iHeartHope

I won't lie, I admire beautiful things.,and people. When I come across beautiful images of people, even randomly,for example on the internet, the first thing i do is show it to whoever I'm around and tell them how beautiful I think the person is( male or female). I remember sharing an image of a male model i saw online on my whatsapp status and jokingly asking my friends to help me thank the Lord for being a master creator. It is okay to admire beautiful images, to pray to have similar things in one's own life, but most times people want what they see without being willing to find out what process the person went through to have what they do. People are not often willing to pour in the hard work others did to have what they now do. A nice image of a married couple will not on its surface tell the story of the many tests that has rocked the marriage. It would not show the sacrifices the couple have had to make to get to the point they are at now. There is a church that...

Earlier this week I heard a preacher on radio reading a certain verse and using it to exhort listeners around dawn.A little interesting because I hardly ever tune in to radio at that time these days and I really am grateful that I got to hear that word and I believe it would be useful to you guys. Josh 6: Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out and none came in. wow. A whole city was shut up just because of a specific group of people. Now if it were shut out because ' it's our city, we don't want anyone coming in' then ok, I mean it's problematic and all but we will take it. But no, it was shut down because we don't want one group in particular coming in . And then God says: 'See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its King and the mighty men of valor'. Wait, The city is securely shut up and you are saying you have given it into my hands. Not You will give it but you have? So why I'm I outside the gate...

A few days ago whilst talking to a very special friend and teasing him about how he doesn't seem to 'remember' me when his money comes, he suddenly said; 'okay say what you want, but tread cautiously because if it is not within my budget, you would not get anything at all' I started laughing because I felt like a beautiful trap had been set for me and i could not figure out how to navigate my way around it. Well I was unable to mention anything I wanted. I still haven't been able to. Imagine getting an endorsed cheque, yet blank, from someone with large financial resources and the person asking you to write whatever amount you desired. The only catch is that you should have faith that the person has enough in their account to grant what you write. Yet, you are plagued with the question:'what if I get to the bank and it bounces?' I write these blogs not because I'm always in a perpetual hopeful mood. There are days that I sincerely worry about how ...

Have you found yourself doing something that you knew wasn't really 'right' or even downright wrong but you loved it so much that you damn all consequences and just live in the moment? Or when you really feel guilty about doing something but you refuse to even ask for forgiveness about it because you know even before you say Amen that you will do the exact same thing again as soon as you get the opportunity to? I don't know about you but I have. There are some things that honestly I have attempted 'negotiating' with God to give me a pass on, while I gather strength to overcome lol. You may pass your own judgment on this and say 'then you are not really sorry or you don't want to let go enough'. Ok, Most Strongest, when I grow up I want to be like you and be able to easily let go of things that i need to without even a little struggle. But you see the truth is that it is not entirely surprising that people have a certain response to situations that ...

Recently a friend told me how he has sworn never to give advise to adults with kids until he had one, because his last attempt at trying to calm a mother who was furiously lashing her baby had earned him a quick 'please give birth to your own and raise her how you want'. I overheard a while back a lady throwing words at her younger brother, when the adults around asked her to speak with a bit of respect, her words were 'I have paid his fees before, I can talk how I wish' This is life, where people don't regard others as being positioned in a place 'good' enough to render their opinions. The bible has this passage where it says there was in a city a poor man whose counsel saved it but yet nobody remembered him. Why am I telling you this? You may have heard such words even when you were just really acting from a good place and felt crushed as my friend did. Its sad and can make you feel unaccomplished but don't be too hard on yourself,one day the value ...

I came across the  purpose of a certain blog sometime ago: Your daily source of signal in a world full of noise. How true! It is most easy to be distracted by the many things that is thrown your way as you try to navigate this life. Distractions from workplaces, schools, the streets, our homes and even the church. We live in an era where everyone is talking. and everything seems to catch your attention.Day in day out people share their opinions on different matters and by virtue of technology we come across stuff we probably did not even go searching for. When you have so many things being thrown your way, one of the things you may easily do is to lose focus. Some times you may not necessarily lose focus but you may give priority to things that do not matter,to the detriment of those things that do. You may so admire that business your friend is involved in or the platform another has , and in trying to adopt certain things from them end up practically becoming a clone of that...

There were days in this year that I felt like the sun had betrayed me by simply rising. Like, did it not know many things were wrong with me, with life, with the world? And there were days that I didn't understand why some people were unhappy! The world was beautiful! There were many things to be thankful for! How ungrateful they were for not recognizing the beautiful things life released daily! And that is life. With the ability to present things that makes you feel overwhelmed with gratitude one minute And the next minute make you feel like hiding under the biggest rock and never coming out The first day of this year, I captioned my blog post: into the 'unknown', because I believed God alone knew the hidden things in this year. Indeed. This year has brought a number of losses that has rocked my world. Took beautiful people that meant everything to me and many others This year revealed the hearts of some people around me in a way that I wasn't ready for This yea...