46th Psalm...

God is our refuge and strength,

    an ever-present help in trouble.
² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
    and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
³ though its waters roar and foam
    and the mountains quake with their surging.^[

⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
    the holy place where the Most High dwells.
⁵ God is within her, she will not fall;
    God will help her at break of day.
⁶ Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
    he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

⁷ The Lord Almighty is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress.

⁸ Come and see what the Lord has done,
    the desolations he has brought on the earth.
⁹ He makes wars cease
    to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
    he burns the shields^[ ] with fire.
¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”

¹¹ The Lord Almighty is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Even if nothing makes sense now, I rest in knowing that God has this...

So today I spoke to my mum and she informed me that in case you were in traffic driving behind a white Toyota that would not move when traffic opened up. She was the culprit, reason being while stuck in traffic, instead of staring into thin air and wallowing in her thoughts, she...*drum rolls, lights...and pow* read her bible. Yeah she reached into her handbag looking for her phone but found her bible instead....and the 46th psalm is what she read.

Regardless of what you're dealing with since it seems that everyone has a '' Secret Spartan Battalion'' in their heads or heart or both. The battles you're fighting and especially the ones you're loosing..
''train that battalion, take them for a motivational retreat or something..''

God has you....He's the ever present help in time of trouble.. so fight on... this too shall pass... hope that makes sense. Let me stop before the words take over and I cannot make sense.. (made in china :-)... ok byee... Keep the Faith!!!

Friday Furahi day Furaha Day!!!

Writing this today was not a walk in the park.

When I opened the page, I was happy and excited ready to face the world. I think the world was still asleep. Then it woke up on the wrong side of the bed and tried to ruin my happy sun-flowery day.  May be we do not have sunflowers all up in our space, and I am not complaining because that would mean bees would be all up in our space and that my friend is not as sweet as it sounds. Anyway so back to me writing this post today, I will care to mention that it was raining this morning. That weather also does something to people's happiness. Forgetting that the rains mean that we have food as the plants grow and all... but hey.

So I was ready to write a happy go lucky smile at the world kinda post, but the world was not in agreement. Just as am about to write this, a client walks in and starts ranting to me about parking space and how it's not enough, so they will use another clients slot. What that means is the next client who walks in will rant about how their parking slot was taken by someone else and yes you guessed right, it will be a good day right... debatable. Anyway am finding out it's a choice, what you do is breathe in and out and decide to have a good day. Notice below all the sweets in the bowl are wearing smileys, though that is the case not all of them look like smileys. So remember happiness is not circumstantial, it's a choice.

There's a lady who writes stuff online on her website and I get to read it almost daily, she's amazing. Rather what she writes is amazing. So today when she said that in the 23rd  Psalm in verse 6
''Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.'' I was like, they follow me like follow me. I never feel followed by goodness and mercy, but the thing is God does not operate on my feelings. Because his word says it, then so it is... I cannot do what she wrote justice. Best would be if you read it for yourself. See the link below..

http://www.incourage.me/2014/03/7-things-you-need-when-youre-overwhelmed-cant-keep-up.html


So yeah as you read that enjoy the different views of life from my mobile phone Camera.
This was yesterday's Sun. Sometimes looking up from the traffic jungle helps, though the side effect on you will be everyone will have that orange glow on them after you look at the sun. :-)

I was being followed by the sun ..

Grace over flow...

It's the 73rd day of the year. Choose to smile at your circumstances, remember that Goodness and Mercy follow you, for the rest of your life. Happy Furahi day. For those who know not, ''furahi'' is the verb for 

''joy'' 

The Joy of the Lord is your strength.... The joy of the Lord is my strength. Smiling at the world...

New Mercies...

His Mercies are new every morning is a line I have heard  over  and over again . Though this is information that I have had with me , I always forget to remember that. I forget to remember that when am late for work and traffic just does not move that His mercies are new every morning and am not being punished for something I did.

I forget about those mercies when I loose my temper, *yeah that's been happening too many times this week, Help a sister Lord*. When all calms down and am like am sure God doesn't want anything to do with me. He still says that His mercies are new every morning.  His mercies are new every morning, when the night before I slept angry at someone. His mercies are new every morning when I lied about being in  a meeting, to avoid speaking to someone... evidently the saint in me left the building a while back, but His mercies are new every morning, and they are not determined by my good behaviour.

