FEBRUARY is the Love Month, Valentine’s Day, Black History Month, and February 25th, my 77th birthday. Happy Birthday to me. To God be all the glory.
I am excited about celebrating my 55th anniversary as a licensed Cosmetologist. It’s a milestone that I am extremely proud of as I reflect on the tremendous mountains I’ve climbed to reach this plateau. 1971 I graduated from Marinello School of Beauty, Pasadena CA.
Despite teenage pregnancy, domestic abuse, divorce, single parenting, failed businesses, and being a caregiver for my father who died in 2019 and currently caring for my 94 year old mother, God is faithful.
Becoming a Cosmetologist was not my plan for my life, but, it was God’s plan and purpose. After watching my mother struggle and work hard to earn a living as a hairstylist, I was not inspired to do the same. Proverbs 19:21 reminds us; Many are the plans in one’s heart, but it is God’s purpose that prevails. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts says the Lord in Isaiah 55:9. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Love never fails.
Love is an action word. Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels but have no love, I have become a sounding brass and a clanging cymbal. Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have no love, I am nothing. Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquities but rejoices in the truth. Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Express your love in action and bless that special someone in your life on Valentine’s Day.
John 3:16 says, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let’s be more Christlike and share the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ to a dying world. What the world needs now is Love sweet Love, that’s one thing there is just too little of, Love sweet Love. With all the hate that’s going around, Love is the answer for the world today.
Faith works by Love. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The fruit of the spirit is, Love, joy peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control against such there is no law. Love is the motivator and faith is the activator. Faith is acting on God’s word. Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
Bear one another’s burden and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in the due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart and faint. God’s love is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit. Out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth will speak. Let NO corrupt or foul communication proceed out of your mouth, only that which edifies and gives grace to the hearer. Love conquers all and casts out fear.
I love you, and God bless you.
To God be the glory and Congratulations on my 55th Anniversary as a Licensed Cosmetologist since 1971.
Happy Valentines Day/ Black History Month and
Happy 77th Birthday to Dr. Stella!
Reposted February 2026