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♡Stop Wrapping Worry In A Blanket♡

I would love to be a friend to someone who said to me, “Helen, you are the worst worrier in the world! You are really bad at worrying!” 😉

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I am a Christian poet.

Lately I have been writing poems about worry. I will be posting them soon. They will encourage you.

The poems are a reminder to stop worrying and trust God.

What crossed my mind today after reading my draft poem?

This thought….

We often justify worry and think we must worry!

We treat worry like a friend, we nurture it, feed it and allow it to grow. It is almost like we protect worry in blankets of justification.

We say, “If I don’t worry about this, I am not normal. Any logical thinking being must worry!”

Good news dear believer in Christ!

You are not normal.

You are not logical.

Children of God do not function within the confines of earth. We live on an entirely different planet! So yes, you can face difficulties differently as you learn to unwrap worry real fast!

Meaning….no longer justifying worry’s choice by keeping IT warm and fed. Worry gets bigger when you feed it more. A Christian needs to starve worry to death. We need to unwrap it, expose it to the cold and fling it off into the distance, never to be seen again.

This sort of flinging, is divine. God gives you and I full permission to cast worry away, for good.

Many people treat worry gently, they don’t fight worry and they invite worry in unknowingly.

It’s very interesting that I had three “worry not” poems written in draft format and they were all sitting back stage, waiting to be published. Then my hubby lost his job! Suddenly! No warning. Then I remembered my three poems I had started writing, even before this happened! This topic was exactly what I needed. Thanks to everyone who prayed for us. Great news…My husband did find a new job, praise God!

God’s message to me was very simple – “Worry is forbidden! You are not allowed to worry.”

In this realisation, I was very encouraged. I knew God was teaching me to have zero tolerance to worry and I had to stop worrying for good.

The good news?

As you are reading this now, I see you nodding! You are unwrapping your worry, you are no longer protecting it and you are exposing the real enemy behind this!

Satan!

My new poem is my gift to you. I pray that it will change your life forever!

Please keep an eye out for it! It will be published shortly via this blog.

In the meantime, if you scroll down, the “Godly Indignation” post will come up immediately. This cracking-the-crack concept, will help you to stop being passive-in-battle.

~Worry is never God’s will~

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Godly Indignation💔

Crack the crack!
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What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?
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I would love to tell Christians about cracking-the-crack!

I made up CTC this week!

My hubby said something to me today that really encouraged me!

He said –

“You thrive in diasters!”

Meaning, by inference, when life gets tougher, your happiness grows!

He likened this to the fungi growing after the Chernobyl disaster! I had no idea about this kind of fungi growing then!

I was thankful my husband told me this because I realised that I too had grown in very difficult circumstances.

It was the realisation that in the awful messiness of life, things can still grow.

I don’t rejoice in hardships, but I learn to rejoice in my God! A lot! So I give God all the glory!

As we go through another crazy season in life, I find myself surviving yet another storm.

Recently I was exhausted! I begged God to bring me rest and peace! Instead the storm kept going! So I had no choice but to continue with the battles of life.

But then a very interesting thing happened.

As I did not get the rest I desired, I faced the storm! Through it, I got sharper, more stimulated and wind blown! Even stronger! Only because I had no choice to stop the gale. So in the gale, I kept going with God’s strength and then I became curious….

Jesus is the master of your storm

This storm was not stopping. I noticed new strength I did not think I had.

It was a new dimension of a Christian storm I had never experienced before.

What was this new dimension?

It was a brand new dimension inside me that I have never had before, until now!

It was called the 54 year old Godly Indignation!

The great G.I.

This AHA! G.I. moment, can be the precursor before the fruit of the spirit called PEACE, truly grows in our lives.

Sometimes we develop greater fruits of the spirit only “after”!

Tribulations often come first!

When we realise that Satan has lied to us for too long, we fiercely protect our future growth in God, even before new growth happens.

We learn to say indignantly, “I already choose the default setting of PEACE in the new storms to come. This peace shows God I am putting my trust in Him. The enemy has no right to steal my peace!”

In my case, I said –

“You are not gonna kill me, storm! I am done with believing 54 year old lies!”

( That’s my age!)

A storm is a workout 💪 for your soul!

“I believe God! He doesn’t want me to worry in this 54th gale!”

But bigger than all of this, is the old-peace that God has put in your and my heart! You know that old-peace that passes all understanding? It’s the ☆comfie slippers feeling that everything will turn out OK. It must! Because God is always OK.

Put your soul in God’s slippers and rest! 😉

God is fully in control and taking care of His children.

Yes, that also includes you and your loved ones!

