Hi friends!I’ve always loved doors! In
my life, they represent fresh opportunities, adventures, pointers, lessons,
revelations, celebrations, and more.
In our WP community, opening doors translates
into a renewed appreciation for our beloved fellow bloggers and their deeply
cherished blogs.
Through
my Doors Series, I aim to give our fellow bloggers the gift of sharing a piece
of their world. I invite
them to guest post on my blog and share their message, their story, their
heart. I also encourage them to show how our blogs and worlds link together in
love.
After all, IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE. ️
Today, we happily knock on the door of our dear fellow bloggers:
Thank you, Yeka for inviting us to do a guest post on your wonderful blog!
By way of introduction, we’re Margaret and Neal, proud owners of the
blog Wandering Together. We’re a Denver-based engaged couple set to be
married in the next couple months, and we started Wandering Together to
document our travels and experiences. In this digital age, it’s easy to
let things pass, as no more than a moment in time, or to forget all the people
and experiences we should be grateful for.
Through Wandering Together, we’ve
made two promises to each other. First, we’ve promised not to let our
most special memories be pushed to the back of our minds by the distractions of
daily living. Second, we’ve promised to
always seek out adventures with each other, and not become complacent in our
lives together.
Through this journey, we’ve learned many important lessons about ourselves as individuals and as a couple. In keeping true to Yeka’s love of love, and in our love of and dedication to each other, we’d like to share a few of those with you.
Lesson 1 – The sun rises and welcomes a new day no matter where you are. Sometimes it welcomes you in a beautiful location where you’ve longed to be (such as Tulum, Mexico where we took this picture), and other times it welcomes you under less than desirable circumstances. Either way, each new day is a new opportunity to show love to yourself and love to others. Don’t let the opportunity pass you by.
Lesson 2 – Sometimes life puts mountains in your way. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable enough to seek the support and guidance of another makes the climb so much easier. After all, the view from the top is always the best one!
Lesson 3 – Don’t let the small things
get in the way of the big picture. Neal and jetlag are a bad combination. Fatigue and hunger make Margaret
hangry. In the big scheme of things, our times of being lesser than our
best selves are brief, while our times of being grateful, happy, funny, and
loving human beings are predominant and long lasting. How is that
possible? By recognizing in each other
that, even in our times of weakness, at our cores we’re always the best
versions of ourselves.
We so appreciate this opportunity to share a little piece of ourselves. If you feel like following along, check out our Word Press blog, Wandering Together. While our blog is travel and lifestyle focused, we hope to always demonstrate that it’s the person (or people) you’re with that matter most.
Thanks so
much for opening your doors to us, dear Margaret and Neal!
Your love and dedication to each other are unparalleled! You inspire us to celebrate special moments and keep them treasured in our hearts forever. You inspire us to stay grateful in our everyday living too.
Life is truly a journey. We value your abundance in sharing your powerful lessons of hope and inspiration.
Our sweet wish is that your journey will lead you to even more awesome travels and adventures TWOgether in LOVE!
Hi friends!I’ve
always loved doors! In my life, they represent
fresh opportunities, adventures, pointers, lessons, revelations, celebrations,
and more.
In our WP community, opening doors translates into a renewed appreciation for our beloved fellow bloggers and their deeply cherished blogs.
Through my Doors Series, I aim to give our fellow bloggers the gift of sharing a piece of their world. I invite them to guest post on my blog and share their message, their story, their heart. I also encourage them to show how our blogs and worlds link together in love.
After
all, IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE. ❤️
Today, we happily knock on the door of a dear fellow blogger:
Dear Yeka, thanks for this opportunity, bless you 🙂
PASSIONATE LOVE
Love by definition is passionate. A half-hearted love isn’t much of a love at all!
I want to share a passion of mine, which is writing. That might seem a bit obvious — of course I like writing — I’m a blogger! But my passion isn’t just writing for writing’s sake, but to share the love of God in Jesus, the Savior of the world. I wrote during my full time education. I had to! But I enjoyed it. After Uni, I got mentally ill. Most of the writing I would do would be to scribe Scripture, which was a comfort to me in my mental distress.
Then an old Uni friend, Eric Mwathi, himself an excellent poet, encouraged me to get into poetry. I’m not very good at it, but it’s a great way of expressing yourself, very therapeutic.
I’ve actually written and self-published a book of animal themed children’s poetry that you can check out on Amazon if you want- “Menagerical Animalariumisterious Ponderosaeticalioness”— something like that — I might have forgotten how to spell it properly!
Then a friend and mentor told me I should start writing in earnest. I don’t know why, because she’d never seen my writing. But I started writing daily devotionals based on a daily reading Bible a friend gave me. Initially I emailed them out to a few friends, but now I mostly just stick them on the blog and the YouVersion Bible app.
When studying Proverbs with an old pastor, we stumbled across a phrase: “Watching Daily At Wisdom’s Gates”. He joked that it would make a good name for my writing ministry, and the name’s stuck!
People tend to assume that the meaning of life is the pursuit of happiness. I think the Beatles were closer to the truth when they sang, “All you need is love”. But I would suggest that all we need is God’s love, not necessarily romantic love.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and gave His beloved Son for us, to cover our sins in His blood.
The meaning of life is to wholeheartedly love the God who passionately loves us, and to love one another as He has loved us.
If you know that love, tell it to the world! If you don’t, come and receive God’s love for you. It doesn’t matter who you are and what you’ve done- He doesn’t want you to perish but to have eternal life.
All you need to do is turn from selfish sin and enter into His boundless love.
God bless, and lots of love,
Robert
P.S. I’ve also written a book of devotionals available on Amazon called Watching Daily At Wisdom’s Gates.
Thanks so much for opening your door to us, dear Robert!️❤️
You have a very powerful story to tell. And yet, you help us refocus on THE ULTIMATE POWER STORY. GOD’S LOVE.
Through your journey, you give us a peek into renewed hope, comforting steadiness, and unshakable assurance.
But above all, you give us your gift of LOVE. Your precious gift of
inviting us to receive GOD’S LOVE.
A love that know no bounds. A love that gives everything without a price
tag. A love that says, “I love you exactly for who you are ….. just as you are
right now.” After all, a half-hearted love isn’t
much of a love at all!
May we all be warmed by the embrace of God and His whole-hearted, priceless, unconditional love for us all! ❤️
IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE 