the musings of this nigerian gal
Sometimes, all you need is to talk out loud. Other times, what you need is to listen to others talk aloud.
This, right here, is me sifting through my thoughts and experiences, and letting the Holy Spirit talk aloud through me.
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Righteous Rebellion
One morning, I came across a message shared in a WhatsApp group, and it made me pause. The writer was talking about resisting the constraints that society and culture place on us as human…
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Face to Face with Reality
I was recently asked what serving in a village was like, and all I could say was that it made me realize the weight of the work we have to do on this earth.…
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Past Sins Are Blotted Out…What about Present Sins?
Then Jesus said, “he who is forgiven much, loves much.“ You were forgiven before you sinned I was reading a book, and the author was talking about how amputees usually feel pain or sensations…
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Adaptability vs Rigidity
If adaptability is a skill then rigidity is not! It was a twitter space held by the NGO, where I volunteered. Our founder was breaking down the big jargon of 21st century learning skills…
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Ẹru ẹlẹru
Envy and jealousy are very funny things. They make you hate good things. Naturally, when you see something good — for example, someone gets married or buys a house — what should be your…
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Peace ≠Control
Have you noticed whenever we’re hurt, we tend to sleep in a fetal position? We would curl into ourselves and try to hold on to the shattered pieces of our souls even as everything…
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The Art of Surrender
“Writing is both a science and an art.” “Baking is more science than an art.” “It takes art, not science.” Whenever I hear statements like these, I imagine science to be straight lines, sterile…
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The Paradox of Living
Littered all across scripture are paradoxes upon paradoxes. Matthew 11:28&29. Jesus call the heavy-ladened to come and pick up his yoke. Ephesians 2:8&9 and James 2:14, 17&26. One claims that faith, not works, is…
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Mary Contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contraryHow does your garden grow?With silver bells and cockleshellsAnd pretty maids all in a row. The first time I heard the phrase, “Mary contrary”, I pictured a willful girl who would…
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