Month: October 2017

IF I HAD TO CHOOSE, IT WOULD BE ‘POWER’

Yes, I know both are good but if I had to choose between God’s Authority or God’s awesome Power? I’d go for the Power. Let me explain. I have a car. It’s mine. It belongs to me. I have authority to get into the car and drive it anywhere I choose. Right? Yes. But the day I lose the key to my car, I lose the ‘power’ to get into it. I’ll need to call …

IF I HAD TO CHOOSE, IT WOULD BE ‘POWER’ Read More »

NOT A MANNEQUIN

man·ne·quin [mánnikin] (plural man·ne·quins) noun Dummy for displaying clothes: a usually life-size model of the human body used to display or fit clothes, jewelry or accessories. Ella was perhaps the most carefree creature the world had known. She was innocently beautiful, kind, free spirited and hungry for life. She was also naïve, so much that she’d believe everything anyone said to her, assuming that everyone had good intentions and that the world was all beautiful. So …

NOT A MANNEQUIN Read More »

HEADING ALL THE WAY UPSTAIRS

Long ago, functional elevators were not common place in Nigeria and yet we had ten-twenty storey buildings.  If you had business on the 10th floor . . . most people want to do business with the folk on the upper floors; better still, our desire is to occupy the uppermost floors . . . The first few steps are easily taken in stride – move rapidly without missing a beat, skip sprightly over two-three steps …

HEADING ALL THE WAY UPSTAIRS Read More »