Thoughts and Other Things

Everyone is reviewing their year today so I'm gonna join in the fun. This year has been loooooong! So long I can't remember 2014, it's all a blur cause it's so far from now. I can't even remember January 2015. It was so long and so much happened in it. I lost people close to me. Learnt about the depth of the bond I share with believers under my care, it runs so deep. I realized that death is that one thing that's part of life but that we never get used to. No matter how old the person was, how well lived their life was, it's still hurts like hell to lose them, even more so when they're young and had their whole life ahead of them. I worked on my relationships this year, having learnt that they don't take care of themselves. Just didn't make any new ones (I suck at making friends). But I gained a bigger readership on my blog, that counts rights? And I'm so grateful for that, at times I'd think no one cared to read, then I'd get a...

There's a short story I've been fascinated with ever since coming across it. Maybe you've heard of it before. It's the story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. There couldn't be more truth in five paragraphs. It's speaks so much truth about the society we live in where no one is accountable for anything or anyone yet we feel the right to judge and be upset. We're live in a "it's not my place" society; always excusing ourselves from taking action simply because it's someone else' job, even though we're capable of doin...

Yesterday we had a men's service. The things spoken were explosive. While listening, I wondered why things were the way they were when it came to gender. I was bothered by how it's almost impossible to praise one gender without seemingly devaluing the other. Why does one have to be praised at the expense of another? Why when addressing one you have to simultaneously mention the other so it doesn't seem you don't appreciate it? The only answer I could think of is insecurities or a low self esteem as a result of little understanding of self. Women should be able to absorb all truth about men without feeling that it has a demeaning reflection on them, the same with men; it's not a competition. Both genders exist to compliment each another, not compete with one another. I came across a phrase not to long ago that said something along the lines of: women shouldn't strive to do everything a man can do because they can do everything a man can't do. Simple but pow...

A few weeks ago, I explored the issue of God sending one back. This is when you find yourself in a tight spot and find a quick escape only to have God stop you in your tracks and send you back. As you can imagine, it can be a very frustrating experience, but also a very necessary one. I studied Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, in Genesis 16. We read that Sarai was unable to have children, and as a custom of that time, gave Hagar to Abram to have children through her. Abram complied and Hagar conceived. That's when trouble broke loose. The Bible says when Hagar knew she was pregnant she began despising Sarai. I was always quick to judge Hagar for her behavior whenever I read this portion, but this time I had a better understanding of her. She was an Egyptian, a foreigner in the land of Canaan, an outcast. On top of that, she was a slave meaning she was someone elses property, unable to exercise her will. You then understand why she reacted the way she did when she finally had a van...

Hello. It's me. I've been wondering if after all this time you'd like me to write you. Lol, hi guys. It's been a while huh. I've been tied up with work, among other things. And so we're in the last mile of 2015, can you believe it? Not that it was short or anything (this year has been a drag for me) but alot has happened and things have changed.  That's the wonder of this life...everything looks the same when you're busy living day to day, but when you look back, you realize how so many things have changed. For me, change (the positive kind) came when I changed the way I think. You're probably aware of how powerful your thoughts are and how important it is to think right, but knowing something doesn't mean you use it; that was me. The first Christian book I ever read was Joyce Meyer's Battlefield Of The Mind. I understood it well and felt very empowered after reading it. Then I packed it up in my bookshelf and went on living. It's lat...