Tag: lifelessons

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• DIVING INTO 2024

  The start of a new adventure! I am wishing all my readers, fellow divers, ocean lovers, marine conservationists, travellers, photographers, adventurists and dreamers a blessed, peaceful, safe and healthy 2024. May you materialise those goals that you have been dreaming of and those you have worked on so diligently. Eleven months ago I started a…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  January 16, 2024

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  adventure, budgettravel, cliffyclix, conservation, coralconservation, coralnurseries, diving, islandlife, lifelessons, liveyourbestlife, macrophotography, marine life, mauritius, photo, photograper, photography, photos, reefconservation, savetheplanet, scuba, scuba-diving, solotravel, sustainability, travel, travelblog, underwaterphotography, volunteering

• 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

• CROSSING THE REEF AGAIN PART 2

  A different view A different view When I crossed the reef again, the view was a very different one. Upon arriving in Mahebourg and writing my blog, ‘The back-roll entry’, it ended with the following paragraph: “I scrolled through some of my Butterfly Project Facebook collages today and found the one stating, ‘Relax, you can’t…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  September 5, 2023

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  finding yourself, home, life goes on, lifechanging, lifelessons, longstay, mahebourg, mauritius, scuba, scuba adventure, scubadiver, sea, solotravel, travel, travelblog, traveljournal

• A NAVIGATION DIVE

  The Padi Advanced Open Water Certification Course consists of five dives. Two of those must be a Deep Dive and a Navigation Dive. Then you choose three adventure dives from a variety of dives, depending on availability at your dive centre, location and sea conditions. I was preparing for my Navigation dive and in all…

  Lynni Lochenkov

  August 3, 2023

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  compass, direction, lifelessons, location, mauritius, navigating life, Navigation, scuba, scuba adventure, scubadiving, sea, travel, travelblog