STATING THE OBVIOUS...

Different things make adequate impact on different people at different times. To me what an educational system (school) does no matter how much it is (or not) enjoyed is to pose a challenge academically and ask anyone to live up to it. It poses a task to the brain and if well made us of yields great result. Challenges generally or problems pose the mental side of the task - it improves thinking and reasoning in search for a solution. The product of this ultimately is creativity and being innovative.

Intellectual challenges are not exactly appealing but to me they pose a kind of challenge that is not biased but states the level of your intelligence quotient. They show how much of the theory you know is turned into an application that is beneficial. It depicts how much value you can exactly add to a corporation, a cause or any system whatsoever. Every individual who is indeed ready for a jump start in things that cause upward and forward motions should seek things or activities that stimulate intellectual capabilities. I don't care what high grades you score in school if none of it is applicable to solve practical problems! Intellectual challenges reveal how much of one's brain is being made use of. Nobody cares what science says if it cannot be interpreted into things that people can see. Nobody reckons with a man who all he knows is what he can put out on paper. Everyone and everything acknowledges a man who can not only produce greatly on paper but also manages situations, say the right things at the right time to the right receptor; one who is in charge of every circumstance. he earns his own respect 'cos he's constantly being referred to. that's a man who is good in his field of enterprise. Every system needs minds that can translate thoughts into actions. I don't need to know everything but I need to know the things I need to know that will make everything know me. I'd rather have things to do that get my mind to work and produce results than a plate of the best continental dish in the world. The gratification that comes from the acknowledgment received for an intellectual mind is enough to spur one to achieve the best. Excellence too works in hand with achieving desired results which forfeits all standards while intellectual stimulation is provoked.i have come to the understanding that wisdom is a sum-total of integrity, excellence and creativity especially for the ones to whom Christ had become wisdom. The best thing i can do for myself at this moment (can't say of next yet) is for the whole world to be dependent on an idea or something produced from my intellectual mind. Something that will indeed work for everyone and will produce the best results ever, more importantly whose foundation is Christ...one of the best gifts God gave to man is his and His mind....

NB: The use of 'I' depicts more of the conviction of an individual which could be anyone including you rather than just the writer.

MAKE THE CALL!

For every individual, the least dialed number in an entire lifetime is an emergency number/line but when trouble comes knocking, it becomes tops on our recently dialed numbers. And for many, because they aren't used to the procedure, they can hardly wait for the voice prompt to be through. Then they say it's a terrible network difficulty, which to them is most unfair since they need urgent assistance. That's because it doesn't just work that way! Imagine someone who dialed a line everyday and is used to being on that line. That number is probably added to his family and friends list and because the recipient is so used to the person calling gives him a peculiar ring tone, such that when the phone rings without looking he knows who it is. The day such a one will dial for emergency reasons, the response will be as quick as (the tap of fingers): he called the previous day.

God's line is busy to only those who rarely call. those who don't have him on their family and friends list, those he can't recognize their voice on the phone, those who he never gave a special ring tone. Calling God everyday doesn't only give me all these benefits, it also helps me to know which line isn't being used when I try one and it seems as though it's on call waiting. If the prayer line is busy, supplication line might be free or the intercession line but the praise line has a ring tone that is so intriguing, he shuts down other lines in use just to listen to me. Rather than dash my GSM network my money through the purchase of call credits to lay all in my heart to someone else, I will spend my entire life on any of these lines (prayer, supplication, intercession or the praise line). They are economical and charge much less. I get straightaway answers and for me there's no network problem 'cos he knows my name, I have a peculiar ring tone, he expects me to call so if I don't in a day, he asks me why by nudging me i enjoy talking and being on this phone always because I know I can just be me - I can cry if I want to because I know he'll dry my tears, he is humorous, he makes me laugh, I can tickle him if I want to, it's more fun- yeah! he's ticklish and He does laugh...you wanna know? try calling...

Tip: You know what? If you were going to call me for the first time, even though you need me to do something for you, you wouldn't ask me rightaway/outrightly. so do the same. You'd find out out how I'm doing first and be sure we are on the same page.

How I met Him!

