From Life For Life Podcast

A short talk about choosing right, and a deeper conversation with Kcamoni Henry a greater Portmore high school student. He is aspiring to be a professional footballer and also does photography. We conversed about chooses, future and values. Join in this conversation and may it spark your mind and cause you to start your own conversation.

A detailed look at the running career of Elihud Kipchoge who is considered as one of if not the greatest Marathon runners in history. He holds the Marathon record and is the first man to go sub-two-hours in the marathon race.  

An observation of a specific mango tree in a certainty condition as oppose to another in a better more conducive condition. What are the possibilities of defiance? 

We should guard against all kinds of Greed. Greed will drive us to act immoral or moral to gain that which we use to replace the ultimate things in life. In turn these material possessions gained define, devalue us and destroy us. Journey on this reflection as we consider some factors that can spiral negatively for us if we glorify material possessions. 

The quality or virtue of kindness says a lot about us, when we possess this quality it in turn possess us and rewards us in return with satisfaction and joy. 

A shorty reflection in poem about the state of affairs in our world. 

Dr. Burchell Taylor defines thankfulness as an Unabashed, fulsome, joyful, expression of acknowledgement of the goodness of God by those who are privileged beneficiaries of that goodness. 

To embrace this definition of thankfulness is to understand that it is an outpouring of gratefulness in all its worth to God for what God has done. We give back to God in love for God and toward God that arises from an overwhelmed feeling birth out of what is received from God. 

We give thanks to God for what God has done, and what God has done we needed to have it done and only Him could do it. God has done reasonably everything for us or he has made the ways for us the received what we have. As of that, we respond with thankfulness. 

The proverbs put it this way. "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." The King James Version translates it this way with all diligence, guard your heart. Here it shows the emphasis on the duty we have to guard our hearts with all we have. 

The heart is: 

1. An important place that needs to be protected 
2. A place that calls for deliberate action to ensure its safety
3. A place requires consistency in the duty of guarding

The heart is an important place and the verse highlights it by calling to action "above all else". Above everything we do and where we dispense our energies. We must first give priority to the safekeeping of our hearts. This emphasis places accent on the deliberate actions we must take to ensure its safekeeping and protection. Nothing else must get in the way of our efforts to keep away the things that are intended to corrupt or contaminate our hearts. By all means necessary, we must ensure we are to be consistent in our efforts.  Because the things that are there to infiltrate our hearts is always at work to do so. 

The reality is that in so many areas of life and living folks are at their wits end as they go day by day. If we are to ponder on that it should cause us to ask the question. How do folks manage? Where does the supply come from to keep them for tomorrow? What present help is there for them through their suffering and survival? 

That journey helped me to put perspective on some things. 

1. The supply you have will be enough to take you to a pit stop. 
2. If the supply runs out you can bet your bottom dollar there is hope for new supply.
3. ‘E’ doesn't mean empty in as much as ‘E’ demands effort. 

Conclusion 
May we take our cue from this lesson of “living on ‘E’” as means to understand how to survive while in lack and how to bounce back with confidence. May we remember that our ‘E’ will be enough to take us to the next pit spot. That there is hope still for new supply even though it does not feel that way in the moment of emptiness. And that our ‘E’ calls for effort, which contributes to our betterment so that we are prepared for the drought and famines of life. 

Psalm 103:3-5 highlights the psalmist extending praise to God for what God has done on His behalf. As typical as a psalm is, as a musical rendition of praise to God. It also communicates the reality of life to us, and these verses reflect that reality very well. Some aspects within these verses of Psalm 103 reflects the crucible of life, such as Sin, Disease, Pit(which could mean danger or displacement),  discomfort or dissatisfaction and weariness. 

1. We confront and contend with things we are powerless to defeat in and of ourselves. 
2. We deal with encrusiating and crush situation that damages our physical body. 
3. We face dangers in our environment and from our community of creatures that will harm and hurt us. 
4. We are brought to our knees by the weary and lonesome journey of life that deflates our youths.