New Beginnings

     This was my first official week back at work. So many things happened to me this week. I have to stop and catch my breath to be able to grasp it all. God can do more than we could ever ask or think. When I heard that WJLS was sold to West Virginia Radio Corporation, I was happy. There was no covering that fact up. The previous company basically ran it into the ground, they took all of the money they could and didn't invest any back into the business until they had to. I had to forgive them for what they did, it was hard, but after, the day I was praying and telling the Lord how they treated me, and the Lord asked me then, did they beat you, did the crucify you, I said well no Lord and the Lord said they did all of what they did to you they did it to me and much worse. Well when I heard that what could I say, I had to forgive them. As hard as it was I was obedient to the Lord.      As I said when I heard about the sale of the station, people...

     The song "Back in the Saddle Again" is playing in my head, not the Gene Auntry one, but Aerosmith. I'm baaack in the saddle. This sounds crazy for a  50-plus year old woman to be singing this. Or I could just sing it is either from Donald Lawrence "Back better than I was before".  Anyway I started back at WJLS today was the official first day. I came up Friday. I was nervous, I didn't sleep well last night or on Thursday night. I am so afraid that something will come up that I can't handle.  I was really surprised about how much came back to me. I hadn't worked a board since August 31, 2010.      Coming back is bittersweet. There are some things I am going to have to pray about and work through. There were some changes made. I know everybody likes to put their stamp on things, but these changes were really unnecessary. I began to wonder if they were done out of spite. It would be like me programming a rock station. I wouldn't...

     Have you ever considered the life choices you make? Interesting, thoughts, sometimes you play the "what if?" game. "What if" can be a dangerous game to play, because at times it causes you to imagine things that are best left alone. One of my favorite poems is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. I remember this from fourth or fifth grade The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this wi...

     Radio is my first love as a career. I have said it, admitted it. This is the first step to getting help. Right??? Radio to me is like a mistress, it is addictive and very seductive once it is in your blood watch out!!! . Nothing ever compares to it.      I was talking to someone in class who recognized my voice from radio and finally figured out who I was. They knew Matt as well from our radio days. Last week when we were at a dinner for Matt's work, we just refer to our time in radio as another life. We met at the radio station where we both worked so it is part of us. Radio was something that I wanted to do since I was 10 years old back then , it was a long shot, because I was very shy and timid. As I got older I wanted to do something behind the scenes. One of my jobs as an intern was to write commericals and write liner cards for the oldies weekend. As I got into radio more and more I realized what a vital tool it is in people live...

     In the last few months I have had my struggles. With depression, bought on by medication. One of the really bad side effects. With my purpose in life. With what God has promised me that He would prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies. People have prophesied over me that "my setback was to set me up for a come back." All I have been asking lately is when. I have been waiting for two years and, I have been through so much.      I was looking at TD Jakes the other morning, and he said sometime that really ministered to me. You know how sometime you don't fit in with other people. It is not that you don't play well with others, it that you can't do what other people do. There are places that you can't go and things that God won't allow you to do. It gets hard and you get lonely and you wonder why you can't fit in. Jakes said that "God didn't design you to fit in, God designed you to stand out, to be an outcast for the plans He...