Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Getting YOU out of debt!

NO MORE WAGE GARNISHMENT!

With the student loan deficit reaching into the trillions, this particular cost weighs heavy on the masses. Wouldn't YOU like a more immediate releif? Tired of submitting your wages and tax refund in order to pay student loans your family can't afford?

AEJIS,Inc is a nonprofit dedicated to providing financial literacy to families, organizations and educational institutions with the best resources for assisting clients in navigating through the student loan system. Help us to raise funds in order to help families in need this tax season. You have rights, you have options!

~be blessed

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Resources for Businesses & Consumers Alike

I am interested in connecting businesses and consumers to resources they would benefit from. Below is a list of products and services that I have access. Please let me know if there is anything you are interested in and I will be happy to point you into the right direction!

Business Portfolio
  • Business Funding and Credit
  • Business Elite Services & Payment Solutions
  • Commercial Energy, Security Systems, & Satellite TV
  • Text Marketing & Mobilizing Company Website

Consumer Resources

  • Personal Credit Restoration
  • Student Loan Debt Management Assistance
  • Energy & Utility Savings
  • Health & Wellness
  • ID Theft Protection & Prepaid Mobile Service
  • Home Security & Satellite TV
  • Internet, Fiber Video, & Cable TV
  • Entrepreneurship Opportunities

Friday, November 28, 2014

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Grateful without Regrets

Some things are just meant to be
I live without fear, without regrets
At one point, I saw depression and fell in love
I waiting for her to drench over me and hover over my existence
And then one day a whisper said 'No more'
I then saw the light and shifted my thoughts to positive life-giving light
No more depression, she was no longer my fortress
Then fear
In my actions, I swore by it
Never letting go of what would once be
Always in fear of what was coming
But suddenly, I was released from fear while spinning 360 degrees
A loved one to care for, my focus was on her safety
Once we were at a stand still, I was forced to let go
Fear
No longer an obstacal to climb
Fear had no hold on me
Just me
Only me
And I choose to live
So I give without expectations of thanks
No one to lend to who I will not also give
Only a genious could've taught me that
I love without regret or remorse
Even though I cannot have him, sinsay has my heart in more ways than one
Unexplainable but true
I wish you well, remain humble and continue to smile
I teach without regard to my safety
Everyone deserves another chance at life
We, the broken hearted, are all we have
We must continue to reach back, reach down, reach over and love
With the barrel to my face, I give
No one to blame but me
No tears to follow, just be glad that I'm where I want to be
No regrets
You loved and left?
I loved you still
It hurts but I chose like you did
Know that all is well with my soul
I could not ask for anything more
No regrets
Soft kisses in country music bars
Long goodbyes
Short texts with meaningful phrases
Quick hugs which are once in a lifetime
I still have no regrets
I was here, I lived, I loved

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Broken Before the Lord: A Testament to Growth & Healing

 In most instances, for a person to be considered ‘broken’ is negative. We’re usually seen as weak and incapable because of our circumstances at the time. It brings a sense of hopelessness and despair. Many can go through life seeking to avoid the state of brokenness but it comes to us throughout our lives from one moment to another – and oftentimes, all at once. In those times, what do where can we turn? This is a story of one woman’s journey through her own type of brokenness and her faith activated strength and hope.  
                                                         
“Those moments where I didn’t know where my real healing would come from, I waited on the Lord.” ~Candice Chism 

Candice Chism is an entrepreneur who has come to a place in her life where she is pursuing a promising career and loving family life. In earlier years, however, there were pitfalls along her journey to adulthood. Taken from her mother, who continues to struggle with alcoholism,and several siblings, Candice was raised in foster care and suffered abuse. The shy and reserved child suffered attacks on her life and always felt that she was never supposed to be born. Candice stayed with extended family members briefly before going into an orphanage because of her sickly symptoms and extreme bouts with asthma. She was ultimately placed into foster care for a time and later raised by a sheltering Grandmother – it was only then when her home life gained stability. Candice sought out relationships with others and started going to church but found it difficult and often felt alone. The years of subconsciously dealing with rejection weighed on the developing adolescent. Candice didn’t notice until adulthood that the hurt she suffered in her earlier years affected many of her life choices and relationships with others as a teen and young adult. She often felt misunderstood and longed for love, compassion, and sense of worth. Because of her ostracized beginnings, Candice felt like the ‘black sheep’ of her family and church. At one point Candice threatened to take her life and remembers being a child with suicidal thoughts.As a small child, she would play with razors and lacked self-esteem. Depression was very heavy on the youth and continues to haunt her to some degree, even sighting large eyes and small frame as a source of ridicule and bullying throughout her childhood. Immense fear of rejection seemed to follow Candice,yet throughout her bouts of heartache, Candice professes that God saw her through it all. One of her earliest memories is of a house robbery and fire where she was not sure what was going to happen to her. In the fire however,she remembers an arm reaching for her to rescue her from the flame. To this day, she is not sure who saved her and her family from the flames.

