Life and Me... Memoirs of a church girl

Today i was honored to hang with my father, brother and friend about 10 years after we met in the University of Ibadan. People got husbands, jobs and other things like that on Chapel ground and a number of times i wondered what was going on till I got in the flow. Now in retrospect I wish I had made more use of my time there. I am however grateful for the seeds that were sown on such a fertile ground. Never in a million years did I know that the things i did just because will mean so much. Now i get to hang with cool highly influential people because then God decided that my path will cross with some great men. I have always been a hider you know back pews and all. But today as I sat in front, it was a rare and special honor because I knew I was part of a legacy. I was reminded of who i am and where I am coming from scalliwag and things. I used to hear that you will not remember the clothes you get or the things you have but all I remember for a decade is a life. I don't remem...

Hoi, Wetin dey happen!!! Ok so I have been pondering on the goodness of God in the land of the living and now this is one of my blessings. I have been blessed to constantly just walk into the plan of God and find myself right where he wants me. But there were times i was on my jolly way till He stopped me in my tracks and did a reroute. But sometimes I must confess I have also had some not to easy to let go near misses. All those nearly was their friend, nearly was their neighbour, nearly was a family member, nearly businesses, nearly trips, nearly successes. There is a quote that says " Those that walk with God always reach their destination" ( gist for another day). This comes to fore when you know the outcome you want and you know the picture God has. Sometimes if you are even sincere before God that you don't know what the plan is, He is able to help you find your way. This week I saw the latter end of a near miss. It would have certainly been an interestin...

Hello people, The original content of this post got caught up in cyber traffic and as such is yet to arrive. So i like gifts and i honestly guess apart from communication, that may be one of my love languages. Due to that fact, words like freely you have received, freely give sound my music to my ears. But a question that i have a lot of the the time is when really is it enough? where do you draw the line? If there was no order Jesus wouldn't have gathered the overflow of the 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. The multiplication was because of the people. But there's a time to scatter and a time to gather (gist for another day). The morale of the intro is that it is not about the size but the impact. At the point of feeding the multitudes, all the bakeries were not as important as the 5 loaves of bread in the wilderness. Please note that this does not refer to long and large loaves that can get you up to 20 slices of bread. i envisage bun looking loaves because it was a lad'...

Hey guys, *dusting cobwebs*  Yeah it has been a long break. I missed writing. So for sometime i have been feeling dull and honestly not the 'everybody hates me, nobody likes me kind'. But the 'we are on the grind, we are fast and furious' but at the close of work, the to do list still has many unchecked to dos and you go 'well i can't deal'. This is then followed by the 'one day at a time' thing to 'just live in the moment' and wham! a month has gone and you have not really moved. The worst hit was my fellowship. Yeah i'm in church, yeah i work but in the edge of my wrapper (if you have an African granny that ties wrapper you will know that's where all the good stuff is) i had nothing new just recycled stuff. So i saw this  Joyce Meyer  3030 challenge , i signed up and hoped for the best. I knew there was a but when i did not sign up for the daily reminder but the weekly one ( unread inbox message troubles don't ask)...

In Genesis 1:3-31 talks about the creation story. One point that just struck me is that it was not haphazard. It was structured and it was sequential. Sky and Ground was separated and  then living things were created in them.  Ecclesiastics talks about precepts upon precept, line upon line this is because there is an expectation that things have to be put in the right order. The bible talks of seeking the kingdom of God first and then will all other things be added unto you. If you cannot do the primary how do you expect the increase to come. You cannot expect a harvest of the things that you don't plant.  Many times people try to do things without the proper structure. Imagine the creation of fishes without the separation of waters or the creation of birds without the firmaments. God always knows the end from the beginning and He always knows how to orchestrate the events that will ensure that things flow differently. At various points in our lives, we...

I have been in a stock taking mood of late. Birthdays do that to me. I have been wondering, where am I?, what do i have? What have i done? How have i evolved? Am i stuck? Yeah usually i've been termed to be happy-go-lucky, but I'm still yet do decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Earlier this year i went for a ladies only meeting and during that meeting for some strange reason, i just opened up all my doors and relaxed because 80% of the things i heard, i had heard before or known, but for some reason it just felt like sitting in the rain (Now no offence but you have been old your whole life if you never sat in the rain, sang in the rain, danced in the rain in your underwear or fully clothed or cried in the rain).   The words just kept washing over me and after the meeting i felt lost. In places where i had heard this things before, I was known, I had a crew and sometimes family.  Even though i tried to mingle a bit and do fellowship after fellows...

Growing up there were various catch phrases in our local parlance. One of such was tintini.  Tintini was a phrase we used to describe something really tiny or something that was in our opinion was too little to matter. Recently i saw a phase that said "Na tintini remain" and i was taken back in time. If you wanted to express something in the same unit measurement of a grain of sand, you would have to go this route armed with a pinching hand gesture and a dramatic squint of one eye. That's the picture that comes to mind when i think of Jesus trying to explain the size of faith needed. Even though i'm sure he must have been learned, educated and had a great command of the vocabulary of his times. If he was gonna explain it to me today, i'm certain he would have used more than English to buttress his point because in order to hold a mustard seed up, he would have needed to pinch his fingers (just like tintini). In the story of the mustard seed faith, someone p...

There would always be that thin line between what you think and feel is wrong and the proper thing to do. The problem usually is that the action may not be bad in itself, its just that as far as you are concerned its a NO,NO. The bible talks about fleeing from all appearances of evil primarily because its a known fact that there are somethings that may not be bad in themselves but they appear bad. That is no time to call in the debate team and draw from your logic well. Its time to hit the road. As people will say 'OSO!!!!! I no wan know'. Retreat isn't always a bad thing. It might seem like a coward's option but it takes great wisdom to know when to turn away and how to pick your battles. It's not the big things that raise all the dust its the accumulation of the little things that eventually make you realize that some things far greater than money are being eroded. The rule of thumb is 1. If you have to think too much, take a step back 2. If you have t...