People often wonder why a woman, after going through the long period of pregnancy, the painful and complicated process of childbirth and the often-times post-natal health challenges, would take the subject of that process and dump it somewhere either to die or to for someone else to find.
Faith Goes the Distance
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding:
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3: 5-6 (NIV)
and lean not on your own understanding:
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3: 5-6 (NIV)
In many forms of study, the teachers will challenge and motivate their students to their greatest levels of understanding and achievement. Part of the process usually includes methods that make the student aware of his own limits and weaknesses. When the learner has done all he can do with his own abilities and understanding, he usually comes to the awareness that reason, effort, learning and human ability will only take him so far.
Everlasting Love
The media are at it again. The hype has been on for several days now as Valentine’s Day draws close. I marvel at the rate of popularity for the celebration of Valentine’s Day within the past ten years in Nigeria. Some of those who celebrate this day do not even know who St. Valentine was or what the day is all about. All they know is that it is a day set apart for lovers. That information, is good enough for them.
Biblepraise is 8!
In 2000, I began to share my thoughts on my personal study of the Bible, with a few friends numbering about 10, through email. As I shared with these few friends of mine, they in turn sent my emails to others, who requested that i add them to my email list. No long after I started, my list grew to 20, then 50. At this point, it was no longer convenient to send to all those email addresses at once. I began to start thinking of a newsletter engine which would enable me to send my thoughts out at once.
Freedom From Entrapment
When the Haiti earthquake hit, it was virtually impossible for rescue operations to commence immediately. This was because the destruction was of a massive scale, affecting all forms of infrastructure. Initially all we heard and saw was the dead littered all over the place. It looked as if God had forsaken the people.
Days later, good news began to emerge from the bad. We began to hear news of people who were literally dug out of collapsed buildings with bare hands and small tools. How else would you be able to explain the rescue of a 15-day old baby who spent half her lifetime under a collapsed building? Or a 70-year old woman dragged out from under the rubble after being trapped for one week? Or the young girl who was rescued after 11 days of being buried alive under stone and concrete?
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God’s Judgement?
It was a day like any other day. People had gone about their businesses and were winding down the activities of the day. Some were already planning what they would do at nightfall and probably the next day.
Suddenly, there was a massive shaking. Many of them didn’t know what it was because they had never experienced anything like that since they were born. Some were rooted in one place in fear, not knowing where to run to. The world later heard of the massive earthquake that hit Haiti, with a magnitude of 7.0.
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New Year Choices
As people prepare for a new year, they go a process where their progress in the old year is evaluated and serve as the basis for making plans for the new year.
The usual practice is the drawing up of a list of things to do, which is popularly called ‘New Year Resolution’. These resolutions are usually in the form of promises to stop some habits, engage in an activity or undertaking some project which the person could not follow through in the past year.
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Merry Christmas
Maybe I’m just overly sensitive. But I think window designers, greeting card companies, and media have fallen victim to what I hope is the unintentional diminishing of December 25 for people with backgrounds similar to my own.
Have you noticed that “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” seems to have replaced “Merry Christmas” as the standard greeting for this time of year?
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Whose Christmas?
The season comes and we see the same scenario playing out itself. The shopping plazas are full; the cities are bustling with traffic, both human and vehicular. You wonder where such mammoth crowd emerged from all of a sudden.
‘But its Christmas!’ you might say, and I agree with you. My question however is, ‘Whose Christmas?’
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Good News
How would you feel when going through tough and difficult circumstances, someone rushes to you exclaiming, ‘I have good news for you!’ Skeptical, wary, excited? I could understand if the first two responses are evident. It would take some more information for one to become excited when the circumstances are not favourable.
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