Get Up!

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Twas the day before Christmas, and all you can find is confusion and misunderstanding in the depths of your mind.

Sickness stormed in, death angel claimed some loved ones, bills piling up, depression won’t leave you alone, laid off, your marriage is troubled and your child is in the hospital or jail … what’s merry about this Christmas, right?

Here’s what I’ve grown to understand, things will happen beyond our control and the day/time doesn’t change it. Yes, it hurt. Yes, it causes questions that you may or may not get the answers to. Yes, it causes tears and sleepless nights. Yes, to all the things going through your mind.

Yet, on this Christmas Eve, I simply stopped to tell you … don’t give up. Easier said than done, right? Sure. But you can decide to keep getting up. Even through depression, grief, heartache, sickness, and loneliness; get up. When it feels like you’re being defeated, get up. When it looks like things won’t work out, get up. When you can’t form words, get up. With tears, pain, confusion, questions … get up.

Getting up is the hardest part, but when you decide to do it, you’ll then feel the strength to try.

I don’t know what you’re going through, but don’t allow it to hold you hostage today. Get up.

I’m praying for you. 💚

Published by Pastor LaKisha

LaKisha Johnson is an author of thirty Christian Fiction novels, devotionals and journals. She writes from her heart, as she hopes the messages, on the pages, will relate to every reader.  Ask her and she’ll tell you, ”It’s not just writing, its ministry.” Over the course of her career, she’s won the 2018 Drunken Druid Book of the Year Award for her book, The Forgotten Wife, 2019 Top Shelf Christian Fiction Book of the Year for Dear God: Hear my Prayer, 2020 Distinguished Authors Guild Award for her book, I’m Not Crazy and was a 2020 TopShelf Women’s Fiction Finalist for her book, When the Vows Break. In addition to being a self-published author, she’s also a wife of 22 years, mother of 2, Asst. Pastor of Macedonia MB Church in Hollywood, MS; Sr. Business Analyst with FedEx, Devotional Blogger and more. She’s a college graduate with 2 Associate Degrees in IT and a Bachelor of Science in Bible.   LaKisha writes from the heart, and this is why she doesn’t take the credit for what God does. If you were to strip away everything, you’d see that Lakisha is simply a woman who boldly, unapologetically and gladly loves and works for God.

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