SHARING LIFE

This month has been busy for me because I am getting my research paper done. Sometimes, I like to focus my energy on getting a particular task done to the extent that I shut out all other engagements or commitments till I am through with that particular task.  My confession and testimony are as follows: Over the past two weeks, I had not actively had my quiet time. Whenever I woke up, I would quickly get to work on my research work. Yes, I prayed. Yes, I listened to sermons and I went to church but I wasn't placing Him first.  Also, I wasn't going for rehearsals and Thursday Mass because I had to get my work done. I just didn't put Jesus first.  I prioritized my thesis above Him and in my defense, I would tell myself that He would want me to focus on this now.  The thing is, though I was getting my work done, I knew there had to be a better way.  By the Mercy of God, on Saturday, I resolved to calibrate.  When I woke up today, I went straight t...

In his sermon at church on Tuesday, my Priest said that when we continue to dwell in sin, Daddy will take His blessings away from us. I was pondering on what He said when Holy Spirit drew my attention to something I learnt in December, which I believe in some way explains what my priest said on Tuesday. You see, this Universe comprises two realms: Light and darkness. Those of us who by the Grace of God, believe in Jesus Christ belong to the Light whereas those who don't dwell in darkness. It is that simple, innit? Now, tell me, where do you belong? I have learnt that when we make that choice to follow Jesus and His precepts ( which, fundamentally, is to love the Lord with all our heart and to love our neighbours as we love ourselves ) we naturally gravitate towards the Light and in effect, closer to God ( no one can come to Him except by coming through Jesus Christ, remembe r ?). Now when this occurs, we get closer to His Person and what that means is that we begin t...

In June of 2018, I decided to study the concept of Love. One of the things I learnt is that love is not love without the element of choice. Daddy's love for us is evident in the power He gives us to either accept or reject his Love. I love the movie, "The Shack" because it answers the question," Why do bad things happen to good people?" The core of the answer to this question is the element of CHOICE.  Beloved, God loves us all. He made us in His image and He tells us that even if our earthly mothers will forget us, He won't. Even as He loves us, He doesn't force us to love Him back. He allows us to make that decision ourselves.  The thing about love is that choice is a very important thing... I have learnt that in our human relationships, we cannot stop people from loving us or falling in love with us but we have a choice to make whether to accept that love or not to accept it.  An important key I have learnt and am still learnin...

You see those times when we are singing a beautiful song that talks about the love of God and we find ourselves going emotional over how we feel about Jesus ( perhaps because of a thought that comes to mind during the singing or something in between those lines ) and we find ourselves feeling the looove we have for Jesus?  Well I have come to learn that that is not always the case when we are loving Jesus... Last week Thursday, at Mass, father was talking about loving Jesus and of how it fills a person up and about how beautiful the whole experience is. He then proceeded to ask how many of us loved Jesus. I was quite sad because in that moment, I wasn't at the same level of excitement and enthusiasm with which He professed His love for Jesus.  So when he asked, I didn't know whether to say that I loved Jesus or not but all the same, in that moment, something beautiful and extraordinary happened. In that moment of somewhat sorrow, Holy Spirit lovingly brought me to order...