I made up this LOL poem below today and shared it with my husband.

I hope it encourages you too!

It’s funny but true!

Crack the crack with the WORD OF GOD

My poem

I thrive on opposition!
But so do you!
When your under pressure…
You must not crack too!

Crack the crack!
Don’t let the crack, crack you!
For in fighting the crack,
You build muscle too!

Not visible muscles,
But POWER inside!
These muscles are attached to your soul,
They grow bigger
When tried!

Your soul muscles are pressed now…
Their hurting I know!
But soon your crack will be invisible
Because you
Learnt to say NO!!

NO, I will not crack!
I hear you say to me!
This crack is
My opponent (Satan)
Who will never
Crack me!

♡Author Helen Olenjin♡

Poetry~Heavenly Rhythms~

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Mind Your Mind

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Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.
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“If I wrote a blog post today Lord, what is the first thing that needs to come to my mind?”

What comes to my mind now, is the image above.

Jesus has His hand on the girl’s mind.

Why is this important?

It’s important because your mind is always speaking aloud in heaven!

Treat your mind as if it’s on God’s stage all the time. Because it is. God can hear all your thoughts. 

If you heard your mind speaking aloud, the way God hears it, would you not mind, if in heaven, the mind conversation was recorded in full? 

I can imagine Jesus saying, “My dear child, your mind is not muted, even for a second.”

Because of this fact, your mind is loud.

Really loud! 

All the time.

But this is good to know. 

Only because your mind is always on God’s stage.

This fact, helps you to think vigilantly. 

Your mind is a “thinking” 24/7 performance, all on its own. But it’s not even aware of this!

But your mind of Christ is! 

Imagine reading a big book in heaven about all your thoughts in 2025?

When I write these reflections, I am encouraged.

Only because you and I know that God is watching us think & live on a better new page right now!

As we think better thoughts now, (compared to hours ago when we perhaps got off 👣 track😊)we realise that everything will be OK.

My new thought goes like this, “I see my mind in Jesus’s hands. My mind is real to Him and it is also heaven’s place. God helps me think with the mind of Christ as I obey His Word.”

~Think like a child~

Please continue to pray for us.

We are very grateful for our church, their love, support and prayers. I am very grateful for my readers who come here from different parts of the world and also my WordPress subscribers who are writers too!

Our situation…..

My husband needs to find a new job as soon as possible.

His U.S.A. work company went bankrupt just recently. He is a Senior Software Developer.

I know God is watching me “trust Him in my mind” and this is far more significant than my husband finding a job!

Only because a relationship with God is more important than earthly resources.

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Easter Started With Doubt….

When our Saviour carried his cross to the site of execution, there was plenty of doubt!

But this great sadness, ended in great joy!

The decision to write this poem, resulted in a wonderful understanding that doubt is never justified when it seeks to gain authority over faith.

Have a restful Easter.

Love Helen ♥️

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Faith Always Wins

Don’t doubt Jesus’s promise to return!

Put your faith in Jesus.

Don’t put faith in your doubt.

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Christian Counsel Is A Good Thing…

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I write poetry!

This positive change helps me on difficult days.

Today I have decided to write a new poem in one hit and publish immediately.

I have never done this before!

 I still have three poems in draft format and they are all about defeating worry. 

If you are new here, feel free to read all my poems and posts at helenolenjin.life.❤️

I am curious about one thing today….

“What will be the topic of this new poem I am just about to write?”

I have no idea!

But God has written it already….so here goes…

Today I am looking through glass(cafe window)

I see a busy city street

I am sitting in a cafe

Where eternal souls meet!

The cafe is temporal 

Their souls are not!

I wonder if they think of God

Or just live in the knots!

The knots are life’s problems

The knots get knottier with self

When they are never shared with an unraveller

Who knows God is our HELP

Humans are unravellers 

They are often trained well

To unravel other knotty souls

Who are going through hell!

But just stop and consider…

This one truth I say!

Is another soul unravelling your knots

Who ignores God’s holy ways?

This soul may be smart

And this soul may be paid well

This soul may have studied for years

To help souls become well!

But if this person 

Excludes God

Erasing God’s holy Word

If this soul erases Jesus,

This soul is not heard!

This head knowledge may be right

But it doesn’t heal all the dross 

The soul remains unredeemed as it

Excludes Jesus’s cross! 

Meaning, heaven doesn’t hear earth, 

Why help souls without God?

Earth may temporarily help you…

But this unraveller, doesn’t know God!

You need a unraveller, dear friend,

Who is God’s child for real!

