Show me someone who has scaled the heights of success, and I will show you someone who has been down in the valley of defeat and failure. From David the psalmist to Mary Magdalene, the harlot who annointed Jesus’s feet, men and women who wowed the world had their flaws to deal with, but which wouldn’t stop them. People who despite their slip-ups rose up and continued to their envisioned end….Indeed, ‘success is failure turned inside out!’

As we all may agree, on the flip side of success are grim slip-ups. Think about it. Success is as a result of good Judgment. Good judgment is a result of experience. Experience is as a result of numerous poor judgments (failures)…on which point then we can assertively conclude…failure is, sometimes, the bedrock of success. If you still doubt, ask Benjamin Disraeli, a statesman and literary figure who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom…and He will say, ‘All my success have been built on my failures’

Michael Jordan, one of the greatest players in the game of basket ball once said. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” We can never succeed without the risk and the reality of failure!

Success is the ability to manage your last failure for better results the next time you try! Winners are losers who got over their last loss! ‘Success,’ in the words of Winston Churchill, a Nobel laureate ‘is the ability to move from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm’ Success is for those who are daring enough to make up to the second-to-last mistake. Winners lose more than losers, because they stay in the game. They put themselves in the line of embarrassing failure. They dare fail greatly…and they succeed greatly!

In the wisdom of Confucius ‘Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in raising up every time we fail.’ The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything-and it works.

Failure as positive feedback means you haven’t succeeded yet. As negative feedback, it means you a failure…choose ye therefore which feedback you will act upon! ‘Every failure comes with it the seed of an equivalent success’. That’s what we should concern ourselves with. The WOULD HAVE BEEN result CAN BE if we try again…and again….and again…Before anything works one time, there is, more often than not, the challenge of discovering the many ways it cannot work…don’t call that failure!

Keep trying until the result you want is realised. Don’t let the failed attempts in marriage, relationships, ministry, education, personal development, business, a needed skill, behaviour change or whatever it is stop you…step on it, and…behold SUCCESS!

A journey through the book of Genesis reveals God’s original DESIGN was to extend His heavenly Kingdom on earth. His DESIRE was someone He could fellowship with and commune His intentions to and so rule the earth with principles borrowed from heaven – A priest with a crown, and that was the first Adam before the fall.

If you believe in demonstrations, let’s take a walk in the Garden of Eden and you will find a man fully in charge, in dominion, in control and harmoniously ordering the affairs of the garden. Just before the sun sets, the gates to the garden open and in comes one who only John, he of the grasshopper fame, Knows how to describe well. He and Adam go for a walk! The man had a busy day naming all the creatures in the Garden, and He who is all knowing agrees with the man 100% because from previous fellowship with I am, Adam had known His mind, so He gave the names God would Himself have given-Adam had the mind of God borne from a close daily walk with Him, he ruled ‘with God’ and was effective until he fell out with God and became aware of how unable he was.

Fast forward to the book of revelation and Christ states more than once that He has made us kings and priests unto God. May I remind you He had come to restore (re-establish, reinstate) us back to what Adam lost in the Garden of God. When He ascended to heaven, some pagans called us Christians and we build a religion around that label, forgetting all God desired was a relationship, not a religion! We have reduced the mandate of an everlasting kingdom to religion, and we are fighting for its survival-our survival, because an important function is missing in an important equation in this Kingdom-The kingly operating in the same bracket as the priestly-We try to separate the two and the equation won’t balance!

When we order our affairs on earth governed by heavenly principles, have the mind of God and as a result do what God would have done in every situation, we can rest assured our progress will be swift.  As Adam was to discover, we cannot rule effectively in our spheres of influence where God has placed us (as the garden as in Adam’s case) without a consistent walk/fellowship with God at a personal level. When we breach this relationship, everything falls apart and frustration sets in-and we hide in the cocoons of discouragement and self pity.

As we ask that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven, let’s get to know His will, so that we can also make it happen on earth, for that is our Kingdom mandate!

There is a little song we used to sing… ‘This little light of mine, I will let it shine’…Truth filled. Everyone has some talent, skill, gift, hobby, preference, orientation, etc that however little, if projected, can make your world a brighter place.

