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Keeping Hope Alive

How does one keep hope alive after failure after failure or rejection after rejection? Feeling angry or down for a moment is a normal reaction. However, it is important for it to be just for a MOMENT. If not, you loose your PEACE and JOY.  Peace with one self and peace with people around you are so important that it is impossible to live a fruitful life if these essentials are missing. 

According to Isaiah 26:3, “God will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast on him because we trust in him.” And of course when you have that perfect peace, JOY comes from within, you get this in tandem with PEACE.  


Everyone has faced failure/rejection at some point in life, I have had a fair share of mine. At a point, I was even on a streak sef 😄. I flunked out of a doctoral program and had to take on a job in retail job stocking shelves with two Masters’ degrees. To be honest, I actually didn't mind the job as I am a firm believer that there is dignity in labour. My boss who I didn’t even say anything to about my education background just took a strong dislike in me and made it obvious that I didn't belong there. At that point, her rejection hurt because I was good at the job and went far and beyond to please her. In retrospect, her bad attitude towards me was the fuel that I needed, It motivated me to look for better and that was how I landed my dream job (🤔at that time sha, this story is for another post).

Now to my ausome son, I shared about how much hope I had in the Nemechek protocol, but it made him start acting out in school that after a lot of complaints about the noticeable difference in his behaviour, we decided it was best to take a break from it. The protocol may not be for us, but I have absolute faith that God wants my son to be healed and he will be in his lifetime 🙏🏾🙌🏽

To my Super Moms raising Ausome children, let’s fight to keep our peace and joy while keeping hope alive, may we continue to put our trust in the God of Hope and out hearts continue to overflow with an abundance of Joy in Jesus almighty name, Amen.

Always 💕💕💕 on my mind,

Tejuola

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