Wishes..

If wishes were horses, they say men will ride. It's the end of another month, a feat that moves us closer to the end of the year, believe it or not, I have a load of things I wish for..

I wish I could be proud of Nigeria the way an American is of America..
I wish we are a disciplined people, with visionary leaders and beautiful cities..
I wish every Nigerian child had an opportunity to really live
I wish the educational sector in Nigeria will be comparable to that in the UK.. ( hmmm...)

Enough about Nigeria...now about me..

I wish I was married already with three kids.(lol working on that)
I wish I didn't have to work so hard to make money..(maybe I should just marry a sultan and be his 20th wife..lol)
I wish I could just blink and find myself in another country instead of spending long hours in a plane..phew!!(renta-ghost)
I wish I could wave a wand like Harry potter and solve all our problems in Nigeria.. (back to Nigeria again, you can see how much I love this country).
I wish I could eat anything I wanted without adding an ounce of fat..( I particularly love this wish).
I wish everyone loved and obeyed one God.. (then there will be no need for the UN, or wars, or hatred..hmmmm..)

I wish , I wish, I wish... If wishes were horses, men will truly ride.

Love in word and deed..

I just realised how easy it is to say we love God and are willing to obey Him, how easy it is to feel like a loving person, how easy it is to feel self righteous, go to church at every opportunity, sing, pray, praise and not be inconvenienced. Hmmm... I just learnt that talk is cheap, it is all in the act. Jesus Christ knew what he was refering to, when he said "How can you say you love me (whom you cannot see), when you cannot love your brother/sister that you see" I was put to the test recently and sadly all my self righteousness came to the fore, I bluntly refused to be inconvenienced, I gave reasonable excuses that sound to me lame now.

Thank God for devotionals, I opened mine, and the title that hit me was "Arms Of Love" and I was directed to read 1 John 3:16-20, verse 18 especially struck me "Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth". I became so ashamed and there decided to do the right thing. Did I feel better? a little. But it got me thinking a lot, can we say we love without having inconvenienced ourselves for it? Can we really love in words alone, without deeds to show for it?

Questions, questions and more questions. all I know is that I want to be like Jesus, not at once maybe, but I will just take it one day at a time.

Rude Awakening

Woke up feeling really good had a long and hard talk with Daddy and He was totally in-sync with me. In that mood I caught a friend online, one I like so I went ahead to chat with him. Just as I was really getting into the gist, he suddenly says " It's like you are beginning to nag", it left me cold on my tracks if there was one thing I dreaded to be called, it is a nagger! I thought I was a very understanding person cutting people really long slacks, letting them know how I felt so they could explain why they acted the way they did. looking back now, it hit me, maybe I really did nag.....

As that realisation hit me, it really hurt. How do you confront the people you love without coming off as nagging? How do you get someone to do something they ought to do without bringing it up over and over? It's an act I am baffled about but definitely one I have to learn. I never want to be a nagging woman, mother or wife....How does the book of Proverbs put it again.....??