Where do you belong? (Some thoughts on graduation season)
It’s graduation season again. Many of us will experience several changes, but what’s most important it that the Lord provides people wherever we find ourselves. How comforting is that?!
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Home and Love, Love and Home.
April and May update Hello everyone, I didn’t post an update at the end of April- I think that has been the most stressful period of my entire year. Finals almost killed me, but more so, I had a very emotionally turbulent semester. But thanks be to God, he literally reached out into my very dark hole and pulled me out. Today, I want to write about one very special week in the month of May- and that pretty much was the highlight of my entire month. I worked in school for three weeks after finals. I got some money to buy work clothes for my internship, and to travel down here and settle in. I’m grateful to God for that- for the opportunity to work and basically fend for myself. God has done great things, so we bless His holy name! But today, I want to talk about two of the things I find most important and fascinating- home and love. I was privileged to spend the last week of May with some of …
…and who do you think you are?
Once upon a time, something happened. And I got upset. I got upset because I felt like I tried so hard and do all I could to serve God and to do His will (although I often fail terribly). So why, I thought, did all that happen to me? Why didn’t He warn me earlier, why did He watch me fall into the trap again? It was the same story of someone doing something, or I doing something, falling short, then feeling bad, getting upset, and finally asking “Oh Lord, why didn’t you warn me ahead of time? Why did you not also prevent me from this? Why do you not help me?” But that day, just as I was about to launch a big, annoying rant about how God is good to other people and bla bla bla, something in my heart told me to shut my mouth. A little detour. I find it very difficult sharing the struggles I face in my spiritual life, as I often fail in extremely embarrassing and shameful ways. But it always occurs to me that my mistake could be …
Don’t take it Personal, it’s not about you!
Last summer, I had my first working experience ever. I was almost as nervous as I was excited. However, I could not have been more blessed by God. Not only did the parents of a very good friend of mine graciously welcome me to their home, I worked with people who I believe were divinely placed in my life. On my last day at the internship, the associates had a little farewell gathering for the other intern and I. They associates had very lovely words of appreciation and encouragement for me, and there were also tears in abundance. I hear even my boss shed a few tears as well. Even if I doubted, that day I realized that it was purely the Lord who graced with that experience. I really received a lot of love and wisdom at my internship. The Lord really showed me that it pays to work according to His plans because I had prayed against interning in Lagos as my family lives in Abuja. Either way, I still don’t know how I …
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