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DATING A CHRISTIAN SISTER – AGONIES OF A CHRISTIAN BACHELOR

I conceived the idea of writing this piece whilst I was in my bathroom and I knew immediately that I would come under some sharp criticism, especially from my numerous Christian sisters and some Christian brothers. Of course I also knew that some few brave Christian brothers would agree with me at the risk of being touted backslidden. Armed with this foreboding I proceeded to write this. This piece is about the frustrating difficulties associated with dating or staying in a relationship with a Christian sister. The thesis is that it is frustratingly difficult to date a Christian sister and this explains why a lot of the Christian boys date and eventually marry the so-not-spiritual sisthren. Here "Christian sister" will be defined to capture the girls in the church who are so attached it and who are found at almost all church programmes doing one thing or the other. I must also state – before I am accused of generalizing – that this piece isn't the result of some

TO MY WIFE

Dearest Love , I won't ask you how you are doing because I know you are not well. The shouting match we had on the phone some days back is surely well engraved in your brain. You also know that I am a proud man and I'll not allow you to claim victory of that match. However I write this not to cop a plea (you know I won’t beg) but to tell you that such love-conflicts are a part of all relationships, and we need to look at the bright side of these conflicts. I believe that our quarrels and battles alert us to the fact that there are some weaknesses in the relationship that we need to sort. After all, if we didn't have the weaknesses we would not have quarreled or even had any kind of a Cold War. The most important thing is that we must, like you and I beautifully do, make sure that our conflict gain traction and a frank resolution. I know you feel the same joyful calm that engulfs me whenever we make up after battle, as though we have freshly met - the )d) fof

A FATHER'S LOVE

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Abigail is a beautiful name borne by some beautiful persons. Recently I came to find out that the name meant “Father’s love”. This thought set me wondering if fathers had any love in them. A lot of fuss is made about Mother’s Day and a mother’s love, so I wondered if fathers had any love at all. After days of much thinking, I came to the conclusion that fathers had a lot of love in them. At least we remember how sometimes dad went down on all fours to play horse whilst we sat on his back pretending to be on horseback. The father’s love is not that soft come-and-hide or hug-me love which mothers showed. This is not to say mothers are all soft. A father’s love is a tough and very stern love called DISCIPLINE. It is the kind of love shown either when he spanks you for some wrongs or gives you a stern lecture you’re unlikely to forget for a long time. Of course in our part of the world, and for those of us born in the years before the wanton proliferation of modernity and human ri