From Me To You!

To you my friend I write today

With words so lively on these lips of clay

To a mind so tender yet going astray

That your light will shine, don’t dismay!

There's a light in you that shows the way

A guide to lead and not to stray

When you reach within, your fears allay

Your joy cometh without delay!

This has come to pass and not to stay

The pains the hurts, will blow away

Someday someway as you watch and pray

You'll have rejoicing too big to portray!

 "...And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."{John 1:5}

Lots of love.

Take Time To Know

When I purchase any appliance or equipment I really do not bother myself about the manual, rather, I just go right ahead to use it. In some cases if the information on the manual is short I take out time to familiarize myself with the information. 

However, manuals written in about 5 different languages are not just my thing at all. I just dump them somewhere, until someday something goes wrong with what i bought and then I start to look for the manual in the stack of other manuals. Truly I would have prevented many faults and damage if I had taken time to read through the manual.

Family, marriage, relationships, parenting, health, business, money, work, savings/investment etc. are all areas of our lives all covered in the word of God. The word of God, which is the bible, is our life manual. To start out or to live our lives without getting daily counsel from the life manual is not only unwise but costly. Because like an appliance, you will save yourself from much mistakes and regrets if you daily consult the word of God, before doing anything. 

There are more books available now on various topics of life than there were many years ago. The truth is many people spend a good amount of time reading books on marriage, relationships, finances, family, spiritual growth etc. than they do reading the Bible. Books are good, but they should never be substituted for the truth in God’s word. We also can learn from other people’s experience or even our own experience. But the best place to learn everything about your life is the word of God because it is the only one with 100% guarantee and warranty. 

If you have dumped your life’s manual in a stack of other books/manuals. It is time to search it out, dust it up and start the self-discovery of God’s purpose for you. We have no excuse not to live any area of our lives to the best, because God has it all fashioned out in his word. Brothers and sisters let us take time to know what God has to say about each area of our lives.  Like the buyer of an appliance it is your responsibility to read the manual and operate the equipment accordingly. The same with God, he has given us His word to live by, but it is our responsibility to read this word and apply it rightly in our lives.

Shalom,

You are made for MORE!

What A Life!

I got this piece from my CEO friend *“kelacious kela” a lady that discharges her duties with an uncommon finesse. It was timely and on point. I was lifted reading it and decided to share it too. Enjoy it!

 

Over time I have discovered there is no absolute finish line for everyone in the race of life. Our tracks are different, our lanes are different & our durations are different. The only thing we have in common is the same Umpire. For instance, one person graduates at age 20 and struggles for another 5years to get a job, another might graduate at age 25 and gets a job immediately.

One can marry a virgin and wait for the next decade to have the blessings of children, another lady probably after having series of abortions in her past, becomes a mum almost immediately after marriage. A fellow becomes MD at 38 and dies at 56; another becomes MD at 55 and lives to 90. What a life!

Life is full of twists, turns, ups and downs and many more surprises and disappointments. Life offers each one of us different opportunities, and once an opportunity is lost is gone forever I was told. It is up to each one of us to patiently prepare, wait, recognize and utilize every opportunity.

We learn on the way. No one knows it all or has it better. There is a reason why we all don’t fall at the same time. It’s so that when one is down, weak and discouraged, the other who is strong, can encourage and uplift the other person. God never promised that the road would be easy but He promised never to leave nor forsake us.

Although life is a competition, let us learn to go easy on ourselves and trust that God is working it all for good (even if it doesn’t make sense now). I know that there is a time for everything but most importantly that “it will come to pass”. Whatever trials, challenges or down time, this too shall pass and even in due course, you will be up and strong again to lift up those who maybe down around you.

Remember, you are never a photocopy; you are the designer’s design!

* kelacious kela is a nickname

Like No Other...

I couldn't have chosen any other

But you two as one that makes no other

I bless the lord for making you a vessel like no other

To the world a gift to give like no other

Wrapped carefully in a belly like no other

Of a maiden a mother so tender

A jewel a wife like no mother

A seed in a man, a husband like no father

In me a dream like no other

Set to cross boundaries scaling borders

A light to shine in dark weather

A bridge to get you to a place like no other

With brightness like glory of the heavenly father

Father of all fathers, God even our Great Maker

Who makes my flower bloom never to wither

Nor allow men toss me hither & thither!

I thank the Lord all the day for bringing me over

To a world of champions, still mellower

To my mum and dad I write this letter

That I love you so much like no other!

Today Is The Day

10 months have rolled by and now we are starting the 11^th month of the year. I don’t know about you, but for me it is a bit difficult to remember how January, February, March etc. were. Was I happy all through those months? Did I achieve my goals? Did I feel fulfilled? Did I make any marked progress in my career, academics, marriage, relationships, business and finances? Do I have any success stories for any of these months?

The year is almost ended and now I ask myself what I did with 2012. Where did all the days and months go? Did I live it just like last year and the years before? So many questions and am sure a lot more are probably going through your head right now. 

It seemed only like yesterday when we were all saying, happy New Year, and now it almost time to say another one. It seemed only like yesterday when we declared what this year was going to be for us “Honour”, “My year of goodness”, “My year of double blessings” etc. Very soon we would be putting together the words to describe how 2013 would be. 

Do we actually live a year or do we live a day. All we ever and will always have is a day. The day makes the week, which makes the month, which makes the year. It does not matter how many years we live on earth, all we truly live is a day. Therefore it is what we make of our day that makes our year. 

We have 365 days in a year to make that year what we want it to be. We have 365 days to make those changes, break those habits, build and improve those relationships, improve our career, make our home and marriage better, build and grow ourselves spiritually, work diligently and give our best etc. Yes you have the year 2012, but what you truly have is 365 days to see and live what you want the year to be, and of these 365 days all you ever have at once is one day. 

This means, if:

You want progress, success, productivity, advancement and fruitfulness you only have today to make it happen.

You want to live a happy life, live a happy today.

You want to have a successful life and year, live a successful today.

You want to grow more in your knowledge and fellowship with God, start today.

You want to start saving and investing, today is all you have.

You want a better marriage, then today is all you have to make it right.

You want to forgive, today is the day.

You want to live for God and serve God, then today is the day.

Don’t misguide yourself to think I have the whole year to do and achieve all I need to. Am sorry to disappoint you, but NO, you do not. All you have is TODAY, because at the end of the year what counts and matter most are not the goals you set at the beginning year, but the things you did daily to achieve those goals.

Before 2012 ends, we still have November and December, approximately 61 days. It is never too late to live the year you wanted. Live today like the year you wanted. Live happy and joyful today. The day has already been blessed by God and his mercy and goodness are already packed full for the day, all you need to do is take hold of them and start living the year and life you desire.

Shalom,

You are made for MORE!