by A.O Joel | Nov 29, 2015 | All Posts
A number of times I have found myself in a seemly comical position: hands frantically up in the air, heels almost touching back head, while attempting to catch a bus! If you live in a big city overly dependent on public transport for day to day commutes, you will...
by A.O Joel | Sep 1, 2015 | All Posts
Spring of 2014 I bought a young happy cherry tree from the nursery. Her deep green leaves were a definite indication to the amount of care it had received at the nursery, and from day one I intended to maintain that same level of care in her new home in my garden! She...
by A.O Joel | May 3, 2015 | All Posts
My hands are dirty I dare not lift them up to the heavens, yet God sees me as a States man of his country. My tongue is uncultured and my mouth is foul, I dare not speak for God yet he used me as his mouthpiece! I am bad yet he calls me good, I have no spotlight...
by A.O Joel | Feb 1, 2015 | All Posts
“There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: …the way of a man with a maid…” Even King Solomon in all his wisdom finds the demeanor of a man with a maid a mystery; Oh! God knows the things a boy does to impress a girl, most...
by A.O Joel | Jan 15, 2015 | All Posts
Morning after morning I slump into my spot at the driver’s seat, take my car wheel and mutter a few words of prayer I have known to be more of a family recitation; some lines I had pick up from years of sitting alongside my Dad in the front seat of his Mitsubishi...
by A.O Joel | Nov 1, 2014 | All Posts
A Blacksmith is known by his fire, a sailor is known by his maps, a warrior is known by his sword, so also a shepherd is recognized by his rod. One of the popular ethnicity in my village is the Nomadic Fulani herdsmen – I referred to these people earlier on as the...
by A.O Joel | Sep 21, 2014 | All Posts
Going further down to verse 2 of Psalm 23, the sheep went further in this narrative to describe it’s many adventures with the Shepherd- “He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters…Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow...
by A.O Joel | Sep 16, 2014 | All Posts
by A.O Joel | Sep 5, 2014 | All Posts
WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord”- 118: 17 King David attributed existence to purpose! Psalm 118:17 & 71: 18 both express the same undertone – I am alive for a purpose, without this purpose I’d be dead. It is as...
by A.O Joel | Aug 29, 2014 | All Posts
Sometimes I get lost in powerful jolts of reminiscence over the beautiful things I have accomplished, the horrible mistakes I have made, dreams that came through, hopes that have been dashed, the lives I have impacted and those I was destined to impact but failed to...
