The Perfect Title To A Song
I believe that the days of our lives have changing soundtracks. The soundtrack matches your moment or season. I can’t tell you what your song sounds like but you know it when you hear it.
I was listening to my praise playlist as I do on my commute to uplift or change my frequency (I use this word to describe the current of negative emotions that happen in ones mind). My frequency was high this morning, a lot of static. None of the positive messages or affirmations that life usually give me were coming through. I could see the good and joy around me, I should have been thankful. But all I kept thinking was:
“Why me, When will this season end, When will I get my WIN God”?
That was my song title this morning, this was almost the soundtrack for my day…
And Yes, I ask God directly for those answers. So should you.
Phil 4:6-7
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
But sometimes the answer is silent, sometimes it’s in progress, sometimes it’s some action we must take or sometimes it’s just not TIME. The last is the hardest to accept. In the midst of our meantime we must still give prayer with thanksgiving and living faith that whatever challenges you is already resolved under God’s command.
So when I begin my commute this morning I thought: When will it END and when will I WIN was the title track for my day. After I consciously decided to be thankful (you have to choose happiness), I began to experience the grace that was already surrounding me. I began to see God’s peace that transcended my own understanding.
Now, I don’t want you to think I found a bag of money or anything on my way to work. But I was reminded that the peace of God is irrevocable and already inside me. I want you to remember to look for that peace when everything seems to be falling apart. It surrounds us in tiny miracles all around us happening daily.
Be the best version of today yoU!
Sontaia
Lift People Up…
Lift people up to their potential and higher self.
This was the message on my tea bag today. Whomever thought of using that white little tab that you use to dunk your tea with as a message board was genius.
I don’t know if that statement is biblical, but it is definitely human and ethical. I consider it a call to all of us. We all have a responsibility to one another, i.e. that is to encourage each other to achieve and be our best self. OUR success, futures, and failures are intrinsically aligned.
We can change. Our actions change people. This affects our world.
Lift someone up.
-Sontaia
Do your dreams scare you?
Do your dreams scare you?
Mine do, but I continue to dream them anyway. I don’t think I have a choice. I have to listen to the whispers God places on my heart.
I used to spend a lot of time wishing I was ordinary, afraid of what it required to be extraordinary. That is a waste of time.
The ordinary was familiar and safe to me, but with the same consistent results: predictable, boring and unstimulating because you have already done it.
You have mastered the predictable part of your life. You know this life, the one ‘they’ talked about. The one the with built in safety features (that expensive degree, …and the second degree, internship, reliable job) your counselor, friends and maybe even your mother told you to chase that paper.
Guess what? You are living a narrative that you didn’t create.
STOP. It’s that easy.
Take a chance on yourself, don’t be safe. I mean BE safe, like don’t drink and drive, but not to the point that you don’t even bother to challenge yourself. Don’t be safe to the point where you have no idea what your capabilities are anymore.
Stop living and daydreaming of past glory and ‘wins’ – The past is behind you.
Go get some, new ones.
If something scares you, it’s because you’re excited and you probably CAN do it or learn IT.
It does require work. You know how to do that, you’re doing that anyway at that place you got to everyday (the job/gig) and spend eight hours making other people’s dreams come true. Don’t do that.
Why not spend that time on someone who is worth it, yoU!
`Sontaia
Be you
The world and those watching need you, to be you. This might sound slightly simple, but it doesn’t make it any less true.
While you are sitting at home wondering how you can be better, there is someone wondering how they can be you. You have to be your authentic self, always.
Someone needs you to be you, so they can BE.
~Sontaia
Good stuff: Students – Spend your down time wisely
Time will always be spent, whether it be a planned activity, coordinated event, or last minute random plans with friends! All good stuff, but I encourage, implore you to use your summers for more than fun and work. This is your free time for self and self-development. This will change dramatically when you’re out of school. When you emerge a graduate into the stage of your life. For now you are young and the expectations are manageable. In the midst of parents, goals and responsibilities figure out what excites you and pursue your it! The only person poised to take care of you, is you.
Make taking care of yourself a priority!
~Sontaia
