Hello beautiful people. Hope you're doing awesome today. As much as the world around us tries to lure us into self-dependency, God created us for each OTHER. You cannot exist by yourself, for yourself and without others.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
~ Proverbs 17:17 NIV
We all face hard times, sometimes when we least expect, but a friend, family or neighbour's genuine care and concern can mean the world and be practically priceless.
If you’ve found yourself in a busy season where you’ve intentionally or unintentionally neglected or been too busy for your family and friends, now is the time to reprioritize.
You need to reconnect with them via calls, texts, and physical presence. They need you just as much as you need them, and if you have a larger family, then that is a community that is going to hold you up and help you on your way up or down.
If there’s unresolved conflict with a friend or family member and it’s slowly deteriorating the relationship, now is the time to set aside your pride and choose to make things right.
Call that person, and clearly state what the cause of the conflict is and how it can be resolved, this means you are willing to let it go even if you do not get an apology. This is important, and you need to let them know you do not want that to repeat itself.
If you’re silently struggling alone, now is the moment to let someone in. This particular one is tricky, you will have to be vulnerable and you will have to put yourself out there, you will either get help or not but just staying by yourself is going to cost you more. Give someome a call, send them a text or show up on their doorstep.
Not only do you need people, but those same people need you. You have strengths, gifts, talents and a personality that is unique to you and beneficial to them. Why bury them in the ground, reasoning that it is better you mind your business.
Sometimes we need to ask for help and sometimes we need to be the help others need. If you’re tempted to self-isolate, don’t forget we were meant to live life together.
Yes times are truly challenging, but that one call or text message of love and prayers can be a beckon of hope to someone. Ensure you go through your contact list and reach out to one person with words of love and encouragement at least once a day. It is very important.
Listen to the depressed, Counsel and guide the confused, show compassion to those in misery. Show love to those in need and the world will be a better place to live. There is no better time than now to co-exist and make that co-existence worthwhile by creating bonding activities, by facilitating family checkup and friends checkup.
There was a time when we couldn't easily reach to be because of distance but right now we can do that because the technology to reach out to a person with just a phone call has solved that problem.
Take a little time and put these into practice, the world is not going to function with you in isolation, you have to reach out. Cheers.
