Volume 65 December 2026-January 2026 : Reality Hub

 

I am almost always tempted to crawl back into bed on a rainy day and lie in a fetal position and sleep until the storm outside ceases. That happens to the “best” of us.

I am not talking a physical storm.

I am talking a life’s battle that brings you to the lowest part in your life when you fall to the dusty ground and there may be no one to help you up.

I once listened to a sermon and the message was: “dust yourself up and try again.’’

So sometimes you will be in a storm longer thanexpected, the rainbow may not come, the rain maycontinue beating against your hopes and dampeningthem and the sun may forget to shine.

You will pray and there may be no change and you will search for your friends and family and they may not be there!

When that happens, even with tears in your eyes, smile you are still alive and you will make it through.

Everyone has had their fair share of troubles, and no one’s trouble is bigger than another’s, because we all respond to trouble in different ways and we all have different tolerance levels.

So when someone goes through whatever, be it financial hardship, a rough patch in a relationship, breaking a bad habit or anything, do not judge, just encourage.

I am baffled by people’s response to everyday situations, big and small storms: when a car breaks down in the middle of traffic jam and you will have some people laugh and make a mockery out of the person in the Mercedes.

And if your neighbour has defaulted inpaying their utilities and do not havewater or electricity we mock and judge.

Why? Human beings have hearts and that is where the Love of God shines through.

Once we harden our hearts, we begin to see people’s storms as a comic showcase and we forget that thevery same thing can happen to us. We desensitise ourselves from what happens around us and from our true nature.

We allow ourselves to become walkingrobots!

Encouragement is all we need.

My pastor highlighted on just how pivotal encouragement is and just how muchwe need to encourage ourselves from within as well as allow ourselves to be encouraged by others.

Some storms require us to fall to our knees in prayer and some storms need us to hold our heads up high and smile amidst tears but all storms need some form of encouragement.

When you lose a loved one, in ourculture we are used to telling people “gotlaa siama”, which translates to “it will be okay’’.

That means a lot but not a lot of people want to hear that when they arein their storm because they see no sunbeginning to shine so that being saidseems ridiculous, and it somewhat adds salt to a wound for they see no ‘light atthe end of the tunnel’. So that is justludicrous.

But that is encouragement.

Let us not shun people’s effort to helpus through our battles.

Sometimes weunderestimate the power of a call, a visit,a small gift and a prayer.

We choose to settle in our storm and wait for the rain to stop falling.

 Do not settle.

A lot of people sit in the rain too longand even when the waters subside and the sun starts to shine, they remain in total 

darkness because they were too focused on that storm that they forgot to open their eyes to the reality that storms are just a passing phase that should not paralyse or kill us but should mould us and keep us strong.

Storms can do a lot of harm to an individual but only if you let them.

No storm will kill you if you do not allow it to.

The sooner you realise that you can walkon stormy seas and not drown, the sooner our storms do not render us captive.

A storm should be a period of self actualisation.

When you get out of a storm and the sun starts to shine, you better look 10 years younger, remember all the water that ran down your face and cleansed your face…it may have made you pale, but your smile will give you a soft glow.

Your hope should never be washed away with the storm.

When the sun forgets to shine, you need to be that light!

My word is to encourage you today, that you may be alone in any battle that you are faced with, when everyone does not seem to understand and no one seems to be there to help.

You have the answers;you have the strength. Use it!

I was at the clinic and I realised a lot of people are sick, not physically but emotionally and spiritually.

Even a small headache becomes so big when you walk into the clinic.

We want people to feel sorry for us whenwe are sick and we are so comfortable in declaring just how sick we are.

We praise sickness and exalt its power overus!

Oh yes! we do that.

You will besitting next to a woman or man whois telling you all their life’s problems and just how sick they are and just how everything seems to be going wrong.

And when you ask what they are doing about it, they say nothing.

That is where the problem is.

When the sun forgets to shine, we forget tolive the life we were purposed to live,which is an abundant life in spite of all the challenges we may encounter.

I am not a religious person. I am a spiritual person and I am not preaching to you. I am teaching you,that we need to stop and I mean CEASE ALTOGETHER to walk in darkness when God has allowed us to walk in His light and also to come to the knowledge of His truth.

The sooner you realise that God is bigger than all your troubles you will begin to crawl in the heavy mud and find your feet again. You will begin to sing when your throat aches with wailing, you will learn to be who you were created to be and not allow your true nature to be predetermined by circumstance.

If you deem mepreachy, well I wear the badge. Thank you for listening! 

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