Upon graduating high school, Candice left home to pursue her future by enrolling in college. She continued to struggle a bit in relationships with others as she sought out attention and love. She participated in casual and illicit sex (outside of marriage), drank alcohol,and immersed herself into a ‘cesspool of sin’. During her young adult years,Candice also suffered chronic homelessness and attempted to live with friends and boyfriends but things never seemed to work out. She was also in a traumatic car accident that nearly took her life but instead only momentarily impaired her sight. In 2009, Candice moved back to Chicago just as her ailing foster mother passed away. Although able to speak with her before her passing, Candice felt that she was not able to give her foster mother the proper farewell in person - as a result, she suffered major mental/anxiety attacks. Once again, she experienced feelings of abandonment and found herself living inside of a store alone and without support. Candice suffered an injury to her foot and has even had her esophagus impair with an object she is unable to have removed without proper medical attention. She also continues to battle her asthma without being able to afford medicine and with physical limitations due to the condition of her esophagus. Still in desperate need of medical care and a well-trained physician, Candice continues to proclaim the name of God as her rescuer and guide. She attests to the goodness of God and His mercy as she went through pain and yet was never taken completely out by the enemy’s attacks on her life.

Today, Candice continues to work through her issues in relationships with those around her and has found a church home to help love on her throughout this next chapter in her life. The young woman relies on the strength of God to help through the tough uncertain times but continues to maintain her hope in a brighter future for her and her family.Candice is currently under Daniel and Jenn Cruz, the shepherds of Faith World Chicago. When asked about her relationship with her current church leaders, she professed learning to love because they first chose to love on her so abundantly.  Candice’s lesson to youth, know that life is no fantasy. It is alright to dream, desire, and hope for good but also be watchful and wise to the realities of this world. Childhood is such a precious time for development and many of our skills and personality traits are shaped at this time, so for a young girl to believe that a knight in shining armor would rescue her is unrealistic. Instead, Candice urges us to teach our youth that this world can be ugly, but our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the Knight we should seek, not in other people who may be hurting and confused just like we are. Candice urges parents to look to their children and be honest with them, training them to become strong minded adults who are aware of the dangers of this world so that they are not so vulnerable when faced with life’s decisions on their own. She doesn’t want others to go through what she went through as a child. Abuse has been a constant in the young entrepreneur’s life but she continues to strive for complete healing, restoration, and strength in the Lord.

Candice has also been recently reunited with her biological mother and 2 of her 4 siblings. She continues to have a heart for children and fashion. Despite her turmoil, Candice has allowed God to teach her to forgive those in her life that hurt her, including her parents.She believes in the motto ‘Forgive and forget’ (through fast and prayer) and works towards this each day as she desires to have a family of her own soon.Although just in its beginning stages, her business is called Tu’nik Designs and can be found athttps://www.facebook.com/TunicDesigns. With her talents,Candice uses seeming tossed out items and recreates fashion jewelry and accessories. She accepts any aged clothing, shoes, jewelry, etc. in order to recreate beauty as well as various tools such as acrylic paint, paint brushes, and spray paint in order to continue in her colorful designs. Candice's future goals include a career in counseling, writing books, traveling to Africa, managing an orphanage, marriage,parenthood, and a successful business.  If readers took anything away from her testimony, she would want them to know that her trials, although terrifying and crippling at times, made her a better person and because of God’s hand in her life, she has chosen not given up. She continues to hold own to her deliverance from harmful people and toxic thoughts. Her self-esteem has improved tremendously as she continues to pray that she confidently see herself the way the God sees her. Although it might seem frustrating to completely trust God when you cannot see all of the details, but we must, as believers,trust in God and His promises for an abundant life. Building a life on spiritual freedom has its challenges as Candice continues to maintain her emotions in a health way. This strong young woman still finds it somewhat difficult to allow herself to cry – in order to maintain her strong demeanor—but it always looking to her faith as a safe haven and looking to God as a guide. Her belief in Jesus Christ has sustained this young woman and she intends to continue on her journey.