The art of consistency

 so i just have discovered one of life's greatest treasures and it is the art of consistency......
in order to achieve greatness, one must keep at it and focus on the task ahead with progressive implementations. Also a great deal must be placed on "zeal for that task, not to say that there would not be days that one does not feel like pursuing the task at hand... but the way out is to take a moment or two (which could turn out to be a couple of days ) to really think about why you started what you started and why you must finish!

i believe that the only thing consistent in one's life or must be consistent in one's life in order to move to greater heights and depths is our walk with CHRIST!

i have come to understand that one can stay on a mountain so long without stretching their potential to another dimension.... that is to say that one cannot fully discover their potential unless they strive in consistency!  For instance, with the art of prayer... i have discovered a new dimension and its a revelatory one... BUT i do know for a fact (not that i needed someone or books to enlighten me on this ) that there are more greater heights or dimensions in prayer.... once you achieve or get on a new solid dimension of prayer (always at a much higher vertical level) than the previous... you become susceptible to evolving and then you are  in the know that there are more greater heights to strive for....

so keep at it.... keep the focus... do not get distracted! strive for greater heights and leave the rest to GOD for HE is very faithful to hold your hand to leap into yet  another greater dimension in whatever you are desiring to achieve or birth out!

The GOD Connection

Isn’t it amazing when we Believers find other Believers and automatically start to share the wonderful individual and intimate experiences we’ve had with the HOLY SPIRIT? Sometimes we meet other JESUS loving, GOD crazy, HOLY SPIRIT filled persons and there’s not even the need to speak…… there’s this unspoken  word that transcends and both of you know that who and what we are (if that makes sense at all)  for example…. I was in the salon for my usual weekend wash and set and when in a rush blow-dry and tong appointment and I noticed a beautiful woman in her forties who looked too regal  without doing  anything…… my eyes started to follow her every move because there was something about her I just needed to place…… my mind and heart kept wondering what it was about this woman and she kept stealing glances at me too but I didn’t let her mind work as hard because I was reading a book which back’s cover boldly stated “Free in CHRIST”........  I finally figured what was with this woman that had made me glue my eyes to her and had taken all my concentration….. She finally gave it away without speaking but with just one continuous gesture….. as sis Diana washed her hair with her face slightly bent backwards and water flushing through the shampooed foamy hair…. She gently raised her right hand into the sky, cupping her hand and moving it backwards and forwards as if her hand was an oar rowing in the air! I smiled!!!!!! I got it!!! Finally!!!!! It’s the GOD connection……. As she had her washed…. This forty something year old woman decided to let her spirit flow in worship to the LORD hence the hand gesture….. I keep wondering what hymn or song or vision she had in her mind uptill this day……. But there was something about that woman…….. It was definitely the GOD connection!

UNTITLED

Who ever said being brainy had everything to do with one being good in maths, economics…. Or computers and the likes….. We social science people do not get enough credits… especially the ones who are now finding their paths…..

I have always been an arty sort of person…. I knew from the get go that sciences and other faculties were not for me but social science….

When I was young I wanted to be a lawyer and always planned to read law for a BA but then I went on to high school and found out that I’m not a reader ( a conclusion drawn quickly due to my lax attitude at reading)  and thus my interest in law did not fade out with time but came to a sudden halt when the realization came that I just couldn’t be asked to pick up a book to read…..talk of path finding… right up until choosing universities I just couldn’t make up my mind about what to study in university…. So I did what any logical homocipien would do and reflected on my strengths and then decided that university of Durham’s European studies and French would do just fine for a first degree then I could have all the time on God’s green earth to decide what it was I really wanted to do or better still what it was that I was magnificently good at and excelled in; that nobody could match up….. but yet again for some of us who are destined to do not just one thing but several….. I had difficulty in knowing……. It turned out that European studies and French was not for me… so within the first year I transferred to Kent…… yet another soul searching experience took place and so confident then that law was what I was meant to do and I was just being a stereotypical educational derelict who just couldn’t be asked to read and thus was running away from a highly intensive and time taking subject like law…. It turned out that I would end up with a BA honours in politics and IR with a huge interest in gender and women studies thanks and appreciation to the module engendering politics with Dr. Iain Mackenzie……

So it took me this amount of time to finally get there…. To finally realize that my field was definitely in social sciences and was in gender relations…. But it hasn’t ended there….. with each passing day….. I discover new things that I’ve been destined to do……

So whoever said my likes or people like me were no good and unable to make money or even a career due to the fact that we are still finding our paths in life….. an African comparison to the oprah show called moments with mo… (by comparison by no means the quality but the sort of topics and procedures) Mo interviewed a Nigerian well known and  well to do sort of fancy carpenter who we would classify as a furniture designer….. I can’t recall his name but so to speak in the narrative… his typical Nigerian parents who not so surprisingly believe in the power of business sent him to study business at university…. According to this young man… he had always had a deep connection and intense unconditional and undeterred (a word???) passion for the art of carpentry since he was knee high…. He quit business studies to pursue his dream and now he’s thriving…..

