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Feeling chased by life…

ƸӜƷ. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ƸӜƷ. Feeling chased by life…. I am being chased…. I am being followed… I can hear the footsteps I quickly glance over my shoulder as I hurry on… No I am not imagining it… Do you ever feel like this? I don’t usually have this sensation, but these last few weeks I have had those reactions which to me are tell tale signs of feeling I need a break. I have been through seasons in my life where I hid, I ran so to speak, I cringed at all the things that were requiring of me and for a season at that time I just backed off from certain things. It was almost like an involuntary reaction. I felt really bad about running from some of the things that I ran from back then… I still feel bad for running now… I am sensing a…

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Laying Aside Every Weight…

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us… (Hebrews 12:1 NKJV) Let us lay aside every weight…. When I think of something that weighs me down the immediate thought that comes to mind are expectations. I carry loads of expectations. A lot of expectations may be considered normal, simple, easy, every day practices, obvious even but that doesn’t mean that people will live up to my expectations. People are human, real, flawed, weak, earthen vessels, breakable. What’s important to me even if I consider it important may be of no significance to someone else. People grow up with and learn different sets of values, their family and community may not have modelled the the things that I value and therefore…

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