My Christian walk

photo; unsplash.com A friend once told me, "We go to the university to get a degree but what makes the journey amazing or not, might not necessarily be the lectures and the exams, but the friends we make, the experiences and the memories we build through that journey." It is very important to set goals; goals with their action plans are the step-by-step ladder to achieving most of the things we dream of or are called to do or be. So I started setting my goals, from the big to the small, the weekly ones and then the daily ones. Oh, the great feeling of accomplishment at the end of a day that I had ticked everything off my to-do list. I mean I was good at this: set a goal and hit it! I would not achieve all the daily goals every other time, of course, but generally I was doing well. Did Jesus set goals? As I set the next day's to-do list, I wondered if the most perfect example for Christian living: Jesus Christ, ever set goals. "Did he s

Freedom is the right or ability to do or say what you want (Oxford student learner's dictionary). Or  It is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. I for one (just like everybody else I believe) very much love having the liberty to do what I want, when I want. Growing up, I always found myself "fighting for my freedom" from the overbearing do's-and-don'ts of most adults and older colleagues at school, in Sunday school, at home, and everywhere else. With time it's becoming much clearer to me that true freedom is not actually what other people give you, it is what you allow yourself to have. It is not what the government, your boss, your parents or your school allows you to have. Have you heard of this prison story where one of the prisoners who physically seemed to have been the most badly battered, expressed the highest sense of inner calmness, joy and freedom, not only as compared to his fellow prisoners but also to t

"I entered this high-level office, the gentleman in there, stood up, gave me a firm handshake, looking very happy to see me." a friend of mine narrated during one of our unusual lunchtime conversations. "The respect this high-level gentlemen showed me was way more than I'd ever received before," She continued, "To the point that I began to feel very uncomfortable_ guilty even_ thinking he had mistaken me for someone 'important'. I almost started apologizing, to bring it to his notice that, 'Am sorry sir, me am just a university student here, from a very humble background, am just here to..." I too would very much relate to this my friend's story, because I have felt like this so many times to so many people. I guess it's an issue of self image, isn't it? Maybe poor self image in this case. Well, let's look at it deeper and see. According to Cambridge on line dictionary, Self image is the way a person feels ab

Photo Credit: WebKu Arguably, we all know that words are powerful, or at least we have heard it said somewhere before. So if words are powerful, why is it that we don't often treat them as if they really are? In the beginning, God said, "Let there be..." and it was; everything we see was created by the Word of God. Now, being that God created this world through His God, it informs me that we, having been made in His image, we possess the same kind of DNA_ the ability to create with words. It is therefore noteworthy that our system of living in the world today is run on/by words; from countries to businesses to families, you name it. In politics for example, you may find that most of the voters didn't even know a certain candidate the day before the election campaigns, but before you know it he/she has become their favorite candidate, and this is most probably because of how he/she rallies_  his words, through which he conveys   his "promises