AYANFE'S HOPE NOTES

Do you have friends? Have they added colour to your life? Have you ever trusted someone to have your back only to be stabbed so deeply? The simple truth is friends hurt and friends heal. We need friends. We need people who will be there for us in those times when all hell is let loose. We need them to help us make sense of the madness around us. We need them to cry with us. We need them to celebrate with us and celebrate us. All we can pray for while reaching out and building friendship is discernment while also asking God to make us that friend that brings healing to others. Friendship is a gift from God we all must not deny ourselves of because of the actions of some other people in the past.

Today's podcast is to challenge you not to allow your ideas and vision die. I know life sometimes shakes us so hard that we begin to loose grips on dream we once held dear. It is in those moment that you must buckle up and give it whatever it takes.

Difficulties have a way of compelling us to grow. That's what going through a divorce did for me. It forced me to grow, even when i didn't feel like it. It pushed me to seek knowledge and by so doing, I became a more valuable asset.

Feeling underachieved? Worried that your life is on a slow lane and the world has left you behind? Struggling to embrace your successes becasue it is a far from where you want to be? Tell you what? You are doing just fine! Celebrate today's success as you prepare for tomorrow.

Sometimes in life, all we want to do is settle. But then, something or someone comes along to push us out of our supposed comfort zone, which we usually don't like but eventually realise it was for our good.

I don't know about you but stepping into new territories and things can be scary for me atimes. You're not sure if it will work out. But as its been proven over and again, the only way to know is to step in and see where the uncharted waters will take you.

Have you ever found yourself being forced to grow and stretch beyond limit? At such moments, it always seems like you're going to break. But when the season is over, you realise it was all for your good.

There is a general belief that failure in marriage equals failure in life. What's your take on this? Here's mine.

Situations have a way of making you doubt yourself, thinking you don't have what it takes make it. I've come to tell you, yes you can, yes you will!!

Ever wondered why we go through pains and hurts in life? Sometimes it just doesn't make sense at all. But then, there is always a purpose, part of which is to encourage others in their down time through our experiences and lessons learnt from difficulties. That way, we become an inspiration to others.