Oya's Garden and La Iglesia Catolica

Today I took a trip to my old hood in Queens. I can't believe who much I miss it, how much it feels like home. I'm living again with family in the town I grew up but it doesn't feel like home. I miss my old apartment, the Persian restaurant, being close to the subway, etc.
I had some business to do in Oya's Garden. For those of you who know what that is, you know where her kingdom is. Nothing diabolic lol, just some Ancestral work that needed to be done.
Afterward I walked over to the beautiful cathedral in Forest Hills. I filled a whole empty bottle of Powerade with holy water. I figured I needed it. I ended up spilling some of the holy water on my shorts. It looked like I urinated holy water. God's joke I guess. Maybe that part of me needed to be blessed lol.
My next stop was to grab a bite to eat and then off to Barnes and Nobles. There I purchased a Bible. In one of Iyanla Van Zant's books, she writes that one should read one chapter from the book of Proverbs every day for a year. I have a huge decorative King James Bible at home that looks like an illuminated medieval manuscript. It's gorgeous but not for practical everyday reading. While looking at all the Catholic editions, I found their translations to be a bit too modern. I guess I prefer the King James version because of it's lofty and poetic language.
Thursday is my ocha birthday. I will be five years old in Candomble but that is another post :)

Let Go and Let God

Being the stubborn Taurus that I am, I am often hard headed. Whilst contemplaiting last night I realized I am like that man in the Bible, Baalam. He was the one who was trying to force his donkey to move. The donkey would not because there was a huge angel with a sword blocking the road. The donkey saw the angel but he could not. He then preceded to beat the poor animal but then God gave the donkey a voice who then protested at the beating and described the angel. Then the veil seemed to lift over Baalam's eyes and he saw the angel.
Sometimes we are our own worst enemies and we get in the way of our progress. Instead of allowing things to happen, we try to control every aspect.
The lesson here is to let go and allow the grace of the Divine to do its work.