Pray for me, will you please?

It was repeated a few times, "pray for me, will you please?" by an old man who was sitting across from me in a small local public transport, they call it 'microlet'. He started out with a small talk, and continued to tell me about where he was from, his son's job, and many other things including a woman in his life. And all of sudden he took off one of the buttons of his shirt and reached inside to get something. I thought he was going to show some wound he had in his chest. But it was a couple of pictures of his lady. whew!! He expressed how depressed he was that he couldn't be with her. And he was so bored with his life, no matter where he went, he felt restless. "Please pray for me," he said. He offered to pay my fare which he did. I prayed for him silently in my heart. I couldn't stop thinking how he could know that I do pray.

 Praying is the thing I do daily and often as I really strongly believe in it. It's just like depending on God completely, and acknowledging Him in all I do and asking for His blessings, guidance, protection, provision and much more. It's something I can't do without. It's also like admitting that I need Him, His help, His strength, His love, His supervision to lead me in my life and when I am talking about His Truth with others.

I have experienced and seen answers to my prayers. I am not just talking about the prayers that I pray for my self, situation, need that I ask God for, but prayers that I pray for others, situations, solutions & answers to the problems or difficulties that others face. It's just so awesome, indescribable how God works in mysterious ways, answers our prayers in the way He knows best.

Start praying today, it's never too late! Pray, it will make a difference in your life.

Fruits

Fruits, they are incredible. You will find each kind is special in its taste, shape, and colour. The awesomeness of our Creator, invented the vast varieties of them. The Creator of all things. He is awesome. Not to mention the human being He designed. Each of us is specially designed in a unique way. His ways certainly are not our ways, His thoughts are soooo much higher than ours. All glory to His greatness.

Different

Different places, different people, different situations, different food, all the outward differences don't change the inside you. The inside you still you, so what makes the difference is the inside you. You could be in different places, but it's how you feel inside you that's what will turn out to be.

 It goes back to being satisfied with the real thing, which are God, Jesus, His Son, the Truth, His Word that you are having with you every moment of your life. Take the moment with Him, with the people He sends your way, with the situation He has you in, in gratefulness, that's what gives you the right perspective that will satisfy you, body and spirit. 

A day of miracle

The day went so miraculously. It seemed that everything and everyone we planned to do  and see was preordained by God Almighty. It was like He was putting all the pieces and puzzles together for us, and we just need to go along with it. It started with our drive to a school to conduct a workshop. The road was clear, we got there earlier. I was able to spend a little time with the head master, talked to her since she will be moving to another city. Did the workshop, the students were attentive.

Our friend, the kitchen manager of the school asked us to see him as he wanted us to pray for him. That was good. Next, I followed the principal into her room as she walked into it, even though there were others waiting for her. She said yes to my request to see her for a few minutes. God bless her heart to have the faith to stop everything and gave her full focus to pray with us and sang a hymn of praise to God. It will normally take half an hour to an hour to wait to see her. Collected our transport reimbursement without any problems. The nice thing about it was that I was able to cheer up each person I encountered with, with a few words of encouragement on the way. We had an appointment for our friend and her team to give hair cut to our kids in the centre. We still had few things to do before then. Banking, water pick up, lunch, exchange the car. At the water place, we exchanged thoughts with the manager about the fear of God and love for humanity, that was good. Had lunch at our regular small place but packed always. It's a small significant of God's love, but He is in insignificantly into details, amazing. Why I said that? I sat down and looked at the menu for today's special, and it wasn't the thing I like, but I ordered it anyway. But it turned out they don't have that dish, they had my favourite dish instead. Wow, that was wow. so now you know what I meant when I said God is definitely into details and attend to our likes and dislikes because of He loves us and want to show it . We didn't think we would have enough time to exchange our cars, but again the traffic was light, enabled us to drive with ease and little time to reach back and took the another car to the centre so we could pick up our friend and her staffs. They did a wonderful job of cutting more than over 40 children hair. We went for our regular afternoon walk and did meal prep and dinner. It was a full miraculous day. It all started from the night before. We had ourselves filled up by listening to good music, inspirational talk, prayers, and asking God for His blessings through out the day. Everyday I can record the same miraculous ways God is doing for us, although it might be different from day to day. But as we take the time to reflect, we will find that God has done it again. 

Life gets better

As you grow older in age, age is just a mind set, it's the heart and attitude that count. Life does get better if you have a simple and fulfilled life. It means you have planned ahead for the basic needs you have and doing things that count for others and you enjoy. For your loved ones, for your friends, even for those who around you that you don't know so well, they could be friends that you just haven't met.

 I can speak from experience as I am growing with age, 51 this year, that life is only getting better. Yes, you might need to go a little slower but not too slow. Actually you enjoy it more when you go about doing things slower. I can't say that I have mastered the slowness thingy yet, ha! for the fact that I just felt down and have bruised  myself here and there, tripped as I am going up the stairs, lost my mobile as I was trying to do so much and in a hurry. My mind is running ahead of me usually. So we only have to slow down physically, that we can't help it because we are bound by this earthly condition, but otherwise we can go places miles and miles away, and dream big dreams.

The spiritual and physical realms are so tightly entwined, we can't really separate it. What I mean is that your spiritual state affects you physically and vice versa. Having a good and healthy spirit is important to enjoy the life we live in. We won't be influenced so much with what's going on around us. That means we will need a vibrant relationship with God. It takes time and effort to cultivate that vibrant, strong and close relationship with Him. And it is attainable. Do it day by day, decide the time and the way you do it. Either through taking time to pray, to meditate, listen to some good music, take a walk in the park or somewhere quite, read some uplifting devotional books or the Bible, or you could  find ways that work for you to get that connection going with your Creator. You will find that life is just getting better everyday.

Grateful

I am so grateful for the speedy healing of my wound. I am grateful is a mango season. I am grateful for the work I do, I am grateful for my daughter and grand daughter, I am grateful I can taste all the good yummy food that I like, I am grateful I have a God that I can believe and trust in. I am grateful for the children in our centre. I am grateful for a cosy rent place I live in. I am grateful for the garden at the back of our balcony. I am grateful for air conditioned car I drive. I grateful for my friends who support me. I have so much to be grateful for, that leaves no room for my ungratefulness, ha! Try to take time to be grateful for the things that you are grateful for, it makes me grateful, nothing else, it will propel your day or days to a bliss if you take a little time to be grateful everyday.