For some of us…. Finding what it is that we really have a passion for doesn’t come easy…. I so envied the carpenter and all the people around me who knew exactly what they wanted to be doing in life  or the people who had already started living their dream jobs….. but not I …. Now I look back and smile at them with not a single envious bone in my body…. Why? Because I have discovered that we social science people who are at the age of knowing what it is that we should be doing and just cant seem to really piece it altogether….. We are the intelligent ones…. We are what I call the destined ones…. We don’t find the passion for things we love to do when we try different things and play try ur luck….. we discover !!!!! yes we discover…. We discover what it is that has been placed deep down in our souls that just needed to transcend into our brains and most especially our hearts in order to acknowledge that…. Yes this is truly me….. and boy!!! Do we excel and soar and have all the adjectives to describe excellence when we really find what it is that we are supposed to be doing……

But the thing this …. For some of us they call the potential derelicts and would always remain potential derelicts because we just do not possess the ability to turn the potential into reality or our flaws such as lack of focus or in my case consistency plus lack of  focus will always hinder our progress…… we have purpose!!!!!!! Not just career but purpose in life…. It takes a while to discover but I tell u we have purpose in life… we are the influential hearty individuals who would turn mankind to their hearts and whatever purpose(s) we need to accomplish…. We just don’t have purpose but in plurality….

This is Aha moment….. we have purposes!!!!! We are destined to do not just one thing and be satisfied for if that was the case then we still wont not be in the process of discovering ourselves and passions and purposes…… now I have discovered that I am burdened with compassion for the less privileged people and thus I am a humanitarian and my purpose… well my purpose is just in plain short language thanks to Hirschman my purpose is “exit voice and loyalty” and thanks to ….. “yes the subaltern can speak and would be heard because I am the middle man!!!!”

 My other purpose is what I am doing now…. An attempt to de-clutter the many thoughts and deep visioning in my head… writing!!!! Writing I have discovered is me !!!!!!!! i must air my views for the sake of my sanity because my brain is clouded and crowded with all kinds of intriguing topics and imprinted conversations that must be shared with the world in the hope that they might speak deep into another’s soul and make a difference in their lives……

I have also discovered that my make up is music…. What direction this discovery will take me … I am yet to see.... patiently awaiting but still excited to see…….

So be encouraged u path finder who has been branded a potential derelict and always been referred to this quote by Coolidge: “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On, has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race."

U have purposes… several and many…. u have been created to make a significant difference….. hope, faith and discovery are ur tools and weapon to what ever talents that you possess… after all its always like a dream till it becomes reality…. We’ve been called dreamers just because we do not conform nor adhere to the type of work or jobs or direction that is the normal expectation…. But this is to be expected… of course we have a differing path…. We are the writers…. The communicators of harrowing issues through our hearts and arts… we are the ones who paint…. Who play around with the English language because we understand it and have a strong command of it… we are the singers who encourage through our experiences and our lyrics…. We are the NGOs…. We are the actors and not the stock brokers nor the financial analysts but we are the dreamers alright…. We dream… we discover and we become the world’s most influential people…. Can we say Barack Obama…. Deliberate…..

Finally I can confidently without any shades of gray… all in black and white announce to you the truth about yourself….  When we do acquire the capability to focus… we are unbeatable and unstoppable….. We are jack of all trades….what cant I do apart from sports I wonder? And even sports…. I can run a good solid 7 miles on the treadmill if and when I put my mind to it ….. so I end here with my favorite quote that sums this better than I can ever imagine to do…..

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

For our flaws… time will expunge most… but as Twain said:

 

   "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

This strength i have

In my years, I’ve found out that Satan wants to devour me…….. he keeps searching in ways to destroy me…. But the undeniable truth is and the very thing I have confidence in is this: he can do as much I let him and allow him  for it is not by my strength that I stop him but by the greatest strength not only on earth but in heaven, which has all authority in it. Therefore if I ever fail to defeat the devil…… I have allowed it; for he not mine to defeat…. He was defeated on the Cross of Calvary and the One who is responsible for this defeats him every day, every hour and every minute.

On the day where eternity finally comes and I have somehow allowed the devil to devour me, I shall say I did not use the power in me….. I did not let the greatest power go to work…. I did not let the strength of all time show its glory…….

For the battle was never mine to begin with….. my part was ‘total submission’….. to be used by this greatest strength to defeat the devil.

I cannot fail…. The day of eternity shall see me on the very side of the greatest strength and power…… satan cannot devour me….

After all, I have confidence in this very thing: that I have submitted totally and not partially to the greatest strength and power on earth and in heaven……

What devouring can the devil do when his strength and power is no match for the One that works in me through Jesus Christ my Lord!!!!

the birth-ing

Why the blog?  I am yet to discuss how words and revelations about topics come to me (with another human being… )I see something striking and I start to think about it…. I have all these questions and queries about life, spirituality or Christianity (whichever wording floats your boat)  and personal  experiences and I just have to write them down.. I must have a blog to air my views and also for my sake, my sanity sake, I must write to air out my crowded memory and thoughts!!!!!