It is said that there is a drop of greatness in every person. I concur and add …the fact that so many people are living inferior below average lives doesn’t change the facts. Greatness is permanently embossed at the core of every individual, and the world waits for each one of us to manifest our greatness through sincere efforts, and working with, not against ourselves…Find the gems within and dig them out.

We are a store house of assorted treasures that are meant to bless the world and enrich your life. But due to the nature of life today, we get lost in the motions of life and in admiration of the greatness of the great. We forget the only difference between us and them is that they looked within and found some assets that they utilized bringing out the best in them…The greatest achievers are simply drinking from their deposits within…and within you, there are rich deposits too!

The world waits for you to manifest the assortment of the assets you have within. Waiting because it can never be better without your unique contribution. The flow of the poem of life cannot be harmonious without your line-find it and write it. Fill your gap. Make the world a better place.

You are a miracle that occurs once in a lifetime. Yet it’s easy not to notice what you have. Today I challenge you dear reader. Take time and reassess the various components that sum up your unique existence…Know what you have and capitalize on it, and you will have a place in life.

Take an inventory. What are you good at? What works for you? Are there some things you are so passionate about? Your God given abilities and potential. Look for some experiences, good or bad that you can use…These are you valuable assets. Taking personal inventory is a critical step towards personal development for it helps one to see the treasures hidden beneath the enormous pile of the debris of fear,insecurity, bad experiences, broken relationships, financial crisis,…These constitute the junk we should be careful to get rid of, and take charge over our lives…Personal inventory helps you know your advantages. Personal development is taking advantage of your advantages.

After knowing and separating your assets from the junk, figure out what improvements are required…and keep continually improving, molding, shaping and steering your life in the direction you want…the direction of destiny!

 I close with the world of Nancy Pelosi ‘We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory of how we are taking responsibility’

 Affirm… ‘This little light of mine, I will make it shine’ Then get that Journal, make the three columns…Assets/Junk/Improvement strategy…Then get off the seat, and go make a mark…The world is waiting for your manifestation.

A lizard in a third world country doesn’t become a crocodile by moving to a first world. The bush man doesn’t become modernized merely by moving to an urban center. It’s easy to get a man out of the village; it’s another thing to get the village out of a man. The person with a ‘star mentality’ feels and acts like a ‘star’ even when in a ‘starless food kiosk’ The person with low self esteem doesn’t feel better by virtue of being in a five star hotel…for wherever YOU go, there YOU will be… carrying your own world with you!

Today, 6.8b people call our fragile planet home.  Each represents a unique combination of past experiences, prevailing circumstances, future prospects, outlook on life, attitudes, faith, preferences and such characteristics only distinctive to us. It is the entrenchment of these attributes that form the patterns of our lives; how we feel about ourselves, our believe systems (convictions), how we relate, goals, attitudes and desires which mark the limits within which our world spins.

The only way to experience any virtue in your world is if you posses it. Those who have learnt to love the self can give and appreciate/experience love. We are magical at our core. Everything we touch takes our form. The optimist turns everything to an opportunity. The pessimist passes every opportunity to hit the obstacle. To change anything, you have to change ‘YOU’-for the ‘YOU’ you are at the core sets the boundaries for your world…BIG or small.

 The amount of pressure your world exerts on your ’shoulders’ depends on the extent to which the negative attributes such as poor self image bad experiences are entrenched in your mind.

 A few days ago, I posed a question to my friends to describe using a metaphor what life meant to them. The descriptions ranged from…it’s a school, a riddle, a race, an episode, a journey, a mystery, a story, an errand to…a rollercoaster! YOU set the epicenter around which YOUR world orbits, and the limits within which it can rotate. But the beauty of it is; YOU can do away with the limitations, YOU can shift the axis by evaluating YOURSELF and getting rid of limiting believes and self defeating attitudes. Since we cannot get away from ourselves, we should deal with ourselves, our past experiences and present situations…and so make a better world for us and those around us.  Lets activate a healthy believe system. Believing first in ourselves then, deal with our attitudes and change our outlook on life. For we see things not the way they are, but the way we are.

Your world is your echo zone, a reflection of all you have given to it, the good and the bad…magnified. Shout ‘I’m insignificant’ and that’s how your world regards and treats you. Say the opposite and you get it back, pressed down, shaken together and…running over. I’m not talking about superficial phony confessions, but one proceeding from a conviction of the heart, from where all issues of life flow. To change your world, change your word. To change your word, change your heart…for as a man thinketh in his heart…so is he.

