INTO THE LIGHT

You are not alone
I have been there
Not all places though
But at least someone has been there
I have been there
Locked up in a ‘bad position’
Couldn’t go forward and backward was no option
Stranded
Trapped
Hooked
Bounded
Caged
Choose whatever
Bad position does it better
I have been there
Hindered by walls established by others but built up by you
I have been there
Dark places
No life
The very air you try to breath is wrung out
Hopelessness – a nest less of hope
I have been there but didn’t stay there
Hush now little baby
I know it may hurt a little to lift up your eyes and see the light
Two options
1. Continue to live in this bad position
Status quo continuum
A deeper level of the state you are in now
Remember nothing stays the same
It’s still change but no change

2. Lift up your eyes and see the light

Beyond this hopelessness there is hope
Yeah she left you at the dump
But you are precious still
He marred you
You are still a royal
They shattered you
You can still be whole
You don’t have to become their predictions
Mini devil causing more havoc
They didn’t make that
You chose to let them make you that
But still you are only human
Yesterday is gone with its mistakes
You are only human
The past is past
You are only human
And that’s why 2 is a better option
Embrace forgiveness
Forgive yourself
Make peace with you
When that is done, no need for a thousand ‘sorrys’
You are only human
No mini devil
You are an ‘angel’ in disguise
Broken saint? Yeah!
That’s better
Embrace the light
Embrace the future
The future is light
And if you are too wounded to lift up your eyes
I’m here to help
Take my hand
We would walk through your valleys together
We would walk through the dark places
Into the light
Anyways two are better than one
Remember I’m here for you
But remember still
I am not the healer
But could be used by the Healer
Hands are waiting baby.
Let’s walk into the Light.





P.S- Writing this (the above) was so hard. I tried a lot of times to be coherent but I guess I didn’t succeed. I wasn’t expecting it either cause the above piece is a web of real life and real people. Life aint ‘coherent’. In my short life, I’ve come to know that sometimes reality seems not to make sense. Hey stop there! Don’t start arguing that now. Keep your theology and philosophy for a while. Real life is real, it’s no Hollywood blockbuster.

I actually planned writing this for a friend of mine who has been hurt and shattered by ‘the way of the world’(permit my choice of language) but my best laid plans got robbed when the different stories of real people I have come in contact with over the last few years (some I have had the privilege of ‘walking some dark valleys’ with) came coursing through my mind. Stories of hurt, rejection, abandonment, molestation, abuse. I would spare you extras. Lets stop there.
The thing is, we could be ‘plastic’ sometimes, Living like the world is a perfect world is and nobody hurts and like we ourselves we don’t hurt, only concerned about our own problems and cares. But I tell you that’s a wrong way to LIVE life.
Let’s be real. Your problem isn’t the worst! There are worse cases. We have to wake up and realize daily that people are hurting around us and not just bother only about vacation with family, replacing your blackberry battery, next clothes to get, next visit to the cinema, or even getting food on your table! We should be a hand and a voice of hope to someone hurting and in need, even in need of a friend.
And if you are hurting or broken, the truth is that place is no good for you. You can’t stay there. It’s about you. No one is holding you back. You hold yourself back! We are all dealt our lumps of coals, what you do with it tag it beautiful or ugly. When you are hit again by your next lemon, make lemonade from it and enjoy it. Get out of that place that is restraining your love and live life!
U R LUVED!

The Love Letters#3 : LOVE & WAR

You seem so far but still you are near
I have made my advances
I have told you how much I cherish you as a friend
But still we have to battle with the strife
What exactly would I do to make you love me
Tell me
I would do that exactly
But still you won’t
And yet we battle with strife
Mama always told me strife aint good
It would get in the way of unity
No unity, no success
Yet we battle still with strife
God also told me strife no good
It would get in the way of the anointing
No anointing, no power
The power we need to rock this world together
But still we battle with strife
No we battle with love
We battle with love cause in the end love always prevails
Yes I know love always prevail
But the one thing I don’t understand on your ground is . . .
Just one thing
One question rather
Why does this love always feels like a battlefield?
“Question” I can hear you say
Yes. Question for you to answer
Love and war
They only go together in our world
Our world at war
But still I thought the philosophers said something like. . .
When there is love, war ceases
Here we are. We broke the rules
Congratulations!
Or did we?
We are at war but I hear me say its love
At the last parade we had
I heard you say “better go get your rival”
I was late to respond before you stormed out
Or who stormed out?
Me or you? Can’t even remember
I was late to respond that YOU are my RIVAL
Love and war
I would choose war not to gun you down with harsh words
Nah . . . no way
I would choose war to break your walls
I would choose war to fight your battles for you
In the first place isn’t that what it means to love?
Bearing each other’s burden
I would choose war so I can have a chance to lay down my life
For who?
For you of course
Greater love has no man that he lay down his life
I would choose war because our true love is greatly opposed by forces unseen
Like I said, I would choose war to break your walls
Break your walls so we can stand together as one
Stand together to fight the resistance
Then we will be together at war.
Love and war
Get your guns ready
But not pointed at me this time
We have chosen love
No. its war
No. Its love
No. Its love and war
No war no love.
Love War?
Get your guns ready
Let’s war my love.

