journal
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A closed mouth
Growing up Nigerian, there were numerous adages children were fed in school and at home. “You can’t have your cake and eat it”, or “what an elder sees sitting, a youngster cannot see even stationed at the top of a tree” (lol, last last we will use drone for aerial view). The topic of discussion… Continue reading
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Patient
Dear God, I love you because you are patient. You are a patient father, bearing all things. That’s what love does, right? Endures and waits hopefully. I could say that it’s easy for you to be patient. You have all the time in the world (figuratively and literally). It also helps that you’re all knowing,… Continue reading
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Present
Dear God, I love you because you are present. Ever-present. Present everywhere, every-time, all the time. It feels exhausting thinking about how you do it. I don’t think I would fully understand even if you explained it to me. But I think it’s really cool. Exhausting, but cool. It does make me a little more… Continue reading
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Awesome
Dear God, I love you because you are awesome. awe·some /ˈôsəm/ adjective, causing or inducing awe I could not find a better word. Or should I say, a better sounding word. But I think this fits perfectly: God, Most Awesome. When I read about you in scripture, or hear about you from people, I am… Continue reading
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Good
Dear God, I love you because you are good. I don’t use that word often. Maybe because I did not know what it really meant. It is not quite familiar. I know nice, fine, okay even. But good? I don’t know that. Or I didn’t. Until you. You God, are good. All good. And I… Continue reading
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Four letters
I was cleaning and organizing my IG stories recently, and found a few notes from two years ago. In twenty-twenty, I resolved to know God. The sudden realization that the “Lord” I had conjured up in my head, or fashioned in my mind was one that was not true. It was one that made me… Continue reading