When you stop, your world stops.

When you make a move…

YOUR WORLD MOVES!

I ignored the first two too familiar knocks, but the third was a bang. I reached for my revolver, confirmed that the bullet I was about to cock was no rubber, then slid the cocked gun under my pajama and belted up. I tip toed to the door, peeped through the keyhole and…there she stood!

My hand was reaching for the door knob when suddenly it hit me. I had eliminated six as precious as she. I fought the thought but…I lost the battle. I turned, leaned my back against the door and slid down in a curve, my head meeting my knees, my revolver protruding as if reminding me of the six fatal bullets I had fired…my mind was chock-a-block with the scaring memories…

The first time I pulled the trigger was when I lived in the someday isle. Here, there was no inventiveness, no initiative, and no aggression…the passive Island, where everything could be done later. After all, twelve of her kind were coming my way…one at a time. PROCRASTINATION (that killer of opportunity) was the bullet that stole the vibrancy Jan came baring…she died having not accomplished her mission.

The same fate befell my second victim. But this time, I had to use a silencer (i.e. guarded lies), a type of killer bullets called EXCUSES (those builders of the house of failure). As I pulled the trigger, I told her why I couldn’t chance on the great opportunities she brought me. I forget that ‘no one ever excused himself to success’ (Dave Del Dotto) She fell into a heap…Gone!  The excuses now accuse me.

My third casualty should be blamed. She showed up at the wrong time. I had retreated to my inner room where the fate of my first two fatalities consumed me with GUILT. The guilty bullet took her down before I could say… ‘March’

 So, I developed a –veATTITUDE. Coloring everything in dull colors. A victim mentality. That life is about fate, I was only a product of circumstances. When the fourth one showed up, I didn’t even notice her until she was biding me goodbye. I repelled her by my -ATT… I missed the wisdom I would have gained had I taken her time and used it to build a positive way of looking at things

I had become dangerous. I acquired a new weapon-A machine gun, one that would cause paralysis. I knew she was coming. So I waited and in the midnight hour, she showed up. I opened fire and sprayed her with several bullets before I could say ‘May…I?’ The autopsy conducted later showed she had succumbed to FEAR (false evidence appearing real) related conditions citing worry, doubt and anxiety as the biggest culprits…These greatest barriers to success took her.

 My hands smelled of gun powder and my gun barrel was still hot when my sixth victim, oblivious of what had become of her predecessors, turned her innocent self in. Well, I liked her name, June. I hid my arsenal and decided I was going to be better and savoir the goodies she brought to develop myself, become a better me by using her time to reflect, self search, read, refocus, and pursue my purpose yet gain. And that chance she granted. One chilly morning, INDISCIPLINE sought my attention. I became unfaithful to June, and before I could put my act together…She Left!

 …there was a loud knock at the door. I don’t know why they always have to be in by midnight after thirty or thirty one days except the third, who shows up early because Feb doesn’t last that long. According to the clock on the wall, I had four seconds to let July in or she forces her way. I reached for my revolver and send it sliding on the floor into the study room and straight under my study table. My daughter’s water gun lay under the table too. The two guns bumped into each other, there was a deafening blast and breaking glass as the gun fire brightly lit the study room…

 When I woke up, July was in with a ‘stay warrant’ of thirty one days. Twenty four hours a day she would offer me to explore growth opportunities in any aspect of my life…

I hope we all can be better to this month!

I owe this one to my dear wife, Jenny…She believes ‘…if a situation knocks you flat on your tummy…crawl, and keep moving…its the only way up to your feet’ It was Winston Churchill who said, ‘if you are going through hell, keep going’. I agree. The only way out is- keep moving.
The cards we are dealt with in life are not always fair… hurts of broken relationships, pain of losing a loved one, a job, business deals gone sour, the list is long…However, none of these should stop anyone from knocking on new doors and doing new things…and see how your ability to move on can lead you to new horizons and beautiful paths… ‘The most important things in the world were accomplished by those who kept on trying even when there seemed to be no hope’ Dale Carnegie. Most firsts have been pulled by men (Barrack Obamas) and women (Wangare Mathais) who kept moving on their course against all odds.

