Perilous times
Read yesterday how a man paid his daughter's kidnappers with bitcoins for her to be released safe and sound☹
I pray God to help us.
We're not insensitive to the happenings around us as a state and nation and indeed the entire world.
We are, and we are on our knees in prayer continuously for our country and our people.
No one can live in a bubble in Nigeria, no matter how rich, safe or immune to news or happenings around,
No, it's to our faces, maybe not to us or our close relatives, but it's to us.
In my humble opinion our vision for people to be SSL
Sensible
Sensitive
Loving
Will go a long way in achieving our collective aim.
Most people who had deliberately wronged and destroyed the various systems in one way or the order didn't think it wise to protect their children's children from the mess.
Most people who were not sensitive to the abnormalities and like the 2 men who walked pass the man the good Samaritan eventually helped are now themselves victims of danger.
Most people whose only mantra had been me, myself and I and maybe my immediate family, are now themselves seeking for justice online and in stations and courts. Their self love has now ended up like the man who thought love was a fantasy or a thing for only God to extend, has now ended up loveless.
It's only someone hardened that would pass Benin-Warri, Benin-Abuja and Benin-Asaba and say things are going well. The inner roads in my city are as at today littered with lorries, cars and buses that have fallen into ditches. The same sad feeling I had seeing lorries along the Ojuelegba-Ijora stretch, or the Lagos-Ilorin stretch.
But many are escaping into the world of BBN, 100 days in office and Dubai get-away. But the females dying in Port-Harcourt hotels didn't know they deserved to die and the bandits in Katsina deserved amnesty. The yahoo boys disturbing us along Tanke, Agbowo, New Haven, Nadia bakery and Admiralty are oblivious of the fact that we have not had light for more than a week even with our pre paid metres staring at us, and so many too don't have water since the generator can't power the self constructed boreholes. The soldiers still beating civilians, the SARS still mounting roadblocks, the EFCC still chasing enemies, I mean perceived economic criminals, all are 🙈🙉🙊 to the political office holders earning 13million monthly, clergy feeding on the flock or the 'celebrities' living large from miming to their songs DJ Glassy plays from her laptop afterbpeople sensibly used their hard earned money to get tickets for!
Who is to blame? Was Daniel guilty or liable before he stood in the gap for his people? Or Moses or Abraham? Of what use was it to Abraham that he begged God to spare Sodommif He found 20 righteous people? Was it because his nephew lived there? What are we as the salt and light doing? Being heavenly minded and earthly 'unuseful' 😒. I guess we are all so busy with our daily lives, yes even I have to be at the Customary court along Forestry tomorrow, then I may retouch my hair, then the day is gone and the mundane cycle continues.
Jesus said some seeds fell among thorns! Are we in thorns? Are the cares of the world choking God's purposes for our lives? What to do now? School fees need to be paid, deadlines have to be met, sitcoms have to be followed, baby clothes need to be washed, the staff need to be paid, clients have to be satisfied, kiosk has to be restocked and we have work/service men we need to fight with the laptop repairers, car repairers, painters, laundry man, tailor, bailiffs, vigilantes, waste managers, lesson teachers, volunteers, carpenters and masons to mention a few.
Is it from this time we would border about the sick in the ICU, the pupils in need of classrooms and uniforms, call that friend who just put to bed, visit that elderly person whose maid has resigned, donate to that Orphanage just down the road, help raise funds for a projector (of all our needs), raise funds for the new musical instruments in our churches, raise money for our siblings' travel plans, attend to our devotionals that need us to read them, our Bible manuals that need our consistency, our hymn books that need our voices (not only on Sundays), or our attention to bend our knees, bow our heads and cry out to God?
My name is Itohanoghosa
Read yesterday how a man paid his daughter's kidnappers with bitcoins for her to be released safe and sound☹
I pray God to help us.
We're not insensitive to the happenings around us as a state and nation and indeed the entire world.
We are, and we are on our knees in prayer continuously for our country and our people.
No one can live in a bubble in Nigeria, no matter how rich, safe or immune to news or happenings around,
No, it's to our faces, maybe not to us or our close relatives, but it's to us.
In my humble opinion our vision for people to be SSL
Sensible
Sensitive
Loving
Will go a long way in achieving our collective aim.
Most people who had deliberately wronged and destroyed the various systems in one way or the order didn't think it wise to protect their children's children from the mess.
Most people who were not sensitive to the abnormalities and like the 2 men who walked pass the man the good Samaritan eventually helped are now themselves victims of danger.
Most people whose only mantra had been me, myself and I and maybe my immediate family, are now themselves seeking for justice online and in stations and courts. Their self love has now ended up like the man who thought love was a fantasy or a thing for only God to extend, has now ended up loveless.
It's only someone hardened that would pass Benin-Warri, Benin-Abuja and Benin-Asaba and say things are going well. The inner roads in my city are as at today littered with lorries, cars and buses that have fallen into ditches. The same sad feeling I had seeing lorries along the Ojuelegba-Ijora stretch, or the Lagos-Ilorin stretch.
But many are escaping into the world of BBN, 100 days in office and Dubai get-away. But the females dying in Port-Harcourt hotels didn't know they deserved to die and the bandits in Katsina deserved amnesty. The yahoo boys disturbing us along Tanke, Agbowo, New Haven, Nadia bakery and Admiralty are oblivious of the fact that we have not had light for more than a week even with our pre paid metres staring at us, and so many too don't have water since the generator can't power the self constructed boreholes. The soldiers still beating civilians, the SARS still mounting roadblocks, the EFCC still chasing enemies, I mean perceived economic criminals, all are 🙈🙉🙊 to the political office holders earning 13million monthly, clergy feeding on the flock or the 'celebrities' living large from miming to their songs DJ Glassy plays from her laptop afterbpeople sensibly used their hard earned money to get tickets for!
Who is to blame? Was Daniel guilty or liable before he stood in the gap for his people? Or Moses or Abraham? Of what use was it to Abraham that he begged God to spare Sodommif He found 20 righteous people? Was it because his nephew lived there? What are we as the salt and light doing? Being heavenly minded and earthly 'unuseful' 😒. I guess we are all so busy with our daily lives, yes even I have to be at the Customary court along Forestry tomorrow, then I may retouch my hair, then the day is gone and the mundane cycle continues.
Jesus said some seeds fell among thorns! Are we in thorns? Are the cares of the world choking God's purposes for our lives? What to do now? School fees need to be paid, deadlines have to be met, sitcoms have to be followed, baby clothes need to be washed, the staff need to be paid, clients have to be satisfied, kiosk has to be restocked and we have work/service men we need to fight with the laptop repairers, car repairers, painters, laundry man, tailor, bailiffs, vigilantes, waste managers, lesson teachers, volunteers, carpenters and masons to mention a few.
Is it from this time we would border about the sick in the ICU, the pupils in need of classrooms and uniforms, call that friend who just put to bed, visit that elderly person whose maid has resigned, donate to that Orphanage just down the road, help raise funds for a projector (of all our needs), raise funds for the new musical instruments in our churches, raise money for our siblings' travel plans, attend to our devotionals that need us to read them, our Bible manuals that need our consistency, our hymn books that need our voices (not only on Sundays), or our attention to bend our knees, bow our heads and cry out to God?
My name is Itohanoghosa
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