O poder da semente.

Já estamos no segundo semestre do ano 2021. E tenho refletido muito sobre o que aconteceu nos últimos seis meses. Este post será em português para poder praticar a minha escrita na língua nativa.

Quero partilhar o poder da semente e usarei como ilustração a lei do semeador. Tenho objectivos que foram traçados para este ano, e não alcancei tudo que queria mas prossigo para o alvo maior ( 5 anos plano- explicarei isso em outro post) apesar de vários obstáculos , desapontamentos, cansaço entre outros.

Uma lição tirei da minha horta: No ano passado plantei salsa, manjericão, tomate, alface, rúcula, flores entre outros. Deixei algumas plantas crescerem até darem sementes, armazenei alguma sementes mas muitas outras caíram no solo. Este ano, preparei o solo para nova horta e assumi que as sementes que caíram estariam destruídas e assim coloquei novas sementes na terra.

Fiz o transplante das novas plantinhas e, com a rega comecei a notar certas novas plantinhas a crescerem por ali. Decidi não arrancar até ver o que era. E umas semanas depois vi que eram as sementes que pensei que estavam destruídas que tinham brotado. Tenho a certeza disso porque não lancei semente de salsa, nem de rúcula e nem de tomate.

A lição foi que apesar de não ter alcançado todos meus objectivos, posso a cada dia plantar uma semente daquilo que quero e deixar que ela brote no tempo certo. Assim, fica muito mais fácil acreditar que pouco a pouco alcançarei os meus objectivos.

E, olhando para os primeiros sete meses de 2021 posso ver brotinhos a sairem da terra( sentido figurado) e ajudam a manter a minha confiança no futuro que quero.

No entanto, é importante escolher a qualidade e quantidade da semente para ter a colheita que queremos ter! Com este novo mindset em minha vida, cada passo, pequeno que seja, é uma vitória. Se o desânimo vier, os obstáculos baterem a porta posso escolher acreditar que sempre há uma solução.

Cada semente tem condições ambientais adequadas para germinar. É importante ter noção destes pequenos detalhes para não criar falsas expectativas que nos leva a desapontamentos que entristecem bastante a nossa alma.

O que você está a semear?

Com Amor,

Isabel Kinlim

July 30, 2021 0

My juices for immune system boosting

Good day dears!

I thought it was a good idea to share my fresh juices recipes. By fresh, I mean that almost 90% of the ingredients are fresh and some are from my garden.Yes, it is amazing when you have a yard with many fruit trees and vegetables.

The benefits for my mental and physical wellbeing are amazing. But today I am here to share some of my recipes. It is simple to make and easy to drink.

I drink it before the breakfast and also throughout the day to substitute soft drinks. I drink plenty of water, but sometimes I want something different and healthier.

Pomegranate Juice:

1- Fresh picked pomegranate and water. Put all in the blender, and then strain the liquid.

Benefits of pomegranate:

It contains antioxidants; Vitamin C; Anti – inflammatory; Reduce inflammation in the guts and improve digestion; Antiviral (Immune boosting nutrients – vitamin E – K – C, folate and potassium. The juice may contribute to weight loss if taken frequently and as a substitute of unhealthy drinks.

Green Juice:

1- Celery and baby spinach( both).

2- My rank of choices: Pomegranate, orange, lemon, carrot or passion fruit juice, and of course water.

Benefits of green juice: I am sure you all know about the benefits of this juice. Let me share what happens to me when I drink it in the morning: I feel energized, and I don’t have any desire to eat unhealthy food. It also helps me a lot in my digestion (because of healthy fiber).

Carrot Juice:

Recipe:

1- 5 carrots and lemon juice.

2-Ginger (sometimes I mix ginger with fresh turmeric), garlic and honey.

Benefits: I just love this juice. It is excellent for my immune system boosting during this Covid-19 pandemic season. It is interesting that now in Maputo, where I live, ginger, turmeric, lemon and garlic are very expensive. Who could see that coming? Thank God, I have a lemon tree in my yard.

Much love,

Isabel

March 3, 2021 0

Above the media line: losing weight on my soul!

Hello!

Today I want to share how I am coping with the Covid-19, part 2.

I am in Mozambique, and we have been hit with the second wave of Covid- 19. This time we are seeing a lot of deaths and panic attacks. This time, we can see people who are very close to us being infected by covid-19. The fear is all around our atmosphere.

Where we look, we are inundated by news about the virus and the vaccination panic (I don’t want to talk about it). So I decided to lose the weight of negativity in my soul. I want a clean and light soul.But how to do that? Let me tell you about my testimony of how I am handling all of this season

I am a follower and lover of Jesus Christ, but when this new variant of coronavirus hit our lives, I panicked, and my prayers were from a place of massive fear. Yes, I was afraid, and I was looking for information everywhere. I realized later that I was sick in my mind because of the poison of the media.Yes, the media was my worst enemy because the battle was in my mind, one of the consequences was that I started having huge cravings for sweets and junk food to compensate for the fear inside of me.

