Be strong and courageous
I was in the kitchen with a relative and while cooking, I noticed there was a plastic cooking spoon close to the burner I was using. Unknown to me, the heat from the fire was touching the spoon because of how close the spoon was to the fire. It was hot when I picked it... but somehow, it didn’t melt. I was surprised and said to my relative “so with all the heat, the spoon didn’t melt.. wow!” she responded by saying “it was made to withstand that kind of heat. When they were making it, they knew this kind of heat couldn’t destroy it”. Her words struck me and I realized as individuals, there are certain things we go through that is a making process because of where we are going. There are some routes we may find ourselves walking in that may appear not so regular.. not very pleasant. The essence is not to be destroyed by the heat from that route but to be made. You are being made because of where you’re going. See the journey Joseph went through before gettin...