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Words failed me this morning. This International Women’s Day! American Gospel artist Wayne Watson’s ‘Home-free’ is playing in my head. It looks like I just entered the same place he was when the first line of the song came to him many years ago. “I’m trying hard not to think you unkind, but Heavenly Father, you know my heart, surely you can read my mind,…
Don’t mind Covid, jare; behaving as if it was going to end the world. Spreading fear and paranoia everywhere. Imagine the common virus, shaking everybody, everywhere! Nonsense! Na wa o! Some people sha! What do mean by some people sha? Face me, I am here with you! I know. I’m just surprised you’d address Covid as a common virus. Don’t mind the yeye virus! The…
But she was not barren at all. It is true she didn’t show or display any sign of fruitfulness upon close observation of her. And it didn’t appear like she was bothered about the ‘condition,’ which further infuriated those who posted the label of barrenness on her. Unfortunately, those who tried to stigmatize her with barrenness had no clues about her real story. She had…
The weather has been dry. Very dry. It has been so for a while. Fallen dry leaves everywhere. Browning with Brownies Making dryness grin with envy because it could not have put on a better appearance than what we have seen lately. And the wind seemed to like the current status as the slight push from its wings produced a huge rustle from the resting…
It is the same car he drives when he is awake but he prefers the car’s behaviour when he is asleep to what it does when he is awake. It hears him when he speaks to it while in dreamland but when he is awake, the car doesn’t hear when he speaks. The car likes to go on adventures in dreamland but when my neighbour…
Was that the only thing you heard the clergyman say in the report? That’s the one that stuck out Can you cut the man some slack? At least he moved you to pray for Ukraine Let’s not go there, please. What do you mean? The photo of him kneeling before a giant map while placing his right hand on Ukraine went viral I know. I…
I don’t want to be accused of not mourning with those who mourn. Or you mean don’t want the algorithms to look away from your page? Is that what you think? My dear, it’s now about the algorithms, more than anything else. Infact, the way we ‘massage’ algorithms these days is akin to how ancient kings loved their egos to be massaged. You speak of…
Jesus said that? Didn’t you read it in your bible? He said a lot more Ok Have you seen those disturbing footage about the Russian invasion of Ukraine? I have. They are very troubling indeed. So why do you think Jesus said there shall be wars and rumours of wars? I’m sorry, I don’t know. I need to know, first of all, the context in…
Put away childish things as you journey ‘on your way!’ The beautiful thing about journeying on your way is that you discover some things you ought not to have done and some things you should have done a different way. With this discovery comes a certain feeling that what you wish for in the now is understanding and mercy rather than condemnation or justice. Wishing…
Keep the children close. Why is the kingdom not promised to those who will not receive it like little children? And why does child-like faith captivate the attention of the most prominent? Why do the shadows of truth lift at the warm hug of a child? Do children charm because of how they persuade, persist or pierce through and through with their innocence? Or do…