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• EXPLORING THE HEART

  “All I have is a simple prayer” “I have nothing but my prayer, when the burden is too heavy. I have nothing but my prayer, when my tears flow, But deep in my heart I know, NOTHING IS MORE POWERFULL THAN A SIMPLE PRAYER. Nothing is more powerful than being on the ground, On my…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  February 21, 2026

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  #bible, #blog, #blogger, #blogging, #calm, #devotional, #faith, #god, #grace, #growth, #growthmindset, #health, #heart, #hearts, #illness, #inspiration, #Jesus, #jesuschrist, #lesson, #lessons, #life, #lifelesson, #lord, #love, #mercy, #miracles, #motivation, #mystory, #prayer, #purpose, #reading, #revelation, #scripture, #simple, #teaching, #trust, #wellness, #wisdom, #worship, #writing, #youmatter, faith, prayer

• WHEN WALLS COME CRASHING DOWN

  The Effects of Generational Trauma.  “Why should I not be sad faced when the city, the place of my father’s sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?” Nehemiah 2:3 Leaving city gates open or not keeping the watchmen on the walls, as I discussed in my blog “How to build a Fort”,…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  December 23, 2025

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  #advice, #alone, #attachment, #bible, #blogger, #choices, #christ, #christmas, #connection, #courage, #destruction, #devestation, #emotionalhealing, #faith, #family, #festiveseason, #forgive, #forgiveness, #generationaltrauma, #god, #grace, #growth, #growthmindset, #healing, #healthandwellness, #help, #heritage, #holidays, #inspiration, #intentional, #Jesus, #loneliness, #lost, #love, #mercy, #motivation, #ongrowingwings, #patience, #read, #rebuilding, #relationships, #restoration, #therapy, #trauma, #traumawounds, #war, #wellness, #youchoose, #youmatter, faith, nehemiah, prayer

• FROM VENICE TO MAHÉBOURG

  A Spirited Dance  After three months, I had to dust my luggage and defrost the fridge when I started preparing for my departure. This Blog-page was created for the 2023 trip to Mahébourg. I never imagined that I would return again and again. Upon my return home. I was embarrassed by my yearning for Mahébourg.…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  October 27, 2025

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  ##getaway, #activity, #alignment, #alignment #photographer, #art, #body, #cathederals, #escape, #healthandwellness, #holiday, #Italy, #Jesus, #journal, #oneness, #research, #soul, #spirit, #venice, #wellness, adventure, balance, beach, blog, blogger, dance, diving, europe, explore, faith, grace, Harmony, history, Journalism, journey, longstays, mauritius, photography, scuba, scuba adventure, scubadiving, sea, travel, travelblog, travelphotography, writer, writing

• HOW TO BUILD A FORT

  “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.” (1 Corinthians 16:13 NIV) In French “be strong” is translated with “fortifiez-vous”.Wow! What a picture this paints! Fortify yourselves! Do you see the root word FORT here? The English word “fort” comes from the Latin word “fortis”, meaning “strong” and has become the…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  August 13, 2025

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  #advice, #attack, #battle, #bible, #biblestudies, #biblestudy, #courage, #defence, #education, #enemy, #equilibre, #fortified, #god, #godsword, #growingwings, #havecourage, #inspirationdaily, #Jesus, #protection, #reading #encouragement, #spiritual, #stories, #strength, #strong, #teaching, #walls, #war, #wellness, #wisdom, #words, @on_growing_wings, blog, blogger, Chjrist, christianity, faith, Fortifiezvous, hope, inspiration, life, lifelessons, ongrowingwings, word, writer

• STEERING OUT OF A STORM

  Thundering Thoughts and Emotional Floods Recently I struggled with a storm in my head. I’m sure you’ve experienced that. The type of storm where your thoughts are thundering in your head and your emotions flood your whole being. This becomes a cyclone from which it seems impossible to escape.  In his book, ‘If you want…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  July 6, 2025

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  #action, #alignment, #bible, #Christian, #christianmotivational, #compass, #diaries, #direction, #emotions, #faith, #god, #growthmindset, #hope, #Jesus, #life, #Lifelessons, #mentalhealth, #motivational, #ongrowingwings, #personalgrowth, #prayer, #renewal, #renewyourmind, #restoration, #resurrection, #selfawareness, #selfcontrol, #spiritsoulbody, #spititual, #storms, #thoughts, #trauma, #wellness, #writer, #youmatter, balance, Devotional, faith, Fear, grace, Growth, Inspirational, love, psalms, Scripture, Wisdom

• AN ACT ABOUT BALANCE

  A story – rewriting the script and changing the plot. Last night a friend reminded me of the saying, “Your strongest trait is both your strength and your weakness”. I must have heard it before, knowing how Shakespeare’s Othello demonstrates how his unchecked loyalty and trust leads to his downfall. Last night, this reminder, was…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  June 29, 2025

