iRecommend: A Season of Hope by Don Moen [+Free Download]

if You Like:  Hillsong, Alvin Slaughter, Michael Bubble, Josh Groban, Ron Kenoly, Amy Grant

Our all-time beloved worship leader and song writer is here again this Christmas with a new offering titled 'A Season of Hope'. I remember the last set of free songs he gave away where for a limited time, this might also be for a limited time. So waste no time and GO!

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Ponder: 

The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else - Blaine Hogan

iRecommend: #LifeTrends by AFGM [+Free Album Download]

if You Like: Ginuwine, J Moss, 21:03, Iyaz, Boyz 2 Men, Tyga, John Legend

You gotta love this guys and the music they bring to the table. Without much ado, I present to you 'A Few Good Men'  EP titled #LifeTrends.

And make sure you watch out for my best track on the album titled titled 'Like You'. Enjoy!

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Connect with the artist: Twitter @AFGMMUSIC ; Facebook

Ponder:

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks - Winston Churchill

iRecommend: Thr3e by Th3eory Hazit [+Free Album Download]

if You Like: Jay Z, Ambassador, Sho Baraka, Fabulous, Tinie Tempah and Iyaz

I bumped to this record earlier this year at a party, so good and it never crossed my mind I would be recommending it at the later part of the year. Th3ory Hazit is part of the Humble Beast record crew and you've got to love his flows.

Today I present to you Thr3e by Th3ory Hazit.

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Ponder:

“Anyone can count the seeds in a melon. It takes vision to count the melons in a seed.”  - Michael Hyatt

Snail [I Want My Shore]

Yesterday, I was a snail.
I crawled and crawled till I got tired and stopped.

At a particular point I walked to my study window and said looking at the blazing sun "When would the morning come?"
"I want this dark night to be over" I lamented in the sun flooded room.
"I want the shore, like I want my shore right now" cause it felt more like one of those expeditions on the arctic sea to discover a new territory I read about when I was much younger.

'Jesus I'm tired" I stopped and looked at the piece of paper on my post board which contained the last promise He had sent to me just a week ago.
I haven't seen that so I'll keep moving even if my only movement is a crawl, it is enough.

I want to do mighty glossy things but my microwave mentality helps me forget that great cities like Tokyo weren't built overnight.
I want to walk on water, have my name recorded in the book that matters most but sometimes I forget that is not all, there are waves and sea billows I have to press through to meet up with the one who has called me out of my cute little boat.

I want my shore. I want my shore. I want my shore. And this is no rant.

Some days back, a friend of mine looked up angrily from his 'work'  and exclaimed 'There's always more work to be done'. I smiled as I said to him in a voice he couldn't hear: That is life, work work work! but we've got to enjoy it.

There would always be a new mountain to climb, a new battle to conquer, and a new race to win. What would keep us relentless is if we see these things as opportunities and not obligations

Whatever you find to do, do it well because where you are going - the grave - there will be no working or thinking or knowing or wisdom - Ecclesiastes 9:10 

I think these are the best times for us; when we are crawling and we feel like jelly inside, when we have no strength and we fall back.

If we would only believe on in our weakness and press through, when victory comes or when that work is accomplished or when that book is written or when that art is created or when that project is finished, we can say boldly

'That was beyond me'

'That you see my dear is a miracle, my testimony'

 

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle