If I go deep within, shall I see this burden as a blessing? This is the day to serve his quad-gas with Anthony Engini. Optimism is the essence of every fighter, the belief that no matter what, you'll find a way to win. The MME.
A principle, one of the principles of the mixed martial arts group. How to see your current burden as a real blessing? See all the knocks at your door as a gift. We said that.
Allow the burden to transform, let it strengthen you. Look at the new things that can now replace the old and let it lead you to an attitude of gratitude. Finally, today, go deep at the core of your being and see that beyond the burden is truly a blessing. And our change-maker series over Signal TV, Potato Corner, CO, Jomax Aesai shared how his brain illness led him to deep reflection and life-changing decisions that rewired his long-held convictions, starting with his relationship with God and his family.
You heard this said, right? No one ever said on his deathbed, I wish I spent more time at work. And Jomax search deep within he realized that he had lost a sense of self as his person, his person, who had got so intimately intertwined with his business. He could no longer distinguish one from the other.
Who is Jomax? Who is Potato Corner and vice versa? It was a painful process. First, the series, of course, of the brain surgeries themselves.
Then the efforts to reconcile and rebuild his relationship with God, his wife, his children. But I've known Jomax for quite some time and today I declare I see a happier and more fulfilled man. A happier and more fulfilled man in spite of the challenges and burdens running a business with thousands of people dependent on the company's continuing performance. Amidst this global crisis, not to mention the continuing maintenance of his brain condition, having had five surgeries in the last five years.
But you know, every day he's alive is a miracle for Jomax. Every day is a gift. And it is his illness that forced him to go beyond the superficial, the skin deep, the material, the temporary. In another episode of Change Makers, Pastor James Aeton, a favorite church, responded to my question as to how he continued to face burdens, challenges, crisis in his life and his church.
By what? What did he share? How his painful experience of trying to revive his wife as she lay breathless and eventually lifeless beside him in their bed. That experience set the bar when it comes to the most difficult of experiences in his life.
My paraphrase, he said, when you go through that, Anthony, you'll find that there aren't many challenges that will come close to that. So you ask me how I faced my challenges because I went through that, that experience of failing to revive her and not knowing to this day, what really caused it has allowed me to overcome so many crisis in my life, my family, my church. Wow. Indeed, you know, that painful burden upon deep reflection for James has been a special blessing, not just to him, but to thousands of others.
This forces us to go to the core, right, to the very core of our being. And if we are determined, we discover our deepest strengths within our deepest motivations, our main strengths, our wildest passions and dreams, our most special, personal intentions. This we can call our core best self. And the amazing thing here is if we look even further as creations, we end up face to face with our creator and find even deeper wells to draw from.
At our core, we find out that, you know this, we are made in God's image. And if we go deep and wide enough in discovering, in knowing and getting acquainted with our roots or our ultimate root, if we can call him that, we will see the blessings in our burdens and improve the quality of our fruits. When the Israelites ran out of Moses, they ran into God. When they ran out of Jacob, they ran into God.
We run out of our regular solutions or even our special interventions. We search deep and wide. And if we are really looking, we run into God, Jeremiah, 2013, if you seek me, you will find me if you search for me with all your heart. How to see your current burden as a blessing, see all that knocks at your door as a gift.
Allow the burden to transform you and let it strengthen you. Look at the new things that now can replace the old, let it lead you to an attitude of gratitude and go deep to the core of your being, your core best self and see that beyond the burden, the discovery of self. And if one digs deeper, the creator himself is truly the biggest blessing. It's a Friday and it's time to reflect on our theme, burdens into blessings with three questions.
As you begin your weekend, number one, what is a burden today in your life that you should look at as a blessing? Number two, how could this burden lead you to try out something new, innovative and new? And what perhaps old thing is now past due? And finally, number three, what is a burden that is calling you to go deep within so you can better respond and transform it to a blessing?
How can you leverage on your God within? Have a great weekend.