and again...
He draws a line
Disarming weapons
He draws a line
Where we are safe
He draws a line
To keep us running
This race that we will win to give Him praise

Jesus said you are forgiven
Lord of grace you wiped my shame away!

-through Pastor Matt Rice at Life Church Columbus last night inspiring song by Shawna Ray, today, 4/7/13

#grace,#Jesus,#freedom,#stone,#Behind the Line,#lifechurch,#shawnaray #seeme,#freeme,#running,#empowering
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Palm Sunday Sermon Song

Sermon notes that turned into a song during the service. I got up and sang this Acappella last night at Life Church, Pastor Matt Rice 3/23/13

Make Your House a Home
-inspired during Pastor Matt's mssg 3/23/13

Jesus I want to know you
Light my heart on fire
Alter every part of my life before

I can feel your revival
Fresh wind and revelation
I am ready to see you break through the doors

Jesus is coming
Will you be open?
Will he be welcome
To make your house a home?
(Sing) Abide in me
Lord abide in me
Abide in me Lord
Make this house your home

Church and body the temple
Hear him knocking to enter
This is soul renovation from within

Grace is justification
Holiness is a cleansing
Break the power of past sin -never again

Jesus is with us
God I am open
Spirit is welcome
To make this house a home
(Sing) Abide in me
Lord abide in me
Abide in me Lord
Make this house your home
Work in me
Do your work in me
Lord work through me
Lord make this house your home
Love on me
Lord love on me
Lord love through me
Please make this house your home
Abide in me
Lord abide in me
Abide in me Lord
Make this house your home

-through shawna ray, today 3/23/13

Sermon Notes:
All Heaven breaks loose
An entry fitting for the king of Heaven
He comes in prophetic way, deeply theological (grounded in scripture)
Zachariah 9- he comes on a donkey as in the old testament
With power clothed in humility

Lowly-on a donkey
Elicits a highly passionate response
The first palm Sunday was spontaneous active worship in response - welcoming Jesus, laying down the path
When Jesus comes, there is a shift and movement ready to take place
Son of David - a King that God would raise up!
Procession concludes at the temple- God's home. Jesus drives out the money changers. Not about buying and selling. Make this a house of prayer and welcoming.
1 Corinthians 3:16- you are God's temple. Your body is a temple of the holy spirit
Revival is about the supernatural but true revival is about hearts turned toward Jesus (repentance) with a fresh revelation and affirming love
God wants to renovate your soul and decorate your house
He wants every part of you - hearts on fire not trying to please everyone. True to the word and messages in Spirit and truth
Might not be "seeker friendly" but we will be sensitive seekers, surrendered to God, allowing the Holy Spirit to flow through us and meet people as they are with love and acceptance, pure and real. This is God's house. All are welcome. God will set you free and wants to use you to welcome more souls into the Kingdom.

Romans 12

#palm sunday; #Jesus; #easter; #welcome; #House of God; #temple; #Spirit #abide; #make this house your home; #home; #renovation; #Grace; #holiness; #worship; #prayer
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