Last month,I was on my way to a new assignment.
I had been to the place once and so was not so familiar with the area and so I had a list of buses I could enter with me.As I waited for my bus at the City Center,it seemed like it took forever for it to come.Meanwhile there was a particular bus number that ran frequently.
I thought I had put two and two together as I asked the driver[God bless him] if he was going my way.He replied in the affirmative and I paid the fare.
To my dismay it was not along the path I had gone previously.I asked the driver again and he said it was the next stop.I came down and he pointed that where I was going was just 2 minutes away.I am sad to say that was far from the truth because I had to enter another bus eventually which took me about 8 stops away and after waiting trying to get on another connecting bus,I decided to return back to the City center.This time I waited patiently and got on the right bus with the number I had been given.It took me about 12minutes to get to my desired destination.Meanwhile I had wasted one hour in the merry go round because I became impatient.I am sure you have had a similar experience at one time or the other.
As I reflect back,I think about how similar this is to when we are waiting for something and believing God.How there are so many other alternatives which in the long run actually lead to nowhere near the best that God is preparing for us[it might lead somewhere].
Lord,teach us to be patient and not to give birth to Ishmeals as we wait for our Isaacs.
Amen.
The test of our strength and faith sometimes can be measured by how much we can wait.
Continue to flourish,
Grace Tom-lawyer
Thursday 13 November 2008
Thursday 6 November 2008
Live your dream!
Congratulations to all Americans and especially to the President elect Mr Barack Obama.
I salute your courage .It is so beautiful to see an African American elected as President of the United States. May God give you the strength to lead the nation in the right path.
As I watched the news of the results and the different reactions of people, I am particularly drawn to the tears streaming from the eyes of Jesse Jackson. I am sure he was weeping as he saw a dream come true.
What struck me most was this is a dream a man had.
He took steps towards it and today he has made history.
Live the dream-write the dream, talk the dream, walk the dream.
Write it down. It is so important to write it down.
In the next 10 years what and where do you want to be?
This is the time to write it down and begin to take steps towards it now. Enough of the self pity and regrets! Time for action.
If it is not written down, then we cannot really tell at any point in time if progress has been made. The trouble is most times we think it is too enormous and laborious and so we procrastinate the writing down of our dreams.
If Mr Barack Obama did not write his dream, take steps towards it by getting involved in politics, he would not have made history yesterday. Let this encourage us that nothing is impossible if you believe and are ready to face whatever hurdles.
Write your dream.
Talk your dream.
Walk your dream
Live your dream.
To live without a dream is just to merely exist!
Continue to flourish,
Grace Tom-lawyer
I salute your courage .It is so beautiful to see an African American elected as President of the United States. May God give you the strength to lead the nation in the right path.
As I watched the news of the results and the different reactions of people, I am particularly drawn to the tears streaming from the eyes of Jesse Jackson. I am sure he was weeping as he saw a dream come true.
What struck me most was this is a dream a man had.
He took steps towards it and today he has made history.
Live the dream-write the dream, talk the dream, walk the dream.
Write it down. It is so important to write it down.
In the next 10 years what and where do you want to be?
This is the time to write it down and begin to take steps towards it now. Enough of the self pity and regrets! Time for action.
If it is not written down, then we cannot really tell at any point in time if progress has been made. The trouble is most times we think it is too enormous and laborious and so we procrastinate the writing down of our dreams.
If Mr Barack Obama did not write his dream, take steps towards it by getting involved in politics, he would not have made history yesterday. Let this encourage us that nothing is impossible if you believe and are ready to face whatever hurdles.
Write your dream.
Talk your dream.
Walk your dream
Live your dream.
To live without a dream is just to merely exist!
Continue to flourish,
Grace Tom-lawyer
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