God, Culture and Us - Daily iInspiration And Motivation From Malia Leifi

in God’s big world he gives us life lessons using the smallest of creatures, like the ant! While on my business trip to Costa Rica in the middle of the jungle I was in awe of His creation and the one that caught my eye was the ant. we can learn a lot from an ant. They work in harmony, they are united, they persistent, and they persevere. God even uses them as an example Proverb 6:6-8 “Go to the any, you sluggard, consider its ways, and be wise, It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. “

In this episode I share a little more of my time in seminary and my struggles with this language barrier. Also how traveling and death keeps things in perspective for me. Travel helped me realize there a bigger world out there, take the time to see the beauty of God’s amazing creation. Now that I am older I don’t take it for granted like I did when I was younger.

In this episode I ask the question what is our focus? Is it the challenges of our everyday life. The normal challenges like bills, family, work and church. We can focus on those challenges or focus on being ALIVE, being grateful for the loved one around you and content with what you have.

In this episode I share how God ordains our every step. How we don’t see it at the time but when you look back you see the hand of God working. How a few of my beloved friends that help me along my journey that are no long with us. I am so thankful for their mentorship and most of all their friendship.

In this episode I share my thoughts on how comments from people that call us plastics meaning fake Samoan. I don’t know how you can fake something like your bloodline. However there are people out there that think this way. I share a story of my days in seminary and how the few people around me helped me and not pass judgment. Kindness goes a long way versus the plastic comments!

in this episode I share how it really does take a village to help raise your family. How it works on island versus state side but the concept is the same. Your village are the people around you that helped raised you, inspire you, educate you and prayed for you.

In this episode I share my regret of the early years of marriage not making memories with family. Even through their unacceptance of our marriage we made a decision that we regret now as we got older to stay away from family functions as much as we could. To stay clear of the judgment and negative tension. Now am all about making memories when I can. Life is to short to keep you from the walls you built up I say knock them down and have no regrets!

In this episode I share a little bit more of how my husband and I met and my struggles of my teens years. I see know God’s hands in my life even through all the circumstance’s of life that surrounded me as teen.

In this episode I share what I do for a living and how it is a ministry to me. To know podcasting and like anything else we have to start somewhere with a lot of mistakes and errors. Everything in God’s timing

In this episode I shared about how life is to short for us to sweat the small things in life, that holds us back from fulfilling our purpose while we are here on earth