Live

A couple of days ago I did something very random. While driving through a town called Durbanville in South Africa where you can admire the most beautiful mountain range, I saw this lonesome cemetary and decided to take a walk through it. Admiring all different tombstones, people sharing their love and heart on cold grey slabs of stone and granite to those long lost ones. Fresh flowers from loved ones that still visit regularly and also those not so often visited.
This is where I made this amazing discovery. There in front of me was this tombstone, I know, how profound. On the tombstone were two dates. One of the dates were the date of the persons birth and the other, his death. The only problem was that the date he died was prior to the date he was born. I found it quite funny at first and thought to myself how someone could make a mistake like that?

But, after a couple of minutes thinking about it, it actually shocked me. There's much truth in those dates. There truly are people in this world that has never really lived. People that die before they even have the chance. Some of them die at the age of 25 some in their 40s and some even in their 90s without being truly alive.
The reason not all live even though they are alive, is because they just exist. They get caught up in the limitations that this life tries to draw around us. They give all sorts of things the permission to draw the boundaries around their lives.
We are to live lives that make a difference and not be limited by money, people, culture, tradition etc.

Live a life worth dying for!

Water

In admiration we stand and look at water. This great mass, so tranquil and calm, yet so strong. The power that drives it, the momentum that pushes, forces and destroys. It moves trees, cars, even stone, yet so quiet, still and calm. So elegant and sensual.
The sea, a river, a lake. This great mass of water gathering to form this community, this fellowship this unison of H2O. United, gathered, together they stand as one to form this mass that can move even bridges.

Then comes the call!
The call for a journey! The call for an Odyssey! It is the birth of something new, a call for a pioneer spirit. An awakening of a desire within. Will the call be answered? Not knowing what lies ahead, what we'll need to face. Uncertain if we will even make it through. It is a call for something new. A call for the outside, a call into the unknown. The strength from within, the Source the strength. A call for the birth of a new stream.

But...but... I am not strong enough. There are all these things, these obstacles I need to face, need to endure. There's sand, plants, trees, rocks, how will I face these obstacles and still stand?
But water, water always finds a way. Water perseveres!

Water knows the Source, but it is the destination that's secret.
Perseverance is the map, the way to the destination. Perseverance knows no obstacle too big.
No matter the size of the obstacle, water always finds a way!

In myself I am a stream, but the Source the motivity!
Now a stream, now a river... Now a Lake!

Sun

When we think of the Sun, we usually think about that thing that provides light during day. We think of angelic sunsets and maybe having sundowners in your local pub, club, restaurant or whatever suits your fancy. It is also the thing that makes some of us look like a lobster(myself included) during summertime. When I say that the sun is SMALL, I wouldn't be wrong?

Looking at the size of the sun, it will take 1.3million planets as big as the earth to fill the expanse of the sun. The sun is 150million km from earth yet is our closest star, between millions out there. It takes the light to travel from the sun to earth 8min and for us to travel to the sun in a spaceship will take 17years. How big is the sun! You will feel safe to know that the energy the sun creates in a second can be compared to the explosion of 92billion nuclear bombs.
Here we are on earth scared of only one of those!

The last time i checked the scale, i came in at 84kg. What i have realised is that i am really small. Not just that, but i have realised that the sun is big. But, compared to the millions of other suns out there, the sun is really small. What does my life really add on this place called planet earth? Compared to something small, something big will always be big, but compared to something big something small will always be small.

In the great scheme of things, my life seems really insignificant. What can I add to this place called earth? I am just a small dot trying to make amends? There might be so many suns out there, but without the specific one we call the Sun, we will be no more than a block of frozen H2O.

So we ask this question. Does my life make a difference? Does my life really matter?
I might not be any of those suns out there, but I am this one here. Looking after what i have been given!

You never know where you're light might shine!

Beach sand

Walking on the beach today I was astounded as to what I came across. It was more of an epiphany. Something so small and insignificant, yet so profound. This is the subject of "Beach sand" better known as silicon dioxide[Si02].

Caught up in lives of narcissism we have stopped seeing what really matters in life. It has become all about us and what we can get out of life. How we can reap and benefit from what others can do for us.
We are caught in this rat race with the leader setting the pace, always running harder, always stronger. It is not that we try to keep up, we try to overtake. We want to be bigger, we want to run in the front.
We want to Lead!

What is this we are striving for?
A constant comparison with others! A battle between contentness and consumerism!

When considering the life of an average "Sand grain", this is what I found:

• there are no two grains identical
• together they form the beach

That two things so unique can work together for the greater good. Not comparing, competing, or striving, but working in unison for greater results(and our pleasure).
Imagine walking on the beach where every grain wants to be bigger than the next one.

"You may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things."
-Den Ming~Dao

Fear

When thinking of fear, we think of horror movies. The thoughts that go through our minds are those of scary halloween masks, Freddy Kruger, Vampires and for some of us, Chucky(not Chuck Norris, although...). These all inflict fear, yet fear is so much more. Fear is so much more than just a feeling.

Fear control our lives! Not only that, but what we fear we non-intentionally serve.

Looking at finances we can only go as far as our income will take us. We experience this fear inside, this question we all ask, "Where will my next paycheck come from, and will it be enough? Will I make it through this month?"
What limits our potential is not our finances, but the fear that we might run out. The fear of being alone and stranded with limited resources.
We live lives just to make sure that ends meet. We end up existing, while there is a LIFE out there calling, yearning to be lived!

Now I ask you, does money serve you? Or do you serve money?

What we fear, is what we serve!!
Fear draws the boundaries to our lives and limits us from the potential and influence we carry within. Fear is the ultimate killer of creativity, purpose, and LIFE!

Who will you serve today?

Odyssey for the Soul of man!

It is a journey, a saga, an adventure to re-establish the heart of man.

In this journey of life, this search for purpose, we believe we have found some answers to why we are here. The answers we have found, are not necessarily wrong or right, but mostly incomplete.

We chase after well paid jobs, the newest cars, fashion, fame. No matter how far we go, what we do, there is still that empty place deep within. What is that emptiness? That hole that nothing fills? It is there when you go to bed at night and your only hope is that in the morning it will have parted. You find yourself going to bed with this hope, this expectation, that in the morning it will be long gone.
Then morning arises, is it still there? Is that empty place still there haunting me? No observation necessary, IT IS! The night has not filled that emptiness. The longing is stronger for... Purpose? Fame? Favour? Wealth? Are these all just a temporary sedative?

Have we become all about ourselves? Our lives, living to see what we can get out of it?
There must be more, there must!!
This emptiness, haunting me again.

As we take this journey, there is a Hope deep inside.
A Hope that we will fill this emptiness.
A Faith that we will restore the Heart and Soul of man.