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Appreciate your parent

  I was watching a YouTube video and a man was asked what he regretted the most about been a parent and his response was " The fact that been a parent makes me recgonise that I am not whole and can't be everything that my children need", mind you his children are still little kids. This had me thinking of how I had been so annoyed with my parents   for not doing things or behaving the exact way I believed a parent should behave and it made me sober.  As a recovering perfectionist, I so metimes expect my parent to be perfect, have all the answers and know what to do at every point in time.  But the reality is my parents make mistakes, and sometime's they act out of character. I n other words, they are not perfect. They did something's that I believed if I was in their shoes, I probably would have done better (easy to say), they have their fault, a lot, but that is not gong to change the fact that they are caring, would go to any length to make sure all their childr

Friendships are gifts

  Have you ever looked at a friend or even a family member of yours and be like, "thank God you are in my life" and the person feels the same way too.  There is a way God brings people into our lives.  Not all relationships happen by accident, some were arranged by God for specific purposes. He looked at us, he assessed our needs and then he placed people around us that would meet those specific needs. Appreciate someone y ou know is a blessing from God today. You didn't meet the people in your life by mistake and the people you would be meeting in the future  would not be by mistake.  Do not be quick to push people away because you feel they are not giving you the world definition of value like money, connections, etc. While all of those things are good and God also provides people in our life that can give them to us, your friends might be giving you peace, making you smile and laugh when you are sad, hearing you talk about stuff that makes you happy, supporting your li