They will help unravel your difficult knots

They know the One Who heals!

Our perfect unraveller is Jesus

He knows where to find the end of your knots!

Your big knotty ball of troubles

Is a huge knot that can stop! 

How do I unknot the knot? I hear you ask today

My life gets harder and harder

The knots are all tangled, I say!

Shhhh….let’s now listen to what God is telling you and I!

He already has your knot unravelled…

It’s your blessing in disguise

Stop trying to unravel this knot ….

It’s tangled for a season

It will be incrementally unravelled …

It is there for a reason

This knot is your storm,

That heaven has already undone!

It’s like a spiritual maze for your soul

That gets easier with the Son! (Jesus)

So in simple terms 😌 I say,

Your knot is like a voice!

A “nudge” from God right now….

To listen to God’s choice!

Choose Christian friends and counsellors

Instead of the wordly ones

But pray first to God to find them!

He knows who is with the Son!

These Christians are redeemed 

They are set apart for God’s work

Their names are written in heaven 

They have experienced spiritual rebirth

They know the One Who heals!

These souls are trained well

Not just in universities and schools

But where the Holy Spirit dwells!

~Poem written by Helen Olenjin~

Psalm 1:1: “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.” 

Thank you for this comment below 🙏 precious person/reader! You were my greatest encourager today!

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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The Strange Woman I Met Today….

Please Be Careful Everywhere You Go🧐
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What activities do you lose yourself in?
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I lose myself in writing!

Today a really strange “true” thing happened!

I was walking to the train station to catch a train. It was my day off and I was dying to have a break. It had been a very tough week.

Suddenly a car driving by, slowed down.

There was a lady behind the wheel. She looked Asian. She was 100% a stranger. I had never seen her before. There was nothing odd in her appearance or her car.

But her question was extremely odd.

She said, “Do you want a lift to the train station?” (the station was very close by)

I was truly shocked! (not a taxi/uber either)

She was talking to me like I was her daughter!

It wasn’t raining!

I wasn’t limping therefore suggesting I needed help. There wasn’t even any introduction.

Today, no one asks a complete stranger to get into their vehicle to go some place!

I felt really indignant.

“No thank you. I do not need help walking…” ( my own thoughts)

“You don’t even know me. For all you know, I could be a serial killer. And you are asking me to get into your car?” (my thoughts)

But the other thought I am having now, is what if she was a serial killer? How did she even ask the unthinkable question?

Now days, even women cannot trust one another.

I made sure I did not get close to her car door. Just in case she grabbed me and stuffed me in her car.

I stiffly said, “No. I don’t even know you!”

I kept walking, feeling slightly annoyed that this woman did not appear to be living in the real world!

Stop, wait a minute! Maybe she wasn’t even from our world! 😉

The Bible says some have entertained angels unaware!

Or was this a man dressed like a woman?

Or was this woman a real woman but slightly unhinged?

I really would have liked to continue the conversation and find out why this woman acted this way. But it is scary to keep talking.

I would have liked to say, “Who are you? Where do you come from? Don’t you know that your question is not a safe one?”

What is my theory?

I am not sure.

Was she perhaps lost or new to the area and needed help to find the train station herself? Early dementia? Respectfully said.

If so, it was a very weird request because long gone are the days where anyone trusts a complete stranger. In my area, no one would ever say this. No, I don’t live in a small village but near a very big city where by default, people do not converse like that!

I hope this woman will be OK.

I hope she is well.

But I must admit I feel uncomfortable to know the real truth.

I simply cannot trust a weird stranger at all. A bit sad, but that is how it is now.

Btw..please do not trust normal strangers either!

When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well, she appeared indignant too!

“What are you talking to me for?”

I 🥰 know that Jesus is the only 100% safe Person to be around.

You can fully trust Him.

If He asks you a question, don’t be suspicious, He only has your best interests at heart.

When you answer His question, know that He is not out to deceive you, dress like a woman, carry a big knife to kill you or act unhinged.

Jesus is never fake and is not out to scare you!

I like these thoughts He has for us.

Jesus is always genuine.

Jesus is always good.

Maybe this lady was sincere with no ulterior motive. I have no idea.

But I still wonder….

What do you think?

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In The Pause Before The Storm Hits

What is this pause called?

It’s called the choice not to sin.

I experienced this choice recently when I was dealing with some very challenging behaviour with my own child.

It had been a long busy day. I was not equipped to fight. I just wanted to rest. But the situation with my child, gave me an inkling that a “sin-storm” was just about to hit!

Have you heard of a sin-storm?

No?

Me neither.

I only heard of a sin-storm this morning when I was typing this post and the two words coupled beautifully together.

A sin-storm is where everyone sins in a stormy situation!

During these times, a Christian slides down to the tail end and starts to engage with serpentine thoughts at the tail!

Instead of engaging with my child, I simply walked out of his room and closed his door.

I said nothing.

At that moment I realised something significant. Every difficult situation does not require a sin response or even an immediate disciplinary action for my child.

Sometimes in life, withdrawal is only possible as you allow the other parent, God Himself to take over and supernaturally parent!

God never sins. He certainly does a much better job with our children than us!

I told God, “You are a parent too. Please help me parent this child. I can’t do this alone!”

God knew I was exhausted. God knew that Satan always likes to attack us at our weakest point. When this happens, it is easy to sin then. For me, saying something rude and unsupportive to my child would have weakened my parenting skills and I would have probably said something I regretted.

We often forget God is a Father. He has children. He gets it! He knows we all struggle with family issues.

After I chose to say nothing and withdraw from this difficult situation with my child, I saw the old defeated Helen! But only in fiction, thank God!

She was shouting at her child, she was slamming the door and then she went to bed miserable for losing her self control. Then she woke up the next day, feeling awful.

But thank God, a better non-fiction Helen emerged that night!

She wasn’t shouting and losing the plot, no, rather she was trusting God in the silence.

It was a Helen who had not picked up the tail!

What do I mean by that?

One night I had a dream.

In the dream there was a small snake on the ground!

Like a rattle snake.

I will only talk about the end scene in the dream.

The snake.

After waking, I asked God what the dream meant.

His message was clear.

“Do not pick up the tail.”

Rather stay at the head position with Christ.

When we pick up Satan’s tail, we start to engage with Him and move away from God’s best.

Satan wants to be your head, so you can be his tail!

God wants you and I to know, that during difficulties in life, we must not pick up Satan’s tail end.

“If you listen to these commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom.”

I’m very thankful to God I did not embrace this sin-storm that night!

I went to bed with zero regret.

I felt a great peace.

It was a wonderful feeling.

Thank you Lord!

I had kept my mouth shut while I trusted God to open His.

When you are facing this space….just before a sin-storm hits, PAUSE.

This one PAUSE will truly change the whole course of your week for better.

In the PAUSE, you recognise God’s power to help you not sin.

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Weigh your soul…

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What’s your favorite candy?
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Soul candy 🍬 is my favourite!

I call these God’s rewards!

Only because they are the “sweetest” and they have no ill side effects.

“The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but He delights in accurate weights.”  (Proverbs 11:1)

Earth is dishonest.

Even the candy is!

The scales we use, (after eating lots of sugar!) weigh the body but not the soul. 

Did God set the “healthy weight range” on Google?

No.

Man did.

If we focus on the “ranges” set by earth, we miss God entirely. 

We may find we are stressing about a “human measure” on earth, that God Himself, never set for us.

Feel better, after reading this?

Yes! Me too!

How much does your soul weigh? 

This is the better question.

Not, how much does my body weigh?

If we focus on “soul-weight” and then get this right, then we have prioritised the most important discipline. 

God is our discipline!

Not the discipline itself. 

When God is our Program, our Process, our Discipline, our Measure, our Everything, we find that the battles we face, are greatly reduced.

This is because our soul weight, is accurate in God’s eyes!

When we put Him first in everything, our soul feels the perfect weight of heaven! 

That’s the kind of weight I want to carry! 

This is heaven’s gold!

It’s not the toxic weight of earth! 

An accurate weight in your spirit, will lead to the greatest peace and joy! 

This IS God’s weight and “this scale”,  leads to the accurate spiritual measure of self. 

You may be the fattest person alive, (physically) on planet earth, but have the “perfect soul weight” in God’s eyes.

 Only because then and there, you decided the weight of your soul was the most important!

In this AHA moment, God weighed you (the fat man) and saw what earth never did! 

He saw 👀 an honest scale and an accurate soul weight!

Only here, can you start achieving physical disciplines too, according to God’s will for you!

But it always starts with weighing your eternal soul 1st!

Author ~Helen Olenjin

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Be a minimalistic thinker …..

When I think of the word minimalistic, I tend to think of the physical reduction of stuff!

This morning, I am thinking about the benefits of the mental reduction of thought! Permanently!

Minimally thinking!

Only because last night was difficult….

I was trying to send an email response back to someone who asked about my qualifications regarding tutor/mentor work.

(Please 🙏 pray for me to get this job if it’s God’s will. I would really appreciate that.)

