Tag: life

• 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

• 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

• 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

• THE START OF SOMETHING NEW

  My first camera dive My mobility was not improving with my walking and swimming. My weak left leg was in constant pain, radiating from my left buttock down to the outside of my left calf muscle. I was in pain even when I was lying in bed, doing nothing. Deep tissue massages gave some very…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  December 18, 2024

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  #Actioncamera, #Chronicillness, #disability, #Divetravel, #healthylifestyle, #mermaiddiaries, #mystory, #newlife, #paralysis, #Photograph, #scubadreams, #surviving, #survivingmyself, divebuddies, diving, health, keepersofthesea, life, lifelessons, liveyourbestlife, mauritius, ocean, padi, photo, photographer, photography, photos, save our seas, scuba, scuba adventure, scubadiving, sea, travel, travelblog, travelblogger, underwaterphotography

• IN SEARCH OF MERMAIDS

  I’m back in my fishing village in Mauritius ! While I’m getting ready to start diving, I wanted to share another travelling experience with you. A journey of self-discovery. As I got to paragraph two, I found myself writing an allegory, a tale about a mermaid and a fisherman ! How not to … when…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  October 16, 2024

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  allegory, beach, beachvibes, blogger, broken heart, daringgreatly, depression, discovery, fairytale, faith, fantasy, grace, healing, healing heart, hope, island, islandvibes, journey, kissed, life, love, magic, mauritius, mentalwellness, mermaid diaries, mermaids, ocean, pain, personalgrowth, read, sacrifice, scuba, sea, short story, story, travel, travel diaries, travelblog, travelblogger

• The Lion and The Butterfly

  I was lying here, during my last long stay in Mahebourg, mezmerised by the view. I was reading a Paulo Coelho novel and inspired by his metaphors, the name ‘The Lion and the Butterfly’ settled in my heart. I am a motivational visual blogger on a Facebook page, ‘The Butterfly Project’. I’ve created and posted…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  July 26, 2024

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  answers, author, beat, blog, blogger, changes, dance, dancing, fiction, findyourself, heart and soul, heartandsoul, inspiration, journey, life, lifelessons, livenow, longstays, love, mauritius, sea, solotravel, starofthesea, story, storyteller, time, travel, travelblog, travelfiction, writer, writing

• A PERFECT DIVE 20/20 VISION

  A perfect dive, a feeling after most dives, right? But hey, this time I had 20/20 vision! I bet you’ve not had a dive with so many highlights, some starting on land already. While packing our gear bags I thought I would irritate my dive buddy, an instructor at the Dive Centre, who has been…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  March 6, 2024

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  diving, happiness, life, liveyourbestlife, mauritius, reef, reefdiving, scuba, scuba adventure, scubadiver, scubadiving, sea, solotravel, travel, travelblog, triggerfish, tropical, tropicaldive

• NEUTRAL BUOYANCY

  A question of balance. New divers often struggle finding that sweet spot where they can just hover, neutrally buoyant. You either rise uncontrolled, struggling to descend or you sink and risk damage to some sensitive marine organisms.   When I thought I was going to do coral transplantation shortly after qualifying as a SSI Open Water…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  November 5, 2023

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  balance, conservation, Conservation advocacy, Coral Conservation, coral volunteer, diving, False bay, impact divers, kelp forest, kelp forest diving, life, lifelessons, live now, marine conservation, marine ecology, marinelife, save our seas, scuba, scuba adventure, Scuba Atlantic Ocean, scubadiving, sea, selfdevelopment, Simons town, South Africa, travel, travelblog

• CROSSING BORDERS

  CROSSING BORDERS I knew it was time to go. I knew that crossing the border back into my country of origin would be an adjustment. To start with, the temperature differences would be extreme after 3 months and 2 weeks of constant day and night temperatures around 25˚C and the sea about the same. There…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  September 29, 2023

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  adjustments, borders, boundaries, change, cominghome, crossingborders, keepersofthesea, life, lifechanging, lifegoeson, lifelessons, mermaids, ongrowingwings, personalblog, personalgrowth, scubadiver, scubadream, scubatravel, sealovers, simple, simplicity, soulsearching, steppingover, thebutterflyproject, travel, travelblog