‘Victory I always possible for the person who refuses to STOP fighting’ Napoleon Hill Failure simply means you are off course, you succeed) by adjusting your sails as you move until you get the perfect bearing…but you got to keep moving. Stagnation can make worse of a good situation whereas deliberate well calculated continuous moves could make the best from the worst of a situation. It is said that an aircraft is off course 95% of the time, what the pilot does to get you to your destination is to keep adjusting course AS THEY FLY until they succeed more than 95% of the time, in getting you to your destination. We run out of chances when we stop taking them.
It’s not enough to be on the right track, if you just sit there, you’ll get run over. It’s okay to slow down and figure out the next move, but don’t stop. Successful people make mistakes, but they keep moving and never quitting. Success and motion have a close relationship. As Albert Einstein, the physics Nobel laureate would put it ‘…life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving’ Tie your life to a goal, ignore the destructors and constantly keep pulling yourself towards it.
Look for new skills, new insights, new ideas, read a great book in an all new-to-you subject…keep growing, keep going and developing yourself. Movement is a vital sign of life. Progress is the way to maintain, enhance and rejuvenate your life. It’s the continuous flow of water that makes a fresh water lake and gives it the ability to sustain aquatic life. A stationery car depreciates in value and its battery power goes down. It’s expensive in parking fees and the possibility of stolen headlights and side mirrors (especially if you are a Nairobian)… Advance towards excellence (professionally, personally & spiritually) or you end up in obsolescence
‘Life goes on’ regardless, so should you… ‘KEEP MOVING’ regardless!  Start from where you are and steadily move to where you want. And, in the words of Dennis green remember ‘the secret of success is to start from scratch and…KEEP SCRATCHING!

I received this letter from Nick and realised we all suffer from this condition at varied degrees. With his permission, lets share from this predicament.

Dear life doc.

Excuse my language, am not a medic, but I have this malady, one that won’t go away. It’s ripping the life out of me. I have these patterns which are disrupting and blocking my life. I call it what it is…Energy leaks complex. In case you don’t understand, then I hope you can stand some explanation.

On a positive note, I have heeded your advice on, praying, reading the right books (the bible first as you always say), listening to the right speakers, keeping the right company and having someone I can confide in. All these seem to work, but the problem is, after I have read and/or listened to the kind of stuff that fills me with positive energy, the kind that leaves me feeling like I can leap over mountains and achieve every dream I ever had, in a short while, the energy dissipates, wades, fades and like pressure from a slow puncture, it slowly leaks…leaving me flat and immobilized

Since you are a man who believes in pictures, let me try one shot of my situation. I read this very inspiring book with bits and pieces to help improve the quality of my life. I passionately devour the pages. Each filling me with power; raising me to a higher positive energy level…Making me feel like I face any Goliath. But this energy lasts for as long as am reading the book, after the last page…I fall back to my ‘ground state’. Two weeks later, I can’t even remember 10% of what I learnt. Do you get the picture?

Help, Nick.

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Hey Nick

So you call me a life doctor? Ah!

The things you do when you are not reading or listening to inspirations can rob you the energy acquired, but most importantly, what you do during those inspired (high) moments sets people-who’ve read/listened to the same material-apart.. Research shows that new habits are created in at least 21 days. So take at least that long (before picking on another book or audio) and put words to works. Perspiration should follow inspiration. That’s the way to let the words become flesh and indwell you.  The inspiration then becomes part of your operating systems and cannot therefore easily ‘leak out’.

Some authors give exercises on their books. However absurd or simple they may seem, try them, and also put down key points. This will help increase your memory retention.

No more procrastination. Don’t wait. Do it while you are still motivated. That’s the best state to react to the information you’ve learned. Start experimenting with small things the stuff learned then build momentum, improving at every stage. The results will act as motivators to act again and get more results creating a chain reaction of …‘Motivation – Action – Results – (which) – Motivate – (you to take) -Action …’ Use the energy to take action and start this chain reaction!

