This existence we have is so brief, sometimes the joy we feel is so shortlived and what you see are sullen skies ahead. I am saddened by news that friends are ill and dying.

I am not easily shaken by trials in life as I see them as opportunities for growth and for the expansion of faith that will take one to a place of greater glory as one looks upon God alone. To be taken out of your comfort zone is not the end of one's life but the beginning of a journey through which valuable lessons can be learnt. I have made many mistakes in life but I choose not to live in regrets but to move forward. I'd rather do something with the life that God has given me, whatever the length of time I have in this place we call earth than wallow in self pity! However, where it is a matter of life and death and it involves friends I love and family, I am absolutely shattered and shaken.

The focus of one's life on critics, crisis and sin will not take one to the destiny that God has in store for us. We have to find that secret place in which revelations are given where we can live a life truly submitted to the will of God. That takes sacrifice, a place of surrender, a place of prayer, a place of fasting, a place where the word of God comes alive in us.

I must return to that secret place to honour God and for my friends so that my tears would wash His feet and He would find my prayer pleasing to Him that I may give words of comfort that comes from Him to my dear friends who are tormented by illness. I pray for God's mercy and divine miracle!