Choosing and Refusing

Hey there,

last night I had a tough experience that  brought me into deep thinking, and one of the things that bothered my mind was the power of our choices.

Everyone of us have been given equal freedom to make choices for his life. cause we really become happy when we decide to be responsible for our lives, when we decide to take our lives in hands and know what we want.

But the problem is not really making the choice, the problem is making the choice and want to hold on the old habit at the same time, not really letting go of what we are supposed to leave. sometimes we want to settle in the middle side, but we end up loosing both sides. Look, you can't mix faith with fear or trust with doubt, you need to choose one and refuse the other.

It's obvious that we can't have all in life, and one of my friends (Leni) justified it in saying that even us we are not all, so wanting to have all would be kind of ironic, so when you find something you want into someone and decide to choose it, please refuse any other thing from others, cause wanting to take one thing from one person and still you want another one from a different person, you won't play that game for a long time. (here I want specifically to talk to those who are dating and are still confused in what they really want) but this can still work in many other ares in this life.

The refusing won't be of a small thing, or something that doesn't really matter in your life, for Moses it was as big as leaving the throne, refusing to be a Pharaoh and choosing to lead the Israelite in the dessert, I don't know what is the case for you, but if there's one, be in your spiritual life, your relationship, your work... name them, you just need to take a side!

In choosing a happy relationship you may need to refuse to attend to your ego and selfishness, in choosing to be a happy person you may need to refuse to be led by your little emotions...
it's up to you to figure out what are the things you need to choose and what you need to refuse to enjoy the goodness of life.

Am grateful for the lessons I get to learn in life, even though the process is sometimes ugly.
But I hope it helps you make better decisions and spares you from playing the middle side game!

With Love,

Tasha

Dry & Beautiful

One of the things I love doing is Photography, I love taking nature pictures, trees, birds, sunsets...and when I created this blog I wanted to be only using  my own shots for my posts but unfortunately I didn't keep that promise, but I have to start now, step by step…

So here is a dry tree! I love dry trees! funny right? I know, but yeah, some of my friends know it too much that when they see a dry tree they immediately think of me, and they tell me later that they have seen a dry tree! (Sophie and Babra)

I see a great message through dry trees, they look dead, hopeless, standing just by themselves, no leaves, no flowers, no fruits...they look like they have nothing to offer in life, they can’t provide a shade for the tired traveler, they can’t give out some oxygen, they are just there, but you know what? These trees are alive! their roots are still stand in the ground, and obviously even though they can't carry nests, they still have birds hanging on them.

We all have some dry times at some points in our lives (oh well I do, maybe you don't), when our plans are crumbling, when we can't clearly see the next step to take, when our education is at stake, when our family members are not our best people to be with, and our homes not our best places to be anymore, when our relationships are our major source of worry and anxiety instead of being our source of love and peace, when money seem to run from us no matter how hard we work... you know, the kind of hardship people go through in this life.

They obviously can't host nests, but birds can have good times on them!
So can You When you're in dry times!
 you can still serve the world and be a blessing in one way or another!

But there's a great hope even in that kind of situations, as the dry trees, you're still alive, and it's the best opportunity to get along with what's going on in your life. Let your roots (which are your trust and hope) be only found in Jesus Christ, He who is the rock of ages, and who can't be shaken by your dry times, because He's the one who has the power to make your life still worth living in dry times and the power to bring it back on track.

Gratefully,

Tasha!

My Crazy Birth Date Celebration!

Hey there!
Today was again the 1st of June! the date God enlightened the faces of my parents with big smiles 25 years ago, and since then, it has become my date to smile, celebrate, thank God and my parents for being there for me.

And when I woke up early in the morning, I went outside the house and stood there for a short meditation, I realized how soon 25 years has arrived! realized that there're things I would have achieved but that I haven't yet, there was no sunshine yet and the air was still cold, it was not just my best way of starting a year :-( I stayed there for a while looking at the birds flying around and making their beautiful music, they caught my attention for some time, with my head following their movement... and when I came back to myself I was already smiling, and I started to count the blessing I have received in the past years, the little achievements that I have extremely enjoyed, the goals I have reached that have brought a high sense of esteem and fulfillment... I was motivated, and encouraged, and I know that I'll do MORE and BIG BIG things through CHRIST who strengthens me.

