Please, Just Be The Wonderful, Incredible YOU!

Please, Just Be The Wonderful, Incredible YOU!

Beautiful People,

Please, Just Be The Wonderful, Incredible YOU! 

The next time we meet along the way, Promise Me This: 

Please, Just Be Yourself.

Just Be The Wonderful, Incredible YOU!

Write your own song. Do your own dance. 

Let each chapter of your life be the story you choose to share. 

And when it ends, embrace each New Beginning with Courage, Hope and Integrity with Love.

Allow me the Gift of discovering and accepting the Mystery of You.

 

Within that mystery, Grace will move. 

Then with ease, I will sing and dance too! 

Remember, I Am Always Working and Striving to Be the BEST Version Me!

So Please, Just Be The Wonderful, Incredible BEST Version of YOU!!!!!

Believe. Breathe. Live. Love.

 Always, Melony 💕🦋💕

aka Miss Mellie Rainbow 🌈 

Photo by @brianscottbagley September 2019

Thanks to King Larry Vickers who was a gracious host in Paris. He introduced me to Brian Scott Bagley. Brian was the guide in Paris who took me on a private tour of Josephine Baker and James Baldwin landmarks throughout Paris! 

Peace is Possible through Compassion, Cooperation, Courage, Creativity, Deep Listening, Faith, Forgiveness, Good Purpose, Hope, Healing, Hope, Kindness, Mercy, Patience, Respect, Tenacity, Understanding and the Gift of Love!

#BestVersionOfYOU #JustBeYourself #LivingTheMystery

#MelonyMcGantAuthor #MemoriesOfParis

#SUNSHINEANDOLIVIERBook

#WonderfulIncredibleYOU

Honor the Heroines and Heroes on Earth/Heart Today and All Who Came in Love and Ascended in Love!

Honor the Heroines and Heroes on Earth/Heart Today and All Who Came in Love and Ascended in Love!

Beautiful People, 

Pause. Relax. Open Your Hearts. 

Breathe and Exhale with Love Ten Times. 

Honor the Heroines and Heroes on Earth Today and All who came in Love and Ascended in Love. 

Everyone Has a Gift to Share!

Honor Your Mother, the Earth/Heart and let your hearts become nurturing gardens of Healing and Peace.  

Do this for the Future of All Children, and Loving sentient beings. 

Let there be no more senseless greed, hate, killing or talk of petty wars. There is no need for destruction. 

Put down your weapons, tend the soil, find cures for diseases and build bridges of tolerance, understanding, compassion and prosperity for All.

Open your hearts and embrace humility.  

Honor your parents and your children. Love your neighbors. 

Sing with birds in the rain. Dance in the Sun with butterflies. Swim in the ocean with the dolphins. Sit under a wisdom tree and share your hope with your children. Live Joyfully in Peace!

These are the words from the Heart of Our Blessed Mother Father Creator! 

Please Honor, Respect Each Other and Live with Love!

Again Breathe and Exhale Love Tenderly, Many Times.

Honor the Heroines and Heroes on Earth/Heart Today and All Who Came in Love and Ascended in Love. 

Believe. Breathe. Live. Love.

Always, Melony 💕🦋💕

aka Miss Mellie Rainbow 🌈

Peace Is Possible through Compassion, Cooperation, Courage, Creativity, Deep Listening, Faith, Forgiveness, Good Purpose, Healing, Hope, Integrity, Mercy, Patience, Respect, Tenacity,  Understanding the Gift of Love!

#Breathe #Compassion 

#Courage #EmbraceTheMystery 

#Gratitude #Healing 

#HonorAllWhoHaveAscended

#HonorAllWhoCameInLove

#Hope #Humility #Inspiration 

#Integrity #Joy #LoveOfferings 

#MelonyMcGantAuthor

Memorial Musings...Please SHARE: Update on the GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE Fundraising Campaign!

Memorial Musings...Please SHARE: Update on the GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE Fundraising Campaign!

