God specialises in bringing good out of bad, restoration out of crucifiction and joy out of sorrow. May the joy of Christmas bless your heart during this season

My postings in the next couple of weeks will be sporadic. I am taking a break for the Christmas season.

To all those who have been checking in, thank you so much for your encouragement. I wish you the very best of the season. May the Joy, love and peace of Christmas be with you all in Jesus name.

Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner

Just because a man works in psychiatry does not mean that he is also mad. But it does mean that he has to be extra careful lest he adopts the characteristics of his environment. We are influenced by our surroundings, whether consciously or unconsciously. So, living in a world that’s focusing more and more on the gratification of selfish needs means we have to be that much more careful that we don’t become callous and insensitive to the plights of others. The gift of empathy, the ability to feel the pains and hurts of others and seek its alleviation, is therefore, one of which our present world is desperately in need. Let empathy, therefore, bloom and blossom in your heart in your daily dealings with others.

Along with diseases like cancer and diabetes, one disease of which our world could do without is that of talking way too much. Tempering your tongue to learn to speak only when necessary ensures that you will be least likely to be ignored when you have something significant to say.

I have never really been able to see the benefits of hoarding. After all, since life as we know it is so full of the weird and the ironical, in the event of our demise there’s always a high possibility that what we spend our energy hoarding will be taken over by people we did not particularly care for while we were alive: people who probably hated our  own guts with passion in return.

“Aid.” is a word that is bandied around in world politics today. Used as the meaning of the word itself truly implies, it should be an unstinting lending of hand to a neighbour, brother or friend in need. However, the way aid is given today has actually made nonsense of the true meaning of that word.

Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner

Oftentimes, it is the ‘inferior’ beings we disdain who have been able to tap into the wisdom of how life was meant to be lived. Take an animal in the field for example, it hunts only when it is hungry, and then when it is satiated, it leaves whatever is left over for others. But does not hoarding prevent it from living its life to the fullest? Not from obvious studies made of them. Homo Sapiens? Are we really?

We human beings call ourselves “Homo Sapiens,” – literally translated, it means, “knowledgeable Beings.” If we were indeed knowledgeable, we would know that a benign animal that has been deprived of the basic necessities of its daily sustenance is capable of turning ferocious, and dangerous. Homo Sapiens? I really wonder.

Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner

Unwavering belief in God saves us from the darts and barbs of our foes.

Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner

The other word for faith is the unshaken believe in something that has not yet materialized. Without that belief, every negative word directed at our lives finds its spot and hits home with resounding and damaging impact. Simply put, without a belief that you will achieve that which you are praying and working hard toward, every time someone questions the likelihood of your achieving your hoped-for goals, you immediately put more belief in their disbelieve of your abilities than in your conviction that you will succeed. And by so doing, you become the cog in the wheel of your own progress.

Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner