DAILY FOOD FOR THOUGHT

There is this beautiful hymn which I loved singing while growing up, a line in it goes thus;

" new every morning is your love, the wakening and uprising prove". 

It always gave me this feeling of newness,of freshness and of Gods abiding love.

Whenever we sang that hymn on the assembly ground I felt renewed and yesterday didn't matter anymore,just today and the bright promises for tomorrow.

A lot of us have various challenges, sometimes we overcome them, sometimes we don't. It could be a physical challenge,like a bodily dysfunction, or a health challenge like sickle cell anaemia, or even, it could be a mental challenge,maybe a difficult subject,course or class we are going through or experiencing,it could even be a social challenge maybe we have unresolved issues with our friends, families or schoolmates. Whatever the challenge is we have it within us to overcome them. But at times things don't go the way we planned and sometimes we fail,sometimes we make mistakes, and sometimes we give up.And when these happen we find it difficult to move on, to make friends, to understand that difficult subject again. For those in the hospital,they lose the will to live, the pain may have been so great and recovery so slow that you just don't want to get up again. You are afraid of moving on and starting. If you repeated a class, or failed a course, you don't want to start all over again, the fear of failure keeps us stuck in one place.

But as long as we are alive and our hearts are beating,If we would just take a minute to listen and understand. Indeed we would hear it,telling us to start again, quietly pushing us to start afresh to give it one more go.

We can love again, anew. We can start all over again from scratch even a second, third, fourth time. No matter how long it takes. Every time we start afresh, we have experience on our side to avoid the mistakes we made in the previous attempt(s). We can learn from our yesterday, and make today even more beautiful. That is the beauty of human life.

It doesn't matter what we went through the first time, no matter how painful, or sad, or difficult. The morning comes with a brand new wave of freshness and light of truth and discovery, that if we allow, can empower us to be the best at what we may have  failed at. "Forgive,forget, accept and arise and start again", this is my mantra.And it works for me whenever I use it.

Let us capture our mornings,let us ride on the beautiful wave it brings. Let us begin again, yes! start all over again, as the sun rises up in the sky and dawn sets forth we begin again with love,and joy in peace. Lots of love, Uso.