Sunday, February 11, 2024

What Makes A Year New

Dear friend,  this is a follow-up post from my previous one. If you didn't read it, please do so then come right back! 

I did a research towards the end of January. I wanted to find out what makes a year new. I asked questions to my friends and family and these were their responses;

Nina swali. How's the year so far? Unauonaje mwaka as January inaenda kuisha?

Friend A
Si jana nilikwambia i want to reset
Whether tumalize mwaka au tuanze upya
Ila everything just doesn't seem to add up.

Friend B
So far. This year is blissful 😊
As we are ending this January, I saw a sign of greatness in the future days, new level of advancement spiritually, economically, and academically for me.

Friend C
🤣🤣🤣🤣
So far so good. 
Been a good month of Planning January that is. Am very Optimistic about this Year. 
It shall be the Year of *her name* and taking back her Power

Friend D
Its same here.. thou to me I have to make a very hard decision which determines how my future will be.
So mwaka huu gonna be exciting but hard

Friend E
The year is amazing.
One thing I have come to learn is you experience everything as you are internally. So I have worked hard and still do on my self so that my experience is seldom influenced from the outside.

Friend F
In general? It's going well. I'm getting stronger, and hence, things aren't bothering me as much. There are things I've accepted, and there are things I'm changing. Overall, I feel stronger as I continue to pray and make time to seek the Lord.

Friend G
Huu mwaka ni wa kuwork hard tuu I think kila kitu kinazidi kupanda bei. Life inakuwa expensive extra money is needed, (from other sources).

At the end of the day, 1st day of January doesn't change anything. What makes a day, week, month or year new, is you, your mindset, your outlook at life. 

XOXO
Mamatembo Safari

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Is It Really New?

We tend to say Happy New Year, every time the calendar changes to January 1st. But is the year really new? What makes a year new to you? Is it the additional numbers on the calendar, from 2023 to 2024? Is it the energy in the atmosphere? Is it you? Have you renewed your mind now that you've had a chance to live for 365 days on earth and have allowed yourself to learn,  heal and do better, so that the next 366 days of 2024 will yield the results you've been wanting to see?  

What is really new for you in 2024?

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

What Are You Thankful For?


Often times we find ourselves complaining, wining and seeing life from "our cup is half full" perspective. We live in a bubble that allows us to think and believe we are short-changed. We do practice gratitude, but here and there. Every now and then. And perhaps when something major happens and we realized just how blessed we are. 

However, this shouldn't be the case. We ought to be thankful more often. Thanksgiving should be on our daily routine. When we wake up we can be;

Thankful we are awake
Thankful we can eat
Thankful we can talk
Thankful we can write 
Thankful we can drink
Thankful we can see
Thankful we can hear
Thankful we have in our lives (regardless of how they may be towards us sometimes)
Thankful for that job
Thankful for that spouse / fiancé(e)
Thankful for a roof over our heads
Thankful for the children we have and those we never got to have
Thankful for the rain
Thankful for the sun
Thankful for the clothes we get to wear
Thankful for God's favor, mercy and grace
Thankful in the midst of that trial and tribulation 

We don't have to wait until Thanksgiving to remind ourselves of the things we ought to be thankful for. We are to be grateful in all things and for all things, period!

Take a look at your life and start practicing gratitude, you never know what's just around the corner! 


Xoxo
Mamatembo Safari

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Faith It Till You Make It

I was reading the Bible recently and I had a strange thought. Remember when the children of Israel would win battles in the days of Joshua when they entered the promise land, not because they were stronger than every other army, but because God would say, don't be afraid, go fight them and I will give you victory over them. Then it got me thinking. When I go to church and a Pastor says, 'increase your faith,' I failed to recognize that whatever it was that I wanted to see happen or changed in my life, was not for me to do it but for God to do it. So, I thought, the issue was not me believing in me, the issue was me not believing God can solve it. What a light bulb moment. Now, my resolution for the remainder of the year is, "Faith it till you make it." Have faith that God will do it because HE CAN, and watch it come to manifest! Whoop Whoop!! XOXO MamatemboSafari

Friday, September 22, 2023

Silence

Is it just me, or do we get to embrace peace, silence and calmness when we get older? I mean come on, who wants to be at a club on weekends? Who wants to hear nagging friends, kids (I joke), family members, co-workers, neighbors? Don't you just want to be in a place where you get to spend more time with your thoughts? Do some self reflecting, get to figure things out, pray and do whatever you wanna do? I mean, you can watch Netflix, or cuddle with boo (to each their own). But I really mean it, is it just me or is everyone in their mid thirties onwards just want to have more time in silence than anything else? It's one thing to have silence, but it's another thing to let your mind wander towards the negative thoughts. Our brains know how to gravitate towards the things that hurt us, the pain, the sadness and everything bad that's ever happened to us. Who can relate? (anyone??? don't leave me hanging!!) I know I sometimes catch myself having those thoughts like, why did they do this to me? Why did I let myself do or go through that? And it takes a second to jump from being present and sober-minded, to living in the past and being a victim. I hate that. So,these days, I make sure I have my headset on, when I catch myself having negative thoughts, I immediately divert to things that make me happy, that can be some good old-school music, funny reels, a nice movie on Netflix / Prime Video or my most favorite, listening to the Bible on the Bible App. Silence is fun, silence is good, silence is scary, but through silence is when we get to really face ourselves. But we need to know when to stop negative thoughts that creep in when we are doing "SILENCE" xoxo Mamatembo

Friday, April 21, 2023

What Are You Wishing For?

If wishes do come true, what are you wishing for? If wishes come true, only when you put effort into bringing them to life, what action would you take? If your actions required you to look within yourself, to change the things about you that are causing you not to move forward, are you willing to work on yourself? All things are possible, but the question is, are you willing to face the real enemy within?

Sunday, April 16, 2023

PEPFAR @20 Documentary

I am excited to share a documentary that I produced for PEPFAR's 20th anniversary in Tanzania, under Alchemist Media and the guidance of Tanzania's very own Filmmaker Seko Shamte (check out her film BINTI on Netflix).