Being Your Best Self

Being Your Best Self & Making The Most of Life In Uncertain Times u

It is easy to forget who you are sometimes in the world that we live in today. It is easy to forget why we are here or our role in the world or in society. The lives we once knew has changed so much. We can even begin to question what the point of life is anymore. It has become so hard or virtually impossible living through the pandemic.

God isn’t an invisible God and He is watching us and seeing us through some of the most challenging times in history. He is working in the NHS, the schools, local community centres, supermarkets, airports, ports, churches, colleges, delivery drivers. God is working everywhere that you can possibly think. He is working in your home, in your heart and in your mind. The Lord is supporting people to be able to support others. He is giving us the support and guiding hand to be able to provide us with all that we need. Although, it may seem at times that we are living in a hopeless situation. Life may seem so uncertain, so unsure. It is so hard to make any plans. As Christian women, we need to stay grounded in our faith and remember that we are not alone. The Lord is watching over us every waking hour.

By Monera T

As women, mothers, daughters, sisters, quickly. I could only hear ambulances and war aunties, grandparents, we have had to learn new helicopters twisting furiously above my flat on roles. We have had to learn to communicate by the top floor. Where was God I asked? where is using apps that we’re unfamiliar with. We have He? How could he have allowed this to happen? learnt to multi task more than ever before. We What has this world turned into that I once have learnt to home school our children alongside knew? It was then after this that I remember maintaining a household and job working from feeling God through the clapping and cheering home. We have become so many people rolled that I could hear for the NHS. I heard him into one. We have been able to help, love and through the loud banging of saucepans and support others at the same time as trying to help cheers for the selfless NHS workers on the ourselves. God works His wonders every day. He front line. I realised that God was also in that is not an invisible God. God is our strength and helicopter that was so loud. He was guiding He will never leave our side. He will continue to and leading the soldiers and helping them to provide for us. He is our father in heaven. He will supply the sick with lifesaving equipment. never allow us to break inside if we rely on him God is working through the ambulance crew first and foremost in this life. He to save lives every day. He is has been with us since the second helping us to stay safe and that he chose us to be his daughters in Christ until we leave this world "Whenever I start save lives. He is working day and night in hospitals all over and join him in paradise. He says ask and it shall be given. He says to feel alone or the world. He is working on those lonesome, red buses that he knows and sees our future. We don’t need to worry constantly disheartened in to keep London moving. We only have to open our eyes about the future as He has already made a way for us. He will unlock my life I thank a lot wider to start to see the goodness all around us. closed doors for us in life if it is His God " will, “thy will be done”. He can carve God opened my heart and a way into an impossible situation. eyes to the gift of life that He gave me all those years ago. I

How can I work to serve others to glorify started to realise that I had been ungrateful for the Lord? my health and everything that I had achieved in my life. I never sat and thought of how God

If you have a skill you can use to help had been helping me throughout my journey. I others you will glorify him whenever you do started to look back at my failings as lessons. I so. Many people have chosen to volunteer in started to see my life as a whole from a different their community during the pandemic. If you perspective. I finally started to understand this are already very stuck for time you could lend gift of life that God gave me and realised that a helping hand or be a listening ear to someone whatever happened after that was my freewill. who just needs to talk. Even if you just smile to It is impossible not to reflect upon your life your neighbour every day and say hello you during a lockdown. I stopped counting my are serving the Lord. Any act of kindness or mistakes ad my tears and sorrows and found a selflessness or act of compassion is a way to serve new lease of life during the pandemic. the Lord and receive his blessings. Thank him I spent four months in lockdown with for sustaining you for as long as he has and for my nine year old daughter who I have been supporting you through 2020. raising alone the whole time. I watched her longing to play with the children next door

How has God helped me? whilst they bounced on the trampoline next door. I watched her childhood through her

Whenever I start to feel alone or disheartened eyes. I watched people walk past and I just in my life I thank God for helping me through started to love life again. I learnt to be grateful, every single day of my life. During the beginning grateful for life, grateful to be in this world of the pandemic I couldn’t make sense of what was no matter how hard it is. I started to see the happening around me. I looked out the window at world through God’s eyes. This world, this the empty red buses which pass my flat. I watched planet, everything was and is his gift. The sun, people wearing masks walk past my home the moon, the planets and the sky are all gifts

to us. Any people who come in and out of our lives are sent as either blessings or lessons. As Christian women we need to remember that God is and has always been right behind us in sickness and health. God is our provider and keeper if we have nobody to turn to or listen to us, He is there. His love is infinite and constant. He isn’t going to go anywhere or disappear. Human beings can be weak and let us down at times. However, God is always there for you. We can rely on him and count on him. He gives us peace and patience. He helps us to help ourselves. He is our rock that withstands all the storms of life. He has been there since the very second that he shaped you in His image. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. He has bestowed you with talents and qualities and a unique personality that is special to you only. He has given you these gifts and he wants you to use them. He wants you to shine brightly like the sunshine. Go out into the world, be grateful for every day, every breath. Thank God for everything that he has done for you. Be thankful for everything that he is doing for you that you can’t see yet. Shine sisters for God, shine like the sun.

Monera, is a qualified ESOL and Literacy Tutor and a graduate of Modern Foreign languages with over 10 years teaching experience. I have dedicated the last ten years of my life to supporting students from all walks of life to adapt to living in the UK through my inspirational and creative teaching methods. I have supported hundreds of learners over the years to become confident in their abilities through constant praise and my patience as well as my sense of humour