I prayed for you.

A few weeks ago, I lost everything I had worked for on my website. If you hadn’t known about that, go check how I made a BIG mistake. We all make mistakes and that was one. It took me quite some time before I could accept the fate. I tried every possible means I knew of to recover it but they all proved fruitless. Over time, I slowly reminded myself that life goes on despite any unexpected circumstances. One of the things that gave me consolation and the confidence to keep going was the fact that I had just released the Achieve Your Dream workbook. I wasn’t going to start from zero after all. In fact, I now had two books to my name. At this point, I just put them on the homepage of my new website so that any visitor wouldn’t land on a blank page. Then I continued rebuilding one page at a time. Am still doing so. That’s how you build anything. Even the skyscrapers. They are built one brick at a time.

Two days ago, Kostas called me. He had wanted to get my first book for quite sometime but it hadn’t happened because there had not been a perfect timing for us to meet. He had always insisted that he wants to take the book from the author’s hands with his own two hands. On this call he sounded urgent. I guess that since he realised a second book had now been published and he has only two hands, the idea was that this should be the right time and we should not wait any longer for a third book before he got these two. He always has an interesting perspective on just about everything.

On this particular day, the stars aligned. Two hours from the call, we were sitting together having a very inspiring conversation. He was inspiring me with his words and I guess I was inspiring him too with mine. You see, on this journey of life that’s what we are commissioned to do.

“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together………” -Hebrews 10:24-).

We were sharing about our wins, our future goals and looking for options to better our best. There is always room for improvement. They say it’s the biggest room in the world.

Suddenly, I don’t know how the idea of losses found way into our conversation. I rarely talk about my losses. I hereby found myself doing so. Passionately describing to him the event that led to the loss of my website content. It seemed like Kostas was actually enjoying this mournful moment from Anthony. I knew he was enjoying it, because he was wryly smiling as I was talking. Until I stopped talking. Then he shot a question at me – “Do you have data?”

“Yes I do.”

“Give me your phone.” He said.

I handed him my phone reluctantly.

“What’s your domain?”

“anthonymuiruri.com” – Doesn’t he know it all this while?

In approximately ten seconds, he types on the phone and hands it back to me. “Here’s your website.”

“Whaaaattt?” I exclaim with my mouth wide open. Right there before my own eyes, on the screen of my own phone lay my website just as it was before the mishap. Only that now it was on a different default domain.

“Don’t you know that the internet has an archive of every web activity that ever happens? You can always retrieve anything about a website from any time of its history.”

“Hmmmm! That’s comforting as well as scary.” I responded to him, imagining of the good this brings to anyone who finds himself at a position like I was and finds a solution that seemed impossible, but also imagining the fright it will give anyone else who could wish to conceal a past online, only to realise that they can’t. It will always be out there somewhere. Waiting for someone who has the interest and the know-how to retrieve it.

Anyway, I now had what I had been wishing and praying for. To have access to my old content that had been compiled over several years.

“Thank you Lord.”
I will now be reusing them on this new blog, one article at a time as earlier mentioned. Stay tuned and please let me know what you’d be interested in reading from me along the way.

After I was through doing my small victory dance, my mind shifted to you. I prayed for you. Yes you, who is reading this post.

I prayed that you may recover in your own life that precious thing which you may have lost and given up hope on. God is able to restore it in a way you may not imagine. He holds the past as well as the future. Trust Him for any situation, position, relation, condition or possession that you may have lost. He is the solution. Sometimes he may have to use another person to fulfil His mission. Just like He used Kostas. I now pray that you may find joy in this assurance. Can somebody say amen?

At this point I want to ask you of two things.

One: Help me say a prayer for Kostas. Pray that God may do exceedingly, abundantly beyond what Kostas may be thinking or imagining. He is a very kindhearted friend to anyone close to him. May God repay him in kind.

Two: Share this article with a friend or two or with everyone everywhere, to remind them that there can always be hope in their hopeless situation as long as they are still breathing.

With that, I hereby finish by praying that you may have a beautiful day.

God bless you.

Anthony Muiruri – Motivational Speaker
Author : Be Good For Good
Author : Achieve Your Dream workbook
Founder : Book Place Media