Beautiful People, Thank You All for Your Generous Hearts and Amazing Support. So far, we've received Twenty Seven Donations totaling $3,265 which means we moving steadily toward our $25,000 Goal for the GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE fundraising campaign. Thanks to NEW DONORS James Gillard, Dr. William & Mrs. Bernice Tiga Tita and Two Anonymous Donors, as well as James Aloway, ChiChi Anyanwu, Andrea Christofferson, Sage Crystal, Gayle Hodnett Dobbs, Lawrence Evans, Sylvia Golbin Goodman, Adam Khan, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Donna Baxter Porcher Carl Redwood, MO/Scent Elate, Jan Schmidt, Denise Woods, Dr. Robert Woods, and five Anonymous Donors for their generous contributions. We are hoping to have all the funds by JUNE 15th, 2023 so that we can begin the next stage of our marketing. I Encourage All Contributing Writers and Friends to Join In! Your contributions will enable us to help successfully market GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE to a worldwide audience. We plan to have a WEBSITE that highlights author bios and photos so that you will feel connected not just to me, but to eachother. We have authors from four continents on Earth. This book will become part of Your Living Legacy! Any Amount You Share Is Greatly Appreciated. GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE: An Anthology of Hope! is collected and written by Rev. Melony McGant with a Foreword by Ben Vereen and is Edited by Andrea Christofferson Today We Highlight Some of the Authors from the Ms. Betty J. Tilman Tribute Section of GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE: An Anthology of Hope! Bruce Blakey with wife Patricia Backers Blakey "I've met a lot of people in my life, and there have been very few that I would say that "knowing them made me a better person". Betty J Tilman was one of the few. I am proud to have had a long friendship with Ms. Tilman. Her kindness, her generosity, her quick wit, and unselfish nature was just part of this phenomenal woman. She was thoughtful, funny, well informed, and current on most issues. Betty J. Tilman was one of the most decent human beings I have ever met. She will be missed terribly." Dr. Stephanie Boddie "There are times in our lives when we need earth angels. Ms. Betty J. Tilman showed up in my life at a time I truly needed one. She infused courage, hope, light, and joy into my life. She announced to me that it was my time to step into my authentic power and to fully display the person God created me to be. She reminded me that I deserved to be happy. The good she brought to my life was beyond what I could ever measure!" Martha Richards Conley Esq. "I met Betty in 1968 in my first year of law school at the University of Pittsburgh. I met her on the third day of classes at Pitt Law school; I had been there long enough to know that I was in way over my head. There were only seven women in my class, and I was the only black woman. At that time, Betty was working at the Office of International Student Services where she helped multitudes of international students navigate their way through the University of Pittsburgh. Betty was an internationalist. She has hundreds of friends around the world. She loved to travel and was always going abroad. She was a godsend to me at Pitt because I felt very much alone. I hate to think how I might have fared without Betty to lean on and help me navigate the Pitt Campus and culture." Rev. Cheryl Fanion Cotton "...The choir became very popular at University and City Ministries {UACM}, now renamed the Community of Reconciliation. At some later point, Mrs. Tilman approached Rev. Stith about the choir going on a tour to East Africa. We were speechless. Over two years, we raised the monies and embarked in August of 1972 on a trip of a lifetime throughout Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. This was the handiwork of none other than Mrs. Betty J. Tilman. I left Pittsburgh in 1981. Down through the years I've kept in touch with Mrs. Tilman. I just always wanted her to know how much I loved and appreciated her. One is very blessed to meet someone who impacts one’s life in such a way that one’s purview of the world takes a different form. The legacy that Ms. Tilman left us with is the realization that the ways in which we are similar are far greater than the ways in which we are different. We serenaded an African Youth group with the backdrop being Mt. Kilimanjaro at dusk, and they sang for us. It was simply electrifying. Though we did not speak their language, and they, not ours, our warm embraces afterwards proved that music truly is a universal language. Where do the Thank Yous end when a woman who is such a visionary brings two cultures together the way Betty Tilman did? 

Dr. Bubba Misawa "The International Glue and Mother Africa: A Tribute to Ms. Betty Tilman. Since my first contact with you from Nigeria in 1982, as young student applying to graduate school at Pitt, you made things sound and look normal, and indeed, very reassuring always, including in your own last few months alive. You built futures for many young minds and bridges across the world, and especially the African diaspora bridge. While many people gave flowery speeches about African Americans and Africa, you simply exemplified the relationship by nurturing African students, scholars, and professionals in Pittsburgh. You never lost any hope, even with the clear lack of understanding of the essence of unity and African identity among the two groups. Your love for humanity brought people from the around the globe to you; thus, making you the international glue without the great fanfare and notoriety that you so deserved. Most people would have claimed the popularity and fame in helping others, but you chose grace and kindness from your heart with full joy and happiness."