Obviously my actions have consequences which we shall not delve in for now.

To think that God loves me just as I am is amazing. This is what Google my friend tells me is the meaning of mercy...

mer·cy

ˈmərsē/

''compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.''

 So remember this, His mercies are new every morning. #72of365 and He loves you.. and He's a just and loving God..

Matt 5:45
He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Enjoy day #72 of 365... 

SEE ME!!!

When we were in high school, that was a dreaded note to find in your CAT Paper (Continuous Assessment Test). Though it never came as a shocker to me since the marks on my paper would show you why I was being asked to see the teacher. With a score of 18% in my mathematics CAT, that comment on the last page of my paper while I'm trying to count to confirm that my marks were actually 9. Not so hard to count when you're looking at a paper that had about 30 questions. That was my life in high school. There was a time I found that the teacher had made an error in counting my marks. To be honest with humanity, I  can tell you this now since am hoping my Chemistry teacher *yeah it was the same problem in Maths and Chemistry don't judge me* does not read this and penalise me of my marks. So where was I, yeah I actually realised that I had scored less than what was awarded to me, I had 24% when I was supposed to have 20%. No I did not go back to my teacher to correct them, even the bible says we should forgive seventy times seven. So I forgave my teacher though I still had to '' See'' my teacher.

So back to the essence of all these words, when the teachers would ask that I see them, it would still make my insides curdle. This was definitely not because I was excited to see them but because I used to feel like they had something against me. Like it was their way of getting back at humanity for all the problems they had to deal with and for pollution and the the high inflation rate of the local currency... but nothing to do with my best interests at heart.

To think years later that they were trying to help me, is so freeing and am like why did I not know this earlier. Reason I say this is because I would go to see them with a strong self made mental fort for ''you will not get to me''.
So when the teacher asks what can I do to help, am hearing, I want to make your life a living hell, how do I do that?? Sic, I know but that was me. It's the same thing am experiencing with my relationship with God. I have moments when I feel like God has written the '' SEE ME'' note on my performance in various areas of my life. In my work, in my relationships with family and friends, in my prayer life, in my finances. I hope you get the drift, if you don't see me!!
But I realise that when God wants a one on one with me, it's for my own good. He is the source of my life and when I look to Him, all is well. Things start falling out of place when I start doing stuff based on what I think is best from my point of view. The teachers were teachers, trained to teach and make things better for their students, so everything they did was on the basis of making me better, making their students better.

It's the same thing with God, He loves you and me and all He does is in  love, so when you feel the ''SEE ME'' all up in your space.. take a chill pill. it's for your own good.

The journals are available for sale hand made by my good friend Njeri Waidhima of Thakara Designs.
They go for kshs. 1500.00 and can be personalised with your name at the top. Waiting to hear from you...
 

Ring around the moon....

Dark night out there,

tired, visitors the whole day,

huffing and puffing at the firewood

as you prepare their meals

Its almost over though,

then you will curve yourself in the blankets

 in the hope that you will

drift away to slumber land,

Looking up to the skies,

an unusual find

71 of 365

Today in the morning I saw some chicks searching for food... J

I guess God does have us all sorted. I was going to work, they don’t have to work for what they eat.

It may look unfair sometimes when you look at other people and how ‘’successful’’ they are without any effort.

God knows what you can handle and He always meets us at our point of need.

So yeah rest in knowing that God has you, and again do not compare. Note to self J

#710f365 yeah we've already done 71 days into the year 2014.

To have and to hold

To have it all when you have it

To hold it all in place when its all ok

Manage your assets and keep your interests as priority

What happens when there's nothing to hold

when what is being held...makes you question yourself

since there's nothing to hold....yet

To have and to hold

Forsaking all others keep yourself only unto your beloved....

Is that what happens when things get constrictive and you need

"a friend who understands"

Is that the other definition of "forsaking all others"

Will you love, comfort, honor, and keep in sickness and in health,

For richer, for poorer, for better for worse,

In sadness and in joy,

well why the hell do you still call "your friend who understands" when all this happens...

Or would this be called boredom, or " I needed a Break"

If you cant follow the rules at practise then whoever lied that you'll keep them during the final performance needs to trip and fall wherever they are....

You only have now.... To have and to hold