What is more valuable than the human, who imparts value to everything under the sun? How bewitched we must be to have eyes that don’t see the priceless power of life begun. No sparkly trinkets or acquiescence of such will add worth to a hardened heart or tainted soul. A mentally and spiritually battered population soon flees from its humanity to join the material fold.

Dr. Yolanda L. Thomas is an Ordained 5-Fold Minister, Diplomatic Licensed Master-Pastoral Life Coach / Faith Based Therapist, founder of Healing for Bleeding Sheep Ministries – Fix Your Crown Foundation, a General of the Black Panther Party Power Movement United, and President of The New Black Wall Street X. She is author of 5 Published Books, and several workbooks offered through her Ministry and Life Coaching Services.

The darkness envelops me as I sit here alone.  The cold stillness of this night seems all my own.  Deep within myself I search and find an oddity.  In a place so crowded, I'm all alone...just me! 

  Pain accompanies me from the very moment I awake  So I move with intent like the shark; constantly toward fate  Afraid to ever let the world see a smile cross my face  Constantly falling while dreaming of a much safer place 

The king’s walk is robust and regal. His territory is sacred and protected with beastly fortitude and attitude. The length of his mane is a great reminder and symbol of his knowledge and wisdom. Rivals tremble at the thought of engaging him in bloody battle…none before his family but death! His crown shines brightly, blinding his startled subjects as they kneel before The King of Beasts…Father of the Jungle!

Noah's House is a heartwarming story about a special boy named Noah who believes in kindness and acceptance. When Riley, Danni T., and Kyle visit Noah, they each have their own reasons for feeling left out or different. But Noah shows them that everyone is special and deserves to be treated with love and respect.

This to the gilded aristocrat: posh, prim, genteel, and proper Eloquently refined in taste and manners, but in desperate need of an eye doctor For his obvious attempts to look down on level ground recant the wisdom of heaven Tis shame that even beast and fowl know how very low it is to shun your brethren

The Timeless Farmer painstakingly scans the incubation potential of his great, fertile expanse. He considers the time of sewing and the amount of tedious planting to be done by hand. Cradled tenderly in the care of the soil, the rain, and the sun, the tiny seeds await. The Caretaker; omnipresent and watchful, ensures that the essentials are never late!

Once upon a time, there existed a very intimate and special point in time If you ever sit and listen, you can hear the elders speak of it in old tales and new nursery rhymes. An earth-shaking moment, when an individual became something far greater than oneself. They became part of a collective whole, whose power superseded the untold details of death.

The mass of pain, tribulation, frustration, despair and weakness that had surrounded me grew thicker despite all of my beneficial intentions. All the physical power that I possessed and had so often relied on now lay dormant. Light had long given way to darkness and the air was extremely thin, as though I stood on the highest mountain peak.

Dare I divulge the depth of my desperate desire for this sweet, doting mademoiselle? When wayward words wander like weighted wisps of wanting, while I wait in loneliest hell.

Looking down from a narrow ledge, I am filled with respect for the heights our forefathers climbed. Overcoming any obstacle of treachery, there must have been a goal hard-pressed in their hearts and minds. Many have been conquered by the deceptive and dangerous characteristics that define this great mountain. So I am fortunate to continue where their paths ended for youth springs from no fountain.

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