Lai Deshay

Alaisha Pratt for Miss North Carolina USA 2020 | @LaiDeshay ♛

Miss North Carolina USA 2020 Contestant

It would be such an honor to represent you as Miss North Carolina USA 2020. Despite my best efforts I realized that I can not do this on my own and I am asking for your help. This is a very vulnerable thing to do but I know in my heart that this passion is aligned with purpose. I can not promise to win but I can promise to do my absolute best and try to make you all proud.https://paypal.me/pools/c/8hgHeOPY0g

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All monies donated will go directly to funding my pageant and pageant expenses. If after all expenses are paid if there is any monies left I would like to donate it as a post graduate scholarship to help make a student loan payment for my fellow graduates playing $500+ a month like myself.

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My platform is still unnamed but I would like to collaborate with young up-and-coming activist and social changers to help educate young adolescents and young adults on society and economics. 2020 is an election year and I think it is very pivotal that we have spaces for young people to meet, collaborate,
and freely form opinions and help set the pace for change. I am so passionate about this and I wholeheartedly know that this will, win or loss, be something I dedicate my time towards next year. If this is a platform you can stand behind please help me on my journey by donating.

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Thank you all so much for taking so many journeys with me and you all have been so supportive. I’m so grateful to have so many far and wide that support me. I hope to see you all from the main stage! Please share this with your friends if you also think they can get behind my platform.

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Life Update as of 7/10/2019 | @LaiDeshay ♛

Life Update:

Hey y’all long time no talk! Wanted to give a few life updates.

Life Lessons With Lai

I started life coaching and it have been going pretty well. I have helped a few people close to me as well as far away. I’m super grateful to be able to be a catalyst to people, with God’s help of course. By him I do all things. I strive to give good Godly advice and if I can’t right then I’ll pray on it and come back to you with a confident possible solution.

Pageantry

I am going to be a contestant in the Miss North Carolina USA 2020 pageant. I have a love for pageantry, service, and performance so I will be so grateful to represent our city and state if selected to be Miss North Carolina USA 2020! With service through pageantry comes cost so if you would like to be a financial or physical sponsor for my upcoming pageant please let me know!

Story Time Lai

I am really enjoying sharing my perspective on topics God has brought to my attention. I have episodes that discuss will power as well as societies obsession with knowing/worrying about everything instead of just going with the flow and being confident in the moment.

For Black Girls That Cry In The Shower: June Issue

I wrote a piece for the June issue for what it means to be an unfruitful force if you would like a copy please click this link! https://mailchi.mp/9fb677a4f0e7/fbgtcits

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram for more live and personal interactions.

YouTube

I have a new video coming out in my recap of my family vacay to New Orleans and the Essence Festival. You can check it out at Lai Deshay on YouTube. https://youtu.be/HFcCvFXVS8A

XOXO,

-@LaiDeshay

Verse Insight : John 15:12-17 NLT | @LaiDeshay ♛

Verse Insight

This is my first post if this sight but I really wanted to give you all some insight that i got today during my quiet time with the Lord.

“This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. This is my command: Love each other.”

‭‭John‬ ‭15:12-17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I believe this passage was present because it shows us people why other people (including ourself was) are so important because Jesus was a person first. I sometimes forget that Jesus was actually human and feel like this verse and our reduced relationship to friend is why God made him human. It was and would be more practical for us humans to understand a perfect friendship than to first just see a Savior. We in our nature believe what we can understand. So he took something that we could understand, being imperfect human-beings: birth, sacrifice, teach, humility, humbleness, perseverance, and death. Then added/attached these extraordinary God like actions and activities to it so that we can see Jesus and feel like his Mercy (now that he has surpassed his human form) is obtainable. It’s a reason he wasn’t in this day and age because we are not to idol and if there were images of him we might have been subjective to worship the homage rather than the character traits and qualities like we are supposed to.

I love that the Bible Is an ancient text and just in small time frames he is able to completely just turn your life around by dissecting and divulging a little bit at a time of his word in a practical human sized piece.

God and his Trinity are so awesome. Thank him for this interpretation and I thank him for allowing me to be the vessel of this message for you!

Be sure to stay roomed for my new podcast coming out this week for more topics like this or not like this.. I love the element of surprise that this will bring and push me towards.

I love you brother or sister in Christ!

- @Laideshay on all social platforms