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

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