We spend so much time looking at what we don’t have; focus on the water
not on the glass. Just bless the water and don’t pay attention to the
container. Don’t get attached to the container. You can’t share anything that
you deny or don’t know that you have. See yourself as the flow. How can I flow
this day? (Deborah L Johnson author)
God-given function,
and the universe is set up to support it.
God-given function,
and the universe is set up to support it.
The best way to summon your true calling is to put your true self in service to
God."
God-given
function, and the universe is set up to support it.
The best way to summon your true calling is to put your true self in service to
God."
--- from THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION I’ve been travelling over the past week, so so many lessons
that I have learnt along the way. The aim of the trip was mainly to conduct
gender training in the North where there was conflict for over 20 years. Seeing
the area and hearing about it is really two different things! It is almost as
if time sttod still during the resistance, its a throwback to the old days. Can
you imagine going to school one day at age 15 or 16 and then being “taken” to
either be a wife or a soldier, never to see your family again in most times?
One story I heard is that the commander took 100 girls, 90 became his wives and
the other 10 were given to his other soldiers. I am not one to judge, whatever
his reasons or their reasons for fighting it must have been motivating them to
take those sort of drastic actions. I am happy now that the conflict is over
and the people are on a mission to rebuild their lives and communities! I love
how they thing “there are no victims here”! Anyways, so I’ve learnt that I can
exist without electricity for one day, I respect those families living without
electricity, running water and all the other “frills” that I always took for
granted (funny thing was that my blackberry was working fine, coverage and all,
came in handy for a light in the darkness too!!). All of the food is fresh, straight
from the land into the pot, down to the meat, let’s go choose a chicken or goat
and handle this story!! Fresh food tastes yummy! It was quite refreshing to see
how the men came and participated in the gender training, of course there were
some shocking issues brought up in my eyes, but it was great hearing their
point of view and all of us coming up to the solutions. Women are responsible
for more of less everything, picture this working on the land with a child
strapped to your back and the other children running around, pumping water and
carrying it on your head (baby still strapped to your back), walking over 5 miles
for the water, cooking and caring for the children. Then the fellas show up and
take the produce sell it in the market and the cycle continues!
Ok so truth be told, the outdoor toilets (which I know as
latrines) I wasn’t feeling them after three days, I admit, I became latrine
intolerant. On the Friday they told me that the training is at a hotel I said
whoppee toilet here I come! Get there
and asked to use to toilet, and they led me to an outdoor toilet, all was left
for me to do was cry a river of tears!! Oh no!!!!!! I became obsessed with
finding a toilet that flushed in that village!! In the end I found one, the things
I took for granted!!
So what did I learn today?
Forgiveness is BIG!! It is the one thing that propels you
forward and allows you to take back your power, it is what these women who have
been progressing after all the horrors of the conflict has done. Let it go and
let yourself be happy, let yourself dream of a better future!!! Don’t ever ever
ever let your past keep you a hostage. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that
the PAST could have been any different! It is your happiness and joy that you are sabotaging
when you hang onto anger. The other person has nothing to do with it. It’s in
your power to change. Listen, one thing I now know for sure that I can do
anything I ever want to, the excuses are done! I have so much, as Deborah
Johnson says, stop focusing on what you don’t have, how much water is in the
glass and what the container looks like! My transformation continues, I give
thanks I breathe it in because I am blessed! Peace!!!
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