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REAL LIFE
INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL STORIES ABOUT REAL LIFE
THE BOUNDARIES ON YOUR TRIALS HAVE BEEN SET
“All your waves and billows have gone over me, and floods of sorrow pour upon me like a thundering cataract.”
WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE RIVER OF DIFFICULTY, YOU WONT DROWN
I was born in a country that has two great rivers for borders, the one was the Zambezi on which the Victoria Falls is situated and is a treacherous river with crocodiles and hippopotami. It is also one of the most beautiful rivers when the sun is setting, and...
REFRESHED AT THE FOUNTAIN
Let the joy of sparkling water droplets be the words that fall from your lips to sustain the suffering another day
Align Yourself with Your Season in Life
It is very comforting to know that as long as the earth remains there will be seasons and if you align yourself with the seasons of your life and know which season you are in, it makes it much easier to navigate your life and transition.
WE WILL ALL BE CHANGED
Death changes us. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15 “we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed”. We are told we shall have new and glorious bodies at the resurrection. That gives us hope for our loved ones who have passed on. But I thought that verse has a deeper meaning, we shall all be changed, those who are left behind also face major changes in their lives.
WE HAVE SERVED OUR GENERATION
Passing a cemetery, I looked at the rows of graves covered in snow, with the wind blowing snow across the desolate landscape. Immediately I thought of the finality and coldness of death. People long gone planted beneath the frozen sod, covered in a blanket of snow. And yet this picture gave me hope as well.
NEW EVERY MORNING
His lovingkindness and faithfulness begin anew every day (Lam:23), so even if we messed up yesterday, today is a brand-new day in His love and faithfulness. We are a new creation (2 Cor 5:7) so our past does not define us.
WRITE DOWN THE VISION
I love to turn to the first page of my new planner, it is blank, I am the one who chooses to write down how I would like my year to proceed. Sometimes we think we are controlled by our circumstances. Circumstances certainly play their part, but if we have a vision and a plan for what we would like our life to be like , we can also use our circumstances to proceed down our chosen path, it may well be a detour, but from this vantage point you may have an even greater vision for what life could be like.
YOUR JOURNEY THROUGH TRANSITIONS
We will have learned many things, intellectually, physically and spiritually which have left an emotional footprint in our hearts.