Teneisha Johnson
Seventh Heaven (Yellow Diamonds): Backing Sand- Banking our Futu®e! The power of the anointing activated!
One of the most dazzling sights in the Cayman Islands is the radiance of a sand yard, usually found surrounding a Caymanian Cottage and featuring white sand, neatly tamped down and sprinkled with various isolated plants, adorned with conch shells and bordered by picket fences.
The Caymanian sand yard has become one of the symbols of the landscape and there was also an earlier tradition of “backing sand” in the baskets to add new white sand to brighten those sandy areas at Christmas time. Yeah!
Some believed the sand yard idea was brought here by African slaves who would have been familiar with the practice in their homeland.
Others say it was initiated by the early British settlers since the white sand was reminiscent of the snow from their country.
Whatever the origin, sand yards can still be seen in the Cayman Islands along with the sizzling beauty of our gloriously famous 7 Mile Beach!
However, that was then, this is now. Perhaps we were backing sand then, but we need to back our future and our children’s future now!
Help us to be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors according to law.
Please also remember that all our schools in the Cayman Islands are important!
These are the institution where all our children will be educated, empowered and strengthen! Amen.
As per usual I feel the need to educate my readers.
You are probably familiar with the terms “introvert” and “extrovert,” and you may even identify yourself as one or the other, but sometimes people are not aware of the actual meaning of each.
According to Meyers & Briggs, the terms introversion and extroversion were originally coined by the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, to describe the way in which a person finds energy.
Extroverts tend to recharge by looking outside of themselves, with other people and external activities, while introverts tend to recharge within themselves, through their thoughts and time spent alone.
People experience moments of both extroversion and introversion, but have a tendency to lean towards one or the other.
You could also be somewhere in-between, a term known as an ambivert.
According to an article I read in the Caymanian Compass, the term ambivert was first used by social scientists in the 1920’s to describe someone who is neither exceptionally introverted nor exceptionally extroverted.
Did you know that communication between introverts and extroverts can sometimes lead to misunderstandings?
For example, introverts are commonly seen as shy simply because they are quiet.
The reality is that introverts may just be thinking to themselves and are content being quiet.
Shyness, on the other hand, is an apprehensive feeling. A shy person does not want to be quiet.
Of course, a person can be both introverted and shy, but the two are not synonymous with one another.
Paul Bogle
Knowing whether you are an introvert, extrovert, or somewhere in-between can help you to understand your own reactions and others’ reactions to certain situations in life.
Accept yourself and others, and appreciate the perspectives that both introverts and extroverts bring to the table.
Ironically studies have shown that there are benefits to connecting.
Our personal growth and evolution came about as a result of connecting with our fellow humans.
When you make new connections in the inside world- in your brain, this keeps you young and alert.
According to Dr. Lisa Berkman of the Harvard School of Health Sciences; she and her team carefully looked at 7,000 people aged 35 to 65, over a period of ten years.
Their study concluded that people who lack social and community ties are almost three times more likely to die of medical illness than those who have more extensive contacts.
An all this is independent of Socioeconomic status and health practices such as smoking, alcoholic beverage consumption, obesity or physical activity.
I bind that! If you need to separate to recuperate. You do that!
I also found out that other people can also take care of your needs and desires.
Ultimately Jesus Christ holds first place in my life, sorry. Lol!
However, other people can fill certain needs in your life- needs like romance, a dream job, a ministry in the church etc.
Chances are you will need someone’s help to get certain needs and desires met.
Therefore connecting is good for the community.
After all a community is the culmination of a lot of connections, common beliefs, achievements, values, interest and geography.
Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither were the Cayman Islands.
As I stated in my previous article, (Discover the Yellow or "Blues" in You!), The Cayman Islands was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1503.
And since the early settlors, there have been British in the 1670’s, our dependency of Jamaica back in 1863 and many Governmental changes.
Speaking of Jamaica’s rich history. I’ve learnt that there are 7 national heroes in Jamaica.
One of their heroes was a man by the name of Paul Bogle.
PAUL BOGLE
Paul Bogle, a Baptist Deacon was generally regarded as a peaceful man who shunned violence. He believed in the teachings of the Bible, endorsing the principles of charity and endurance.
