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Lord, I give you all the days of the rest of my life.
For whatever reason, today I am thinking about getting old. What will my legacy be ? What stories will be told about me ? What stories will I tell ? Who will I tell them to? Who will be in my life ? How will my days be ? What will my last 20 years,…
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Failure and success
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Failure has given me some of the most defining experiences of my life. It made me pause in my tracks, question my direction, and challenge the beliefs I once held with certainty. In those moments of disappointment, I was forced to confront what I thought I…
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For the glory of God
One of the lessons I learnt early in life was to not have expectations of people. This also begs the knowledge and belief that I am not owed. The world doesn’t owe me. In the recent past, I am confronted with the fact that aside from not being owed, I am dispensable. We all are.…
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#8 Travel diary: Fascination around my hair
The stories of beauty, variations, pain, time, struggles, and adventures, traumas, angsts surrounding black hair have been around for ages. Now with technology and evolving standards of beauty, no one can possibly exhaust the complexity surrounding this topic. Many people have attempted to make easier the life of women and girls like of my skin…
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#5 Travel diary: The shouting black man
Their feet are swift, their bodies light, save for the old stiff-jointed grannies wheeling walkers. They walk like ants in many lines except they are not together. They are unaware of the other person and each person seems completely disconnected from the human environment around them. It is not in a mistrusting way; it is…
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#6 Travel diary: Heaven in the South
I often times marvel at the works of God’s hands but in the case of the south of Bavaria, I am mesmerized. When God expresses Himself in the beauty of creation, you can’t help but adore. On this sunny summer day, I gazed at the sea of green fields and stretched my view beyond them…
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#9 Travel diary: bicycles everywhere.
When I was a young girl, my brother taught me how to ride a bicycle. It was a very freeing activity. When I rode down that rocky road past farms and past slowly trekking people, I felt like one of those people in the exclusive league which my brother was born into, the free males.…
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You have given everything
You have given everything of yourself and some.Yet I am so inadequate I could never pay back in equal measureBut I hope daily that my love and gratitude to you are felt, palpable, and visible. Love, your daughter.
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Not everyone deserves proximity to your purpose
They say that as we grow older, our circles grow smaller. And perhaps that is not loss, but refinement. Yes, I still mourn some friendships. It was never an issue of betrayal or brokenness, but rather distance, time, inevitable change, perhaps the quiet evolution of becoming. And so I hold the memories gently ; they…
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Dear friend
I wish to celebrate you for your existence and presence in a world beyong me because you carry more light than you know into it. Never believe otherwise. Selfishly, let’s focus on my world and make this about your occupancy of a large space in this tiny universe of mine. Man, do you turn it…
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Face to face
Face to face and my tongue is tied. My racing heart and puzzled mind in utter wonder at how in their universe they deserve my meek smile, and I their cruelity. The only image in mind is that of their shouts when they say, “Smear some more… If it the image you have painted is…
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The opposite of love could be fear
Sounds strange, right ? But indulge my rambling ponder for three minutes: I once heard Trevor Noah say he kept his circle very small and didn’t make friends easily because he fears to put someone in a position where they could fail him; and that he in turn didn’t want to put himself in that…
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Tell them, show them you love them.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words never said and deeds never done. We often assume that they should know how much we love them. But we should never assume, we should let them know.
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I see you.
Maybe it’s not all of you, but I see a lot of you, more of you than you purpose to give. The joy, the smiles, the depth. I see the fire, the zeal, the intellect, the wisdom, the hustle, the grind, the power of your will. I see how you knock down walls, how you…
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Lamp unto my feet
Guide every step, every mile, every milestone On this journey, never trodden, For it is only mine to take, and The destination is you To think of my frail knees, ever dwindling and faltering as they stride These feet never sure of their direction Between the messages of the mind, spirit, and body; Align them…
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Take a pause
Life can move so fast; sometimes at my busiest, I don’t remember on Friday what happened on Monday. There have been too many microevents. It’s better to take a pause. Stop and look around before you miss life as it is unfolding. The world as it is today seems to have different settings in this…
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Tender souls
Gazing into the dark, holding gentle hands, I know not to let my mind wander because golden moments are simply what they are, and that’s what I’ll take this for. I don’t know what love is. I only know that I want you well. Your joy is my joy, your hurt pains me. Your touch…
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On the good days
There won’t always be good days, but on the good days, I’ll be eternally grateful that I am on this beautiful journey. Every bit and piece, every stop and turn, every encounter is what makes it worthwhile. It’s like the strokes of the artist’s brush, painting the best work of art. It is what makes…
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Context
Everything we see, hear, our encounters, when put in a context under different circumstances, would change completely our view and stand. I believe in context but especially in reason. However, sometimes we don’t get enough time or enough room to share about context. Every statement has a two parts; one is variable. Yesterday, while speaking…