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Check the goodwill box. What is it about persons that are built with blocks from the factory of love without dissimulation? Why does goodwill gush unhesitatingly from their heart? And sweetness from their disposition? Does that explain the winsomeness of their ways? And why easily ‘the answer’ seems to find them? Despite having their own tales of unexpected shocks and brokenness. The address of those who bear…
Have faith. It is better to die in faith than to die in doubt for it is better to die with one of the three choicest qualities in existence (faith, the others being hope and love) than to live apart from faith. Why is faith particularly special? Because it is an awakener. An awakener is an opener. Faith is a door opening up opportunities. As…
My gut feeling tells me there are but that is all. Is it your gut feeling or a reasonable deduction from the many commentaries on the implication of a Russia-led invasion of Ukraine and the retaliatory actions it will likely provoke from NATO and others? Call it whatever you like. Something tells me that this singular matter is significantly altering the structure of the world…
My brother, it was so heartbreaking. It was not just the 1,100 Porsches, there were other luxury cars including over 180 Bentleys. Even though I don’t know any of the owners directly, I feel bad about the accident. But why do you ask? I thought you were more interested in understanding what’s pushing President Putin of Russia I am but I am still processing my…
It is interesting how everything one touches becomes a hammer in the desperate attempt to drive in a nail. Until the nail arrives at its final destination, many people keep using whatever ‘hammer’ they find. I found a special kind of ‘hammer’ in Enugu and Mbanagu, Otolo-Nnewi, Anambra State, last week during the funeral ceremony for Lady Ifeoma Okeke, the first Nigerian nurse to graduate…
Like true quality. The barbarity of self-love disdains the undisturbed mien of true love with regular attempts to minimize its worth yet true love breaks out like a phoenix. Like when true quality glows in-spite of the early, midterm and latter days blows from wear and tear. The stories of true love may not be documented but they are always remembered because they are stored…
Why doesn’t this look like a deficient situation? Or why is a situation in which true love is seemingly the only thing available for sharing, not an undersupplied state of affair? Because when true love is in motion, good seeds are being sown about. Like a farmer casting his precious seeds on the earth. Waiting in hope for harvest time, where the ordinary seeds of…
Not in a disrespectful or dishonourable way but in a way in which a certain resolve has focused on the final outcomes wherein all initial doubts and anxieties are erased. This seemingly ‘I don’t care’ attitude is some kind of appeal for patience because the necessary boxes, having been checked, have produced an assurance that the journey would be worth the while of every critical…
The presence of true love in a world with erupting sadness seemingly built into its DNA, is definitely one of the highs of life. Cloth in living sweetness, true love can transform sad moments to sweet moments, in an instance or over a period of time. It can transform seasons and bouts of loneliness, grief, disappointment, frustration and other variants of these. True love compels…
True art and beauty have no price but the greatest of these is true love. How much can anyone give in exchange for heartfelt devotion and a commitment to consistently seek out the wellbeing of a spouse, child, parent, friend, colleague, relation, neighbour, etc? Material gifts are definitely a great idea; they can be very meaningful, especially in celebratory moments like Valentine, etc but they…