If you missed my short lived video on Vine, you missed my dramatic reaction to when my Tory Burch shades fell apart. Check it out here...
June 8th. I'll never forget the date.
I was sitting on the passenger side with my road partner Jen (Jennifer Keen) headed to our sister Kim's baby shower. All decked out, I turn to say something to Jen and my shades make their own move. First they ever so gracefully slide down my nose into my lap. As I'm looking at them in my lap, the left arm dives and hits the floor.
At this point I'm thinking call 911! Go to the mall instead of the baby shower.
Me being me, I'm determined to wear my babies even in their handicapped state. If I hold my nose right and stay at a 37 degree angle I can keep them on for 75 seconds. Eventually I realize this can only do more damage than good and put them away.
Fast forward. Weeks have passed. Three to be exact and what do you know....
Sunday night at moms I am picking up all the little things my baby found to play with and one of those things happens to be an eyeglass repair kit. I toss it back to where I think it belongs and continue cleaning and preparing for my day on Monday.
Monday I grab the purse I decide to carry and start cleaning it out only to see laying in the middle of the purse, at the bottom of the bag (satchel to be exact) ... the screw for my shades!
This was clearly designed and planned by GOD!
When I was looking for the screw I couldn't find it. When I stopped looking for the screw, put the shades away and began looking for replacements the screw magically appears. Not only does the screw appear, the kit to fix the shades appear the night before.
Lesson 1. Jennifer you have everything you need within and around you to take care of everything concerning you.
As I am preparing to leave the house, I run into the other room and grab the repair kit. I grab my shades and of course the purse the screw was in. I take my spot in the back seat of the car, grab my headsets and start playing Big Tigger's Jilladelphi mix to relaxe my nerves.
Fixing my shades was like performing surgery to me. You remember the game operation? That's what this felt like and I was prepared to step into the role of surgeon for the sake of my Tory Burch shades.
Here in lies another lesson for me because things still didn't work out as simple as I thought they would when I tired to fix my shades. That little screw started testing my patience. I picked it up, tried to insert it back into the arm and it fell. Not once but four times.
Leason 2. Jennifer you are going to have to keep trying and starting over if you want to be successful. Pay attention to every move you make and captilaize on that.
Back to the OR (Operating Room Jeff )
Jill is still singing and I'm still trying to operate with my eyes covered. Yep, my silly self was chilling with my black Versace shades on trying to fix something.
Lesson 3. Jennifer move everything that is blocking your view and interfering with your vision. Don't allow comfortability or habits to become a hinderance. It was raining and gloomy but out of habit I still put on my Versace shades. A habit that was hindering me from fixing my TB shades.
I took my shades off, turned my music down and remembered that holding the arm while trying to drop the screw in wasn't the best plan. I stood the screw up on top of the arm, grabbed the repair kit and viola...my shades were fixed!
Excited and feeling proud I clean them off and put them away in their sparkly gold case.
As I stared at the case God spoke one last word to me. I remembered when they broke telling a friend because she liked my shades just as much as I did. Her response was one I will never forget and take with me every day now as a reminder to watch carefully.
When I told her my shades were broken she said to me, "that's what you get for not giving them to me." Shocked and thinking she was playing my follow up question was don't you feel bad for me? She replied, "nope ...you know I wanted them so now neither of us have them."
Lesson 4. There will be people in your life, your inner circle, who would rather you experience loss because they can't have what you have and don't want you to have it either. Don't give away anything you treasure, anything you've worked hard for, or anything God has blessed you with because somebody else thinks it will serve them better.
I end with this prayer.
Pray that God opens your eyes and then removes the vision blockers and blessing thieves. Pray for discernment so you will see those that are truly there for you, cheering you on because they genuinely care and want you to succeed. Finally, pray that God will protect your heart from the people who are "preying" on you. Those are the people who hope you succeed so they can TRY and take your place and get your blessings.
I thought those things were really broken and all you needed was a screw SMH...... So do you know another Jeff lol?
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