My twisted 'Fairytale'

I started my life happy, no rules 'coz they weren't necessary.. no 'fleshly desires' I was totally innocent, wasn't aware of 'bad stuffs'. The only best friends I had were my family and baby Jesus who was born in a manger. I was always excited and my 'best friends' had an unconditional love for me. No FAKE friends, they were all real, No best food, loved everything mama made. No headaches on what to eat? Wear? Or anything like that. I wet the bed and it wasn't a big deal. I hardly walked, everyone took turns to 'carry' me.
I could come out in my underwear to say hi to a guest and it was ok....

Then I grew up

I'll Just go through the developments quickly

Had to leave my family to go to school, Maths now included alphabets :(
Fake friends came along, I get some conditions or rules in order to be friends with someone. (Even if everyone doesn't make the rules clear, you know deep down ''to be friends with 'this person' you can't fold the edges of her novel'' (just an example lol)

I have to think of what to eat and wear.
I don't get reminded to do my homework anymore, I realised I had to 'feed' myself spiritually, I had to 'want' to know God, no aunties or uncles to teach what the bible says as I usually had when I was younger. Mummy wouldn't come to tell me how many times to cover myself with the blood of Jesus before I slept, I had to remember myself...
Even Jesus grew up: I mean all I knew was the One who was born in a manger, but I grew up to realise there was more.. He worked, was a teacher, he even died!
I started seeing the 'monthly guest' *sigh*
Boys started coming, I had to think of how to say NO nicely :)  :(
I had to make fancy hairstyles, which are more expensive than making 'kiko' (twisting my hair in thread) lol *deep sigh*

I'm not gonna take much of time..

My point is... My 'fairytale' has quite a twist, it's the opposite of your usual happy endings!! I went from 'Cinderella in the Carriage' to the 'Cinderella with the mop and napkins'.

 

Note: I'm still a very 'happy' individual but NOT as 'happy' as i used to be.

 

Just a few words...

You are weak but behind you is a strong God

You are beautiful in the sight of God

You shouldn't trust the desires of sin more than you trust God

You shouldn't allow temporary anger cause you to have permanent regrets

Instead of dwelling on all you've lost, why don't you count your blessings on all you still have

Don't let what people say pull you down!

Allow God rule your life if you must give it a meaning

In all situations give thanks

Be careful what you wish for: the tongue is powerful

Be positive!

Helping cannot hurt you, but people you help can hurt you... Don't let the people you help stop you from helping, because helping helps you

Call Christianity old fashioned....yes! My God is the ancient of days
BUT
He's the ''same yesterday, today and forever'' (Heb 13:8). You wanna stay young, stay with Him

When you win a lottery it is ''so how are WE gonna spend the money''.... when you're in trouble it is ''so what are YOU gonna do now?...''

Grace is not your passport to live in sin. It is the gift of God to live above sin

The bible says ''love is not easily angered''. It doesn't say love never gets angry at all.

Being angry is not a sin, it becomes a sin when you allow it to push you into destructive behavior.

''The heart of man is desperately wicked'' (Jeremiah 17:9)

Encouragement: keeps you going
Endurance: keeps you standing
Faith: takes you an extra mile

TO BE CONTINUED....... :)

Ps: Not all of these words are mine, can't remember where I got most of them tho. Hope you made sense out of some? :D

This one's for the LADIES

Just felt I should share this video. ENJOY

How do you see it?

Most times, there's more than one way to look at things, quick example: half of an apple is rotten and the other half is perfectly 'fresh n crunchy' BUT most of us would throw away that apple anyway, even if someone sees the good side you quickly let them know ''NO! don't eat it, that's a bad apple''

Enough of the talking in parables lol

Nobody's life is perfect, but are you dwelling on your imperfections and thinking 'nothing good can come out of me'', how have you chosen to look at your life because no matter what you think you're going through there's still something to be thankful for, at least even if for nothing else, for the air you breath, FOR LIFE!

Let me say a little about me, this year hasn't been going so well.. and everyday I wake up and I pray, all I can think of is 'the bad' that's going on in my life, I pray for God to do something about it, I keep asking ''why me?''... But my friends and I talked one day, realizing how lots of people our age have died, lost there parents e.t.c If these people could be given another chance (i mean to come back to life) I'm sure they would say ''even if I'm poor or ugly this time I don't care, I just want to see my mum again and give her a hug'' or something like that. Then  it came to me that I just might be an ingrate because I'm alive, I have food, I have cloths, shoes, my wonderful parents and my beautiful sister are still with me, they're alive too! My friends are alive!

....then I realized that I have more than I don't have. I had been looking from the wrong side!

Start to look from the right side today, not saying you should ignore/stop praying about what you're going through but just don't dwell on the fact that you think ''bad things'' are going on in your life ''when there's is life there is hope'' You can only get what the future holds when you let go of the past!

....be thankful to God for everything
when you start to think ''this way'' things would somehow fall in place and you'll testify!

P.S Don't think you're in the worst situation in life, millions of people are going through a lot worse than you can imagine