From your house to the office desk; (a) Avoid clutter. Disorder de-motivates; (b) Heed the music you listen to. Some lines stick and can keep repeating in your mind the whole day, if it wasn’t uplifting, then it robs you of energy and leaves you ‘a flat tyre’…Can’t move fast, can’t go far…Insulate yourself from such and keep the positive energy in to build the life you want and deserve.

stevemuthusi@Recapture your Royalty; Uplifting lives!

‘Yesterday ended last night’… So goes an old dictum, yet we let the misdeeds of yesterday perpetuate our today. The ghosts of yesterday are allowed to haunt our today. We live under the shadows of our past, in the archives of what was or has been, missing what is and what can be.
We are drawn towards what we focus, destiny draws forward, the past draws backward, and the choice is ours, on which we focus.

We are, by definition, rid of the past, inevitably living in the present…so don’t let the past impinge your present.

‘One problem in the gazing too frequently into the past is that we might turn round to find the future has run out on us’…Michael Cibenco once observed. Yet the world is populated by folks who are going through the facets if their lives feeling horrible about something they shouldn’t have done or something they should have done but failed to. Broken, they are busy sacrificing the potential of their lives in the altars of their past …‘carrying the past as a burden instead of a school, being overwhelmed by it instead of being educated by it’

The past is just that – past. It has as much power over you as you give it. Deny it any power, and it has no grip over you. Be its master;
You can’t move fast …dragging the burdens of the past. If you keep engaging reverse gear, then there is no guessing how far you’ll move forward!

We all have done things we wish we didn’t do, that’s not tragic, the tragedy is in identifying with your past trademarks,- what you did or didn’t do- rather than your own potential for growth. When you do that, you negate yourself and unless you live in another planet with a different reality system, it’s common knowledge that feeling bad or guilty long enough will not change a past event.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving the present.
‘The past is a guide post, not a hitching post’. Said Thomas hold.

Get past your past and reach for your dreams
You can either clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present, or you can unknot the ropes that link you to your past and wash out the guilt bugs that have infested so many sectors of your life. Hanging unto a past you can do nothing about is gross jeopardy to the possibilities of both the present and the future which you are responsible of.

Opportunity is always where you are, never where you were!

Let’s borrow a leaf from Paul of tarsus. He had a past. The new living translation bible puts Philippians 3: 13-14 this way. “…….but I am now focusing all my energies on this one thing; forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race…..”

…The rewards of life go to those who are willing to give up the past. To experience true freedom, break free from the past. Letting go the old is the way to accessing the new. You can’t move backwards into the future.
Show me a driver who dares drive on forward gear with his eyes fixed on the rare mirror and I will show you a driver who will not get to his destination…an accident waiting to happen.

Our sojourn on earth is so brief and life so breathtakingly short, we can’t afford to waste the present waving at ourselves & others the flag of our past, with all the labels of what our life has been on it. The way to live effectively each day and each present moment everyday is to avoid corrupting today with the misdeed of yesterday.

Let each new dawn be an opportunity to start all over again, to clear our minds and hearts a new, to clarify our vision. Don’t clutter up today with the leavings of other day’s…

There is no future in the past!

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‘Confessed faults are half-mended’ (Scottish proverb)

It was one of those games boys play, and only adults know are dangerous. A thrilling downhill ride on a make shift racing plaything with no brakes, no safety belts, no helmets…Only high speed!

The boy in me played ‘smart’ broke the rules Dad had set through Mom to enjoy the ecstatic experience of what dad called ‘a dangerous ride’. Then one day, it happened. One of the front wheels  of my makeshift came off, the wooden front hit the ground bringing my racing improvisation into a sudden halt, leaving me under the mercies of the laws of inertia (Refresh; ‘if an object is moving at a constant speed or velocity, it will continue at that speed unless acted upon by some force along the line of motion’) when the rolling was over, I was left with a knee injury and bruised hands. I wouldn’t tell Mom, and as for Dad…he wasn’t even supposed to know.

