The saddest aspects of life tend to make individuals doubt their value, purpose as well as the existence of God. The author Macdella Acolatse presents the readers with the most transformative view on pain, purpose, and spiritual development in her mighty and emotionally correct memoir. Her life story is filled with powerful pieces of information that enable the readers to realize that God uses all the situations in our life including the painful ones to make us a character, enhance our faith and direct our destiny.
The initial key point that the book has taught me is that emotional wounds are heavier than meets the eye. Macdella reveals the suppressed emotional confinements that quietly determine choice and identity through heartbreak, embarrassment, homelessness, loss of money and betrayal. She makes known how grief wears away lightness, dread incapacitates development, embarrassment kills self-confidence, and resentment poisons the heart. These emotional struggles are investigated in the most compelling way, demonstrating the readers that the only way to heal the soul is to have the wounds. Her openness encourages the readers to look at their personal emotional jails and realize that they need spiritual healing.
The other lesson I have learned that God is not silent and present even in situations where He appears to be silent. In her quest Macdella was undergoing seasons of feeling that her prayers were not heard and her misery was not visible. However, as time passed, she came to realize that God was not being silent because he had turned his back on her. Instead, it was preparation. It is the prayer that she learned to take recourse to in her darkest times, strengthen her faith and give up her fears. The silence exposed those parts of her life that she had to resolve, which include untreated trauma, trust misjudgment, destructive habits, and the necessity to build a stronger connection with God. Her narrative demonstrates that God speaks in a very vocal way by not talking to His children and bringing them to the real world of maturity and realization.
Another lesson that is presented in the book is the need to identify internal barriers. Macdella describes that she once thought that people were the same cause of her suffering those who betrayed her, lied to her, or took advantage of her weakness over her head.
By turning the light into herself, she found out that no spiritual development is possible without self-honesty. Readers get the insight that the keys to defeating life challenges lie in the ability to face the patterns of poor health and leave God to redefine the heart.
One of the major themes in the book is the need to forgive. Macdella tells us how resentment had nearly taken over her, and hardened her heart, and clouded her judgment. However, when she gave up the urge to revenge and took the initiative to leave it to God to heal her it was then that she got freedom. She says that forgiving is not a gift to our hurters, it is a healing of the soul. This lesson makes the readers abandon resentment and rely on the justice of God instead of being emotionally burdened and forced to develop spiritually.
Another important lesson that stands out in the memoir is prayer. Prayer became the anchor of Macdella whether in the time of fear, doubts, fatigue, or spiritual awakening. It enabled her to empty her grief, find guidance and reunite with her God. Readers get to know that prayer is not just a communication, but transformation, prayer fills the mind, the spirit, and the heart with the purpose of the God.
Finally, the authoritative message of It’s Not a Coincidence! is the ability to realize that everything is a divine plan of God. There is no randomness, no wastage and nothing that can change the fate that God has planned. The life of Macdella is living witness of how pain can be transformed into purpose and be broken can be morally reborn. Her story also encourages the readers to have faith in God in all the seasons and be sure that what they are going through is preparing them to something higher.
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Author: Macdella Acolatse
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