In late 2012, for the
very first time I came across the slogan, “Keep Calm & Carry On.” Hence forth I started seeing more products
produced with the slogan; cups, cards, t-shirts, bags…just about anything.
Intrigued at what the
buzz was all about I took time to find out the origin of this slogan and learnt
that in the 2nd world war, in
the year 1939 while preparing for the worst attack from Nazi
Germany, the political leaders in Britain thought to motivate the people by printing
posters with the words, “Keep Calm Carry
on.” The posters where actually never distributed for reasons not clear to me but well after
over 70 years here they are ringing on in even bigger ways . The
phrase seems to live on, relevantly too and if you ask me the timing wouldn’t
be more perfect to resurrect this slogan.
Naturally I jumped on
the band wagon and for most of my birthday wishes since I discovered the slogan,
I have duly borrowed the phrase Keep Calm
it’s blah blah’s birthday or as the case may be. However writing the phrase
out and acting it out are 2 different things, no wonder initially in the 2nd
world war when it was first printed it was never distributed, I imagine instead
of calming the people it would have made them panic realizing how close the war
had gotten to the safety of their homes.
The last couple of
months have been crunch months for me with decision making and lots of
crossroads to maneuver. To avoid getting caught in several mazes I had to adopt
the Keep calm and carry on phrase in my personal life.
It has not been in
the least bit easy especially with a person like me who disguises my impatience
as pro-activeness; but oh my I have learnt you go places by keeping calm. It is
not a cliché when people say take it one day at a time, I think that is one way
of keeping calm while carrying on. I have done that and looking back now I can’t
believe the far I have gotten and how
what seemed blurred before is not only
clear but sits right in my life.
Of course it has not
been in the least bit easy and once again and again here goes my song again , I wouldn’t
have done it without my Lord and savior Jesus and of course the different
people He daily blesses me to do life with. That is the truth that I can’t hide
from and so I will sing on Ebenezer.
1 Samuel 7-12
Then Samuel took a stone and set it u between Mizpah and
Shab and called its name Ebenezer, for he, “Thus far, the Lord has helped us.”
