Grow From Concrete

I mused over the title of this podcast for a while. Well, I sure hope this one works, I made a solo executive decision. 😂 Anyway, where I come from grief looks different from what I imagine it should be, and it wasn’t until I lost my brother that I realised just how brutal it can be in the presence of an unsympathetic multitude or a multitude that is used to the norm and stereotype of what it’s supposed to look like. Or even a multitude that doesn’t know how to grieve and just projects. It hurts, aside from your own grief. But where I come from, your have to tend less to the grief and tend to the multitude. So when do you get to give grieve the space it needs, afterwards, after the funeral when the multitude is gone and has grown almost oblivious to your grief. When you’re left alone to create a new normal, that’s if , unlike me, you don’t suffer feelings of guilt over grieving after the last goodbye. Let’s talk about it….

I struggled with this one. I struggled real hard. To not only be authentic, but to how far I can even take it and how I’d be perceived thereafter. More than anything, I was struggling with self.But I promised myself I’d be real and raw on here, and this is my honest serving, even though it was hard.

This was recorded late 2021 but the healing didn’t stop then, some sentiments may have changed ,some not but the healing has always continued from then till now. But that’s growth ain’t it? It’s still relevant because I’ve been saying yes and allowing myself to heal, to be exposed and to be vulnerable. An intentional work. A necessary work. Fear has been swallowed up in victory.

I realise I just jumped into the thick of things the first time I released a podcast. Let me fix that and first introduce the podcast itself and why it’s called Grow From Concrete. At first I tried to sound like every podcaster, instead of just me…with room for improvement of course. So here I am;doing Grow from Concrete my way but first let me let you in on why I decided on the name. Come on this journey with me…….

Hey guys

This is not a long episode,just a reflective one on what having community looks like, and what it means to be surrounded by a village.

And I go into something probably unrelated to community, but just an encouragement in what is sometimes a tough season that that in all that is happening in the world may we not loose heart and remember that Jesus has already prayed for us even as it seems the enemy is sifting us and testing us. Jesus has prayed for us and because He has already bridged that gap , we are already victorious.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year you guys. Love you all lots.

Hey yawl! This episode is really close to my heart. I know a lot of people have absent father stories and so I hope you heart a piece of yourself in my story.

Navigating a rare margin of gratitude and joy in a year of collective and individual pain. Why did I choose gratitude and joy in the margins. Because all of this joy has brought me to a place of firm gratitude.

Hey ya'll, on this very long journey sometimes we forget who we are and whose we are. We forget that we serve a God who speaks to us,and so forget to ask for His guidance 24/7. This is where I found myself at, thinking I know Him that well to not ask anymore. I was in the church, serving and everything but not putting much effort into our own intimate relationship with my Father,who wants to speak to me. I titled this episode "Homecoming",because I feel like the prodigal son who strayed from his Father and found himself in trouble and decided to go back home. I've decided to go back home to my Father too.... enjoy. Thank you.

Hey ya'll, I know it's been a minute,a long minute but I'm back. Life just took an unexpected sharp curve and I was thrown into the deep end but I managed to swim and now I'm here,back. In one piece. In this episode we tackled a toughish subject yet important subject with my friend Kanyi;Loving our Backslidden friends. Also do check out her podcast;Coffee with Kanyi💛🌻