Born To Shine

Dear lovely people,

I have solid reasons to think that Ralph Waldo Emerson was so right when he said “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

I always affirm to myself that I was born to shine and so are you! God had made you and me so special. It is crazy to think we were once just a small cell in our mother’s womb and now we are fully formed people who can see, think, hear, run and praise God. The Bible says in Psalm 139:14 “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

When all else fails always remember your main reason for living. The hardships you have gone through in your life are not by coincidence or by some accidental fate. God has deliberately brought these situations into your life, not to break you, but to cultivate the fountain of gold that is within you. God has a plan for you and that is the solid reason why you were born to make a difference, to shine in all radiance. The Bible again tells us in Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through him that gives me strength”

It is my wish that this message will be a reminder to all the people who want much more out of life but who have allowed their light to be dimmed or totally diminished by experiences or circumstances, that we were all Born To Shine!

Yes! we are each responsible for our own life story. You can choose for your life story to be about hopelessness, victimization, complaining and sadness. Or you can choose today to write a new story - a bright story of happiness, joy, kindness, love, laughter, peace, optimism, inspiration and success. A story in which you are the protagonist.

As a protagonist of your own story, use you setbacks, pain, mistakes and failures as valuable lessons and building blocks to grow, to gain strength and courage to make tomorrow the start of a new story. A story in which you are everlastingly reminded that you were born to shine.

For sure, “In a gentle way, you can shake the world” that is Mahatma Gandhi speaking and Catherine of Siena calls on you to “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”