So as the title suggests, today was really crazy, it started when I went to Church, and when the Church Elder finished reading the announcements, he said that there's something else to do! then he was like we want to celebrate someone's birthday today... then he called my name and asked me to go at the front, he didn't even know who I am, coz I don't fellowship from that church actually... then he also asked people who had their birthdays in that week to come at the front then the church sang for all of  us! it was a blushing situation!
Apart from that, I also received a lot of texto, messages on facebook, and one that really touched me is that picture of a cake with my name! Thank you so much David for the time you spent in designing it especially for me!

And the crazy time started when I got home in the evening, where I was welcomed by some crazy guys who did this to me: they poured flour on me, and as if that wasn't enough they added water! u see how it looked!

Cutting the Cake looking like a Miller Operator

I didn't expect anyone else home apart from my family members, but I was shocked to see many of my friends, and their friends, seated at the backyard waiting for me, with a cake and candles on a table, surrounded by chairs...OMG, I didn't know what to do... it was just crazy!
After cutting the cake and blowing the candles, I had to change the clothes and join the party!
it was exciting, and fun!

Then after eating, talking, we definitely posed for pictures it was also fun its own way!

Free Style Pose, Do it the way you feel!!!!

With my mom posing also

The Best Part of the Day now! Oh I missed Pizza for real

Posing after Pizza time with Jacky and Cryspin

Really Had a Happy Day!

Thanks To Everyone who madeToday This Special by Your presence, text, call, thought...

I love you!

Rebuked By My Alarm Clock!

Yesterday before I slept, I set an alarm in my phone to wake me up at 6:15 in the morning the next day (Today), then I slept and had a good night; when I woke up, it was already morning, I could see the sun rays trying to make their way through the curtain of my window.

I didn't know what time it was, and I still wanted to sleep but remembered that I had to wake up and get ready to go to work ( Internship) but I had set the alarm for the time to wake up... then I told myself to relax and wait for the alarm to ring, but I doubted if it would ever ring, all sorts of thoughts ran in my mind, maybe it has unset itself (if that word exits) , maybe it has gone off (knowing very well that it was fully charged when I slept) maybe its not there anymore,maybe maybe maybe... then I gave my doubts a chance, stretched my arm and  picked my phone, guess what I saw? it was 6:14, only ONE minute to the time set!only ONE minute for it to ring, if I had relaxed and been a little bit patient my alarm would have done its work and I would have saved myself from being such anxious early in the morning.

Hey Tasha what are you trying to say here? what's the moral of the whole scenario? This taught me that there's a very thin line between PATIENCE and TRUST, when we trust we find it very easy to be patient, and it works almost in every area of our lives, especially in our relationships, with GOD and with people.

When there's trust you relax, you rely on the promise of the person who gave it to you, you are at peace, and you are unshakable no matter what comes along, but when you happen to doubt of the faithfulness of the other person, you become unbearable, impatient, and unsecured; and you miss out the privilege of seeing the results of patience, when you doubt you also refuse a chance to the other person to fulfill their plans for you and and to make you happy.

I am not the best person to talk about trust and patience because I am still struggling with them; am an impatient person, I want do to anything about everything, at times I doubt of my boyfriend's love/attention when he makes some days without calling, and its always an ugly experience when I get to know that he was badly broke and I was busy getting crazy and impatient about it. I feel crashed and ashamed that I fail to trust him enough. Trust is such important that its all we need to get God's best in our lives, we have to fully trust Him to know the best for us, and trust that His will to be the best for us, then we'll be able to be patient and wait upon Him.

Today I choose to stop doubting and start Trusting, in God and in the ones who love me, no matter what's the situation. I choose to give myself a chance to enjoy the peace that comes from trusting, I choose to take them at their words and relax.

You may be struggling with the same issues, my alarm experience inspired me this morning, maybe this inspires you too, you can make the same choice; Start Trusting, Patience will come along!

with Love,
Tasha

A True Love Story by Me ( Not of Me)

Once upon a time, lived a vey rich young man, powerful, glorious, kind and generous; he lived in a very beautiful country, where everything was pure and real, he had everything a heart can desire. This man was DEEPLY in LOVE with a lady, he loved that lady SO MUCH, his plan was to live with her till the end of time, he would do everything for that lady to make sure their love is safe. One day another man came in (but he was an enemy of this good man), with sweet words and false promises he conquered her heart, he deceived her and changed her mind about their love with the man, she broke the one and only rule she have been given in her life, and she followed that wicked man.

