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Praying with Understanding

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Prayer, I believe is a conversation between us and God, either we are giving thanks, making requests or even asking questions. Yet it is not uncommon to feel like a prayer could be such a complicated and maybe even a delicate conversation to have, after all, it's God we are talking to here. There is no way that wouldn't be somehow daunting! I remember learning to pray as a child during family devotions and how nervous I'd get, mumbling through my words, hardly able to get anything coherent out. My auntie, bless her, would jump in the middle of one of my many long pauses to rescue me and carry on with the prayer but once we were done, my uncle would almost chide her for not giving me a chance to learn and develop my confidence. I didn't blame her; I found those long pauses very uncomfortable too! So, I usually understand when people tell me they do not know how to pray and would prefer others to pray for them or they'll just avoid it altogether and some even ask if ...
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The Deafening Silence

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"Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all." - K.L Toth I still think the mind is the greatest battlefield, a place where countless victories and defeats are continuously recorded. A place where the deadliest battles, though fought in silence can yet be the most deafening. Have you ever found yourself sitting in a lonely place, thinking over a problem and it is as if you can literally hear your thoughts crashing onto each other? So stressed, you are hardly able to tell one thought from the other, it all becomes so chaotic and loud? Do you sometime have people talking around you or even to you, yet you can't seem to hear them? You yell at people around you, for them to keep quiet because you think their voices are raised when in fact it's not.  It is your mind playing tricks on you . Mine does that sometimes. I recently decided to re-watch one of my best movies of all time - The Matrix with Keanu Reeves , and was so fascinated with the sce...
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The Best Home Cooking

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Ok, so this post is contrary to what comes to mind when you read the title. It has absolutely nothing to do with food or home cooking. I honestly wish I was here to talk about that but unfortunately, it has to do with something less palatable and frankly, nauseating. "You said what?!!!" Just to clarify my position before I dig into this: I am neither Team Amber nor am I Team Johnny. I am Team Survivors and yes I have enough understanding of domestic abuse to enable me talk about it as I have done in a previous post. I will add the link to it below: https://www.diaryofige.com/2022/04/in-spirit-and-in-truth.html So my ten-year-old child came home from school asking about the court case with Amber Heard and Johnny Depp .  It was  what friends at school were talking about, I was told.  My heart skipped a beat, several beats in fact. "You said what?!!!" I asked with a horrified look! I have been following the court case from the beginning, out of interest and for ot...
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Waiting Time - A Lesson in Perseverance, Character and Hope

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God's Pocket Watch Isn't Broken. "God's time is the best" is a popular phrase that I'm sure a lot of us must have heard at one time or the other. If it has been said to us, it must have been during a time of waiting, to help us remain steadfast in trusting God to bring things to pass. Sometimes, it seems God's time is a very long time, and we have to wait, seemingly for forever for that time to come. Did God's pocket watch break and He's lost track of time or maybe He's forgot some of us are waiting on Him for some very pressing needs???! No He hasn't. He is the God that never sleeps, neither does He slumber. His ears are ever attentive to our prayers. No, He never loses track of time. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry; Psalms 34:15 NIV Waiting time is an opportunity to learn some lessons, if we are willing. It is a time that God gives us to allow us to diligently seek Him and to prepare t...
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