The Third Day- September...The Big 3-0!!!

So, today, I begin a new decade of my life. I am thirty (30) years old! W.O.W!

These past couple of days, I have been meditating on Womanhood. Walking with God and Worthiness. I want to be part of something great this next decade. I desire a fresh start in many areas of my life.

I regrettably spent the greater part of my twenties trying to be a man; to be tough, rough and seemingly brave. I numbed feelings, suppressed emotions and smiled little in bid to avoid fighting like a girl because girls are weak, they are shallow and they gossip. My best friends were boys until my femininity came to the fore as a  natural course of life and giving boys 'uncensored' hugs started 'causing problems'. All my ambition, my pushing and shoving to get ahead could not erase my innermost (very feminine) desires to be loved, to be treated kindly, to be listened to, sought after, and protected. I was with the boys but not of the boys.
Revelation No. 1: I am a Woman and that's okay! In fact, it's great and when I embrace my womanhood, it will come to pass in my life that the way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the full light of day (Prov. 4:18). Better days are ahead!

I encountered Jesus at the tender age of fourteen. After that, I knew no other way to live except as shepherded by He that declared to be the Way, the Truth and the Life. Half way through my twenties, I decided that this life was too boring, too bland...mundane. Also, I was angry with God and some of 'His people'. So, I wandered away from the Shepherd, in search of greener pasture. He tried to beseech me to stay, reminding me that grass o'er there was more difficult to cut because He would not be there to help me cut but I would hear none of it.
Revelation No. 2: Walking with God is a privilege. It is a gift that He presents to all of us, if we will receive it. It is the gift that really does keep on giving. I am lost without Him. I can declare with the Psalmist; Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we are His. We are His people, the sheep of His pasture (Psalm 100:3)

In all this; Revelation No. 3: I am Worthy of love, of encouragement, of every blessing in the heavenly places. Not of myself but because of Him who made the choice to lay down His life that I may be ransomed, that I may be redeemed, that I may sit in the seat of Worthiness. For it is by grace, you have been saved through faith- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast (Ephesians 2:8-9)


I am in the US of A as I write this. I came to join my sister Laura in celebrating the successful end of her Masters programme but also to celebrate the dawn of a new era for me.

This last year, in no particular order;

I started a new challenging but often fulfilling job.

I began an exhilarating journey of romance; the sacred kind and the 'ordinary' kind :)

I found a church that I can call home for the first time in many years.

I said a happy farewell to my housemate of four years as she got married :)

I became an aunt of a yummy baby boy.

I put on five kilos that I have failed to lose :(

I acquired a better camera :)

My forever friend got married :)

I finally learnt how to drive.

Later today I will learn how to fly a small plane.

I reckon I forget, just now, a number of other significant events/ things that have happened in the last year. My heart is filled with gratitude, though, to God, friends and family for every memory made; for joy and sorrow. In everything, blessed be the Name of the Lord.

Were I to begin to describe what was going on in each picture, it would take far too long. Suffice to say, we are having the time of our lives here in the land of the free, the home of the brave and Jesus is Lord! :)