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Dear Friends,  I hope the Christmas Season has brought you Joy, Peace, and New Hope! However, if instead, it is a season of remembering and missing a loved one that is no longer with you, I hope it brought comfort! I hope in this season you are reminded of God's unending goodness. Most importantly, His promise of life everlasting, eternal life with him!  I am always encouraged but also intimidated when I read/hear the verse "Pray without ceasing" 1 Thessalonians 5: 17 . I don't know if you have experienced times in your life when all the prayer you have is "God Please Help!" or "Thank You God!" or just sitting in His presence quietly. I was recently and still getting out of a season like that. In this time of drought, I saw a post on Instagram made by Kalley and Andrew Heiligenthal regarding their baby girl who passed away unexpectedly. The family asked for the Global Church (Capital C church, that is all of us!) to join them in interce...

Happy Belated Thanksgiving to my Canadian Freinds and Happy Early Thanksgiving to my American Friends! Today, though very physically tired, I feel like rejoicing and jumping around like a little kid. I think it is very important to allow ourselves to be like little children, especially when it comes to things of faith. In the spirit of being joyful, I would like to start my post with things I am thankful for!  I thank God for: - Being such a loving father to me. He is One who does not seem to get tired of waiting on me to understand that "He's got this!" - For surrounding me with loving people!  - That I get to start a new chapter of my life, with the love of my life, my man! - Being such the mastermind behind the beauty we see everywhere! My list is surely longer but I think you get the idea! Thanksgiving and praise are two strong weapons against the enemy. The art of practicing Praise and Thanksgiving not only transform and guard your minds, hearts, an...

Hello friends, sorry for the disappearing act. I have two excuses for why I haven't posted the last two months. The first one is I have been too busy, unsustainably busy, which is an excuse I hate making. The other, more vulnerable, reason was the promise I made to God and myself that I would not post without hearing from HIM! The thing is, when I was too busy, I also did not have much time to be still before the LORD. Hence, I didn't have much to talk about. But GOD! I feel like that has been my MOTTO for as long as I remember. Despite me, He is still HIMSELF! A faithful, loving, patient, and generous father. Though this is not what I want to talk about, I wanted to mention a lesson I relearned: He is the author of time! Which means when the first fruits of my calendar go to HIM, I somehow have time to do everything else. This is not to give you a formula on how to access God, but really to a keep check on your heart when it comes to the most expensive commodity we have, ...

I  worked in a non-profit organization for almost 4 years of my career. In my tenure in this one non-profit, or social profit as we called it, I learned so many things. Somethings just snuck in when I didn't even know I learned them.  As an Events Planner, one of the things l always looked at is how the cost of admission impacted attendance. I noticed that the most expensive events were sought after and highly regarded whilst the free or cheap ones were taken for granted. If that was the only thing I learned then it would have been easy to increase the prices to these events. However, we received complaints that the events, the same ones that were taken for granted because of the low entrance fee, were too expensive. Despite the complaints, I think a common thread is that people value things they pay for more than the things they receive for free. I believe King David shares the sentiment of paying for something in order to adequately appreciate and understand the value...

AGE GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT... Hello Friends,  I hope your last month and a bit has been going beautifully. I hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather and longer days. Well, beautiful weather unless you are in Alberta! I am really trying not to complain too much about extended winters we are graced with in this side of Canada. My man so wisely puts it, "How can you love Alberta and Hate winter?" I would like to believe that I have moved closer to being content with winters on the Hate to Love spectrum of this season. Give me 9 more years, I will be much closer to liking it :)  I was thinking a lot about how one preacher said: "Kids do not receive a Junior Holy Spirit!" This statement not only was very biblical but also very intriguing. The reason I say this is because the culture I come from and I am sure most eastern cultures put so much emphasis on the respecting elders that it heavily invades spiritual things as well.  Don't misunders...

Happy new month friends! I am so sorry for the delayed post. I was also so determined to do a post during my birthday month (February) but it did not happen.  I don't know if I have publicly confessed this before so here goes...I Do Not Love Cooking! Phew! I feel lighter having gotten that off my chest, lol :) Ironically though, I love serving and feeding people. I especially love when I make something for Mr. Hubby-to-be. I particularly love it when he enjoys the meal I made for him. The thing is, the love I have for him outweighs the passionate dislike I have for cooking. In that same notion, he is not much of a movie person but he endures through extremely cheesy movies because he knows it is something I truly enjoy. The thing is, not only do we do these things, we forget that we are not huge fans of the aforementioned things because of the love for one another. It becomes second nature when our focus is love.  These past few weeks I have been listening to ...

Happy New Year friends!  To be honest I really struggled to title this post so I decided to write the content then name it after. I am going to get right into the meat and potatoes of this post! :)  One thing I am very passionate about is encouraging Unity in Christ. My specific passion is seeing people from various denominations coming under one roof because Christ is Enough! Because His love compels us to just, simply just, Love!  These last few days I have been a bit grieved about a situation that I have been following for about 9 years.  There is an anointed worship singer from my country whom I have admired and thanked God for her ever since I first heard her music. She was in one denomination that accused her of being different when what she did was just truly worship the Lord as she saw fit! She fought to remain in the church despite the persecution that came from her people, her fellow believers. Until this one day, she officially moved o...