Heart Touching Sermons. Short Powerful Homilies. Inspirational Devotional Messages and Prayers.

The urgency of the need not only engulfed me; its intensity also took me by surprise. I tried to scream, to release the pressure that had built up inside me, but the scream jammed mid-throat. I surely needed relief from the burdens and meaninglessness of life. It was something that I needed  to do , one thing I eagerly wanted  to be , something that I had waited for since birth - and it was time, a 'now or never' kind of situation. I had had enough of the status quo . I could no longer continue to live the same way. I needed a break, if life was to have even a bit of meaning - yet it was a break that neither any man nor the whole world could give. My eyes shifted to the ' handcuffs' of my life  - cold as ice, slowly eating into the wrist-bones of my soul. Drops of sweat covered my palms, and my brow was no different. I looked at my legs - the  leg irons  were still in place, ironically shining and determined, evidence of what I had been all these years. Oh, how...

It struck me one day. Here I was, walking down the street when suddenly my mind’s voice encouraged me with these words: “ Phanuel , you must understand that you have never lost out on anything in life.” I stopped and asked myself, “So what has been happening?” “You have been gaining, gaining, gaining. All the things that you thought you had missed out on are actually in a ‘bank’ account from which you are free to withdraw both the principal sum plus compound interest ,” t he voice replied. This to me was like a breath of fresh, fragrant air! Quite an inspiring message it was - a totally transformed way to look at life and living. What I thought was gone was not actually gone.  What you thought was gone was not actually gone. Indeed, it all depends on what one chooses to believe about their life. I used to think in terms of spilled milk that's gone down the drain, but this paradigm completely re-focused my lenses about life and opportunities. I had spent a number of years t...