Dr. Bill & Bernice Tiga Tita "I am a humble and cheerful adorer of BJ! "Betty J" was always pursuing one unifying theme (Intercultural Exchange -appreciation) from several angles!! She was a pillar of our "intercultural House" project (ICH), assisting us to meet and surpass the 20% international students' quota! She worked tirelessly with us to identify and arrange destinations, notably, Ghana, Afghanistan et al. for the travel/work program of the ICH project. The Nationality Rooms/African Heritage Classroom initiative was the sweetener from my perspective! She was also my cheerleader as I sought to integrate the Pittsburgh Black Business Community into the fabric of PITT's B-School and the University as a whole. As you can see, it matters less the angle from which we choose to honor and celebrate her life and legacy! We will all end up at the core, a champion of Intercultural Exchange! I Am Pleased to Be an Aspect of This Movement!" Once Again, I Encourage All Contributing Writers and Friends to Join In! Your contributions will enable us to help successfully market GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE to a worldwide audience. Any Amount Is Appreciated. Thank You All for Your Generous Hearts and Amazing Support. Always, Melony Photo:

Bruce & Patricia Blakey. William & Mrs. Bernice Tiga Tita, Group Photo: Heinz Memorial Chapel with Dr. Buba Misawa by Jordan Jenkins

The Leader You Follow...

Beautiful People, 

Today still yourself,  clear your mind and open your heart. 

Breathe and Exhale Deeply Ten Times... 

On the Path of Your True Destiny, the Leader you have been searching for is the One that resides within YOU!

You cannot always follow others and expect to discover your true destiny. 

There will be guides, mentors and people you admire or respect. Don't become them.  Become YOU.

Inspiration and suggestions may be offered but you alone must be listening to Your Inner Voice.

You alone must become more aware and willing to grow, and do the work as you decide to take the next good steps on your path.  

Look to your heart. Listen Deeply. 

With courage, compassion, gratitude, humility, integrity and Love; be patience and tender with yourself and others. 

Believe In You and Embrace Your True Destiny.

Then, YOU Will Become the Leader You Follow on the Path of Your GOOD DESTINY!

Believe.  Breathe.  Live.  Love.

Always, Melony 💕🦋💕

aka Miss Mellie Rainbow 🌈

Peace is Possible through compassion, cooperation, courage, creativity, deep listening, faith, forgiveness, good purpose, healing, hope, humility,  integrity, joy, kindness, mercy, patience, respect, tenacity, understanding and the Gift of Love!

#Breathe #BelieveInYOU #GoodDestiny #Gratitude #Inspiration #Leadership #TrueDestiny

Earth Is Our Heart! A Visionary Meditation for the Peacemaker!

Earth Is Our Heart! A Visionary Meditation for the Peacemaker! 

Many Blessings To Each Of YOU. 

Take a moment to clear your mind and your heart of any distractions. 

Now, Breathe and Exhale Deeply Ten Times.

In Gratitude, Love and Patience.  

Out Gratitude, Love and Patience.....

Please join me today and embody the Peacemaker.

Know that Earth Is OUR Heart.

As the birds create new medleys of awareness; let us walk with acceptance, healing and understanding.

Now we call on the resources of the trees, and water, and the sun, and the insects, and elephants and dolphins, and mountains, and the wind, and the sky and All Sentient Beings.

 

We all are partners and together right now, we are given a renewed appreciation of Divine Patience and Understanding. 

Allow your bodies to relax as we merge with nature around us.

Breathe LOVE, ONLY LOVE.

As a Peacemaker, you are learning to walk with the right questions that allow for honest negotiation and conversation.

Look to the oceans, the rivers, the ponds and the streams.

Become a tiny pebble that creates a ripple of awareness as you toss yourself into a body of water.

Ask that others with like hearts create pebbles of love & honesty & humility & wisdom & mercy

throughout EARTH as our living HEART. 

You Have Re-Membered.

Now as you walk across the Rainbow Bridge of JOY; let the song of LOVE pierce our planet as we join together to create a New World of Equanimity and Peace.

Right NOW, as we merge with the DivineONE we vision and see ourselves existing in a World where all children are nurtured and educated and Loved. 

Our Ancestors are Re-Membered. Our Seniors are cared for, honored and Loved.

