STARING THE YEAR WITH LITTLE OR NO EXPECTATIONS.

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Hello my beautiful people in hive learner's community. This is a special week and I believe that we are all doing well while waiting for Easter celebration. I pray for success in all we do this week 🙏

Week 161, edition 1 is a great one and I want to thank God because the beginning of this year 2025 has been great and there are lots of expectations from me. Though I know that there are other things that I have not been able to achieve because I could not meet up with what I have planned. But I believe that as we move on to the second half of this year alot can be achieved. For other years I made lots of resolutions that I hardly keep to them. Sometimes because I think that I need to grow I will promise that I was going to read ten books within two or three months. I usually make alot of promises and at the end of the year or at the end of a quarter I will feel so bad because I didn't accomplish up to half of what I have promised to do. But for this year I became wiser so to say in making promises. I decided to go with what I know I can do and allow God to help me in the rest. The reason been that I don't want to be guilty at the end. That has helped me a lot in this first quarter of the year. Even without making much promises of what to do I have really achieved alot and I believe that more are still coming.

MY PROGRESS IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS.

Reading 👇 spiritual books that have been of help to me. I don't think that I have achieved much like what I have achieved these four months talking about reading spiritual books. I decided to stick with one because I am not the type that is about to get instructions and not follow them. I wanted to know more about this great woman and God. Kathryn Kulman. I have gone through this because book, but I know that is big and I can't remember most of the things that I have read there. I decided to go through it this time to know her deeper. And it has really paid off. This is her biography written by Jamie Buckingham. The only authorized person to write about her when she is gone. He did just to her story from where she was born, where she grew up, how she encountered Christ, how she started her ministry and change the narrative in her time. She brought about a change that can be seen even today. It has really changed the way I see things and since I started reading it this year I have desired to have the kind of grace that she heard. And I believe that it is possible.

Another thing that I have discovered about myself, and I can say that it is a great achievement for me is that I have given more attention to myself instead of putting others first. Before now I use to forget my own needs, I care just little about me. Even when I am hungry it doesn't matter, but I think of how to take care of everyone in my family except myself. But for this year I noticed a great change in the way I take care of myself. Before now I make sure everyone have good clothes, but I don't care much about myself. But that have changed and I just decided to go to the market sometimes, not because of food stuffs, not because of my husband or even children, but just to spoil myself. I really enjoyed doing that a lot now. Two weeks ago I bought new clothes for myself and I still ordered for another one, people started asking me what happened that I am buying new clothes for myself and I just laughed. I need to eat my money now that I am alive and not when I die someone from someone will spend it anyhow.

Another thing that I have achieved this four months is that I started having peace with what I can't change. I am the type that worry much when things don't go the way I wish them to go. I will keep trying to make it work even when I will have to take a loan to do it. But today I just allow things to be. I don't worry much when it doesn't work my way. Somehow I will just noticed that it will pass on and life keep moving.

Coming to #hive Blockchain I noticed a tremendous growth. At least no matter how busy I am, I will make sure to drop a post once a day. It only becomes very difficult for me when I travel out of town and go to where there is no network or maybe engaged in a church program that won't allow me sit down and write. Aside that my daily blogging has really grown and also the pay is helping me with some needs at home. At least to an extent I can say that I am working from home.

I still hope yo achieve more aa me keep progressing in the year.
Thanks for hopping in. Do have a great week ahead.