The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; They just like everything they have.
Monday March 19, 2018 Out of nothing comes something. Out of no way comes a way. May you be blessed to find the way to something that brings positive change and honors God by your betterment.
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THE LION KING: A LESSON IN FEAR
"You have to be careful that you don't become so familiar with the voice of fear that you'll follow it
anywhere, that you'll allow it to hold you back."
By Hannah Brenchner
I had coffee with a girlfriend the other day who reminded me of this part in the
Lion King. It's the part after Mufasa dies in the stampede and fear leads Simba into the jungle to hide and rebuild his life. Wait... can we just stop for a minute and say that this movie stirs way more feelings as an adult than it did growing up?
am convinced the Lion King was made for adults. But Simba is like all of us on so many levels. Fear shows up and informs us that things won't be going according to plan. Tragedy strikes. We lose instead of winning. We face the reality:
life isn't perfect and life wasn't designed to go our way.
As a result? He hides. He runs away from the calling on his life in order to just play it safe. He decides a safer life would be better than one filled with pain. And then Mufasa shows up in the sky (in the form of a cloud of smoke) to lay some hard truth down on Simba: you're off the course. You've forgotten who you are. You're not being who I called you to be. Remember who you are.
n God-like fashion, Mufasa delivers a
message from the sky that nearly made me weep: something has stopped you from being the person you're called to be. Figure out what it is and then fight past it. Don't be afraid of the dark.
For me, it's fear. I preach on stages about fear a lot and I still find it hiding in the corners of my story. I am guilty of letting fear tell me who I am, what I should wear, how I should act. Fear is the thing that crops up in my heart after having a really good conversation, a shrinking voice that
tells me, "You said too much. You should have just stayed quiet."
I think fear has plans to hijack our stories. It has a hope that it can keep us standing in one place, never moving forward or going after that thing we said we wanted. Fear and a slew of other insecurities rooted in that fear can make us unproductive. It can make us idle. It can cause us to think thoughts like, "Well, that person deserves this more than me. That person is going to get what I wanted." It makes us stop
communing with another and turns us on the defensive...READ MORE
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God meant for me to be healthy and prosperous. I will be sure to seek out the right environment to fulfill God's plan.
I PRAY
I pray dear god I pray to you lord that our children will be successful and great close Together as a family Lord I pray for Eric and I to be close as one Lord I pray to be debt free and
financially stable to own a home and take care of family and friends Lord I pray in trust truth respect honesty loyalty faith faithfulness for all of these and got your mighty hand to bless us our family to stay together and be close as one miracles, lord I pray for safety and protection. - Le M. |
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