Life and Me... Memoirs of a church girl

Love accounts are very different from the usual accounts we are used to. I reason that love accounts operate on a hybrid of dos and donts that other accounts don't have.   They don't all operate the same because the different account holders have different languages and reactions to the same thing. Like a bank we all have to have two accounts the one from their end and the one from yours. In the last month I am learning that love is not enough and on days that it happens its the credit in your love account that saves the day. The thing about it is that you have to be intentional about saving so that you have what to withdraw. I read a story once about a couple that saved a physical dollar for every nice thing they experienced and on the bad days the narrative on the deposit stub saved the day. This thing called love sometimes you act in an entirely opposite direction and your heart is in a good place but every single turn reeks of wrong. The irony of it is whether y...

Even though this post is several years due it still holds true today, As we come to the end of the first half of an amazing year,  there are many things to be grateful for.  In a place where there is a lot of uncertainty, what you have inside is what remains the most constant part. As a country, as a world, as individuals, there has been a lot of learning and unlearning, growing, pruning and changing. In many areas of our lives, there has been many seasons. But top of my list is gratitude. I just looked at my to do list for this year and I almost chuckled out loud because it seemed like a lofty dream in another life. I started taking mental note and I am not the same person that started the year. Birthday season 2018  I once heard that as you grow and evolve, your preferences evolve and I noticed that at the beginning of the year there are alot of things I wanted to do but they were not properly articulated but they got done just not the way I expect...

As we come to the end of the first half of an amazing year,  there are many things to be grateful for.  In a place where there is a lot of uncertainty, what you have inside is what remains the most constant part. As a country, as a world, as individuals, there has been a lot of learning and unlearning, growing, pruning and changing. In many areas of our lives, there has been many seasons. But top of my list is gratitude. I just looked at my to do list for this year and I almost chuckled out loud because it seemed like a lofty dream in another life. I started taking mental note and I am not the same person that started the year.  I once heard that as you grow and evolve, your preferences evolve and I noticed that at the beginning of the year there are alot of things I wanted to do but they were not properly articulated but they got done just not the way I expected. In January,  Amos 9:13 The Message (MSG)  resonated with me and I did not know wh...

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...

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...

Are you ready? In the light of the recent press release by the Munroe family, I began to wonder am i ready? What has God placed in your hand?,  what report will he find? The story of the talents that  people love quoting is one that comes to mind. Usually people focus on the volume. Two producing two, five producing five, things like that. But the most important lesson is that there was productivity, movement and growth. That is what God expects in your house, church, family, school, office, interactions and relationships with people. If that productivity doesn't exist, then you actually are not living the God kind of life. Wherever you find yourself, the office with the annoying colleague, at home with mean neighbours, you are meant to cause change. You have a kind of life to live that anything short of that would make the record of your existence void.                                 ...