Once we opened ministry office, we would resume daily in the office fully decked- shirts, ties and suit. People would accost some of the staff then and ask, “What do you people even do in that place? We thought it is a church”. They never believed that the church should demand that level of seriousness. If there is anything God […]
We all sat at lunch. Then I discovered that plantain (my favourite) was missing on the table. As Irewamiri brought the plantain and I rejoiced, our guest said, “I am not taking plantain. I am hungry. If I eat just plantain, I would not be able to eat the rice well”. I said to her, “That’s a lesson- our hunger […]
Olive would always insist that she would eat her meal by herself. She would mess up her entire body and spill some all over the floor while others definitely got into her mouth. There are times that I would feel like feeding her so the entire place can stay clean without having to do the extra work of cleaning up. […]
We were having a conversation with our covenant friends. We were all enjoying the moment but we began to share about our nature of waking up early to work. We all realized that we love to utilize the early hours of the day. We pray. We meditate. We write. We plan. To have a great morning, there was always a […]
I invited a worship minister many years ago (even before I started ministry) to my community. As we were about to get into the meeting, knowing how conservative the congregation was, I said to him, “Bro, If you want to get the heart of the people here, you will have to pull off that necklace”. The next thing he said […]
We started out a vegetable garden in our compound. Irewamiri did something- she decided to cage all the roaming hens in the compound before planting the seeds. She said, “If I allow them to roam, they will eat up the seed. They will be in the cage until the seeds grow”. You have an assignment to protect the seed especially […]
Just as we about heading to church on Sunday morning, Danielle asked me, “Daddy, we have prayed right?” I said, “Yes we prayed at 5.30 am but you were still sleeping”. The next thing she said shocked me, “So I woke up late again”. I was awed. Her definition of waking up late was missing family devotion. Her awareness stirred […]
I called Irewamiri from work and requested that she picked me up that evening but I also had a plan- we had been having slight misunderstanding over issues that were not meant to be issues. I got some suya (specially prepared peppered meat) and she brought the drink. We took out just about thirty minutes. We ate together. We spoke […]
Olive would let out a quiet cry at night when she is hungry. If you refuse to answer, the cry begins to intensify. But one thing you can be sure of is that hunger will make her restless and sleep disappears from her and definitely from us. She only gets back to sleep when hunger is satisfied. How hungry are […]
Danielle and I were looking through some memorable moments on the phone. They captured her first steps and other things. When we got to a particular one, she said to me, “Daddy, you are not there”. I smiled to her, “I was the one capturing moment. I was the one behind the scene”. There is an artwork I grew up […]
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