YOU ARE...YOUR THOUGHTs

What you think you are.
It really pays to watch closely what and how you think;
What you think about yourself, What you think about the world, What you think about others, What you think about your prospects in life. Everything you think has an impact on the kind of person you become. Sometimes all it takes is a word, a phrase or A THOUGHT planted in someone's mind to change his or her whole life...Just like the day you gave your life to Christ, something tangible must have dropped in your mind and convinced your heart to take that step. No wonder Frank Outlaw quotes "Watch your thoughts they become words, watch your words they become action, watch your action they becomes habits, watch your habits they become character, watch your character for it becomes your destiny".

These Things...

Love will give you access to the best
Purity will make you outstanding
Meekness will give you inheritance on earth
Joy will keep your soul free from strife
Happiness will keep you younger
Patience will give you your heart desires
Obedience will give you long days
Humility will lift you
               Harness them and they will enhance you
           Garnish them with Wisdom, Discipline and Diligence

SEEK!

Search out a matter. They are mostly hidden
I mean matters regarding success.
Success doesn't just happen.
They are secrets, secrets to success.
Did THE WORD not say SEEK?
Hunger and thirst to search.
Until then will you find.

"there's more to life than cold ambition, much more"

One just keep living not knowing you care or how much you care about certain things. And that is as long you have a good job that takes care of your bills, friends that keeps cheering you, when you have almost everything if not everything. In a moment that changes and makes you change. It could be the death of a loved on, or an experience that brought you face to face with death but you made it out. Then you realize that we are only living on the surface. You look around, the coolness, the quietness, the beauty of all you have, your mansion painstakingly assembled, leather and blond wood and clean lines of metal, the tiles. You think of how you are living, enjoying the single-hood good  life you are living but now fixed with another thought that "there's more to life than cold ambition, much more".

A time comes when you start needing more than you have and can get, much more. Something money cannot buy, something just you cannot provide for yourself, a vacuum you can't just fill by yourself leaving you with the feeling that you are missing so much. May be you didn't see it before but all of a sudden you are realizing it. Realizing what? "you need a companion". It's a switch but you can do it. just think about it. You'll think you are being enough all by yourself, not wanting to alter everything abruptly. You would be shaken but you can't just get past it and go for much more.

The girl-child

On her way back from work late Friday night along a lonely path brought her to a view of a female child of about five years old in front of a noisy and crowded bar, girls and boys having fun on a Friday night. Though being late at night and darkness covering the face of the earth her age could be ascertained but she was wearing a low hair cut, dressed in a short, a white slippers and a white top with a folder piece of cloth on her waist. She was not hidden, she was dancing with every effort to ensure her waist was shaking as she was dancing and looking at her back side to see if her behind was dancing along with her. From all indication she was interested in the activity going on there and was dancing to the rhythm slamming and jamming at the inside. Then she looked around to figure out which residence the girl must have come out from, she sighed in confusion  because all the houses were fenced with big gates and guards at every gate, houses for the rich. Certainly she cannot be from any of these houses. Still looking she saw a wooden shop just behind the noisy and crowded bar. Definitely that's where she is from and the piece of cloth round her waist for carrying the baby with the woman inside the shop. Then she drove by.

Then I ask, why would a female child be out that late dancing and twisting her waist at that very spot and at that very time of the night and her mother is just close by? Is it the carelessness of the mother or the foolishness of the child. Did they not say charity begins at home? Even if she is not her mother but her guardian does she not know she's being exposed to child abuse. Each day the society tries to resolve issues facing the girl-child. Different NGO campaigning from one secondary school to another. The training does not start at the adolescent age, it starts from the childhood age. Protect her from being in vulnerable situations. Parents can actually spend less but give much by inculcating moral values in your children. All it will take is a little of your time and divine direction. "Therefore wisdom is profitable to direct, get wisdom. And in all they getting, get understanding". It's is not by power (beating) or by might.

What you think!

What you think about yourself, what you think about the world, what you think about others, what you think about prospects in life. Everything you think about has impact on the kind of person you become. Sometimes all it takes is a word, a phrase or a thought planted in someone's mind to change his whole life.
"Just like the day you gave your life to Christ, something tangible must have dropped in your mind and you got convinced in your heart to take a bold step".
It really pays to watch closely what and how you think. No wonder Frank Outlaw writes:
"Watch your thoughts, they become words
Watch your actions, they become habits
Watch your habits, they become character
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

"It's sad that the people we love the most are often the target of our hurtful words. but even when we feel we've been provoked, we have a choice. Will we respond in anger or in kindness?"

Moment of Truth

Atimes the one we call friend is not really a friend. Not because he is not good enough to be a friend but because he just doesn't fit that definition of friend. Friendship is a two way traffic. One floods the action the other receives and reciprocates. One doesn't always sit at the receiving end. Two or more people filling each others needs,being there for each other, cheering each other. It's a mutual phenomena (Symbiosis). Know you can't expect to receive what you can't give. Though I wonder how some people keep giving even when it is not reciprocated: special heart.

Then comes the moment of truth when you ask yourself: Why do I call him friend?
You refer to him as friend because you know that he wants the best for you. You confide in him because you trust him. Whenever you call he responds. When you need a shoulder, he gives you both to lean on. Truely he is a friend, but can he say that of you. Do you listen to him or do you only want him to listen to you. Do you want to know what's in his mind or do you only want to tell him what's on your mind? Is that how your relationship with God is?

Anger

"Be quick to hear

Slow to speak

Slow to anger"

It characterizes every human being. It's an emotion that involves strong uncomfortable and emotional response. It has the tendency of leading to increased heart rate and blood pressure. Everything about it speaks more harm than good especially when it is given physiological response other than facial expression and body language. Which means when not controlled, it causes more harm than good. Whether "hasty and sudden anger", "settled and deliberate", or "dispositional" according to psycologists and sociologists, Anger is Anger. The only thing that makes it different is how you manage it. Though it can be towards the correction of wrong behaviours, promotion of social justice, communication of negative sentiment and grieviences, yet it is neither necessary nor a sufficient condition for aggression.