Keeping up with Sophia Sparkle Youth Group

Keeping up with Sophia Sparkle Youth Group and Doris Anetha Shelto McLennon

We all lead busy lives and it moves at a crazy speed, not giving one enough time to stop and reflect. In this age of technology, it is more important than ever to take a step back and create space for soul deep breaths. Sometimes we need to coil into ourselves and just be quiet, to hear our own internal dialogue, because the murmurs

of our soul are easily drowned out in noise and crowd. I believe when we pause and experience silence, we discover answers that activity does not have time to reveal. Getting away for a while, being quiet and alone is no special grace on its own; we can do this by intentionally creating moments of quiet. It does not have to be long and drawn out; you can start with small moments and then take it from there, putting away all media devices. The mere act of being alone with oneself is not a bad thing. It can improve your

creativity and confidence and help you regulate your emotions so that you can better deal with adverse situations. All in all, the goal is to create a context for enhancing our hearing from GOD in HIS word and responding back to HIM in prayer. GOD is speaking to us, but HIS voice has been ignored or drowned out from the confusion and chaos in this journey of life. In this time of uncertainty and fear, it is important that we get into a meditative state, take time to express our gratitude for the time, the place; for the people in our lives and the experiences we have had up to this time and will have in times to come.

In the shape of a human body, we are visiting earth. I know that GOD has sent us out as warriors. I’m just passing through this world; it is not my own. Somewhere at the back of our minds we know that it is true. Here is not our permanent home. GOD has made us for HIMSELF, not to be forever grounded and attached to this earth; for that reason we must not be addicted to personality. We must appreciate each moment, and to be aware that we were made for Heaven. Knowing this, we should walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we have been called. We have always needed GOD from the beginning, but today we need HIM more than ever. We are living in serious times. I do not believe that there is any hope for this world except in GOD the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE. Life is the most precious gift that GOD has blessed man with, yet sometimes we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Let us bless the LORD at all times. Let HIS praises continually be in our mouths. (Psalm 34:1)