The World is beautifully broken

BOOK REVIEW.

PERMISSION TO SPEAK FREELY by ANNE JACKSON

I have read books before and have always had a book to put down awesome statements that I would use next time am in a speaking engagement or better still, in my everyday conversation. Anne Jackson hasn’t given me a chance to do that. She makes me want to rip my heart apart, let the world see my pains and just realize how beautiful life can be with its pains and gains too!
She has given me a chance to go Second.
The world, the church… everyone has often lived a life knowing that there is really no permission to speak freely because in our heart of hearts, we always ask ourselves, “who cares anyway”, “everyone is hurting, so why burden others with issues that don’t matter to them?” The truth of the matter is; people care, they are and everyone is always looking for one or two, a person who would listen and understand. There is; someone said, in every person an insatiable need to be appreciated, accepted and approved. I call it the three needed As.
Accepted, that yes! It is really bad but it is OK. That, ‘buddy look here, my wound hurts too.’ That, I am also in pain; you think you can help me?
Anne Jackson has helped me realize that there is a purpose in communities. That there is a reason God calls His Church, His body. It is His body because sometimes the hand has got to apply oil to the head; that arteries need to supply blood with glucose to the brain; that when the feet ache, whole body parts take a break to rest because they need the feet; yet…there are parts that know, when others rest, they have got to keep going. Like the heart! It has got to keep beating!!
We all need each other.
And we are never alone: if only we are strong enough or even just a little to say, ‘am hurting’. Then shall we realize our healing. James5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed”
It is in confession that we find our healing. Confessing and not admitting sin. Being able to come to a point of accepting the Grace of God to work in your life.
Can Church then, be a place of refuge? Rescue?
Only when we realize that we are all products of the Amazing Grace.
When we understand that the church is not the buildings nor the clergy
But that the church is you and I
Beautifully wrapped in Grace.
Wounded soldiers nursing one another and fighting on.

Again, thank you for a book creatively expressed.

Forgetting what is behind

Paul says that forgetting what is behind, I press on towards the goal marked out for me. At some point he makes sense but if that same past affects every thing that you do; then forgetting makes you change what you have always known as life; what you have always upheld as important and needful to you.
Yet again friend, without forgetting there is no progress
Without leaving there can never be any cleaving,
It may be painful but I wonder! How do you enjoy a ripe fruit when it is still on the tree?
How; friend do I eat a sugarcane when it is still on the ground?
Some cutting off has got to be done…..
Some leaving is necessary…
Yes, a bit of letting go is crucial.

I say this with a lot of care,
Not because I have a feeling you need to forget anything
But because I have had to do some forgetting recently.
It is fresh in my life now and though it feels strange to let go; I am free
Free from having to think about….this…that…..

Is it something that happened in your childhood?
Is it an event that never went well?
Did you lose a loved one?
Is it a betrayal that you went through?
Are they exams that you failed in kindergarten?
Did your mama beat you so bad you have never forgotten?
I really don’t know what it is?
But in you; you are sure you are always affected by one of them


My dear one…..I had to do it.
I realized I couldn’t keep holding them
They were paralyzing me.
I couldn’t see the horizon.

You have some forgetting to do? JUST DO IT.
FORGET.

Now faith......

‘Faith, He says, ‘is substance of things hoped for’

‘Evidence of things not seen,’

It is saying that you have when you can’t even see it

It is; my dear friend, thanking God when you cant even see the signs.

Faith is crazy

It is outrageous,

It is; I tell you, out of this world.

Because in this world, you plan and have the end in mind

You basically look at all the pros and corns

And are almost sure whether it’s gonna work or not

Faith is believing when you don’t know what to do

It is saying, Dad, ‘I can’t figure out what you are saying’

But I’ll do it anyway; coz I trust you.

Faith is having plan A which when it fails; it can only be God

I don’t know how often we trust God that much

I actually don’t know if I trust God myself.

I kinda always want to have a glimpse of the end;

The result expected…….

Today- though now it has to be my every today

I choose to trust in you Lord

Not because I know what you are up to

But because you are God.

If you made the world from nothing and this is what it became

And you ask me to trust you and you will do the rest

Then, I really don’t need evidence yet you still give me.

I trust you Lord.

Greetings!

Hi guys!

Living a life of legacy drives me and that is what drives this blog.
I believe in impacting lives by sharing the Word of God, for this Word has insight.
It is life to those who find them and health to their bones.
It is and has been life to me and I will be more than elated to share it with you,
especially with my life experiences. You are blessed.
Welcome aboard!!
Baraka!

Winny.