Friday 27 February 2015
Night Prayer
Tonight, God shall move you from everything that undervalues your effort into a place where your input shall be greatly celebrated and sufficiently rewarded in Jesus name! Amen! (2 Samuel 7) ENJOY REWARDING SIGNIFICANCE!
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Friday 4 October 2013
Life...
What is life. It sounds rhetorical, doesn't it? As long as the earth has existed, can anyone boast of a consummate answer to this question.
An online dictionary's attempt at defining life implies that it is The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living. The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant, a star) is alive.
This attempt can't be wished away as a poor one. Assuming we take our bearing from this definition, there are so many things that happen in life which cannot be called life. A common colloquialism is " life happens". By this, we seldom refer to the beginning of living. We don't mean that a baby, natural , ideological or material has started existing. In fact, we mean the exact opposite.
When someone gets sick, we say life happens. When a business crumbles, we repeat it, life happens. If there is an accident, or a natural disaster, some would look at it all and echo life happens! It is so serious that those natural disasters and unforeseeable events are referred to as the act of God in a contract agreement.
We can't deny the fact some unpleasant things happen in life, things that shake the very roots of our existence, but can we correctly call that life? Without looking at any dictionaries, how can the very things that come to disrupt life be referred to as life! That can't be life!
Does this reference to disaster as life by any means reflect an unspoken attachment our subconscious has to the negative. Does this suggest that we have trained our mind to see these unpalatable events as life? Do we always expect negative happenings?
Interestingly, we end up attracting to our lives what we expect, whether consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously. If we keep defining death related situations as life, we would accept them gladly if they come. Because we have built a home for them, they would stay put when they come..
You may not control what others call life, but you sure do determine what you call life! Don't call death life. Life means growth, increase, expansion, addition, and every thing that makes us better. Nature teaches us that much.
Let's think differently. Its like reprogramming a computer. A new born baby is how life happens. A promotion is how life happens. The growth of a child is how life happens. The joy and laughter enveloped in love, stamped with peace is how life happens.
When we effectively redefine what to expect from life, we may be in a vantage position to attempt an answer to the question- #what is life.
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