Life and Me... Memoirs of a church girl

Love and giving go hand in hand. God loved and he gave.  So I fell in love recently and I got a gift. Yeah!!! I have been planning to get a camera for the longest time and Christmas came with a camera and a boy, how cool is that? So I am a Christmas lover that starts smelling Christmas from November, makes sure I have lights even if I don't get a tree. So you must understand that a getting gift that is exactly what I want in a season I love is the best thing after party jollof and soggy dodo with fried dry pepper beef. So this is me transitioning from phone photography to actual photography. Phone photography helped me develop an eye and determine what I really enjoy. I cannot see enough of the sun, there is just something about taking pictures of the sun that makes me happy. Sunset in Jalingo, Taraba Nigeria. The morale of the story is start from where you are, be intentional and make sure you fan to flame the gift of God on your inside. Looking forward to an amaz...

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...

Isaiah 34:16-17 New International Version (NIV)                               16  Look in the scroll of the Lord and read:                                   None of these will be missing,                                   not one will lack her mate.                                   For it is his mouth that has given the order,    ...

Today i choose to wait       It may not be the popular or conventional choice,  but your plan Q is far better than my plan A** anyday. Today i choose to hope       It can only be delayed it can never be denied.  It is within your power to turn things around in my favour. Today i choose to love,        Its only in His nature that I can understand His fullness and  live the life He has called me to. Tempest raging, fires flaring with earnest yearning, I wait for your salvation.  You are the anchor to my soul, my hope and stay.                                                                        - Me. Had quite a number of pendulum moments this weekend and I had to keep reminding myself that head or tail I win not because I can, ...

I was a bit jealous when my neighbour and some friends (actually her friends i was meant to attach myself ) went for a girly date and i couldn't go.  The plan was to roam round the mall, watch a movie and head home. But being local girls like myself (No offence ladies) a particular somebody was almost passing out in her heels so they bought dunlop (actually flats), then watched Lucy because her name is Lucy (don't worry, they don't know your surname) and came home. When I asked about the movie, they didn't sound too pleased (No thanks to iroko and the likes).  Fast forward a month later and i see free wireless,  and lucy (don't do illegal ish). I downloaded it with mixed feelings Suddenly the movie started (popcorn less, movie dateless and sodaless), but i was grateful that i wasn't in the cinema. I have not yet recovered  (literally). It brought home a Sunday School lesson (or at least what they had been trying to teach us anyways). A girl going on her d...

So i love looking at wedding pictures. For me its a beautiful thing to see all the effort put into creating new beginnings.  Particularly love wedding photographers because you must be a beautiful person to be able to capture most of the emotions that go into the whole event.  The way it is solemn and beautiful at the same time, the exchange of vows, the preparation to lose yourself and identity to someone else.  The selflessness of being willing to share your life with someone that you have no guarantee will turn out alright but you just believe that as long as there's you it is fine.  The loss of a parent that gives away a child, you can never tell if your child just brought home a paedophile or an insane person and is passing some weird heritage into your lineage, i mean their children will be your grandchildren. But you have to trust that on the dark and gloomy days they will have each other and they will be enough. The couple that says the vo...