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Amazon Rainforest: A Sacrifice for Climate Diplomacy?

The Lungs of the Earth Are Gasping

The Amazon is more than a forest. It’s home to over 10% of the world’s species. It absorbs billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. This serves as a frontline defence against climate breakdown.

This isn’t just “infrastructure.” It’s environmental devastation wrapped in a PR stunt. Ask the tribes whose homes are threatened.
Ask the jaguars, the birds, the trees, God’s creation, being wiped out at the altar of convenience and commerce.

This isn’t leadership. This is theatre.

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When God Doesn’t Answer: Fighting Through the Silence

It all begins Let me ask you something hard:
What do you do when God says nothing at all?

What do you do when you trusted Him with everything…….and it still broke?
When the job didn’t come.
When the sickness stayed.
When the addiction didn’t leave.
When the person you prayed for still walked out?

You start asking brutal questions:

  • Is God even listening?

  • Did I mess up too bad to be heard?

  • Am I praying wrong……. or am I just not worth the answer?with an idea.

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Knocked Down, Not Out

ou may be on the canvas… but you're not out.

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”
2 Corinthians 4:8–9

That was Paul talking — a man who knew pain like a fighter knows bruises.
He was beaten, imprisoned, shipwrecked, snake bitten, stoned (and I don’t mean the fun kind)… But here’s the thing: Paul didn’t panic.

Why?
Because even when his knees buckled, his faith didn’t, He held on to one truth that changes everything:

The fight’s not over while faith is still breathing.

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The Warrior’s Way to Begin the Week

There was a time when Mondays felt like battle.

Not just because of the early starts or back-to-back tasks. It was deeper—a soul fatigue, a low hum of resistance against another week of trying to keep it together. I’d lace up like I was entering the cage, not a calendar. Angry. Heavy. Exhausted.

Over time, God taught me a new way to begin. I learned not to start with fire in my fists. Instead, I should begin with stillness in my soul.

This is the way of the warrior monk.
We don’t charge blindly.
We pause.
We pray.
We breathe.
Then we move—with intention, not impulse.

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