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I am Forgiven by God

I don't bother myself about what others say. I am born of God. he that is born of God overcomes the Word. I have been forgiven by God. The fountain of forgiveness has been opened unto me, never again to be locked. The anger of God can never be stirred up again against me. God can never be ANGRY with me. Isaiah 54 talked about the waters of water and as he swore that the waters of Noah would no longer go over the earth, so has God sworn that He will never ever be angry with me. Certainly not! Not in any way! My sins are forgiven. Inferiority Complex is gone out of the window now. The past does not hold me back. I have been eternally forgiven. I enter new relationships knowing God has forgiven me!!! A.W Tozer said the most important thing in your life is what comes to your mind when you think about God. There are only three people on earth God has taken. Enoch walked with God and He was not for God took him. God didn't kill him. Death is an enemy. God doesn't use the instrume
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Completed a short story ghostwriting gig

I spent the early hours of the morning mopping the house. With the pseudo-harmattan, there were ash remains on the verandah and it had found the way into the living room. After that, I showered and then tried to put on the writing cap. It didn’t flow. I had a deadline to meet and words didn’t want to come. It wasn’t even the main work. I wanted to do the outline so I could go on a stretch when I begin. It wasn’t until late in the afternoon that I told myself I’d just write. That’s when the fountain started flowing. It reminded me of what Stephen Kings said about amateur writers waiting for inspiration ‘while the rest of us get up and do the work.’ So, I wrote. It was a slow process. That’s quite understandable as I haven’t been writing fiction in a while. I believe I’ll pick up speed as I progress. I want to get this posted before 12am.i might come back to add more content.  So, I ended up writing 2500+ words today.
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Still acclimatizing

So, it's January 12 and I haven't really gotten up to the goals I set to myself for the new year. I hope I can do better in the coming days. I couldn't write much today because we had an in-house meeting that I had to be present for (some grammar machismo frown at ending a sentence with a preposition but what do I care?). Client called me that I missed some words and that some sentences wear unreadable. It happened that I had been dozing off while I wrote those article and many of the words came out jumbled. It was a total mess and I had to redo the work over again. Remind me next time not to work very late in the night. Also, there was another part of the work that I skipped without even knowing it. So, I had to go back and had that included in all of them. Luckily, jt didn't take me more than 30 minute and I was able to resolve it all and sent the work again. I haven't heard from him since then. I hope he takes it in good faith. This was supposed to be a month whe
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Building Streak

It's another new year. Another year to try and achieve goals. Couldn't get everything done in 2020. However, there's another opportunity to try.  If I consistently do something everyday that advances the goal, no matter how small, in a matter of time, a streak is built. One thing about streaks is that when you have one going, especially after going a significant distance, you don't want to break it. Soon, it becomes an habit.  If I write a thousand words everyday, it might look small. However, when you calculate that after 365 days, that's 365,000 words, more than many people will write in their lifetime.  And it's not just for writing. It could be for anything; walking to loss weight, praying, learning a new skill, anything. It just need that small step.  And taking it a bit further, we (silly me. I meant I) can combine several goals and have streaks running from them. It doesn't have to begin big but we build on them over time. DWS wrote over 1.5 million C
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Social Media and its growing influence

It would seem that more than we know it, social media has taken the front seat, handled the steering, and is pushing our lives in the direction it wants. The worst part is that social media is in the hands of those who's major concern is profit. Thus, they pick the stories about death, about killings, all wrongs that exists and feed them to us because they know that the human mind craves for such. What they don't know (I'd like to think like that, excuse them for this) is that such negativity is adversely affecting the people's way of life. Cultures are evolving and with the increase in knowledge and information, crueler people are emerging. Instead of thinking of ways to better the status quo, they device machineries that are mirror images of diabolism. I cringe when I imagine that killings now seem so normal. Just this evening, someone popular was killed. Two shots to the head. People gathered. From his surname, I think I might know someone in the family because we st
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One lie doesn't invalidated the truths of the past

There has always been that norm to look down on someone, on their life's works simply because they made a mistake years down the road. That's not the way it works. You don't throw the child away with the bath water. Sometimes, we just need to take the lesson and not judge it by the life of the one who it's coming from. That way we can keep appreciating them for their works and it's impact on our lives.  The originator of a work isn't always as important as the work itself. Some of the worst politicians have given us the best moments, policies, and infrastructure. Some of the not so likeable personalities have given us the greatest written works which we will continue to enjoy. Isaac Newton dabbled into alchemy, yet we cannot say because of that his second law of motion isn't accurate. That would be a fallacy.  In the holy book of Christians, a prophet was made to marry an harlot because the creator wanted to use his life as a lesson to the people of Israel.
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There's nothing wrong with repetition

  There's no power in a forgotten story. Sometimes, I find that having to relay the story to myself and to others keep the story fresh. Also, it provides room for a better understanding. Now, you get to poke at the story, like a lab rat, from every direction. This is the way to obtain a complete understanding. Christmas never gets old because we keep poking at this story in every direction. We use the lens of our conscience to determine if our lives have been affected by this great story in any way. And what if we can be affected in more ways than one?  "Repetition is the law of deep and lasting impression" We learn new ways to live, to act, to care. And if you stare long enough, you can feel some of the story rubbing off on you, modifying your personality and in some rare cases, giving you a new lease of life, a reason to keep striving, to keep going.  Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year in advance. 
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