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Spoken Word

 The heart the portrait of our personality

Look into my heart and you will find the colours of my soul.

The fabric of my thoughts are created in it.

The eyes in it see deeper than the physical eyes can.

You can only see with the heart what is essential - it was once said.

The heart so fragile yet so strong.

The heart so special and yet part of a perfect working system.

The spiritual heart, the physical heart.

The spiritual heart is our spirit.

The spirit is our true self. The innermost part of who we are.

We reflect the trinity of God - he is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

So we are therefore made of three elements to portrait the triunion of God. Spirit, Soul and Body.

Rest in God

Today I want to share a few thoughts about how to dwell in God’s presence and finished work of Christ

Colossians 1:21-23

Made Holy through Christ

Even though you were once distant from him, living in the shadows of your evil thoughts and actions, he reconnected you back to himself.

He released his supernatural peace to you through the sacrifice of his own body as the sin-payment on your behalf so that you would dwell in his presence.

And now there is nothing between you and Father God, for he sees you as holy, flawless, and restored, if indeed you continue to advance in faith, assured of a firm foundation to grow upon. Never be shaken from the hope of the gospel you have believed in. And this is the glorious news I preach all over the world.

• First you have to understand what it means to rest in God.

• What is the rest of God?

• The rest of God is to know him first.

• Rest is a person. It’s JESUS.

• To rest in him means too accept his sacrifice on the cross, his forgiveness, his love, his kindness, his mercy, his grace.

• To rest in God means to no more crave for his love and attention because we already have it.

• To rest in God also means that we understand we have found peace with God and been reconciled to him.

• To understand the rest of God it also means to accept  that we have been approved, acknowledged and accepted and are loved eternally.

• We also find a new way of relaxing due to the acceptation of he’s rest.

Acts of compassion

 Hebrews 10:24-25

The Passion Translation

24 Discover creative ways to encourage others[a] and to motivate them toward acts of compassion, doing beautiful works as expressions of love. 25 This is not the time to pull away and neglect[b] meeting together, as some have formed the habit of doing, because we need each other! In fact, we should come together even more frequently, eager to encourage and urge each other onward as we anticipate that day dawning.

I love this translation called "The Passion Translation". It's a heart level translation. It pierces right into your soul and heart. 

The Word of God is so profound and freeing and healing like no other word or book in the whole Universe.

Verse 24 says: 

"Discover creative ways to encourage others[a] and to motivate them toward acts of compassion, doing beautiful works as expressions of love."

Find creative ways to uplift and influence people in your life and around you. Relying on the source of all sources - GOD himself. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit the day we received Him as our Lord and Saviour. His spirit now can give us an inexhaustible amount of inspiration to be able to pour into our neighbour.

It goes on and says that we can therefore act in compassion and create expressions of LOVE.

How beautiful is that?

Have you ever stoped and asked God or even yourself how you can be used to inspire?

I am very creative and a natural when it comes to inspiration and encouragement.

Verse 25 says:

"In fact, we should come together even more frequently, eager to encourage and urge each other onward as we anticipate that day dawning."

Not only in the first part of this verse in its entirety it motivates to meet up and have fellowship but here it goes further in giving us deeper instruction of how to do it and why. It says that we need each other!

Christianity - and even humanity in itself was never created to be lonely or alone.

In fact God in the very beginning said: "Now the LORD God said, “It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him.” Genesis 2:18

Always Trisha 

Racism

I must have been not even a young teenager when I experienced racism.

I am white and my roots are in Sicily south Italy.

I remember that day I was in the tram and the windows were damped because it was raining. There was a very young boy in front of me about 2 meters away from me.

I caught him starring at me. I looked back at him. He looked straight into my eyes and then started drawing the Nazi swastika on the window next to him. And he look at me with disgusted look on his face while he was still fixing me.

Over 30 years later I still remember that encounter vividly. I can only imagine what people of another skin complexion go through and the horrible memories they might have.

