Coming back home

When I saw the red land from the plane, like a big island spreaded over the Indian Ocean, I cried. I even put the National Anthem on YouTube - not joking! - while I delighted myself looking at the Great Southland of The Holy Spirit. Yes, that’s another name for the land Down Under, or Australia as you know. Like a burnt skin with vains and wounds the land of Oz show off its magic red colours and burnt my heart with overflowing tears... I will never forget those images. I’ll take that with me while I live. My ordeal of coming back to my Australian family you’ve probably been following up by my posts on social media. It’s been like a litmus test for my spirit and mind to serve the purpose God put in my heart of being an encourager to the people He brings to my life. As a person, as a Coach and Mentor.

This year of 2020 it’s been the litmus test to most of us in this Planet Earth. For us who survived to so many tests of having our lives threatened by a pandemic, of having our freedom challenged by our governments, of having our mental health stretched to a level that many couldn’t cope!

Like thousands of people around the world, i had to go through 14 days of quarantine, which started the day I landed in Adelaide, South Australia. I’m writing this late at night on the verge of the 12th day, at The Playford hotel. Locked on a nice room of about 60sqm, I’m now getting back to feel I’m back to myself. The first 3 days of being locked, and on jetleg, feels now like I was in another world of darkness that I don’t remember feeling like that before in my life. A brain fog took over me and I couldn’t even think. It was just after a phone call where I had to support someone, that I realised I had to use the resources I had learnt from a life time, to emerge from where I was.

I had to put an effort to think good thoughts, to pray, to worship Jesus, to remember God give orders to his angels to protect me, and to access again the presence of the Holy Spirit. I didn’t do that alone, but I counted with hundreds of people, friends and family, who were praying for me and sending me love! Many that I don’t even know. I’m so grateful for them, and for God, who reminded me that “So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life.” Proverbs‬ ‭4:23‬ ‭TPT‬‬, and for reminded me that my purpose is to serve through encouragement! So I had to come back to myself, to come back home, to come back to my purpose.

It was only then, that my phone also got back to ring with my clients asking to schedule their online sessions, taking that I was back in Australia, and that I felt motivated again! Sometimes, you have to put a lot of effort into changing your thoughts, your mind, and use your emotional intelligence to manage your personal and social interactions, being resilient, and stand tall!

Life will always have their challenges, their litmus test to make you stronger. To make you feel in your skin, what means to be in the skin of people you are about to serve with your purpose. People who rely on you to getting themselves together! So they can be healed to walk their path. I encourage you to look to the light, to focus in what is good, in what brings life to your soul and to your spirit. What is that that inspires you? What are the thoughts that makes you remember who you are and make you see how many people are for you? I now can say, more than ever: “If I can do it, you can do it”, but we don’t need to do that alone. We are better together. Open your eyes and your mind to see how much you are loved and cherished!

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