Life and Me... Memoirs of a church girl

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...