KEEP CALM & CARRY ON...

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  2^nd 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 2^nd 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.”

 

In a place which I detested even before seeing, getting here I didn’t know whether I was coming or going  but all I had to do was keep calm and see what place had to offer me and boy have I been pleasantly surprised. I am not yet at a place where I can call it home but am chiving on and enjoying the course.