A Love That Runs Deep
Love is a word I thought I knew A universe of warmth within my home. Dangling from my mother’s back Laughing at the tickles of my father’s touch. Love is a world I thought I’d grasped, An awakening I hoped would never fade. Holding the hands of those I loved, Resting […]
LovingItis: Tune in to love
Loving: Present continuous tense for love. Synonyms: affectionate, fond, devoted, adoring, amorous, doting, tender, caring… Itis: Medical term for inflammation. Synonyms: redness, hotness, burning, heat, stinging, soreness, pain… Sentence: Doctor, errmmmm… it looks like I have lovingitis. My heart is tickling me, there are butterflies in my stomach and I cannot explain how […]
Lessons of 2020
If you are asked how your 2020 went, your reply would probably go like this: January, February, March ……. BLANK…………., December. If your 2020 was anything like mine, March – December wasn’t blank. It was full of lessons! Let’s start with how 2020 was argued to be the start/end of a new decade. I double-checked […]
My Body, His Temple
Do you know you are a temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you? – 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 It was a Sunday morning. At about 6am, JÒke’s phone rang, and she could not ignore it because she had one of those very loud ringtones, she rolled over and stretched to […]
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
I don’t know what you think about when you think of love. Personally, I think of Westlife (aging myself here), and how a greater boy band may never exist. Westlife sang a LOT about love. Love they had lost; love they could not live without; love they were scared of losing. But one song […]
From Lagos with Love
While this is a story about Valentine, it’s quite different from the popular one you know. And although the fourteenth has come and gone; if you stay with me, you’ll see that it fits this simple note of mine. First, I didn’t have an all-that-great valentine. From the days leading up to the fourteenth, to […]
Lessons from Kintsugi
We are all broken in one way or the other, aren’t we? Of course, we are since we’re imperfect. Someone is having sleepless nights because of debt, some individuals are complaining of slow growth in business and unfavorable government policies. For some, it could be an unhappy marriage, unemployment or poor work conditions. The list […]
Is There One Person Made Just for Me?
Tough question, right? But don’t worry; I will simplify it to make you understand. The truth is, you can’t know if someone is made for you if you do not know who you are; and how do you know who you are? It all begins with discovering your identity in Christ; you discover yourself through […]