Yet he was also a leader and organizer who knew well the terrains of the land and had spent time in educating and training his followers. He lived in St. Thomas and led the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865.Cool!
Then another one of their heroes was George William Gordon.
George William Gordon
GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON
George William Gordon was a free colored land owner and an associate of Bogle.
As a member of the House of Parliament, he used his position to highlight the sufferings of the people and to make a plea for changes.
The Morant Bay Rebellion and the resultant deaths of Bogle and Gordon precipitated the beginning of a new era in Jamaica’s development.
The British government became compelled to make changes including outstanding reforms in education, health, local government, banking and infrastructure.
Read more: http://jamaicans.com/jamaica-national-heroes/#ixzz4wYfjB1dc
Please understand that although connecting is good, so are boundaries.
Everyone should have boundaries.
Our boundaries not only help to safeguard us and our friends when we may want to share quality time but it also helps us to manage our time and emotional energy.
I read an article many years ago where Benjamin Franklin describes “a perfect day” as “eight hours of work, eight hours of play, and eight hours of rest”.
You have also probably heard of Einstein’s famous equation E=MC2.
Apparently, the most important thing to harness is emotional energy.
It powers our mental ability to do work, to create, to calculate, to tell stories, to learn, and to grow.
It also powers our friendships and our very capacity to love.
Studies state that when we think of the positive emotional energy that exists in our relationships, what we’re really referring to is our self-esteem.
Every relationship “system” has a degree and quality of self-esteem to it, both contributed by individuals and as a collective whole.
There are families or even church congregation with high self-esteem and low self-esteem, corporations with high self-esteem we might call it morale) and low self-esteem, and married couples who combined have high self-esteem or low self-esteem.
These levels of self-esteem correspond to the levels of positive human emotional energy present.
Every year on August 6, (previously it was the first Monday in August), Jamaicans celebrate the removal of their dependence on Britain and Britain’s right to control specific functions of the country.
During this time, they will also honor all those persons who were responsible for the transfer of power.
I was also pleased to discover that in October, during their National Heritage Week (third Monday in October), they will also honor their six National Heroes and one Heroine (7 total), in recognition of their contribution to the birth of the Blessed nation called Jamaica.
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The positive emotional energy metaphorically stored in the mammalian brain also takes two forms: nurturing (or motherly) emotional energy, which is like the oil of the mind, and action-prone (or fatherly) emotional energy, which is like the gasoline of the mind.
Ultimately my self esteem is rooted and grounded in Christ!
Through Him, I have decided to garner my inner strength-leaning on the one who clearly and consistently has the power and wants to guide humanity into heaven.
So I ask you, if you died today, are you sure you would make it into heaven?
What would you say if God were to ask you, “Why should I allow you into heaven?”
I know you would want to be confident that you had the right answers to those two important questions.
God promises eternal life for those who accept his son.
John 3:16 states, “ For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life”.
Recent changes to the Cayman Islands Proceeds of Crime Law, 2017 (POCL) has clarified that persons conducting relevant financial business, whether a non-profit or an unregulated investment fund vehicle, are now required to appoint an MLRO, and an alternate, and to have a AML/CFT compliance program in place.
It should come as no surprised to discover that the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority has already been paying keen attention to the suitability of MLROs appointed by its licensees, recommending changes where it considers there is a need.
It is anticipated that the Department for Commerce and Investments will ultimately do the same, once its enforcement powers over certain members of the Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions and Non-Profit sector, is enlisted.
Under section 136 of the POCL, a person commits an offense if he does not make the “required disclosure” to the FRA or his MLRO or deputy, of a suspicion or actual knowledge of terrorist financing or money laundering that has come to his attention in the course of doing relevant financial business.
Section 137 sets out the circumstances in which an MLRO commits an offense for failures to make appropriate disclosures. At the serious end of the stick, persons (including your MLRO) could find him or herself imprisoned for five years so there are real consequences.
For more information visit: http://www.caymanfinancialreview.com/2018/04/19/not-for-love-or-money/
So whether we were backing sand to brighten the traditional Caymanian yards of the past or banking and investing for our future, let’s make sure to back our future and our children’s future for our place in heaven!
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