Last night, I simply sat for ages, reading my email response draft over and over again. I was trying to send a very simple response back but was really struggling to do so.

My mind felt very slow and foggy and I humbly felt 100% inefficient!

Of course my loud kids did not help!

I thought, “What is the matter with me? I’m trying to do something so simple and I feel so incompetent!”

I eventually sent the email and felt very humbled by my lack of quick!

Does this happen to us women at this age?

I’m sure it does!

This morning, I decided that I want to live as a minimalistic on the inside!

As a 53 year old, I often struggle with feeling exhausted and mentally drained. I think this is especially caused by menopause symptoms.

As a big thinker, I realised this morning, that I have to give my mind a permanent rest from now on.

No longer do I want to be concerned about anything! It’s too difficult to keep this maximised mind going!

Especially at 53!

Last night, reminded me of that!

I think we keep the maximum screen going on in our head because we are fearful, anxious and worried!

I believe God wants us to reduce our thinking every day!

Because He has thought already!

He has everything sorted out! In the quietness of faith, we learn to silently 🤫 trust God.

This is a mind at peace.

God will supply all your needs, remember?

He holds “all thought perfectly” and He is the omnipresent thinker of all.

We need to trust His mind and take the shortcut to Him!

Usually we find we tire ourselves with non-minimalistic thinking.

Remember the minimise button on your computer? We often use it to close a screen to open up another one.

I like to compare my new minimalistic mind, to this minimiser button.

God does the big think.

I do the small think.

When my worried mind starts to open up fully, like that maximised screen, I can simply reduce it, and rest in God’s promises.

God’s peace = the minimiser button.

When we permanently live with muted smaller minds at peace, our faith, love, hope, trust in God grows.

Like a small child, we say, “Dear Father in heaven, your peace will guard my heart and mind as I live in Christ Jesus.”

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Using God’s name and never finding God….

Today I had a really interesting conversation at work!

I had no plans to blog today!

I work as a Christian Support Worker.

I work with a gorgeous Christian client who was diagnosed with stage four cancer some time ago. We often pray together and discuss the Bible. I love this pastoral care!

My client and I believe that God wants us to take His commandments seriously.

If we don’t, we can reduce God to fiction and shelf Him away as if He is pointless.

Today my client shared with me this experience that I thought needed to be written down!

How did this Christian she knew, deal with the troubling issue, when Terry (name changed for privacy reasons), continued to say God’s name in vain…. in ordinary conversations?

Meaning, he was not praying to God, but he was simply using God’s name like a constant “fill in common word” during a sentence.

As the Christian observed this, it troubled him.

He knew his co-worker was unaware of his carelessness of speech.

The Christian decided to be silent for awhile.

Eventually Terry spoke.

He questioned why the Christian had been giving him the silent treatment.

These are not the Christian’s exact words as I did not record their conversation, but the message was pretty much the same….

The Christian said, “How do you think God feels when you speak His name, and He answers you? God says..Yes? I’m here.”

“But then you simply ignore Him?”

It was like Terry had constantly been initating conversations with God, the way Christians do, but the difference was it was like He left God hanging and completely ignored Him after that.

What a huge missed opportunity to speak to the real God Himself!

It’s really strange to understand this, but some people are so far from God, that to use His name, simply means nothing to them.

As if God Himself is nothing.

The usage of God’s name like this, produces zero conviction, zero fear, zero desire to pray and zero interest in a real God who truly exists.

Sadly we see this approach in so many movies today!

Even when watching something online, our hearts can become desensitised to hearing God’s name like this! I am guilty of this too.

“Forgive me Lord!”

Some time ago, I watched 👀 a comedy series and it was truly very funny. But later on, I got rid of them.

I thought, “How did I even watch that?”

The actors were saying God’s name carelessly with no respect but as the humour was strong and powerful, it seemed that everyone forgot that great respect for the real God Himself!

I never want to dishonour God’s great name.

I am so glad God is never common and ordinary.

God has a name.

His name is God.

He is our Father in heaven.

He does answer our prayers.

But only when we recognise who He really is.

Christians, only use “the word -God” with great respect and fear.

To speak the word, God, is our most important word in the world!

The word God, is never to be used as a filler word, to fill in boring gaps or to plump up a conversation.

Every time we use God’s name with great reverence and respect, we open a supernatural door that leads to a beautiful ongoing relationship. God lovingly responds to us and we know He is truly real!

God knows when someone is really calling His name or just using His name!

There is a huge difference here.

So huge that a person using God’s name only, will never find Him! Mind blowing really!

God can never be fooled.

He does not answer to a counterfeit voice. ❤️