From Life For Life Podcast

A short talk about choosing right, and a deeper conversation with Kcamoni Henry a greater Portmore high school student. He is aspiring to be a professional footballer and also does photography. We conversed about chooses, future and values. Join in this conversation and may it spark your mind and cause you to start your own conversation.

A detailed look at the running career of Elihud Kipchoge who is considered as one of if not the greatest Marathon runners in history. He holds the Marathon record and is the first man to go sub-two-hours in the marathon race.  

An observation of a specific mango tree in a certainty condition as oppose to another in a better more conducive condition. What are the possibilities of defiance? 

We should guard against all kinds of Greed. Greed will drive us to act immoral or moral to gain that which we use to replace the ultimate things in life. In turn these material possessions gained define, devalue us and destroy us. Journey on this reflection as we consider some factors that can spiral negatively for us if we glorify material possessions. 

The quality or virtue of kindness says a lot about us, when we possess this quality it in turn possess us and rewards us in return with satisfaction and joy. 

A shorty reflection in poem about the state of affairs in our world. 

Dr. Burchell Taylor defines thankfulness as an Unabashed, fulsome, joyful, expression of acknowledgement of the goodness of God by those who are privileged beneficiaries of that goodness. To embrace this definition of thankfulness is to understand that it is an outpouring of gratefulness in all its worth to God for what God has done. We give back to God in love for God and toward God that arises from an overwhelmed feeling birth out of what is received from God. We give thanks to God for what God has done, and what God has done we needed to have it done and only Him could do it. God has done reasonably everything for us or he has made the ways for us the received what we have. As of that, we respond with thankfulness. 

The proverbs put it this way. "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." The King James Version translates it this way with all diligence, guard your heart. Here it shows the emphasis on the duty we have to guard our hearts with all we have. The heart is: An important place that needs to be protected A place that calls for deliberate action to ensure its safetyA place requires consistency in the duty of guardingThe heart is an important place and the verse highlights it by calling to action "above all else". Above everything we do and where we dispense our energies. We must first give priority to the safekeeping of our hearts. This emphasis places accent on the deliberate actions we must take to ensure its safekeeping and protection. Nothing else must get in the way of our efforts to keep away the things that are intended to corrupt or contaminate our hearts. By all means necessary, we must ensure we are to be consistent in our efforts.  Because the things that are there to infiltrate our hearts is always at work to do so. 

The reality is that in so many areas of life and living folks are at their wits end as they go day by day. If we are to ponder on that it should cause us to ask the question. How do folks manage? Where does the supply come from to keep them for tomorrow? What present help is there for them through their suffering and survival? That journey helped me to put perspective on some things. The supply you have will be enough to take you to a pit stop. If the supply runs out you can bet your bottom dollar there is hope for new supply.‘E’ doesn't mean empty in as much as ‘E’ demands effort. Conclusion May we take our cue from this lesson of “living on ‘E’” as means to understand how to survive while in lack and how to bounce back with confidence. May we remember that our ‘E’ will be enough to take us to the next pit spot. That there is hope still for new supply even though it does not feel that way in the moment of emptiness. And that our ‘E’ calls for effort, which contributes to our betterment so that we are prepared for the drought and famines of life. 

Psalm 103:3-5 highlights the psalmist extending praise to God for what God has done on His behalf. As typical as a psalm is, as a musical rendition of praise to God. It also communicates the reality of life to us, and these verses reflect that reality very well. Some aspects within these verses of Psalm 103 reflects the crucible of life, such as Sin, Disease, Pit(which could mean danger or displacement),  discomfort or dissatisfaction and weariness. 1. We confront and contend with things we are powerless to defeat in and of ourselves. 2. We deal with encrusiating and crush situation that damages our physical body. 3. We face dangers in our environment and from our community of creatures that will harm and hurt us. 4. We are brought to our knees by the weary and lonesome journey of life that deflates our youths. 

Have you ever set goals that were never met? Have you struggled to achieve success at a particular task because the need was too great? Have you experienced disappointment in your own experience or with other people because you or them could not hold up the bargain?  These are questions to contemplate as we look deeply into the dangers of unmatched expectations. 

Finding and walking in purpose is a real existential struggle. A struggle that folks serious about life are willing to contend with and for. In that case let us look and the dangers of purpose and to purpose in order to help us to walk in purpose, aware of the pit falls .Three points to consider on the dangers of purpose: 1. Purpose Distraction 2. Purpose Distortion 3. Purpose Destruction Ask the question: ‘A weh mi deh ya fa?” Find it! Walk in it!

There is a fragility to life and life is subject to decay. Who you see today may not be hear tomorrow and the fate of man is bent on sorrow. As the Psalmist puts it - 15The life of mortals is like grass,they flourish like a flower of the field;16the wind blows over it and it is gone,and its place remembers it no more.Life too is a crucible, and events unfold the destructions in life. Like a circus has the game called ‘plate spinning’. Where the actor spins ceramic plates on sticks hoping that none falls, but they eventually fall. So is life like the game of spinning plates. Like the plates we fall and are  broken.  This calls us to take a least on life event when we are young. It calls us then to number our days and apply our lives to wisdom. For while we cannot avoid the inevitable we can still secure the ultimate.

"In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garmernt of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. can never be what ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until am what ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality" - MLKJ On a daily, what items we use; the toothpaste, the water, the soap, the rag, the vehicle we drive or take, the work have and give, food we cook or buy and the list goes on of items we use is a snapshot of how interrelated and interdependent we are. We are created to relate and content and to depend and strive together with companionship. The substruct of humanity depend on the contribution of a male and female fro the creation and reproduction of life. Likewise, our ultimate existence depended of One who by meaning dwell as God in three person's. The length to which we are interdependent is more vast that the effort we make to become independent. Hence, as a basic conduct may we strive to embrace one another in honor of our dependency on each other.

Faith has been critiqued strongly in the 21st century to the extent that it is undermined and frowned upon. However, faith gives a unique meaning and perspective to life and for which faith creates a dynamic interrelation between living and understanding life. An absence of faith actually suggest a bland and boring life. Faith works life the eyes for the way we cannot see and helps us navigate life with its uncertainties. Faith seeks understanding and grants us a resolve. This episode articulates the necessity and benefit of faith. 

Learning a valuable lesson from an old man we met in the woods. This lesson showed us that it is not just youth and poise that takes us through a smooth journey. But it is age and know how that gets us their safely and smartly.