Beauty from ashes #musings

“Our life is full of brokenness—broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God’s faithful presence in our lives?”

You can make all things beautiful again. 

Tragedy may happen, but it certainly does not mean God made it happen. So often we are quick to raise at our fists at God when bad things happen to good people but I've come to understand that while God does not bring the tragedies to us, He loves us enough to help us grow and move on from it when disaster strikes.

He can just leave us there in the trainwreck.. He can just leave us alone in our hurt until we 'get over it'.

But no. He is there even in the confusion and anger and bitterness. He is there even when things don't make sense. He is there with you at your darkest moment. And guess what, He loves you even at your worst. He loves you so much that He will help you stand on your feet again and fight the battle with you until you get that victory.

Oh how He loves!

"The beautiful reality is God is present in heartbreak, and He heals our hearts in a way that makes us more than we would have been without the brokenness."

Light up my path

"Wisdom means to  choose now what will make sense later. I am   learning everyday to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be, to inspire me and not terrify me."

Tracee Eliis Ross

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Every day there seems to be some sort of apprehension as graduation draws nearer. Where to work, or who will hire me, and where will You lead me?

It's always so easy to feel insecure and let the negatives drown everything out but I'm learning that Your word speaks the loudest to me. 

And You've promised good to me, to magnify You wherever I go. So in Your word, my hope will be secured. 

It's the most terrifying kind of faith to trust in what you can't see or expect.. but I'm learning everyday that it will all make sense in due time. And to just keep going because I can trust You.

A personal reminder

Hola people.
Finally updating this space after a long hiatus.
I've been so busy with different events recently that it feels weird to be this freed up now.
Been recuperating with lotsa rest and catching up on all my fave stuff to do (dramas, swimming, stayovers, outings with loved ones and just being able to breathe without worry).

I would have to say I'm generally quite a 'worrier' by nature. When things don't go well or things are out of my control, I lose hair and sleep over it. But then because of Amazing Grace, everything just falls back into place at the end. And I realize I never had to worry in the first place.
But then the process repeats all over again.
I get all hot and bothered about a certain issue that I can't fix, put all my strength into fixing it, get frustrated and upset at myself that I can't make it better, God comes in to save it, and I thank God.
But I never learn from the many times of being saved.

Why is it so easy to just forget the former victories and breakthroughs we had we God?
Why do I always try to save things until my own strength runs out and then realize I can't do it alone?

This time, though, I don't want to forget what it feels like what I reach the end of my rope in weariness and hopelessness.. And how God saved me in the end to make things beautiful again.

 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; 

for without Me you can do nothing”

John 15:5