I CHOSE JOY

Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” - Nehemiah 8:10

On the morning of my birthday I have a ritual where i get up to pray at midnight.
I say my prayers and ask God for ONLY one thing. This year i chose joy. We learnt at church that there is a difference between joy and happiness.
Happiness - is dependent on our current circumstances or situations. It is temporary.
Joy - is not a respecter of the current circumstance or situation. It comes from within and is from the Lord. It is permanent.

I chose joy because ...
I wanted to laugh again,
I wanted to keep smiling no matter what i was going through, i wanted a complete change of attitude towards living & life
I wanted a brand new beginning...

The best things in life are indeed free. We run around looking for happiness in our jobs, our bank accounts, our social media pages, our friends. we forget happiness is temporary. Chose joy because it comes from God and it strengthens us from the inside out.

Peps. 

12 YEARS A SLAVE

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”  ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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I finally got to watch 12 Years A Slave! \O/ . I had to see if it lived up all the hullabaloo generated about it.
In my view it was not very much different from the number of Slavery Movies out there.

The story line struck a code in my soul after Solomon Northup got kidnapped and sold off :((
Seriously, how sad could it have been for him. His family is living freely back home while here he was being whipped to submission?? :( for 12 horrid years?!!

Big Up to Solomon Northup, he managed to pick up the pieces of his life after undergoing such atrocities.
If i was in his shoes i would have DIED from holding way to many grudges. *No Kidding* Yup! My heart and spirit would have given way ages ago.
Slavery in any form is such a disgraceful  heartless ACT!!

Lupita Nyong'o .. WOW! She out performed herself! Hands down! She did a mighty fine job.Who would have known she had it in her? The Whippings just made my stomach :(( Seriously.

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The survivors of any form of slavery, deserve a ticket straight to heaven! *just a thought*

In one scene in the movie, When Solomon Northup is sent to pick up supplies in town by his master's wife, he attempts to run away and stumbles upon three salves about to be hanged. This is the part where i pictured Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained) riding up on his horse and doing his rescue swoop. LOL \O/
I could not help but think where is Django Unchained!!??
I think i have watched way too many slavery movies that its evidently getting to me.

This got me thinking, According to the scriptures from the Holy Bible -- Jesus died for our sake.
To set us free from sin and many other things gone wrong.
He paid the price for our freedom with his blood that was shed on the cross.
But how many of us still walk around with slave mentalities? How many of us are enslaved by our pasts, guilty consciences, addictions, bitterness, unforgiveness??? this list is endless.
After watching this i remember praying and asking the LORD to change my identity. Where i walk around as a slave, May he constantly remind me who i truly belong to. Food for thought.

 

LIMITS

 

Lets talk about Limits.
Am not talking about limits in context to boundaries..
Am talking of limits in context to self-hindrance.

"We limit ourselves to experiences". My wise sister quoted to me one morning.

We limit ourselves to our little desks in the office and think, that is it?!
We do not take ourselves out on dates..we stop indulging in our hobbies and think what's left to do?!
We limit our selves to relationships that are detrimental to us..
We limit ourselves to emotions that make no sense..
We limit ourselves with our shrewdness and the languages we speak,
We limit ourselves to our areas of study and what tribes we comes from,
With limit ourselves to our personalities and the company we keep,
We limit ourselves with our experiences and the knowledge we claim to have gunnered,
We limit ourselves with Age and height and skin tones and body shapes and fashion sense...
We limit ourselves with negative speak & low self-esteem
With know-it-all attitudes & superiority complexes.
We even limit what God can do for us

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else.
It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. – Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee couldn't have said it any better.
Mental and emotional limits turn into physical limits.
Parkour is a version of extreme sports. Just like the image above, the participants jumps over buildings,  climb walls and anything that appears to stand in their way.
I thought about the sports men, and how open minded they must be.
They are literally limitless. Nothing seems to be able to stand in their way.
Embracing the limitless mentality is the most liberating feeling i could think of.

Parting Shot:

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
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If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/limits.html#hOUlSeq1AMXR5f0d.99