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  #act, #action, #alignment, #body, #changingthenarrative, #character, #encouragement, #equilibre, #fitness, #fitnessjourney, #flipthescript, #growthmindset, #heal, #healthandwellness, #inspirational, #motivational, #motivationaldaily, #mystory, #narrative, #resilience, #script, #selfawareness, #soul, #spirit, #spiritsoulbody, #stories, #strength, #strengths, #thenarrative, #wellness, #writingstories, #youmatter, #yourstory, balance, blog, blogger, breathe, change, faith, grace, health, hope, Mentalhealth, ongrowingwings, personalgrowth, story, thebutterflyproject, writer

• IN THE LAVENDER GARDEN

  Saving lives and other brave acts. I’ve been silent. I haven’t blogged or dived. Land-locked at home, I’ve been focussing on what I can do with what I have here, in Robertson, South Africa. In the process my life-purpose has become clearer. While working on how to step into that, I’ve carried the words “Brave”…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  June 6, 2025

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  #butterflies, #confidence, #diary, #fearless, #flowers, #foodforthought, #gardener, #gardening, #godspeaks, #grow, #growthmindset, #inspirational, #intentional, #lavender, #lifepurpose, #lifeskills, #mercy, #motivation, #motivational, #mystory, #purpose, #reader, #selfawareness, #strength, #testimony, #unstoppable, #wellness, #wellnessjourney, #wisdom, #youmatter, balance, blogger, blogging, Brave, change, faith, garden, grace, hope, inspiration, Intention, lifelessons, liveyourbestlife, Mentalhealth, ongrowingwings, personalgrowth, plants, thebutterflyproject, travelblog, writing

• THE PERFUME INCIDENT

  Questions on the fragrant effect of Mary’s perfume. Today is Palm Sunday ~ How can I not remember my perfume obsession, that lead me to write about this very important Perfume Incident, that changed history and our lives forever? ~*~ When I read the crucifixion message in the gospels, I stop time and again to…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  April 13, 2025

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  #annointment, #bible, #biblestudy, #biblical, #blogpost, #Christian, #crusifiction, #Easter, #Easterfriday, #essay, #faithful, #heisrisen, #Jesus, #king, #kingship, #Mary, #obedience, #oil, #perfume, #reader, #spikenard, #study, #thechrist, #theology, #thetrial, blog, blogger, faith, grace, history, hope, lazarus, life, lynnilochenkov, ongrowingwings, viral, writer

• THE HEART OF THE OCEAN

  AN INTRODUCTION TO CORAL & CORAL REEFS To understand the value of Coral we need to understand its role in the ocean as well as our relationship to the ocean. Be aware of the following factors, indicative that we actually live on PLANET OCEAN and not Earth. We usually meet the sea where it meets…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  April 7, 2025

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  #animals, #bethechange, #coralsex, #dreams, #goingviral, #images, #learn, #makingbabies, #mermaidvibes, #needtoknow, #newlife, #news, #Photograph, #realitycheck, #restoration, biodiversity, blog, blogger, climate-change, Coral, Coral Conservation, coralconservation, corals, diving, ecosystems, environment, heart, hope, islandlife, islandvibes, journey, keepersofthesea, love, marinelife, mauritius, Mermaid, nature, onderwaterphotography, photo, photography, save our seas, savetheplanet, scuba, scubadiving, sea, sustainability, travel, travelblog, underwater, underwaterphotography, viral, virals, writing

• WHERE FEAR & FAITH MEETS

  A personal testimony of hope and healing In 2022 I was faced with a challenge – I realised that if I didn’t do something drastic, my already challenged mobility would deteriorate and I would be back in a wheel chair soon. So I started training – I motivated myself by telling myself that I would…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  March 9, 2025

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  #action, #amen, #beencouraged, #belief, #believe, #bible, #Christian, #church, #come, #courage, #disability, #encouragement, #family #friends, #fathersonholyspirit, #fear, #forgiveness, #Glory, #glorytogod, #god, #God’sGlory, #growingwings, #guillainbarresyndrome, #holyspirit, #IAM, #illness, #impossible, #Iwillupholdyou, #Jesus, #justasyouare, #lifeskills, #loveinaction, #miracle, #miracles, #motivation, #motivationalspeaker, #mybio, #mystory, #paralysis, #praisegod, #protection, #publicspeaker, #reader, #scripture, #scubalife, #stepbystep, #stepsinfaith, #storyoffaith, #testimony, #thankyou, #thebible, #thereisalwayshope, #thewordofgod, #togodtheglory, #truestory, #trustgod, #walk, #walkonwater, #youareloved, #youmatter, balance, beach, christianity, faith, grace, healing, health, hope, inspiration, island, islandlife, life, lifelessons, love, lynnilochenkov, ongrowingwings, prayer, scuba, story, travel, walking, writer