Eventually, I started to pray to receive by faith the peace of God to guard my mind and my heartbecause I have His promises for me ( Philippians 4:7, John 14:27, Isaiah 26:3, Psalm 91), and I can trust on His Word. I had a choice: Peace or Panic? I choose peace because it is a powerful weapon against tormentors who come through paranoid fear to steal our joy and hope.

because I have His promises for me ( Phillipians 4:7, John 14:27, Isaiah 26:3, Psalm 91) and I can trust on His Word. I had a choice: Peace or Panic? I choose peace that is a powerful weapon against tormentors who come through paranoid fear to steal our joy and hope.

How to keep the peace of God?

1Refuse any negative thought and renounce anxiety. Every time anxiety begins to move in your mind refuse it.

2- Do not focus on the negative news or problems that you cannot solve at the moment. Think about the right and good news/ things, rejoice. Be THANKUL for small things and for oneself. Yes, one needs to celebrate oneself!

3- Fast against the negativity in your life: media, people, music, movies, etc. Try to see a comedian movie and laugh a lot.

4- Workout, garden and learn new skills.

5- When you feel the peace in your heart and mind, the hope is rising all around you, go and help other people overcome their fear. Be generous!

I am helping other people overcome their fear by praying with them, by sharing my testimony and spending some time talking with them (most of the time over the telephone).

6- Keep eating healthy and increase food that helps to boost your immune system. Take some supplements.

This is one of my secrets to boost my immune system.

Stay Safe and Healthy.

Much Love!

February 7, 2021 0

Establishing a new routine: I love it!

Friends, I want only to write when I have something worthy to share with my beautiful people. Since, my last post, I have been established a new routine in my life (I want this as a lifestyle).

The first thing I am changing is my recipes by introducing more vegetables, and I am using much of the local food (Mozambique). Yes, I found out that eat more like a vegetarian is very easy and not boring at all. I still eat meat(I reduce the consumption of red meat 2 to 3 times a month), fish and others.

My success for this new routine is due to my friend Claudia with whom I am accountable, and we share our recipes (with pictures). What I love about her is she truly believes that eating start first in our minds (ah ah I wrote about it) and that we can have a beautiful life if we know how to eat! What a friend. She is not telling me about what to eat and what not to eat.

We have decided not to say the F word (FAT ah ah) in our conversation. We also believe that words are powerful, if we want to change our life so change also your words. Remember that we need to think differently first to talk differently. Don’t work on your frustration of losing weight or body, work in loving your body and changing your thinking, your words, our way to see food, your way to cook, our way to enjoy food. What I am trying to say is substitute the negative to a positive and vibrant thought.

When I wake up, I thank God for the brand- new day and command my day to be joyful and align to the Heavens. Then, I talk to myself: “Kim, You are beautiful and you have an amazing body. I love you Kim, I love you legs (I have a curvy shape) and I bless you my heart” . That is an example, and each day I change to bless all of me. I am established peace with my body (even the cellulite) because the stress of losing weight through many and different diets and crazy exercises was not helping me at all. I was competing within myself and it was so painful and hideous in my soul.

I am doing some exercises and during the week, and I am laughing a lot intentionally in order to relax. All of it makes me feel so good. I am doing all this at my pace.

Let me share some pictures of my food. Please send me some recipes with pictures.

September 22, 2020 0

Food for thought- Changing the way I think about food!

Here I am again and I want to talk about the process of losing weight, on what I was exposed to during this time. Let me tell you about it.

A while ago, I wrote about my desire to lose weight, and I was frustrated with all the diets and advice that I have found online or with friends. I tried some without any success. I shared about how I lost many pounds or Kg in USA. So, I prayed and asked God to show me what to do because He is my creator, and He knows me better.

I must confess, I was waiting for a clear formula from heavens, but for some times I did not hear or sense anything. I Asked him again the same thing. No response! I started to do what I know best: Try my way! One day , I was eating bread, cheese and soup for supper and I literally enjoyed it and appreciating each bite. And I wasn’t think about the calories or if it is allowed to eat or not, the ” bla-bla” that all of us knows .

My mind was focused on enjoying the food, and I was grateful for having food. And I noticed that the next morning my body was different not that swallowing legs that I used to see in the shower even if I have only eaten salad for dinner. I was wondering about it.

