Fire Of The Lighthouse

I remember it like it was just yesterday. Running around the yard with my older brother, playing an invented game called "Shadows" to kill off the weekend boredom. I remember screaming my loudest at the age of 10 on a fun fair ride at Gold Reef City, South Africa (The Mermaid, if I remember its name!). I even remember the amazing feeling on 24th September 2016, when all my family and friends gathered around my beautiful birthday cake to wish me the best year to come. As I watched the clock tick into midnight, I recapped on the great things that have happened for the past seventeen years of my life and I felt joy settle in my heart. Then suddenly, BOOM! An idea dropped. How about I share some of them with you, my beloved reader? In this special blog post, I will share eighteen things I have been grateful for with a small sentence on explaining why I am grateful. I hope that whatever I share will inspire you and teach you to be grateful for the th...

Once upon a time, I thought testimonies were for selected people. Yes, honestly. I never thought I could ever have a testimony. I honestly thought something bad had to happen for my life story to proclaim God's amazing power and grace. Well, I never knew what this year had in store for me.  When I heard that 2017 was a year of favour, it was hard to believe. However, at the end of January, after the prayer and fasting season, I decided, Let me just believe . I completed high school at the age of fifteen in 2015, and after leaving, I was unsure of what I wanted to pursue career-wise. I watched my friends happily pack up their bags and leave to Universities abroad and wondered what to do next. I did AS levels in 2016, for 9 months and finished in December, but yet again, I had nothing to do. Well, at least I didn't know what to do. One day, on one of my daily Facebook binges, I was scrolling through my news feed and I found a page that a friend recentl...