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Na tintini remain (1)

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 pointed out the fact that you just need tintini faith and zero doubt. Nothing else. The only problem is most times we help our tintini faith with some aids to trade( in our opinion ) like fear, worry, assumption. But the rule has always been simple tintini faith only.
Most times we forget that there's a time to be born, a time to refrain from fighting, a time to wait, a time to trust, a time to grow, a time to heal, a time to be helped, a time to be alone. The reason why its only the tintini that is required is because in it is the great mustard tree but without the little, you cannot get the big tree with all its fruits to last for seasons. The same way the fruits have seasons, the seed has a season when it must be just a seed.
But if the seed is not planted, there can never be a tree. 
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