Then, I felt that the problem is on my mind. It is corrupted with wrong and false information. The way I think about something affected all my being. WHAT? It must be God answers my question. And I realized that every time I eat something my mind goes to the “bureau of information that I store all this wrong information” and select it according to the item on my plate, and then send the information to my body telling that I am eating something that I am not supposed to eat because I am going to be fat- That is the way I saw the dialogue inside of me!

I was eating with the wrong mindset . For example, my friend told me that we shouldn’t eat cassava and sweet potato anymore because we are going to be fat, now the trend is to eat a quinoa all the time. Really? Where she finds this information? What about our families that eat those foods and they are healthy and not fat? We are exposed to a variety large of information and we are creating wrong mindset about food.

I know that we need to eat healthy, but I have also learned that we eat with our mind too. If our mindset is wrong, then we are in trouble. I am training my mind and I am seeing some results. Now, I am more keen to eat healthier because I am changing the way I am thinking about food.

Please, don’t take me wrong. I appreciate the doctors and nutritionists, but I choose to include God in my diet!

Do you know the expression ” Food for thought”? Just for reflexion!

I will share more about my journey. All I know now is I have more energy, and I am happy. Yes, I am losing weight little by little.

Can you share your experience?

With Love !

August 3, 2020 0

I want to lose weight.

I love food. I love gourmets food and traditional food from my country, Mozambique. I know that I need to eat healthy and all this stuff but…

Seven years ago, I was in Blacksburg – Virginia, to learn English at Virginia Tech, and I was weight 69 kg (152lb) at the time. I am petite, and I was overweight. I found myself crying when I wanted to buy some clothes. My emotion was crushed.

I had problems with my breathing and my confidence as a woman. I needed to do something, but I did not what to do. So,I went to see a nutritionist to have professional advice, and she was like an angel that God put in my path. My journey had started and it was very painful. She told me not to call a ” diet” but to tell myself that I am learning how to eat healthy.

I started also to do some exercise and six months later I was a size 6! From 10 to 6! I was at the time at Cornell University – Ithaca. At the end of my program, I was at size 4!

For more than three years when I come back to my country, I was able to keep my Size Four. But I started to become depressed because I could find a job and all sorts of things going on in my life and I found my refuge in food. Now I am weight 63 Kg and I want to lose at least 8 kg again.

So, I tried to copy the same process that I used in the USA but it did not work. I tried all types of diets, like Keto or the one according to the shape of my body, but nothing worked. Then, I sense this sweet voice of God telling me to ask Him what to do because He created me. Ouch, I was so embarrassed because all the time I share my testimony I always forgot to say that in the first place I have asked God what to do. And now, I just want to copy past breakthrough without talk with God again.

I am learning from this experience that each session is different and the circumstances and environment are totally different, but I can always rely on God to give me the solution that fit my situation.

I will share this my new journey with Him on weight loss!

May 27, 2020 0

I hope you understand my english!

My first language is portuguese, but I do speak some words in french and english. I was waiting to learn the “perfect” english to write my blog but it would take years and I would miss many opportunities to recount my experience, testimonies or simple miss the opportunity to connect with other people and of course be criticized about my poor english.

It is called the “FEAR OF THE MAN”. I was terrified to write something even in my language because I though that I was not good enough for it. I was seeking perfectionism in everything before develop anything. I know that I need to delivery excellent articles and content for my readers but at the same time I want something simple and easy to understand and apply. I am so tired of “perfect” pictures on Instagram versus the real-life pictures the ones that shows who you are!

To overcome fear, I choose to embrace it instead of denying. I also ask God to exposing the lies that I believe, and I was able to identify the many faces of fear operating in my life and one of them was the fear of the man. So, I began to contend for my wholeness and cast out fear, and each day is a new experience in this process. As soon I find one of its face trying to operate in my life I use the tools in my power to return to that place of inner peace.

Therefore I decided to write and share my soul with you guys. Don’t get me wrong, I am still learning how to write in three languages, how to delivery better content, and I also decided to open my heart to receive criticism and learn from it. I don’t want the fear of man to paralyze my life.

Much love and God bless !

April 30, 2020 4

MY SECRET PLACE DURING THE QUARANTINE

I am using this quarantine moment to find my secret place where I can rest my spirit and have peace in my soul.

I have quietly time to seek God, and I am going to use His word to write and to speak a declaration for my soul.

1- God, you have bedded me down in lush meadows; Wow I can drink from quiet pools and refresh my spirit, now my soul can start to rest on the sound of your voice. May Your Word guide me in the country roads and I can catch my breath.

2- I know that I am crossing the death valley of Codiv-19 right now, but I will not be afraid of this, because you walk at my side and You promised that You would never leave me(John 14:18 and Hebrews 13: 5).

3- Eventually, fear will come to my door but I know that I can come to You in this secret place and talk about it. For sure, You will help me because you did not give me a Spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of balance (2 Timothy 1: 7).

