Encourage

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One of the most powerful thing to do whether you are sad or happy is to encourage someone and be encouraged by other people. It works magic both ways!

In fact, you should try it now

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Sometimes we just need to encourage one another to create a perfect peaceful life. When we stop caring for other people, when we think that we are more important than others or when we think that our problems are bigger than others, that is when we lost the power of  "magic words" (read: encouragement).

Little did we know that many times when we are at our lowest point of life, that is when we should encourage each other because there is power in togetherness, there is comfort in knowing that you are not alone with problems, there is love and hope when we started open our mouths and speaking the word of kindness, hope, strength, comfort, the words of encouragement. 

Sometimes we do not know what it means, what to do or how it should makes us feel until someone actually say those words to our ears and speak into our hearts and those words are the fuel for our empty "tank" (life).

Have you ever have that "wow moment" in your life, when you do not know what to do, and then someone else is giving you the idea and you go "hmm..that is so true, how come I did not think of it?", the truth is that human needs other human to remind each other.

Nobody will get hurt with encouragement, but somebody will get stronger, happier and better with encouragement and you will feel better as well during and after you encourage someone. 

It takes courage and love to encourage someone, so be brave and be blessed!

"You are valuable because you exist. 

Not because of what you do or what you have done, 

but simply because you are."

Max Lucado

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” 

Steve Maraboli

xoxo,

Lindsay

Bad Things..Bad Things..Go Away!?!

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Many times we only appreciate the good things and cursed the bad things because it is bad anyway and therefore we do not want anything to do with it.

It is true that nobody wants a bad news, experience or life, but the truth is the bad things that God allowed to happened in our lives are great tools for us to learn.

Many times, bad things happened because we chose a bad decision anyway, but there are many times as well when we tried our best to be a great person, do the right things and bad things still happened to us. Meanwhile, there are a lot of people that we personally know, and many strangers as well, who lives their lives "not as good" as we think what "good" is anyway, and they have all the "luck" in the world.

Why do bad things happened to good people, right?
But then again, what is and who is the good people?
What is our standard of goodness in a person's life?
What's good for us might be bad for others and what's bad for us might not be as bad as we thought for other people's standard.

At the end of the day,
It will always comes back to yourself,
as a person.

It is easier to point finger at others than to take a closer look at ourselves!

You know what..,
If God allowed bad things to happened in your life,
It simply means that you are a strong person, He knows you can handle it!

When I feel overwhelmed with life's struggles and problems,
I told God that I have learned my lesson and that I am not that strong, I need Him to help me and strengthened me because I cannot take it anymore.

Admitting that we have a problem is a first step,
Asking for help and actually doing something to change the "bad" circumstances is step number two,
Surrender to God, after doing your part and hope for the best to take place is the last thing that we could do as a human being.

There are things that is just beyond our control and understanding,
Sometimes we just need to let it go and stop over-analyzing them.

We all have our limit when it comes to strength and weaknesses.
We all have our own ways to cope with problems in life,
We all have our own escape.
Just make sure that the escape is not worst than the actual problem,
because if we picked the right escape route, then we will find freedom.
If we make a wrong escape route, we will add more problems to the existing ones,
we create more stressed in our life.

Sometimes what seemed to be the best escape plan is not the best after all, even though it offers you the quickest way to find a temporary way out.
You can have fun or "forget" your problems in a certain amount of time,
But when you wake up,
Your problems are still there and because you chose the wrong/temporary escape plan,
You ended up with more problems in your life.

Why do bad things happened in our life (my own version lol) :
- Our own choice that leads us there
- Other people's decision that affected us
- Sin and Temptation
- There is a great lesson that we will learn and will benefits our future and others
- To show God's greatness in the middle of our weakness
- To see/understand that we are stronger than we thought
-For us to appreciate the good things, even the little things in life, because we never know how good things are until bad things happened to us
- It's just part of life, good and bad exists

Solution:
- We live, experience, learn, move on!
- We live, experience, learn and help others who might benefits from our own experience
- We live and we survive
- Do not compare your struggles with other people's victory


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You are not the only one with problems,
You are not alone,
You will be fine,
You are stronger,
Keep your head up and keep on going!

Fight,
Defeat the enemy,
Victory is yours!
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Bad things will happen, whether we like it or not.
It's a part of life!
Don't ask for bad things to never happened in life because you will be disappointed,
Ask for wisdom, courage and strength to face it.
Don't ask for bad things to go away when you are the one who made it happened in the first place,
face it and solve it like a responsible human being.
Don't play the blame game, it will never solve anything.
Running away is an act of a coward, face it like a warrior, and you will  not get haunted with your own problems.
Just do you part,
always let God involved!

xoxo,
Lindsay