If People Listen To Themselves Sometimes?

Yes, do we really listen to what we say. Let me explain my wondering. Since my uncle died, people have been awesome. If I had a dollar (or maybe a Euro since it is doing better!) for every kind word, warm encouragement, confident assurance I have gotten, I might just be able to retire sooner. Don't laugh. I am serious.

People really really KNOW stuff. People are aware of the fact that living a Godlike life here is the only guarantee for making heaven. People know that life is short and we need to make every day count. People know that, NO ONE knows tomorrow so we need to live every day as if it were our last making sure it counted for God. I am telling you, we KNOW stuff. We are smart.

And that is why DNW is confused right now cos I honestly don't SEE people living like the KNOW all this stuff.

For the love of God, do people listen to themselves? Or is it just easy to spew out all the right words without doing jack to apply it to our own lives.

DNW wonders why you will console me so nicely and warmly IF you have no plans of living a life that corroborates your words......Why? oh Why? Please make DNW's day and let's all begin to walk our talk!

Where The Little Baby Boy Has Gone?

The young shall grow indeed. Little white comforters have been replaced by Afro combs (dont ask!). The baby boy is an almost-man! And DNW is sitting here at her PC typing away and wondering, 'when did this happen?' 'Where is my little baby boy?.
Oh dont mind me, I know where he is. All grown up and itching to fly the nest. Fly far away from home in eager anticipation. DNW wonders if she and her mgm have done all they could to lay the right foundations in this our son. Sweet Jesus, I hope so. I really hope so.

In any case, kini big deal, God has got my back and He will catch the slack for us. Yes oh. In God we trust!

Can There Be Anything Sadder.......

.....than losing a loved one? Actually, there is something sadder. It is losing a loved one and not being sure where they are going to end up. Praise God DNW has been spared that sort of sadness ad infinitum. Oh don't get me wrong, I am currently enveloped in a cloud of sadness so thick that I can barely breath BUT in that deep deep grief is a sliver of joyous joy. For my loved one is FOR SURE with our Father. Yes, my loss is Heaven's gain. DNW wonders how many of my loved ones I will be so sure about?

Sun re o, eniyan mi atata! Till we meet again.

How On Earth People Cope??????

Yes, DNW would just like to know how you all cope? Yes, you people who say there is no God! Who do you lean on when you have reached the end of your rope? Who do you call on when things look impossible. Who comforts you when human words are just empty sounds? Who do you rely on when the arm of flesh fails you. How do you get the courage to face this evil evil world? How do you manage to brave the perils of the outside world? How do you leave your children in the care of 'strangers' every day. How do you know for sure the man, the woman you love will come back home? How do you know you will wake up tomorrow? How do you know for sure that this sickness is not unto death?

In short, how do you people cope?

Why All African Countries Cant Just Be Border-less!

So there would be no need for visas! Yes, I know, am a dreamer but in my ideal world. African love would mean that our doors are open to all our brothers and sistas from other African mothers. Eh hen, then my ordeal this morning would have simply been the figment of my imagination.

DNW wonders when this 'brother on brother' dehumanisation will stop! I still cannot get over the way the security personnel in all these embassies behave sha!. Its some version of the mourners crying more than the bereaved! DNW tire oh!

Thank God for God who is the God of ALL the earth including all the embassies of the world. Yes o! When His children approach, their gates must lift up their heads and let us in! Amen! and Amen!

Why People Find It Hard To Believe....

...That my ideal life would be one where I did not have to go to work!

You will be bored they say. Bunkum!(is this the right spelling sef? anyway idea is need)

You will lose touch with what's up. And so? I have my own ideas on stuff I need to or want to be current about anyway.

You will begin to let yourself go. Now that is a lie from the pit of hell! I aim to represent my good looking God till I go meet Him!

For real, DNW wonders how come it beats the imagination of most people that one can be 'lazy' about this rat race we call making a living yet be totally 'on fire' for other kinds of 'good works' that while they may not be 'money spinning' enterprises are actually more life enriching in the long run.

About How God does REALLY mean it IF He says it

God is indeed a Man of His words. If He says it. He will do it. DNW is wondering how best to thank Him. How can you not stand in awe of a God that said something over your life 18 years ago...something you scoffed at (like Sarah laughed)...what do you do, how do you react when you see that word come to pass in your life?

You know what? Scratch that. Today,DNW is not really wondering. She is lying prostrate on the floor (in the spirit) thoroughly in awe of her God whose counsel CANNOT be eroded. IF He said, It will come to pass. No matter how long it takes, in my case, 18 years and inspite of the fact that I scoffed at it, It came to pass yesterday.

No, DNW is not wondering today, She is praising her God!

If Maybe God Would Give Me An Extra Tongue.....

So I could praise Him some more!!!!!!! He has been so good. so faithful. I just want to do some crazy praise. What do you think? OK, so not possible. God is too wise for that kind of jomojomo. If He gives me an additional tongue then the day am feeling mad at Him (cos you know that's how life is) I might just speak double the nonsense! lol! Thank God He is not a man!

So since I cannot have one more mouth to shout and sing to God's glory for my son's awesome final exam results, perhaps...well maybe, DNW wonders,,,err could I borrow yours? Could I ask you to join me in doing some crazy Kirk Franklin style praising right now! PPPPPRRRRRRAAAAAIIIIIIISSSSSEEEEEEEE THE LLLLLLLLOOOORRRRRDDDDD!!!!!!!!!
I cant hear you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If There Will Ever Truly Be Man/Woman Equality???

First of all, I am not whinging.. well not this time. I am just asking a question?

How come I cannot travel to South Africa with my son without a letter of consent from my MGM saying that he, as the husband and father, had indeed AUTHORISED me to leave the country with his progeny BUT he can go half way round the world with this same progeny and no one even seeks to know if the child has a MOTHER! Talk less of seeking her permission.

Its so annoying, am actually laughing. Yes I am laffing out loud but its still not funny really.

If She Will Be Able To Move Tomorrow Morning....

Seriously. Even now I can already feel my muscles binding up in preparation for a very painful day ahead. lol! The person who coined the phrase ' no pain no gain' was not joking. In a bid to get serious in all spheres of life, one of them being physical, DNW signed up with a trainer. She is evil I tell you. evil. And am sure all the flabby muscles in my body agree with me.

Oh well, August is the month of New Beginnings is it not? So let the newness begin...yes even if it includes an excruciating hour in the gym three times a week!!!!!!

How I got to be so blest?

DNW wonders wot on earth God sees in her to bless her so. Being here on this 1st day of August 2009. Another brand new month. DNW is just here typing away on her keyboard wondering what makes her so special. Why is she not one of those women hiding in the bushes of the Niger Delta? Giving birth to the sounds of militant gunfire? Why is she not one of the women in the North taking refuge with their children in police stations cos some idiots have decided that "Education is sin''? I could ask and ask and I will come up with nothing. It is just the GRACE of God.

And boy am I grateful for that. Yes, me, the DNW is desperately grateful to God cos I Am what I Am. I am WHO I am. Only by His grace. Do I hear an AMEN?

DNW wonders if anyone else out there is wondering about this like she is.