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The successes we can't see

How do you know when you’ve made it? When can you confidently call yourself a success? According to current societal trends, there’s about five distinct ways to find out. If you’re swimming in a ton of cash. It doesn’t even have to be cold hard paper, but if you’re making money by the millions, you’re considered successful. If you have a great job that allows you to pay your bills, you’re successful. If you excel academically and have exceptional academic accolades, you will be considered successful.  As you grow up and reach a certain age, having a family would put you in the successful category. From beauty, to fame, to exposure and number of friends, the categorization of success differs wherever you go. However, one sure way to know that you’ve succeeded in some way is if people are coming to you for guidance. They’ll want tips on how to get where you are, and to know how you approached a specific situation. They’ll want to dress like you dress and talk like you talk. They’ll com

Dear God...

Dear God, This is a thank you note. Allow me to elaborate. My grand aunt (if that’s even an English word) was a single mother of five. Her husband, after over a decade of marriage, woke up one day and decided his five children did not mean that much to him anymore; he got himself a new wife, and went ahead to have four more children with his new wife. At the time this happened, her eldest child (my aunt) was about eleven years old. This tale is vivid in my mind because I looked up to my grand aunt in all matters spiritual. You could cut her up, limb by limb and she would still not give up her faith in Jesus.  I was an eager and curios child of maybe fifteen, a very impressionable age if you ask me. A group of about five of us were seated in a living room of her village home in Western Uganda, listening  intently to grand aunt tell this tale. The look in her eyes was one that said ‘I don’t expect you to believe me but this actually happened”. It was a cold night so

Enervated

Wolf and lamb in the same skin My protector and my murderer are one and the same Love and anger wrestle in the same dark small cubicle Pain; the feeling of having your skin peeled off as you watch Of someone taking your four fingers, pulling each two apart in opposite directions until the skin rips Until there's blood everywhere and the smell of putrid raw flesh fills the room My healing lies within my suffering You should have known. You should have intuition about these things; how couldn't you tell? If we are joined at the hip, aren't we joined at heart as well? Isn't my sin your sin? Don't you hear the words in these tears falling down my eyes? I need for you to fix it, to nudge me forward and take me back to the beginning Where it all started, and where it ended To stay by my side and leave me alone Reverse time; make it so none of it ever happened, so we still have that picture perfect I saw the first time I looked in your eyes

Journal from the past; You're okay!

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Nothing in life is a coincidence. I believe that everything happens at a particular time for a reason; you just have to be sensitive enough not to miss the purpose and whatever life is trying to impact on you. Just this week, my sister decided to do some re-organisation of the bookshelf at home. The most interesting article she found(at least to me) was this journal I kept from 2012.It's deep blue in color with each page divided to cover three-four days. It's branded because it's one of those company diaries. You can tell from the worn edges that it was well used. Most of the pages are pretty full; I clearly had a lot to say. Most probably, I just had a lot of time on my hands. After my sister handed me the diary, it lay on my bedside table for a few days. Just yesterday, while I was lounging around, I saw it and thought, "Why not?" So I opened the first page and begun to read. Most of it was pretty dramatic, I was a dreamer and I saw the world in H

Majority knows best!

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Slow down child You skip and you slip  without a care in the world You swish and you sway and say all your thoughts out loud You shouldn't be so happy You should carry some worry Slow down child lest you meet your fall  We were once young like you, you know we thought we knew it all But life will shake you up good, it will show you who's who in the larger scale of things You shouldn't be so full of hope Slow down child  you will get your heart broken It may seem like it's for forever right now  but we can tell you it won't last Haven't you heard it said, "All good things come to an end"? Don't you dare trust fully Slow down child follow the pre-defined steps There's a reason why these things are in place; Majority knows best There's no need to fix what isn't broken or make better what's working fine Try to not be so adventurous Slow down child You risk and y

Courage in the time of fear

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“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.” Some messages never grow old. There are some topics that after I’ve read two or three posts about them, I’m done. Being bold is not one of those topics. Naturally as human beings, we are comforted by routine. The safety net it brings allows you to feel like you’re in control of your life and what tomorrow will bring. It becomes your identity, how you describe yourself and how others define you. It becomes your main frame of reference when making decisions. It allows you to fit into a certain social category; heck, it even gives you new friends. When that safety net is suddenly ripped away, you’re left exposed. You’re suddenly vulnerable and lost, like a chick that was separated from mother hen and siblings when crossing the road. You start to look left and right, looking for anything that looks familiar or accepting. The doubt then starts to set in; were you even e

The 103rd Psalm of King David

1.  Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2  Praise the Lord, my soul,      and forget not all his benefits— 3  who forgives all your sins      and heals all your diseases, 4  who redeems your life from the pit      and crowns you with love and compassion, 5  who satisfies your desires with good things      so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. It’s not even about saying it with your mouth as it is about being so grateful in your heart; your insides should be dancing with praise. You know how you feel when your loved one does something so sweet and you just feel all warm and delicious inside; that’s what King David meant when he said ‘…all my inmost being, praise his holy name’. You have so many blessings (benefits) some of which you don’t even notice; life, health, family, friends, career, peace etc. Even the hair and stilettos I have are from God! 6 The Lord works righteousness     and justice for all the oppressed. 7 He ma