I had waited years after months after weeks after days after hours, every second of each minute. I inched towards the door, ready to open it but she pulled my hands and whispered, "Just a moment". Every time I tried, she kept doing the same thing in the same way, consistently, with her resounding voice, not exactly assertive. Mild I'll call it. At some points, I just didn't believe her anymore, "Who is asking her?" I asked myself. So I just went ahead, took another step forward and she looked at me as though pleading: almost saying 'You'd rather not do that'. I really wanted to know what was behind the door especially because she was restraining me. The more she did, the more furious I became. It spurred me to want to turn the knob and jar it open. At a particular time, she tried her tactic again. I shouted at her and went ahead so she'd know that I could do it myself. I made up my mind to show her this once. As she pulled my hands, I yanked them off and I opened the door. She suddenly recoiled and I was happier for it: I had defeated her. At last she understood that I could choose to do as I willed. But as soon as I entered it, the story changed...

It took a while… I was scratched, I wasn't wounded so it didn't feel exactly painful. The scratches felt more peppery than painful. I buried my head in my shame and went back. She was still there looking at me like nothing happened at all. I simply sat still, not even uttering a word, more concerned about how I felt than about what was going on. As though she was hearing something I wasn't, she began to unpack, clean, pack some, rearranging everything around. She sprayed some air freshener… 'wow!' I couldn't hold that back, I concluded it smelled good. She mopped the floor and wiped the walls. It looked beautiful, like I'd never seen it before. After she was done, calmly, she came to me and told me that I needed to take a bath. Who was I not to concur?

I heeded and followed her into the most beautiful bathroom I've ever seen. I couldn't keep quiet, 'wow!' I said again and suddenly, I heard 'incorrect entry, please try again". I wanted to laugh but so it won't misunderstand me again, I swallowed it and when I could, I said "warm water". A screen appeared displaying the various ranges of temperature, picked my choice and from an almost invisible opening, water came rushing out. I took a cue, followed instructions, and before I knew it, I was dressed up, nothing excessive or elaborate, just simply. By the time I got back the entire place was looking exquisite. I wondered where it all came from so suddenly but couldn't ask. While I was still wondering, a knock came on the door and she said "I'll answer that". As I waited to see who the guest was, the door was pushed open and he stood at the door carrying a bouquet of flowers. I was more than dumbfounded; I was awestruck, almost fainting, even...Finally!

Musings...

Growing everyday, depending on who, we still see things in new lights and venture into things as much as possible. we learn too and really become something out of what we do daily. revelation is progressive...beyong anything else, not just in our walk with God but in all that pertains to us and how life is lived is daily revealed. If I'm asked what God is saying to me right now as in general terms, I might not state exactly but I know what God is saying about various things where I'm concerned. these days, I dont read my bible everyday, neither do I pray everyday but its in my consciousness what God means to me and the value of what He 'thinks' about the things i do and somehow, my answers still emanate from the word when i need any. I'm not justifying not doing these things but that's the way it's been, neither am i saying that it has to be but more than anything else, i choose to know the heart of God. A lot of things also push you out of comfort, out of laziness to work, occurence push me as a person to do certain things at different times, moods or dispositions push me to write. whatsoever it is such that it pushes, the major thing is that it's about God. Whatever it is, it is God. And for whatever reasons I do the things I do, it is God! I do many things at times and I ask myself why. i think at some points it doesnt make sense cos people rarely are able to pay back that coin; do that kinda thing for you. at times they do it to your face and you just smile back yet deep down you just wan'shout. But i can't remove the truth that I'm me, I give myself the reasons why i do the things i do, it makes me even more unique that others wouldnt do them. i pride myself in that cos it just explains better how that i'm wired so differently. if i were like them, then there wouldn't be much to me 'cos i'll produce the same results.

i think about God daily, about people all around me how some are so sweet and special, some are just there, some I'd rather run away from, some i wan'have around all the time, i think about school - how that i want it over over and done with and the things i really wan'do with my self - how to begin or how to continue cos i think i've begun,................musings

"when the dogs bite

when the bees sting

when i'm feeling sad

i simply remember my favourite things

and then i don't feeeeeeeeeeeeeel sooooooooo sad.............

alright i'm not feeling sad.....!!!!

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