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This is a brief profile of the late Hon. JAGS McCartney that was written some years ago.The late Honourable James Alexander George Smith (JAGS) McCartney was bo rn on June 30, 1945 to parents Harvey and Sarah (Sally) McCartney on the island of Grand Turk. Named after a Jamaican Lawyer, JAG Smith, at birth, he was not expected to live beyond three weeks due to a heart murmur, a condition that would in the future prevent him from being enlisted in the US Army during the Vietnam War. Despite this condition, JAGS lived a practically healthy and active childhood life. The Honourable McCartney was primarily educated in Grand Turk but later attended a Quaker School in Portland, Jamaica where he excelled in sports, in particular swimming and track and field. After graduating from School in Jamaica, JAGS returned home at the age of 17 where he found employment and immediately took interests in formulating sporting and social programmes for the youth to provide them some escape from the apa...

Where did the years go? Lately I've been looking back on things I've wasted time on. I know what my subconscious is saying " Time is never wasted because experiences are being gained" but let's be real wise one, I wasted sometime within my 25 years on this Earth. I'm almost 25 and having a mid life crisis *Yikes*.  I couldn't figure it out and it was always on my mind!     I unsure of where life will take me and I've accepted the fact that I am not in control and that nothing is happens to be by coincidence. All we are given as human beings is our abilities to make choices and the choices we make carries over into the next life. That means every dollar that not our dollars is accounted for by God, every meal we put into our bodies, everything is a test. Can we make the right choice ? I only ask God to give me these words as my last words before I live this world as I've accepted the reality of death being a spiritual ascension experience...

I think I'll write more in-depth on this topic with my Let's Inc Post for next week but acceptance is key to living a life not filled with misery. We all have to accept some level of discomfort in our lives and most often it's the most difficult thing to do. God gives us these test and honestly as we pass one, another one comes which is harder which causes us to use every resource possible to solve it. It's draining and emotionally unbearable at times but I'm reminded that my strength cometh from the Lord. You have to accept what you can't change, doing otherwise is just a waste of time.  Be Bless, Be Brave, One Love, Leo