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For all the curious cats yeah my curious friends – I wish I remember what was written in the note. I heard through a mutual friend that he was really upset about having to repeat a class and my note was simply to encourage him – must have included 1 or 2 bible verses. Unfortunately I do not have copies of the notes seeing that this was the era of snail mail. My note must have done wonders ‘cos I was treated at the fanciest ‘restaurant’ on campus then! Satisfied?

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I used to write notes. I loved writing notes, I probably still do but I do not write them again. Some of my past notes have come back to haunt me. Well, actually 2 of them.

Thankfully the notes were nice if a bit awkward but I loved writing and still do.  A number of my friends have kept the notes and from time to time, I get an email saying they just stumbled upon one of my notes and how they remember how it helped them get out of a dump or really really encouraged them. This usually put smiles on my face and leave me wondering about what was in those notes.

One of my notes led to my first date I didn’t think it was such a big deal but I guess the recipient did.

I remember one note that stayed in my pocket for weeks and weeks because I was afraid of the stern face of the would-be recipient. She wasn’t a friend, just an acquaintance and my last friendly overture had been rebuffed by a stolid and hard face. Hmmm…I heard she was in a bit of trouble and put pen to paper but my fear of her made me withhold the precious note.

Months later I showed the note to a mutual friend who blurted out ‘Why on earth didn’t you give this to her, Toyin?’ Emmm silence followed from me. He went on to say he was sure that note would have helped her make a better decision than the one she made. I don’t know and will never know if that would have happened but that was the only undelivered note I ever wrote…

Until I stopped writing…

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This week, one has been horrified about the murder of a lady by her husband.
My take on this event are as follows:

• Nothing happens by chance.

The man who murdered his wife, murdered her in his mind eons ago and the right opportunity and circumstance set the balls rolling for this heinous crime to be played out.
I have read comments on message boards from people who know him and are shocked that he could do such a thing. I think all the beating she received were just indications to the workings of his mind. It is awful, horrendous and incomprehensible to a ‘normal’ human being but not surprising because the Bible says ‘The heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it?’.
Jesus said it is not what is on the outside that makes a man unclean but what issues out from his very being. The Mind! I don’t know the fellow from Adam but I most certainly believe that his years of being jobless were not put to good use. Instead of despising the shame of not having a job and spending time diligently ‘working’ at positive things; I believe his mind was ‘fed’ continuously a diet of negative meals from negative TV programs, unwholesome Videos & Films, etc.

For a man to commit such an act against a fellow human, his wife no less , external imagery had definitly sold the act to his very self. Not at a seating, but in bits and pieces.
He had a weakness – his anger and that was the entrance or the switch that turned on these images and fueled them till they became reality.
His act is not surprising just sad and true!

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domestic violence, images, mind

This week:

• Old recordings (on CD)  from Kenneth E. Hagin’s campmeetings #Listening to one recorded in 1983 and I’m amazed that Gods word is constant.
• A book : The Believers authority (What you didn’t learn in Church) by Andrew Wommack
• A site: www.gracehope.com (I call it ‘The believers Facebook’)
• Podcasts by Andrew Wommack
• Weekday services at HICC (Check out www.hiccworld.org)
• Another book: One word of God can change your life forever edited by Kenneth & Gloria Copeland.
• Telephone conversations with friends seeking the Lord.

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I am very grateful to God for:

• Second and Third chances.
• The fact that my car is back on the road after the deluge of rain destroyed some components. I’m grateful for His provision wrt the car.
• My parents who have been and are such a huge support for us.
• Restored homes
• The gift of laughter, humor, smiles, kind words.
• Jesus who has given me victory! Constant immovable victory.
• the fact that He is a friend who is ALWAYS with me.
• New friends, new meetings.
• Ibukunoluwa
• ToluwaLase
• Olaoluwatomi
• Omokolawole

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The rain on Friday was heavy. The poor drainage on the road caused a mighty flood. My car was parked on the road and the water sipped into it and spoiled the brain box of the gear. I was not alone. Several people had to push their cars of the road and spent the weekend at a mechanic workshop. Thankfully my car did not move from where it was parked Friday morning so the additional expense of towing (an automatic) it did not surface.

It is still grounded because the mechanic and I decided to try and salvage the soaked box and hopefully restart it but all we got were weird and erratic signs lighting up the dashboard. I’m grateful though as I heard of another car whose ‘brain box’ was trying to be salvaged and instead of starting, ‘detonated’ the air bags when the accelerator was pressed down, which unfortunately smashed the windscreen of the car as the mechanic had placed his tools on the dashboard.

