Simplicity of Me, Complexity of We

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Last week dragged for me. It was not really a fun week. Infact, by Saturday, I was really feeling depressed and decided to stay put at home. Watching TV wasn't all that but I really wanted to have a pity party all by myself. By Sunday, I found my way to church cos I knew if  I did not go to get my spirit lifted, this week will just be a continuation of last week. For those who know, the motions of a Christian are easy in church - lift your hands, sing, listen and take notes, smile and greet people after the service. So I went through the motions but with a prayer in my heart that God will understand my moodiness and help me out of it. And why was I down in spirit? Unanswered prayers. God, in His great wisdom and mercy, led me to message of Daniel's unrelenting fast of 21 days in Daniel chapter 10. The angel assigned to deliver the answer to his prayer from day one was delayed by the prince of Persia. But because Daniel did not relent in his prayer, the arch angel was disp...

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Most of us know the story of David and Goliath. A number of us grew up to the story being repeated at home, in school and at Sunday school class. I think the story motivated me to stand up to a class bully in Primary 3 (rolls eyes). It is a beautiful story of how a young lad was able to bring down the enormous giant, Goliath with a stone in a sling in the name of the Lord. It is in the similitude of facing one’s fears and defeating them. But why was God able to use David to bring down Goliath? What about other mighty men of war in the army? David was busy minding his father’s sheep when he was summoned by his father. When he got there, the prophet anointed him. Strangely enough, even his father did not really reckon that David will be the one to be anointed. He thought his firstborn, strong and well built, would be God’s choice. Thank God the prophet did not anoint based on his own mind set – can’t really blame him. When he anointed Saul, he noticed his physical attributes –...

I was about six or seven years when I desperately wanted my father to buy a VCR player. To my utmost disappointment, he refused. I  was so pained, I could have almost traded anything for one, especially since almost everyone had one in their homes. As I saw the isolation of my situation and the adamant stance of my father, I resorted to praying almost every day for God to meet my need so I could watch movies until I went off to boarding school. So many years after, I still smile when I remember how desperate I was to acquire one as though it was food. Not having one till some years later made me resort to watching NTA channel 5, channel 10 & channel 7, and reading novels. It did not have an adverse effect on me; it was not a need, it was a want. A need is a thing we have to have while a want is a thing we will like to have. A need is essential, compulsory for functional living (food, housing, clothes) while a want is something you can do without. A couple of days...

Timi sighed deeply as he disconnected the lengthy call with his Mum. ‘Darling, Mama said she is coming over by next weekend’, he told his wife. Adana’s countenance changed automatically. ‘That is good. When exactly? And how long will she be staying?’, she quickly added when she noticed my gaze. ‘She did not really specify o; you know Mama now. By next week, we will know more details. But you know she is coming over to help with the babies’, I replied. ‘My sister is already around for that, dear. Plus you know my mother has already arranged to come over by month end. Where would they all stay?’ she replied with a scowl fast marring her features as she exited our bedroom. I just quietly decided not to press the issue but I could not help but wonder why Mama and Adana just did not get along well. They seemed to manage themselves whenever I am around but even a donkey would sense the tension in the air. Truth be told, Adana never uttered anything bad about Mama but you could easil...

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I stared hard into my wallet. My brain was refusing to comprehend what my eyes were seeing. I closed my eyes and counted to five and opened them again. This was more like my eyes were refusing to see what my brain knew they should see. Abi, what kind of nonsense dream was I dreaming this afternoon… ‘Aunty, let me come back. Let me serve customers’ said Deola the salesgirl at the office canteen as she moved away to attend to the customers who just entered. I tried to gather my thoughts as she left. Small Papa had given me N10,000 to buy needed foodstuff on my way back home from the office. I was very sure that I put the money in my wallet and even put it in a different part of the wallet from my own small change. In fact, I still saw it when I paid for my transport fare this morning. I saw it when I removed my passport photograph to submit my bank form to the HR manager. ‘What is the matter, Iheoma?’ Sharon asked. We had both come down to the canteen to eat together. She ...

Hannah’s story in the bible has usually been like one of the bible story we learn as kids in Sunday School as one of the lessons of faith or as evidence of God’s ability to answer prayers. Personally, I have read it more than a couple of times, more often than not as the story of how Samuel the prophet was born way way back many centuries ago… But even though it does not span more than a couple of chapters in the bible, it is a profound story with a lot of insight that applies to modern life and living. While setting my sights on read a more ‘ mature ’ epistle written by Paul ( sometimes my reasoning confounds me sef ), I had a nudge in my spirit to read 1 Samuel. The story of the mother somehow caught my attention. I had never really considered what this woman went through or the price she paid but I found myself amazed at her sacrifice. Many would probably think it inconsequential until they put themselves in her shoes. There is no other word to call it other than sacrifice....

My name is Iheoma. I am the third girl of my mother and her last born. My mother is the third wife of my father, Papa Uche. Brother Uche is the only male child in our family and my mother's first born, which was why my mother had the status of the favourite wife in the house. Altogether, my father had twelve children in the house and three wives. To be clear, we were fourteen females and two males in the house, meaning overplenty of drama every day in Ukunu! Unusual it was but my brother was not spoilt like other only sons. It seemed like God had given him a special nature that our parents could not influence, a brain like computer and a tall physique that farmwork had buffed well. If our mother favoured him with a juicy and thick piece of meat, Brother Uche would manage to cut small for me without our mother seeing him. My mother said that the day she gave birth to me, the labour pangs caught her unexpectedly while at the farm. Uche was the only one there to help her because ...

If I am granted one  sure banker  wish, it would probably be to be in heaven, free from the stress and strains of earth and all its inhabitants. The main challenge is that I would have to be dead,  un- alive, six feet under… unless rapture happened like now. That would really make things easy for me, wouldn’t it. But if rapture happens, a number of Christians would also be raptured and around in heaven.  But would they still portray their complex human nature in heaven? Would they exhibit the wide range of human emotions that makes living so chaotic? I hope not! Life has been good to me and it has also been hard. It has dealt me blows I am still reeling from but it also makes me laugh a lot. It has not been fair, it has not been kind, it has not been all beautiful, it has not always been caring. It has been refreshing as well as frustrating, annoying but downright amazing too. Life has been life, I guess, I am not sure. My experiences cannot adjudge the varie...