Light_It_Up

  Yes you read right. The flesh will embarrass you. Growing up in a very strict and conservative Christian household, we had all these rules and boundaries growing up. I never questioned them and just trusted that my well-meaning parents had a good cause for them and rightly so. Navigating through senior high school, the university and then out of it presented its own fair chunk of challenges, but having lived a sheltered life by the said rules and abiding by these rules and boundaries kept me safe; even within the confines of school so I never had a problem – all is well or so I thought. Boundaries are good. Trust me! You cannot survive this lustful generation of ours without boundaries. Here’s the thing though, it is very easy to get so confident in your boundaries such that it becomes self-confidence. You begin to feel like your system has worked so well thus far and there is nothing that can penetrate it.  There is this popular scripture in 1 Corinthians 10:12 which state...

Judges 6:14 " Then the Lord turned to him and said, "Go with the strength that you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you! " We hear a lot about patience, love, honesty and all the virtues that make us better people. But one virtue that gets lost in the multitude of must-bes that we so often get bombarded with, is Courage; that ability to do something that frightens you. It is a big part of the “adulting” phase because let’s face it; we hardly know what we’re doing at any turn. The daily struggles we have are often laced with some form of performance anxiety which goes beyond just standing before crowds; we fear performing badly at work or coming off as not knowing what we’re about and even taking up more responsibility because more would be demanded of us, including answering for ourselves and for the actions of others; with just our dreams in mind and visions on paper, we start companies and hope against   hope that our strategies bring us good f...