VITAL SIGNS

WAITING   Hi, Oluwayemisi, i will be getting married in two months time and i will like you to be among my bridesmaid, the cost of the dress and other accessories is 14 thousand naira.  This was Shola telling her university bestie about her upcoming wedding. yipee, ore mi n lo le oko ( my friend is getting married in Yoruba language). Congratulations darling, your home is blessed already, am gonna transfer the money for my bridesmaid dress to your account by evening dear. Hello mummy, Shola is geting married in two months time and i will be travelling down to lagos from ekiti for her wedding, eehh, congrats to your dear friend, tie naa a de, oko rere oko alayo loluwa ma fun e( yours is on the way, a blessed man is whom God will give you) At work the monday preceeding the wedding ;C hief , i will like your permission to travel to lagos by friday for a wedding, hmm, you know we are on call that day DR Alimi, anyways inform the consultants and find a way to sort out the call. she i

                        outpours from my journal 1    MASTERPIECE  I had a long day, this write up is a deviation from my normal troll. I started an HSE  course today, was a bit down because of some unmet expectations and percieved weakness. So what did i do, i remembered a friend had sent me an e-copy of one of Francine Rivers novel, titled MASTERPIECE, and so i buried myself in this 1025 paged novel On completion of the novel a verse of the scripture dropped in my mind  EPHESIANS 2:10(NLT): for we are God's MASTERPIECE , he has created us ANEW in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Masterpiece by definition is a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art. Anything done with masterly skill. The novel opened me up to the intricate details of a masterpiece, meaning that God was deliberate with every detail inputed into me at creation. He created us ANEW ; meaning he took away the " OLD US " because the old us ca

BEAUTY FOR ASHES  I remember vividly a chorus sang as part of the introduction of a church half hour on TV, then NTA ilorin. beauty for ashes  the oil of joy for mourning  the garment of praise  for the spirit of heaviness the wordings of this song can be found in Isaiah 63:1  beauty from ashes? is it possible? a finely moulded cup from a cracked crucible, how possible one thing i have learnt is to trust God for his word, whether it makes sense to me or not. he honors his words more than his name. to the crux of this short article, God is willing to give us all a new beginning if we will allow him. permit me to share some verses on restoration with you. i hope it blesses you like it blessed me 2nd Kings 8;6--and when the king asked the woman , she told him . so the king appointed unto her a certain officer saying " restore all that was hers and all the fruits of the fields since the day she left the land even until now. Isaiah  59;18--I have seen his ways and will hea