I can mention a thousand but the thing is some make my day today, tomorrow they don’t but these two make each day for me a lovely experience- God, my creator and Vida, my girlfriend. I don’t know if there are people in your life who just make your day even when they are rebuking you or loving you. Surely it has always been God first who makes each day beautiful for me. They are the persons if I go through my day without talking to my day is not complete. God is always first, Vida knows that and no-one can take His place. Let’s say there’s a day I haven’t talked to Vida (hmmmmm has that happened before? :P ) it is a not that easy but I can manage to go through the day but God, I can’t, it is a struggle. A great struggle! It’s like I’m not living, just existing. I feel so empty. I can’t go through my day not talking with God, not even having a thought about God. He is there always for me. He’s always talking to me, directing my every move, every step and every action. A day with my God is a wasted day. As much as possible if I wake up at dawn I talk to him for about 45minutes to an hour thanking Him and asking Him for my day’s agenda. Sometimes He tells me to go further for additional minutes to stay and talk with Him. There have been many times when it’s difficult to get out of bed at dawn so Vida and I pray over the phone to Him. I have tried days without talking to Him, I felt totally useless. I’m saying I couldn’t make it through. Oh trust me the day will surely end and you would have done something but not your best. You might feel ok but deep down you know it is not good enough. Pal, maybe there are some things you can do without including God but trust me it is the best option to include in everything you do. EVERYTHING! He just makes it simpler. Look, you have tried days without God, but I want you to try just one day with God and see the difference. Don’t only put God in the beginning like at dawn or when you get out of bed. Talk with Him through the whole day. “I know God is there and all but I don’t believe I can hear Him speak,” you say. Right now stop reading ok and say a short prayer. Come on! It isn’t difficult. Tell Him if He really speaks, you want to hear me speak to you. Tell Him you can’t go through a day any more without Him but He should open your ears to hear His voice to direct you, not just once but always. Sometimes you don’t need to hear a clear voice (although He speaks in that way too) you have an inner feeling, an intuition, or an open mind concerning something. That will be God directing you. I’ve said it several times, don’t limit God to church and a certain hour, take Him everywhere and talk with Him, on the bus, at school, in the office, the kitchen, the bathroom. You don’t have to close your eyes, just talk to Him. He’s always listening and talking back. It’s now you turn to listen after all the talking. I have come to listen and talk to Him all the time. I’ve made it a habit to talk to Him. When you feel like you can’t go on, you feel it is too difficult, the job is tedious, the problems are weighing you down, what is before you is unknown and rare, you just don’t know what to do, say a prayer to God- talk to Him- anywhere you find yourself. Remember He’s always there. He is there to make life easy for you. Why go so far by yourself and then you lose your energy before you come to Him? Start with Him and take Him along, He can show you a simple and less tedious way to do it. Without God my day is never complete. Someone said, “There’s a God-shaped vacuum in us that nothing else can fill except God.” You probably have everything going for you but still fill unfulfilled, empty…look no further, God is what’s lacking. You either never started with Him or you left Him half way. Either way my friend, it is never late with Him, just talk to Him and say you’re sorry for not taking Him all the way. If you haven’t accepted Christ as your Lord and Personal Saviour then you have to, ask someone to direct you. That’s all you need, and that’s what’s lacking. Believe me you’ll fill most fulfilled. Now the second person, you makes each day a lovely experience. Vida’s someone I can’t also go through the day without talking to. She’s my inspiration to continue doing what I do. It doesn’t what goal or aim I present to her, she believes in me and knows I can do it. Onetime she said, “sweetness you can do anything you want to do in this world…” I have written many blog posts and other things because of her. Sometimes it doesn’t have to be any inspirational thing she’d say (as a matter of fact it never is any inspirational thing she says) it is her nature. Every part of her sends a signal of inspiration to me. Sometimes I just need to hear her voice or receive a message then I’m at ease. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t all rosy! We go through difficult times of misunderstandings but we come out as quickly as we go in. You don’t always have to wait for the one at fault to say I’m sorry, you do it. Vida is so quick to say sorry for anything she does. Sometimes I even complain about the number of times she says it in a day. Look pal if you ever wronged someone in any small way, be quick to say sorry and let go. It isn’t worth fighting for a long time, over what? No one really enjoys fighting and quarreling, just that everybody wants to be strong headed and strong hearted waiting for the other to admit fault, so go ahead and admit fault even if it isn’t you. The one who knows he is at fault knows himself, he just can’t admit it so when you accept you’re wrong, over sometime the other person gains respect for you, even if they don’t tell you, they do. I didn’t say stoop so low and be trampled upon, be gracious in admitting you’re wrong. You don’t want to send the wrong signal and say you’re easy to step on and go away. Next time they won’t wait for your apology, they’ll offer it. Then you can talk to them about their behavior and correct it. I can’t go through the day not finding out what’s going around her. It doesn’t matter if it is the minutest detail. I love to wake up in the morning and pick up her call, or give her a call right before I snug out of bed and say good morning and tell her how much I love her and just listen to her. My day sky rockets after hang up. Let’s say my day is gloomy somehow when I wake up, one hello from her turns it all around. Oh boy and then there are times when she just ‘frees her mind’ about me, people and other things to me. There are times when she talks against certain of my actions and behaviours. Hey sometimes it isn’t pleasant coming from my sweet girlfriend but it is better because she won’t lie to me. I’d rather prefer her telling me what I did was wrong or what I’m about to do isn’t the best than someone else because she knows me better. It is straight up front and then she would take her time to advice me meanwhile watching my man ego carefully no wanting to inflate or deflate it such that when I tell you she is 6 months older you won’t believe it when you saw us together. I mean come on! Isn’t far better to have someone who loves you so much and knows you well enough and isn’t afraid of your reactions to tell you in your face when you’re fault? She knows even though it is hard I’ll think about it and accept it. A day without Vida isn’t a lovely and motivating one. Do you have the two people like I do who when they talk to you and tell you know how much they cherish and love you, advice and rebuke you, it doesn’t matter the disaster or obstacle comes to your way, it becomes a walk over? I’m sure you do. Well for me they are God and Vida. They always make each day for me a lovely experience.