The Love Letters #2

“I did everything right. . . I was so selfless in our relationship but still she left” Tade reported to me in rage.

Have you ever been in a relationship (romantic or not) where you thought you gave so much to it and received little or nothing?

Have you ever been in a friendship where you were treated like trash while you treated the other party like a treasure yet to be found?

Have you ever given love and yet your love was trampled upon?

Have you ever offered a word of encouragement and it was thrown right back at your face? The actions delivered to you said something like ‘shut up, it’s none of your business, mind your business’.

Have you ever been in any of these situations? Situations where your love felt strangled and you felt you were done with giving love.

It was in one of situations like these my friend found himself in. he did all ‘the right things’ in his capability that he could over time. He sowed sincere seeds of love in his relationship but still got the hate he thought he didn’t deserve.

We should always have a stable, good and strong reason for doing the things we do.

Why do we love?

Is it to get the approval of the other party?

Is it to get something (maybe acceptance, affirmation) from the other party?

Is it to get rid of loneliness?

If it’s any of the above reasons, then we have an expectation that in most cases might not be met.

Love is good.

It should be sacrificial and selfless. Yes. For these reasons that love is good and it’s sacrificial, should help us modify our reasons of loving.

No one offers a sacrifice and expects to get it back. In fact, in the days of old, sacrifices were actually burnt!

In loving, we should see it as an opportunity to serve the other person. A sacrifice on our part, a service to the other party, not done for the rewards of it.

Indeed the reward would still come. Whatever one sows, one reaps. That’s just the truth.

Love is a seed that can be sown. Yes I agree, you might have given so much to that relationship (materially, emotionally and even financially).

You might have gone an extra mile on things and issues.

You might have even been so selfless (just like Tade) in your relationship.

One thing noted, you have sown love.

Trust in God and expect your reward. Funny enough, it might be right in front of you but haven’t been looking in that direction. Your reward of love would find you only if you in time lift up your head from the depression and prostration in which your circumstances have kept u and rise to a new dawn beckoning at you

A door shut does not mean the end of the road it only means ‘move on’.

Be wise from the mistakes you have made in the past relationships, but I tell you never to regret you showed sacrificial love.

Be happy you did. Remember you have sown love and also remember that everyone who might ‘broken your heart’ was a northern star pointing to the one who loves you eternally, God who came to die as man for you and me.

Let him take those hurt and broken relationships [romantic or not] .Turn it to him to do what he wants to do with it.

Let him bless the broken roads.

And that’s why your reward is sure.

That’s why you are sure of a happy ending not that it’s a CINDERELLA THING.

In fact the slippers may not fit so well, but this is your own real life fairy tale.

It’s real!

Don’t hide from it.

Expect a happy ending!

The Love Letters #1 [I Want to Say I Love You]

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I want to say I love you

I can’t

I want to say I love you

I won’t

It’s a strong statement

A friend once said unknowingly that it could destroy

Another said knowingly that it has the ability to build

Right now I’m torn

My mind keeps ringing

‘I love her’

‘I love her not’

I want to say I love you but why am I held betwixt decisions

Why am I at crossroads?

But I thought it’s the right thing to say

The right thing to say when boy meets girl

Boy says ‘hello’ to girl

Girl says ‘hi’ to boy

Boy buys girl some things

And girl says yes to boy

Hmm . . . .

I really want to

But . . . I heard someone whisper behind me last Sunday in church that Love is patient, it is self controlled. . .

I heard an impatient listener whisper back “hush it’s not that kind of love Apostle Paul refers to in the letter to the Corinthians. The love between a man and a woman is so different . . . .

I wanted to hastily add my own comments and concerns, and then I remembered ‘husbands love your wives as Christ loves the church’

Still I do want to say I love you

As Christ loves the church

Can I give up my status and position (that’s if I have one) for you?

As Christ loves the church

Can I indeed lay down my life for you?

As Christ loves the church

Can I give up my body to be nailed to a cross for you? . . . aargh that’s extreme and out of the way. I heard the death on the cross was the most excruciating and painful death then. Let me make it more modern. So I paraphrase.

As Christ loves the church

Can I give up my body to the electric chair for you?

As Christ loves the church

Can I endure the fires of hell for you?

As Christ loves the church

Can I endure persecution and false accusation for your sake?

As Christ loves the church

Can I take whips embedded with blade for you?

As Christ loves the church

Would I take you back if I found out you were cheating on me?

As Christ loves the church

Would I take you back if I found you in the most degrading immoral act?

As Christ loves the church

Would I endure your weakness?

As Christ loves the church

Would I take the pain to pick you up each time you fall?

As Christ loves the church

Would I wait for you?

As Christ loves the church

Would I love you as Christ love the church

I want to say I love you

But still, I’m torn!

It’s a sacred statement

It’s no ordinary statement

It has the power to build

It has the power to destroy

Words of the mouth

I want to say I love you

But still, I’m at CROSSROADS

And I know why I’m at crossroads

Because true love is at the foot of the cross

But I choose the right path

The path which leads me down CROSSROADS

The road to the cross

I wait because here, love is patient

I wait to say I love you

I would wait till my single lady has THE RING on her middle finger

But for now, I rather not say I love you

I rather show you I love you

As Christ loves the church