February 2012
3 posts
“When we become more in love with the gifts than the giver, the things that were...”
“The Bible is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions....”
“It’s a ‘Leap Month’ so I pray that God will do something new...”
January 2012
2 posts
“The obstacles that block our vision and get in the way of our plans are actually...”
– Adapted from Our Daily Bread
“When you are marching to the beat of a different drummer, you will be out of...”
– Daily Bread
December 2011
1 post
Eternity
Life’s a teardrop in the eye of eternity
Death, the inevitable
Got a plan for perpetuity?
Heaven is a place of everlasting peace
with such joy,...
November 2011
1 post
my Kilimanjaro
As I lifted up my eyes to the mountains surrounding me, I wondered where help would come from. My mountains are real problems and challenges, overwhelming and scary. I tried hard to figure out how to make them disappear, and Eureka, I found it: If I can get the seven Ms behind Me - Money, Men, Machines, Materials, Methods, Minutes and Motivation then my mountains would be lifted. So I ignored the...
October 2011
2 posts
Just Today!
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry-two days which should be kept from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains, its faults and blunders.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a...
RACING AGAINST ME
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, the work is done. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
For me, cooking skills came by necessity. While I was still like six years old, my mum became ill requiring long hospitalization and as the eldest child, fate...
August 2011
1 post
Don't worry.
Don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or if the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your inner life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body.
Look at the ravens, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, carefree in the care of God. And you count far more. Has anyone...
June 2011
8 posts
B before C
To believe is to accept something as real and true, it is a prerequisite for confessing. Confession is a formulary of faith, and faith, believing without evidence, comes by hearing God. Without believing, confessing is fake, fraud, and flattery, like a tree without roots.
Confessing scriptures without believing in your heart is mere positive speaking; heart work must precede mouth talk. Trying to...
DON'T QUIT
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he...
Fly
Do you know that flight, even for birds, is an energy demanding endeavour? Taking off and landing requires such an enormous amount of energy. Birds breathe faster than any other animal to meet up with the energy requirement for flying. For example, a flying pigeon breathes 450 times each minute, as opposed to 30 times per minute for a human that is running.
No wonder, even youths faint, and young...
“I know where I am going. Folks may think I’m crazy, friends may think...”
1 tag
“From the beginning, I was with the LORD. I was there before he began to create...”
– Proverbs 8:22-31
CREATIVITY PROCEDURE 1
The creation story never ceases to amaze me. Before God created the heavens and earth as it is today, the earth was an empty and a formless mass engulfed in deep darkness. God started work by switching on the Lights. He introduced light and darkness was overwhelmed, although it still struggled for relevance alongside light. God called a truce, separated light from darkness and christened them day...
“For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe...”
– Habakkuk 1:5b
SHAKE OFF THE CHAMELEON
“…if the devil cannot stop you from becoming a tree, he will want to make you a useless, unproductive tree…” For those who are not followers of my write-ups, I recently wrote an article titled ‘Shake off that lizard’, which provoked many thoughts. I received a lot of mails and comments imploring me to develop the write-up into a book. Although this is not as much of a...
May 2011
3 posts
SHAKE OFF THAT LIZARD
…the gathering of ants implies the presence of something sweet, but that gathering is an invitation for lizards… It was a beautiful Friday morning. Like other days, I had woken up quite early as the rays of the sun filter through the thickness of darkness to birth a new day. This season in Maiduguri is very hot with temperatures getting to half boiling point on normal days, so I actually slept...
The Yahoo! Boy
My life’s more than a fable
All I ever wanted was available
I club, bubble and gamble
blowing money like bubbles
My 32 were always in royal rumble
with chicken, chip and ‘crunchables’
Ladies I slay in doubles
my way of being respectable
Now, life is a very hot crucible
ladies gone to greenly pastured stables
No family or friend dependable
so lonely and despicable
...
Welcome to Pearling!
Don’t regard these words as mere
It’s tale of a man that’s rare
Who found a highly-priced Pearl
And returned to sell his wares
Understanding that life’s got no spare
And its Judge, never fair
I valued all that’s dear,
To maximize my allotted share
I’m on a journey to somewhere
Even when I walk with soles bare
Sheer pain makes my eyes red
Still, I’ll pray and...