4- Under your wings in this secret place, I feel safe and protected because you are my God and my refuge. I know you’ll always defend me. This virus that hovers in the dark will not reach me, no harm will reach me nor will it be able to get close to me or my home because Your Blood is more than enough to cover us.

5- Lord, let me use this storm (CORONAVIRUS) to strengthen my relationship with You and my family, and soar like an eagle. .

March 25, 2020 2

Why I wrote my first Ebook : Single & Amazing

Over the course of my life, I have observed and heard about the difficulties people experienced in various aspects of their lives. They often did not know what to do or who to ask for advice because of the embarrassment embodied in certain aspects of the situation, as well as the fear of criticism and gossip they might generate when sharing information. As a result, I wanted to share my knowledge in the form of testimonials or stories, without detailing unnecessary aspects, so I could help women who are going through this as well.

My book is for single christian women to recognize the situation in which they are living and to learn to value themselves. No matter what they are going through, they can achieve victory. My own victory may have been in my private life, but it is much more of a corporate victory because I can testify to what the Eternal has done for me, thereby creating hope, courage and faith in the hearts of other women to continue to trust God and reach the Wishing.

I am still single but I am so confident about myself. I overcome the feeling of rejection and the feeling that I am not enough. I lived in shame and I was tired of the indirect offenses thrown into jokes because I was not married. I was tired to pretend that all was well.

I went through the process of healing and today I know that I am so beautiful and amazing. I realized that I am the most important person in my life after my God. I am the love of my life and the way i love myself I can love others also.

Being single is a blessing from God! Let’s change our mindset.

Pursue your dreams, you have time while single.

Being single is being a unique individual. Enjoy your time and take care of yourself !

March 12, 2020 0

Honrar pai e mãe: um mandamento com vida.

Todos temos visto esta ” ordem” do Senhor nos 10 mandamentos recitamos várias vezes sempre que necessário, mas será que percebemos o valor deste mandamento: Honrar Pai e mãe? Vou falar um pouco de como aconteceu comigo porque isto tocou muito o meu coração. Muitas vezes somos amigos dos nossos pais e começamos a criticar los e julgar pelas coisas que fazem ou dizem. Mas a verdade que temos que honrar nossos pais não importa as circunstâncias.

Segundo o dicionário de língua Portuguesa ( Online) , honrar é respeitar, reverenciar, glorificar, estimar, elevar, dignificar, orgulhar-se, tratar alguém com atenção, distinguir com amizade / com confiança, dar merecimento, sentimento de dever e da justiça , entre outros. Aqui não diz que temos que concordar com tudo que nossos pais fazem ou dizem mas temos que honrar los . Nascemos deles e cuidaram da gente. Porquê Deus realça muito este mandamento? Este mandamento tem promessa de vida longa se assim o fizermos. Em Mateus 15: 3 -9 ( versão a Mensagem) diz que aquele que desrespeitar o pai e mãe será morto. Creio que começa com uma morte espiritual e vai afectando as áreas da nossa vida pouco a pouco que vão perdendo vida e brilho: seca total. Não percebemos porque as coisas em nossas vidas não estão a prosperar como deve ser. Simplesmente porque não honramos nossos pais. Deus se importa com nosso bem estar!

Eu estou a aprender a honrar meus pais e sempre pergunto a Deus o que isso significava para eles ( de forma prática), mas não quer dizer que sempre concordo com as coisas que eles fazem ou falam, mas estou a aprender a não julgar los (mesmo em silêncio) ou falar mal deles ou falar mal com eles . Quero que seja meu estilo de vida para que possa passar isso para a próxima geração.

Minha vida estava parada e parecia que nada dava certo, e sempre que lia a bíblia um dos versículos abaixo mencionados pareciam ” brilhar ” para mim, e percebi que era Deus falando comigo para mudar meu comportamento em relação aos meus pais. Eu amo a eles, e sou grata por tudo que eles fazem e fizeram por mim, mas tinha uma atitude muito má para com eles e isso estava a sugar minha vida. Mas na imensa misericórdia , Deus Pai ajudou me a ver o meu erro. Arrependi me, e começei a praticar aos poucos e quando tinha as atitudes erradas voltava para Deus e pedia ajuda, hoje está mais fácil mas ainda muito por processar e aprender. Sinto minha alma mais leve e alegre, e já olho para meus pais com outra perspectiva e procuro ver o melhor deles do jeito que Deus os vê.

Versículos para meditar: Malaquias 1- 6; Êxodo 20:12; Efêsios 6: 1-4; Deuteronômio 5:16; Mateus 15: 3-9.

Deus abençoe.

February 25, 2020 0