It was a quiet weekend with little or no mobility but taxis, danfos and (almost keke marwa’s) have come to the rescue.  Sunday evening saw me calling one of the licensed cabs to pick me up Monday morning, however 15mins after the set time he still was not around so I went and got another one passing by. Turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it was also an air-conditioned taxi and cost me less. I get his number and use him 2 days in a row.

I’m amazed at how calm I have been through this car-less experience. Not that its not expensive, it has cost A LOT and to think I had no plans to repair the car this month after just doing a full-service on the car and purchasing 2 brand new tyres. Things I had pushed for as long as I possibly could. (Read: Oga is not around, so everything else apart from the car was priority )

Several things made me laugh: A ‘battery charger’ brought his battery and proceeded to connect 2 rods to the points on my battery and once the car came on decided to ask for double the going rate! I simply burst out laughing. His explanation (in Yoruba) was the extra charge was because he used his ‘brains’ to figure out what the problem (as we thought it was then) was. It was just a ruse (unsuccessful I might add) to get more money out of this ‘Alakowe’. At least he must have surmised, that’s the way she makes money.

It took me back to an Economics lesson in Secondary school about knowledge workers and manual labor. I have to agree with the ‘battery-charger’ - Everyone is a knowledge worker. The value we place on the work done determines how much we are willing to put down for services or products. A long post…where did I start out from?

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Thank God!
This day & time 5 years ago, I was putting finishing touches to my dressing and about to take my last steps out of my fathers house.
I look back in amazement, time does fly!
I remember that I had prayed for absolutely no rain. It did rain but not enough to spoil proceedings or hamper pictures from being taken. It rained just as we started singing the hymn “There shall be showers of blessing” and I remember when we got to the stanzas, “Showers of Blessings, showers of blessing we need…” the intensity of the rain intensified and the pelting on the roof almost tried to drown out the chorus! Trust my people, we sang with gusto and our voices ‘out-sang’ the rain.

I had thought I’d be disappointed with the rain but I only smiled as we (my hubby & I) took that as a lovely sign of Gods blessings on our union. Its been a rain of blessings from Day 1.

There have been many challenges but God is FAITHFUL! He has spared us, He has kept us, He has blessed us, He has delivered us, He has shown us His mercy, His grace, His plenteous mercy and unmerited favor. Without Him, there would be no 5 years!

To Him be all glory…all praise and Thanksgiving!

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I’m sporting my natural hair and I’m loving it!

And I’ve received a lot of inspiration from the following sites and many others.

http://www.tightlycurly.com

http://going-natural.com

http://naturalhairbeauty.blogspot.com/

www.backtocurly.com

I’ll put up pictures of what I look like soon…

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Reading this post (albeit old) on my sisters blog inspired this.

1. I love books too: My favorite ‘to-do’ is nestling on a couch with a new book in my hands and turning pages as I am transported to ‘other’ worlds. Sadly the busyness of life has reduced the times I can do this but I remember with fondness the days when ASUU went on strike and I had what seemed like unending time on my hands. These days I’m hardly without a book in my bag, the car but I just catch snippets here and there. At home most reading time is interrupted by my little madam who just has to talk and be heard!

2. I love cooking: This love has recently been rekindled. Like books, time to cook is limited to mostly weekends but trying out new dishes is a favorite pastime of mine. I’m like my mum as I’m not afraid to experiment. I could be categorised as a continental chef but I love making our traditional dishes too!

3. I love deep conversations with my close friends: You know talking about our lives and the word of God and life in general and understanding what each other has to say before the other person even voices those words. Its also lovely to have your questions answered by conversations others are having without their even knowing it. My twin and I were said to understand ourselves as babies and our conversations as adults are beautiful times of fellowship. Its awesome that when you have good friends even silence speaks volumes !!

4. I love sermons: Hearing the word of God expounded on whole new levels is an amazing experience. I love listening to good sermons based strictly on what the word of God says. These days I tend to have filters up but… its awesome when your spirit is leaping inside of you as a witness to what is being preached.

5. I love laughing: God knew so he gave me a fantastic hubby with a truly lovely sense of humor! Its amazing how many little things we can laugh about together and joke about and to top it , I think I have a comedian as a daughter. I started out tough and tight but this little daddys girl has learnt to unwind…and is still learning!

ilove!

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