God is grace, pure and simple. His grace is available to us at every turn, especially when we need to turn things around in our lives. If not for His grace, where would we be? God loves to surprise us with His gifts of grace. Don’t expect Him to do the same thing the same way all the time. He is omniscient, omnipresent, and deeply involved in your life.  Receiving His grace is the first part of our responsibility; the second is to live in recognition of His grace; then we need to be responsible with His Grace. Grace is love in action.

Imagination is such a powerful gift-and it can be used for your benefit or your detriment. The biggest enemy we have to overcome is what, how and why we think the way we do. Unless your mind is giving you consistent valuable feedback, useful information, edifying pictures and life-giving qualities daily, we have to know that there is continually a virtual giant we have to slay. I say virtual, because mostly it is our wild and unbridled imaginations that keep us ensnared and cowering in fear. Protect yourself from alarming imaginations by keeping your eyes and heart on God.

Allow me take you with me on this mosaic journey in Italy to highlight how one life connects with another. If we don’t capture and frame the moment, it may pass by unnoticed and become like any other. We are then none the wiser as to what impressive mosaic patterns could appear that could potentially reshape and reframe our lives.

Trying to resist the various circumstances, challenges and processes in your life is futile, since whether we like the notion or not, they all work together like a gearbox in a motor vehicle to get us moving onward. We may need to reverse every now and again or manoeuvre in a few different directions, but travel forward we must, otherwise we will never reach our destination. 

Living a victorious life every day is going to require that you know your why for life. What makes you, you? What makes you want to get up in the morning and do what you have chosen to do? Or do you even want to get up in the morning? Successful daily living is about making the choice to make the most of the seasons of your life – the winter and the summer; the magnificent and the mundane. Dynamic daily living is about expressing gratitude, developing excellence in your life and becoming alive to the possibilities that surround you every moment of your one life.

Passion, excitement and self-ignition are the boosters to launch your personal rocket. Where would you like to go? What would you like to experience? It is going to mean you need to strengthen your inner person to be tough and resilient. It means not quitting when the challenges become intense and even terrifying at times. It is about standing tall to slay the giant in your head and in your land. It will mean regaining your awe for life. Becoming excited again at the prospect of what can be. Arising in awe will awaken you to what can be. It will provoke you to capitalize on every opportunity in life; for opportunity passes, it does not pause. 

Life calls for us to prepare as well as we can for the good times and the less than best of times. We try to be ready in and out of season. You may feel confident that your boat is watertight. You can have your plans written out, solidly set up in your mind; you can even make future arrangements in light of these plans. But as life unfolds it sometimes brings a surge, a sudden rising of the tide, a change in the ebb and flow that interrupts the rhythm and timing of your plans, occasionally even bringing with it uncertainty and fear. What is your recovery strategy when these unexpected elements rush in like a flood? No grit. No pearl.

I believe we will all agree that what we need in the world right now is RESILIENCE for our times. Resilience is the ability to get up, to bounce back from the no’s and not now’s and to find the grit and traction to keep pressing forward despite the reality of what swirls around us. Some years back, I wrote a book called, What in the World are You Waiting For? I had no idea then, that what I wrote I would live through in ways that would completely redefine my life in 2020.

Working with multitudes of people over many years has shown me that there is no secret to success but there are requirements. Personally, I believe that internal transformation is the key to have external impact in any arena of life. Reordering your life from the inside-out removes the limitations and allows you the freedom to crown your life with extraordinary achievements.

If you desire anything to be changed on the outside, you first have to make the change on the inside. There is usually an internal transition that needs to happen before you can have an external impact. Every structure has a blue print and when it is constructed it is strengthened in its core to ensure the building doesn’t cave in on itself. Somehow we forget this when it comes to our own lives. We build the outside strong, sending all the right impressions, expressing what we believe others need or try to keep everyone happy. Great amounts of energy is spent on the external yet quietly and often unnoticed, the inside structure is crumbling, but we don’t have the time to notice. This is the force that habitual behavior can have in our lives.