Fight the Battle for Your Life

What are the problems you are facing?

Your problems are taking you to the next level in your life.

No challenge - no victory!

Get up and fight the battle for your life.

Don't sit there and allow your adversary to take your life.

You were born because God wanted someone like you to be a part of His creation. He has a plan for you - a plan for a good future.

Fight for His plan to be fulfilled in your life. Don't allow anyone to rob you of His best for you and your life.

You are worth fighting for!

You really are.

If no one has told you that you have value or worth or made you feel that way... the problem is with them, not you.

They were stingy with their words and deeds, too self-centered to see good in anyone else. Don't let their weaknesses or faults make you look down on yourself!

Don't hate yourself because they hated you.

Don't neglect yourself because others neglected you and your needs.

Don't expect others to reward you or acknowledge your goodness...

Keep doing good for the right reasons and God will reward you.

Keep fighting in faith, build up the warrior in you!

 

- Henrietta

Wounded Soldier

Wounded soldier soldier

Just come home from the fight

Feeling no one wants you 

So confused of wrong and right

Wondering how it is going to be

Now that life has changed so much

Wondering if you’re equal

To challenges in sight!

Wounded soldier soldier

You still have to fight

Wounded soldier soldier

This war of life!

Things have changed

They no longer look the same

Yesterday you were strong

Today it is just a memory

Longing for that feeling

The feeling it’s alright!

Crying out in pain and misery

For wounds you cannot see

Wondering if you’ll get well

If you can move on in life!

Wounded soldier soldier

You’re still a hero deep inside

Come on and hold your pride!

Times are changing they say

The war raises questions

Leave no answers behind

You’re still facing the burdens

Ever since that day…

How can you ever forget

The journey to the war

The prodding and the pruning

To sharpen your reflex

And when that moment came

And you were down

Wounded soldier soldier

You still wear the crown

For standing and believing 
It’s right to fight for a just cause!

~ Written and composed by Henrietta Decruz

Wake Up My Sister! - A song by Henrietta Decruz

This is a song that I specially wrote and composed on the occasion of the Bicentenary Celebrations of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, the group that runs the College of Social Work. It was in 1990.

The background music is by Leon D'Souza and the voice in this track belongs to Aarti Rao. It was my first time in a sound studio then! An unforgettable experience.

The song can be heard at this link...
Wake Up My Sister! - A song by Henrietta Decruz

This is the link to the song on soundcloud.com
https://soundcloud.com/henrietta-decruz/wake-up-my-sister-henrietta-decruz

Life is Calling You - a Song

Here is a song I have written for those who are going through the toughest of times... and feel like they can't take it any more... The message is - 'Hold on! You can make it!!! Please remember gold is made perfect in fire.'

I hope this song is a blessing to you!  

You can hear it here: https://soundcloud.com/henrietta-decruz/life-is-calling-you-henrietta-decruz-paul-mathew 

Check out the lyrics of the song...

Life is Calling You

Don’t sit alone and cry and groan

Don’t think that you were born to moan

Though things may look so very bad

Your heart so heavy and so sad…

You’ve been called to a life of greatness

You were chosen for a special purpose

And you’ve got it inside you

So don't let others bother you.

Chorus:                     

      Baby give it a try

      You just can’t die

      Life is calling you

      Everything can be made new!

      Life is calling you… (2) Pick up the phone (3)

Life is great for those who held on

For they were not like wind just gone

The wish to stay on builds up your strength
So don’t let people mark your end.

Chorus
(Spoken words) 

You’ve gotta make it, you’ve gotta make it right

You’ve gotta fight it, you’ve gotta put up a fight

Don’t think that you won’t make it

Don’t say that you can’t take it.

Chorus

      Pick up the phone (3)

      Call the helpline…

      There are people who care

      People to share

      Your heart’s cry…

      Come on – pick up the phone… (2)

      Life is calling you…

~ Written and composed by Henrietta Decruz

God bless you!!!

What you don’t say...

It is easy to fight over

What a person said.

What many fail to understand

Is that many a time

The reason why

Someone said something

Was because

Someone else did not say anything.

Silence is often used as

A doubled edged sword.

You say something

And yet you don’t say anything!

It is a deprivation

Of a much needed communication

That sometimes causes

Volcanoes of emotion to erupt

From the grieved person

Who wanted to hear ‘something’.

When someone continuously deprives

Another of food

It is a crime.

They are blamed of

Starving a person to death.

But when someone continuously deprives

Another of communication

Which is vital to keep a relationship going,

No one considers it a crime.

And yet a person’s heart can die

For want of fellowship,

The need for self expression and understanding.

The communication we receive from loved ones

Is like sunlight.

It gives us energy, strength and

Keeps us going.

Lock up a plant in a dungeon

Without sunlight

And it shrivels and dies.

Human beings are like plants

They need nurturing and affection

So when you call someone a ‘friend’

Make sure you communicate.

-       Henrietta Decruz

A black hole

Flitting from moment to moment, job to job….

I filled the time with things to do

Roles to live out

Needs to meet

Help to be given

Where it was seen

Years have gone by

I made choices

Ignored voices

Kept moving when things had stalled

Staying had run out of reasons

One look back at time gone by

‘It's gone!’ my spirit cries

Never to return

I make a vain effort to retrieve

Pull strands of invisible time

Lost, I’ve lost it all whatever was mine

Caving in to the mounting despair

I fret about years

Give way to tears

A sinking feeling covers my being

Will I get out of this abyss?

Time gone by is no more the worry

Time left in hand is paramount

My whole focus of existence now shifts

How will I pull myself out of this rut?

Living to please others has had a casualty

The price I had to pay was ‘me’

Searching inside for some pointers

I seek the voice I did not heed

I call out and wait for a response

Hello! Is anyone there?

No sound… just silence

I look at the trash heap, my life

If only I listened when the voice had called

I would have had a better story to tell

A guide it would’ve been to take me home

Home where there’s fulfillment and peace

A life well lived, a legacy to leave behind

Cough! Cough! Sputter! Spatter!

Something just came back to life

I rush at break neck speed to its side

Ah! I feared you wouldn’t make it…

The voice smiles

Now its time to leave this place it says

But how? I’m in a rut I plead

I have no strength no ideas to get out of here

Just trust your heart

It has all the answers it said.

We combine our strengths

My desperation and its confidence

At countdown we pull with all our might

This fight is for my life, myself and me

Suddenly I see the light I’m free!

Out of the black hole, I’m on a journey discovering me!