I believe to solve the issue of racism, we need to keep the conversation going. Based on mutual love and respect.

If you refuse to keep the conversation flowing, you are not helping to let the progress that leads to the solution flow.

It’s not a humble attitude to refuse to talk about it, no matter what your skin complexion is. Peace out people. 

One race: HUMAN RACE.

Always Trisha

Solo travel

I am sitting in one of my fav Cafés to chill and enjoy my holiday.

Due to the pandemic unfortunately I don't feel comfortable yet to leave the UK to travel.

I just did one day trip to Bristol and it was so boring. I just realised that my season of Solo-travel is just over. I have been doing this for many years and I am just over it. I have been single most of my life, so solo travel was the easiest and most comfortable way of travel and having a holiday.

I think I have learned quite a lot in these years of travelling on my own.  

- I am independent and capable to go to any place if I want to

- I enjoy my own company and I really need my me time and a lot of it

- I am definitely a very social person and love company of inspiring and positive people but I do not depend on them when it comes to my contentment

- There are so many places I still have to and want to visit but I want to do it with friends or fam

- The earth is so beautiful and worth travelling

- I have met lovely and also challenging people while travelling on my own

- I have learned that loneliness is not a disease nor is singleness its just a status and phase of life

- I have grown and learned a lot through the years

- It's ok not to be ok

- Perfectionism is a prison but Excellency is a healthy goal

- Routines and structures are good and necessary for my mental health

- I need to take care of my body, soul and spirit more every day and not neglect it

I want to be an inspiration to as many people as possible and travel the world by sharing what I have learned and hold speeches to large crowds and also share my art in music, writing, songs, and drawings and poems. My goal is to be able to do this full time. And because it's a huge passion it won't be work anymore.

I love Art.

Always,

Trisha

'Just the beginning': voices from the Black Lives Matter protest in London

I am who I am

The older I get the more I learn about God and who he is and who I am in and through him. The more I learn about myself, the better decisions I can make in my everyday life and major decisions, that will impact my life even stronger.

Things I have learned:

I cannot be anyone else but me.
I am called to be unique and therefore I stand out.
I am loved.
I am free.
I am accepted and approved.
It's ok not to be ok.

You can say "No." without feeling guilty.
I have to speak up for myself.
Nothing and no one is allowed to mute me.
I have a free will.
Heaven and Hell are real.
God is real.
God is faithful.

Self care and self love is essential.
I have a calling on my life that nobody else has and consequently nobody else can fulfil but me. Before I met God - I used to exist - now I am alive and I live.

To be a leader doesn't mean to be perfect but to be authentic and vulnerable.
Nothing and no one can judge me but God.
There is nothing I can do or not do that can separate me from the love of God.

I hope these simple thoughts bless your heart.

Who are you?

I am here for you.

Always,

kind-hearted

Trisha

What now?

Have you ever been in a season in your life where you ask yourself this question: "What now?"

I have asked myself this question quite often. Before I decided to move from Germany to England,
I asked myself if I was ready to face it and do such big step. Move out of my parents home and leave the country to start a new life.

I have been now here in London for almost 7 years. I have again hit that edge where I feel a certain urge to have a shift in my life.

The urge to move on and start something new and exciting. As an Artist I am easily bored and frustrated if I have to do the same thing over and over again. Even more when I have to do things I don't even enjoy as I am not called to do it.

I feel the need to be creative and be an Artist full-time. My hope and aim is to do that for 2020. And not have to do any regular job ever again. I pray in Jesus name.

I wonder if you have ever been in the same situation? Have you ever felt this way at all? I bet you have. In some way or another you must have felt this kind of frustration and urge to explode.

I have come to understand as well that I don't believe in trying anymore but doing. If you have a desire in your heart regarding your passion for life and calling to what you are supposed to do, you have to actually do it.

Collect your thoughts ask God for guidance and wisdom. Come up with a strategy. Apply it and keep moving forward.

Pray. Wait and listen to God. Do it.


Always Trisha