I happy to be alive with all the pains that come with it.

A good day to be a life

I am glad to be a life today.  To be breathing,  to move my hands, my legs, and stand on my legs.  Are you?

Another day in the journey of life

So I woke up today and did my devotion.  I was stoked but at the same time scared to what the calling on my life is.  I am called to be kind and loving hearted, to be forgiving and love others with the love that Christ loved me.  I dont know about you but this seems impossible for me.  Do you know what people have done to me?  Do you know what I have suffered from?  Have you lived my life?  How can I love  a mother that abandons me as a child when I needed her the most?  How can I love a father that gives me up to slavery?  How can I love a sister that tells me I cannot amount to nothing?  How can I forgive a group of people that stood in my way because of my skin color when I was reaching for a better tomorrow?  How can I belief G-d who was there when all this happens to me?

Yes, life has done great for me!  Life has endowed me with the strength to succeed irrespective of what is in the way.  I can love an unlovable mother because G-d loves me when I could not love myself.  I can forgive the unforgivable father, because G-d forgives me when I could not forgive myself.  I can reach out to an unsupportive sister because of G-d's unending mercies.  I can forgive those who got in my way because of my skin color because G-d's grace abounds.  I belief in G-d because He is true, faithful, and just.  His mercies endures forever.  He is a lover of my soul, He chases when I could not see any value in me.  He courts me when I cannot  see any worth in me.  He was relentless in His pursuit of me and He ordained my steps and calls me to higher calling.  His dreams for me is higher than what I can see or imagined.  He calls me to step and look outside of myself.  He calls me to be a voice for the oppressed.  He calls me to be love to the unlovables, and show compassion to lonely, to be a comfort for the destitute. I  I have not arrived yet - am a work in progress, but when I put my eyes on the cross I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 

So life has not been kind to you, put your focus back on the cross of Jesus and He will strengthens you and empowers you to reach your potential.  Ask Him to come into your life and reveal Himself to you.  Trust me, He is more than able.  Life is hard to do alone, reach out to Jesus.  He has been reaching out to you all this time.  Live free in Christ.   

Life is beautiful, but not aways a bed of roses.  Life is challenging and not all of us are born with siver or golden spoon.  So you were born into a dysfunctional family, father was a drunk, mother drug addict.  May be your story is not this, may your teenage mom was busy finding self or parents were busy chasing the American dream.  Or may be someone in your childhood lets you know that you  are not worth the effort or tells you that you will not amount to anything.  Yes, this is your true story but it is time to own your own story.  It probably will not be easy.  It will not be easy, but it is time to accept  and acknowledge your past.  Appreciate your past - yes!   Appreciate your past and use it as the fuel that propells you forward.  You have lived the hard life, do not let that resilence go to waste, own it and consciously use its strength to make a difference in your life and the life of others.