After that tragedy the lady was supposed to die as the rule stated :-( , It was OVER for her to come back to the love of the first man. But it wasn't over for the man, he couldn't bear the idea of loosing his love FOREVER, but remember the only way of fixing the problem had to be throuth DEATH. The man decided to die for the lady so that they can be together forever.the man had to leave his confortable home, his glorious wealth and all the beauty which sourended him and go in a very bad place where the wicked man has brought the lady, she has lost her beauty but still he loved her as much as the first time, he lived the same life as she was living, all because of LOVE.

The time came for him to die, it was so hard, so painful, the death was so horrifying, he almost gave up, but he imagined the great happiness he will have to be with that lady again, to live with her eternaly, to know that nothing else will take her from his arms again... these thoughts gave him strenght, it was worthwhile for him to pay that big price. He died. the most tragedic death, on the CROSS, with THORNS on his head :-( just because of love.

On the 3rd day after his death, something very crucial in the life of the loved lady happened, the man was not in the tomb! HE RESURRECTED. now he is in heaven preparing their home, where they will live forever whenever she accepts to receive his love expressed through death.

That man is JESUS, and loved lady is You and I. And today he is calling upon us, to accept that unmeasurable LOVE. Is there any reason to say no to this man? I DON'T THINK SO.

Thank you for accepting Him to be the LOVE of your life.

God bless you.

Natasha Nish

Does Love Supposed to Hurt?

Hey there!
maybe you have also come across this quote saying that if there's anything better than being loved, it is to love, and you have believed it, isn't? because its true. But as far as I have lived ( I haven't lived that long though!) the reality seemed to be different from that, people hurt in love relationships, people cry and break down while they are in love, and I fail to see the beauty of Love in the midst of those heartbreaks in the name of Love.

My best friend told me that as gold needs to go through the fire to attain its purity, so does love has to go through it to attain total growth, purity and value, that when you love someone you need to help them to become the best people they can be in introducing them to their inner person, which is actually not easy to deal with, because the truth is mostly hard to swallow, it sounded wise and true. But I believe that even when  doing so, remember you're in love and you have to keep this person  feel secured, loved, valued and feel like the most important thing in your life, anything less than that will make her/him unhappy, unsecured, and broken.




So dear readers, please help me to understand how to attain this growth in love and still be happy together.

Thanks for reading!

God bless!

A Great Lesson From Pseudocyesis ( False Pregnancy)

Hey, here's something that really awakened my mind about the power of our belief and I would like to share it wit you. Its actually based on a true story here in Rwanda, of a woman who recently experienced a False Pregnancy.
She's 40 years old and married but  had never had a child, and because of that the husband got another wife who could give him a child, the first wife got so frustrated, (if you are a woman you understand how it may feel to see your husband marrying another woman!) so she badly wanted to have a child, and in her mind she conceived the idea that she was pregnant, which is clinically termed pseudocyesis, people with pseudocyesis have many, if not all, symptoms of pregnancy with the exception of an actual fetus( the future baby), Trust me when they say symptoms of pregnancy they mean the interruption of menstrual periods, Swollen belly, Enlarged and tender breasts, change in the nipples, and possibly milk production, feeling of fetal movements, nausea and vomiting and weight gain.
So this lady carried a false a pregnancy and the time for delivery nothing came out :-( what a pain, and she actually did something that I called a desperate action, she got a small rabbit, properly removed the skin, wrapped it in her Kitenge and said that that's what she gave birth to :-(... it became so loud in the media, the police and medical agent got involved and finally the found out what was really the issue.

So let's leave alone this lady and all the other ladies around the world who suffer from the same, and let's focus on the very fact of believing into something so deeply and eventually see the symptoms of the same happening in your life. If a woman by believing  that she's pregnant she develops symptoms of real pregnant women, just think of what believing can bring in your own life, how believing so deeply into your dreams can eventually bring them to reality! there's a great power inside of you that needs to be ignited, and its only who has to do it, by believing that you can actually get where you want to get. But remember that by only believing the these women don't get the babies, you have to work upon your dream otherwise you won't get there, but the first step is to BELIEVE, HAVE FAITH in GOD and in YOURSELF and everything will fall inline.

I am grateful for the power that God has placed into us, that by our faith/belief things come to happen. I really pray that we might start use the power of faith for it works wonders!

have a Grateful Day!