About Me
about me:
The average American sleeps 6 hours and 55 minutes each night, when the actual time spent sleeping is 6 hours and 40 minutes. I am one of the 36% who have dozed off while driving (no car accidents, thank God). This is just an introduction to who I am, who I am, & who I am.
Who am I? Monique. Monique is the person you have either worked with, befriended, or have had conflict in the past with. My name according to etymology means "advisor" or "one who gives wise counsel." Yes, indeed I have laughed at that thought, yet whenever there is a friend in dire need of a shoulder to cry on or an ear to listen to them go on and on about their daily routines and struggles, then I am at their disposal.
Who am I? I am the daughter of Brazilian parents, where 1/2 is Brazilian, and the rest is a mix of Italian, French, and Spanish. I come from a diverse background, ethnicity is White/African American and I was born and raised in Miami, FL.
Who am I? Well, I am your neighbor; sister; love; friend; mother; daughter; angry person in the car next to you; woman in front of you at the bank. I can be any of these things, but what do they prove about who I truly am? One can go on saying that they are "funny, intelligent, sarcastic, a 'wise guy', know-it-all", and even though these characteristics about me are true, that doesn't define what makes me laugh or mourn.
I have experienced death in the old and in the young. As a highly misunderstood preteen growing up in Miami Beach, I didn't accept who I was until I reached the 10th grade. I didn't let myself develop into the person that God had created me to be & is still molding me to become. I am one of those people who will vouch for the old saying "It's not about how old the car is, it is how many miles it has."
I have just expressed to you a brief summary of me, but what value does my life have if it isn't lived for Christ? Life would have been in vain; a selfish gain & waste of time, all for nothing if I didn't give my life to Christ. Freely He has given me this gift of life, & freely I give it to Him as an offering. Am I trying to be "holier than thou"? Absolutely not! If anything I have screwed up more than anyone else. I knew there was a man named Jesus, who died for my sins & rose from the dead. To me in my youth that was meaningless. When I found out the hard way that my life was meaningless without Him, I searched Him out for meaning & purpose. His purpose is simple: Be obedient to His Word, serve, & love Him. How hard is it to believe that an All Powerful God (who created the universe & everything in it) died for our sins? True, we cannot come to full grasps of the King of Kings dying for the sins of man. In our intellect, we could NEVER imagine anyone dying for our crimes... but Jesus did. I may not be perfect, but Jesus thinks I'm to die for.
Too much is needed to be said and done, and is left untouched. Your days here on this Earth are too short for you to waste it all. God has given you the precious gift of life. Don't say "live every moment like it was your last", because you truly don't understand the concept of what tomorrow will really bring, or eternity. Pray for an awakening. Wake up and take the veil from your eyes. Do you really want to gain the whole world and forfeit your soul? Is the "here & now" idea the best thing to live for, or do you want to live forever with the One who gave life to you?
If you remember my face from another place then I tell you now that I am not the same. When I stopped playing cat and mouse with God, & let Him be my Saviour, I saw my life do a 180. Right now in Miami it is 1:35AM on Sept 23, 2008. Time is ticking by, and slowly, we are running out of it. At the start of writing this, I was 15 minutes younger, and it's a scary thought to know that with every letter I press on the keyboard is getting older by the second. I pray that after you spent 10 minutes reading this, then you will also realize that time is ticking..