By the second day, my knee was getting worse by covering it up. I had changed from a bubbly, sparklingly animated boy to a dull, withdrawn, irritable, scared child, whose unbearably aching knee had changed his walking style. Kudos to loving Mama, she squeezed some information from me when she realized something was terribly wrong…I confessed, got my wound nursed marking the beginning of a healing process… (Of course I went back there a few other times…shhhhhhhh)

In the words of Louis Cassel, ‘In confession…we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of who we are’  

The more things change, the more they remain the same. So we grow up, learn right from wrong, we are told/know what we should and should not do, but deep inside we struggle with issues that keep overpowering us. Curiosity takes the better part of us and in our trying out and experimenting with new things; we fail, get hurt and frustrated…messed up really good and proper! After that first mistake we do even worse when we choose to lock it in the proverbial ‘cabinet of skeletons’ and push on with life as if nothing happened. Trying to justify ourselves yet fearful that someone would find out we could gaffe that bad. The guilt, shame, pain, bitterness, irritability, withdrawal and all those symptoms that come with a pretentious life consume us from inside like a cancer, draining life from us, leaving us dry and scared…taking in punishment silently!

Intimacy and sharing of life brings relief for the problem of isolation. It acts as a pressure valve. Spreads the weight from your shoulders to those of a caring friend, for indeed two are better than one, if one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and allows no one to help him up! Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. ..Share your struggles, fears etc

Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed (James 5:16). Confession is acknowledging your slip-up(s) to another. Repentance is a complete turn-away from a way of living that is erroneous. While repentance restores one to their former (right) track, it is confession that heals the pain of regret and eases the consequences of our misdeed. So make it a rule, let a trusted friend peep into your deep dark secrets that you are afraid of letting out of the cabinet, and experience the power of confessing our sins one to another!  The lord bless you and restore you.

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Like eagles, the maker of the universe created us to scale the heights. To mount up with wings like eagles and not quack like ducks! Despite this eagle set up in me, sometimes I wake up feeling like a Hippo and simply wanting to wallow in the mud, during the day I feel like a donkey and have to be hard-pressed to perform. Come evening, I am a flat chicken, scratching, brooding and scared of the vulture!
The eagle in me keeps flapping its wings, but the chicken in me sees things differently. First, it’s scared of heights and secondly…chicken don’t fly. Period! So it chickens out. But the flapping of wings continues.
This is got to be ‘an eagle with a chicken mentality’. I want to free my wings and fly away, high up in the sky. The natural environment for eagles, where they soar without flapping wings!
Hallo. Have you ever found yourself in a similar predicament? If it’s a yes, I invite you to read on.
The analogy the bible uses in the book of Isaiah and psalms is an amazing one ‘…shall mount up with wings like an eagle’ …‘renew their strength like the eagles.

With wings

When I was young , I was also adventurous. Catching the birds for roasting to me was a game. One way I made sure the birds didn’t escape after ensnaring them was by breaking their wings, and when I was in good moods, I would tie the wings instead. (I have since been forgiven) An Eagle, the king of the heights is more aggressive and hard to catch, but If you succeed, the rule is the same…catch them by the wings!
History is not lacking in men and women who have been ensnared and their ‘wing movement’ restricted by things that reduce them to less than the maker dreamt. People reduced to ‘cabbages’ due to abuse of drug, for example, cannot understand and maximize their God designed potential potential.
The strings that tie our wings, leaving us worse off than chicken are most of the time our own making. These are things that make it impossible for us to scale the heights of any activity we undertake. From exercising our talents, giftings, passions, visions and dreams to completing a worth project Things such as fear of failure, lack of self confidence, past experiences, laziness, pride and all manner of character flaws become ‘the strings that tie our wings’ ‘They sink our ship, deflate our soaring balloons or shoot us in the foot’ and until we can face them straight and phase the out, they become like the string tied to a kite, they dictate how high we can fly!…Sometimes bringing us tumbling down. Then we keep on repairing the tyre without taking the initiative to remove the spike on the road that causes the puncture…so we keep on being derailed.

Renew your strength

After we have flown many miles, we need to relax and from the source and giver of life, have some new lease of being. Drink from the pool of God’s grace and mercy ‘… where sin is forgiven, its power subdued and its penalty averted. Then we are honored, supplied, and our very own nature renovated till we are as new-born children in the God’s household’ Have time with yourself, evaluate how high you have flown and how further you can soar. Pray, laugh and play. As P.L.O Lumumba would put it, remember ‘Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow’ which simply means… ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’
This way we remain as vigorous and full of energy as an eagle, raising above the storms that will inevitably come our way!

Am working on mine, work on yours…and lets meet ‘up there’

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