my name is sallie jenkins, i am 44 years old today. i'm learning some
wonderful, hard but good lessons in life. i'm learniing that i am the
only me. god created me special with my own identity and my own divine
divinity.

god is my first priority. i love serving the lord.

i am the mother of three: my oldest daughter is 24, my youngest
daughter is 22 and my son is 21.

i have 4 grandchildren; three girls and 1 little man. i call all my
girls my pooh's and my little man i call him granny's boo.

family is very important to me. i like the mothering nature that god
has instilled in me. friendship is extremely important to me, you can
build many real, true and strong relationships from a strong, stable
foundation of friendship. I love to counsel and help out in any way
that i can. i also like to write.

two gifts i've recognized that god has blessed me with is; loving and
caring for children and older individuals. yes these maybe the most
complicated and difficult of many groups of people in life to deal and
work with, but that's ok. that just makes them much more special
to love, help, give your heart and time too. you should give as much of
yourself to the world and others as possible.

i love challenges, yes, i get frustrated and aggravated, but i don't
give up. i may give out, but i'm able to pull myself up with god's help
and lift that foot again, one in front of the other.

i've learned that i should not wait and allow other people to do things
for me that i can actually give and do for myself. if i want a rose, i
buy one, if i want a card, i purchase it and send it to myself. if i
need a chocolate fix, i go and get it. remember "you are the only you".
no one can treat you and love you better than you, "except" god. you
must learn to care for about you, and learn how to love you and realize
and accept you for you. from this point in life you will be able to
travel the longest winding roads that your journey thru life will carry
you.

"god chooses what you go thru in life, we choose how we go thru it".

i am a very strong, determine, strongwilled woman. i've been entitled
headstrong, because i will attempt to tackle any obstacle or what ever
may come my way. this would originate from trying to fix my car to
simply putting up a curtain rod.

i raised my three children with god's help alone. those were some
difficult times, but thanks to his son jesus, i made it. i had to use
the system a while, so i learned how not to be proud and how let others
help me. but i'm still an overachiever. i also worked the entire time
i was on the system to keep my self esteem up.i still strive for the
best and it's still difficult to allow someone to help me, but i
realize i can't do it all by myself. i also, help raise my children's
friends, coach their mother's, dealt with the mother's and children's
attitudes to me, about me and for each other.

about 11 yrs. ago i found out that i have "Fibromyalgia". Which means
my whole life changed again. this means that i had to still raise my
babies, still work and then deal with and accepting that my life has
many different angels of another direction that i now must go in.
this also included learning other sklls and attending "goodwill
disability clerical school". along the way i found out i had a mass in
my right breast, "glory" to god it was benign. i've been married twice.
my first marriage was physical and verbal abusive. i dated in betwwen
that to discover and learn that i have to stand up for myself and
depend on me. i became extremely indepent and responsible, but i had to
be. my second marriage wasn't physically abusive, but it was verbally
and mentally abusive. there again many lessons of experienced was
learned and i came thru again with god's help. i am a fun loving, happy
spirited person. free spirited person. i almost allowed people and
situations to take my joy away, but thanks to jesus i didn't. god gave
me my joy and the world can never take it away from me. i learn to be
real, honest and true in all i do. take life one day and one step at a
time. our time is in god's hands. learn even in the mist of the storm,
when the clouds of the storms are raging, even when you can't see thru
the darkest of clouds to still "praise him" and to "count it all joy".

we all have an appointed time and an appointed seed. there is a time
and a season for everything under the sun.

know who you are, know whose you are, and learn to love god's way
unconditionally.

build your hopes and dreams on nothing less than jesus blood and
righteouness. stay strong and real in jesus. put god first and all
things no matter big or small will work out for us all in his time.

make every moment worth while, treat each day as thou it was as
precious of treasure of the most sensitive of pearls.

you are special, let know one tell you differently, live, live, live,
change is inevitable, we have no control over it. to go thru it, you
got to birth it, push, the pain will be over soon.

god wants you to live. remember i can do all things through christ who
strengthens me.

this is a little about me, the nubian angel.