It is a World of Compassion, Acceptance, Humility, Mercy & Peace.

Know that as you believe in Love, then the Air You Breathe Will Be Love.

You Are a Peacemaker, Dedicated to Helping Heal Our EarthHeart.

Today As You Honor Our Blessed Divine Creator, Allow Grace to Move Through You.

All that You Think, Do and Share Can and Should Be with UnSelfish Love. 

And So It Is With LOVE! 

Always, Melony 💕🦋💕

aka Miss Mellie Rainbow 🌈

Photo By #TyroneRasheed

For many years at the request of Ebony Magazine Founder Mr. John H. Johnson Tyrone Rasheed was an Ebony/Jet photographer and shot a plethora of iconic figures.  Before then, Tyrone Rasheed honed his photographic passion and understanding at Time Inc. in the photography lab, then as a photographer's assistant and assistant photographer (where he shot for the photographers). 

Tyrone Rasheed has been inspired by renown Harlem photographer Mr. James Van Der Zee, mentored by cultural Icon, Mr. Gordon Parks; and currently has a prestigious studio portrait business located in his Harlem brownstone.

#BreatheLove

#HealOurEarthHeart 

#Peacemaker 

Friends are the Fruit of Our Hearts and the Family We Choose!

Friends are the Fruit of Our Hearts and the Family 

We Choose! 

Beautiful People, 

Our Friends are the delicious fruit of our hearts.  Some fruit we experience often. 

Others are a rare delicacy that we seldom have the opportunity to savor. 

Some fruit like avocados, oranges, grapefruit, kiwi or mangoes, we must peel. 

Others Friends are the apples, blueberries, grapes, pears, and strawberries of our hearts. 

Sometimes Our Friends may even be bananas, coconuts or watermelons!

Through Friendship we learn that just as no fruit tastes the same;  no human has the ability or capacity to offer us exactly what we give them. 

Friends may agree or disagree. Sometimes Friends may hurt eachother and need to ask for  Forgiveness. 

Friends may live close or far away.  They may speak often or rarely. 

Other Friends will forever be a Mystery.

Most Importantly, Friends Are the Fruit of Our Hearts and the Family We Choose!

When nurtured with care, compassion, courage, deep listening, integrity, sometimes space and Always LOVE,  our Friendships will remain the delicious, cherished fruit of our hearts.

Breathe Ten Times. Inhale Deeply.  Exhale Joyfully. 

Affirmation 🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥝

"Today I Am Grateful for Every Friendship that Has Blossomed, Shared and Taught Me to Honor and Value the Grace and Mystery of Unconditional Love throughout the Many Seasons of Our Lives." 

Believe. Breathe. Live. Love.

Always, Melony 💕🦋💕

aka Miss  Mellie Rainbow🌈

Photo: Melony with #BenVereen and #MO owner of #ScentElate 313 West 48th Street, NYC

Peace Is Possible through Compassion, Cooperation, Courage, Creativity, Deep Listening, Faith, Forgiveness, Good Purpose, Healing, Hope, Integrity, Joy, Kindness, Mercy, Patience, Respect, Tenacity, Understanding and the Gift of Love.

#Breathe #Courage #DeepListening #EmbraceTheMystery

#FamilyWeChoose #FriendsAreTheFruitOfOurHearts

#GoodIsPowerfulBeyondMeasure #Gratitude #Hope #Inspiration #UnConditionalLove

Why Me?

Why Me?

Beautiful People, 

When I ask the question "Why ME?" I  Breathe and Exhale Deeply Ten Times.

The simple answer that comes in a whisper is "Why NOT ME?". 

Therefore, re-membering that I am a being inspired by LOVE, I allow LOVE to flow through me, and am re-born in Courage. 

It is then that Compassion guides me as I take each new step into the field of Gratitude with Hope and am sustained by Faith.  

Today I AM Inspired By LOVE!

Saying "Why NOT ME?", I accept the Creator's Gifts and move forward with confidence, with clear intention, and a willingness to share the Precious Fruit that has come to Me!

#GoodIsPowerfulBeyondMeasure

Believe.  Breathe.  Listen. 

Breathe.  Live.  LOVE. 

Always, Melony 💕🦋💕

aka Miss Mellie Rainbow 🌈

#Compassion #ClearIntention #DeepListening #Faith #Gratitude #LOVE #WhyMe #WhyNotMe