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@When Life Stands Still, Don’t Sit With It

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@When Life Stands Still, Don’t Sit With It There are moments when everything seems to freeze—dreams delay, doors close, answers don’t come, and the future looks foggy. This is what it feels like when life stands still. It’s not failure, yet it’s not progress. It’s a season of silence, stagnation, or uncertainty that can test even the strongest hearts. In such moments, many sit down in despair—giving up on motion, vision, and even hope. Yet, standing still is not an invitation to surrender. In the stillness, strength is quietly built. A paused life may simply be preparing for a greater pace. Destiny does not always roar like a rushing wind; sometimes, it whispers through waiting.  Don’t sit with stillness as if it is your end. Instead, rise within—pray deeper, learn wider, believe harder, and move in ways that time cannot measure. Read, prepare, and become. Let stillness be a womb for fresh fire, not a grave of lost zeal.  Life stands still for many, but those who refuse to sit...

@Awake August

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@Awake August: Marching Boldly Into the Fulness of Grace A graceful dawn kisses the earth as August 2025 steps in—gently, steadily, purposefully. Like the eighth step in a symphony of months, August carries a rhythm that is rich, reassuring, and renewing. It is not just another calendar turn; it is a call to rise, to realign, and to remember that divine timings are never offbeat. Eight, the number of new beginnings, carries a prophetic rhythm. It whispers softly to every soul who dares to listen: "Start again." This month invites you to lift your eyes from what didn’t work in previous months and to brace yourself for what can bloom now. Regret no more what slipped through your fingers in July. Rejoice instead that August brings with it the hand of restoration. Dear youth, dreamer, builder, teacher, leader—this month is not passive. It is pregnant. Pregnant with opportunities wrapped in daily routines. Pregnant with encounters that could rewrite your story. Pregnant with seeds...

@The Other Side of the Gavel

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@The Other Side of the Gavel: Leading with Listening Ears Leadership is not just the thunder of commands or the clang of authority — it is the quiet art of listening. Behind every gavel raised to render a decision lies the hidden call for discernment, humility, and empathy. For governance to thrive and leadership to blossom, a listening ear is far more powerful than a loud voice. On one side of the gavel is power; on the other, purpose. And between both lies the bridge of responsibility — the weight of hearing not just what is spoken, but what is unsaid. True leadership begins where ego ends. It is found in the spaces where leaders stoop to hear the cry of the unheard, pause to consider the view of the overlooked, and stay long enough to feel the pulse of those they lead. Too often, governance fails not for lack of vision, but for absence of attention. Youths aspiring to lead must know that people follow those who hear them — not just those who impress them. It takes discipline to talk...