The Box

Adunola, I am back o...not shirking my duties :)

Ok, so I have been meaning to get to this blog but it was a conversation with a friend that finally just pushed me. There are so many times when I have prayed and asked God to do something for me. Then after a while, I start 'helping' God in answering that prayer. I am sure you guys are thinking helping Him how? Well, take for example, i ask God for provision, that I am broke and not quite sure I have enough cash to get by....almost as soon I am done praying, I start thinking, well if God is going to provide, He will use this person or that person...and then I set my gaze in that direction. Then when it doesn't happen through that person, I am like...ahn ahn, God, why now? But you said you will provide now..and I can almost hear Him laugh as He replies me and says 'Yes, my darling but did I tell you how I would do it?'

That is just so typical of us, we have expectations when we pray and then we limit Him with our short sighted minds...we have become so used to helping Him that we have put Him in a box!!! And he is telling us that faith is not about expecting Him to do it, it is about expecting Him to do it His own way, simple!

So the next time you pray and ask Him for something, don't wonder how or when or by what means He is going to do it...just think outside the box!

Ephesians 3:20

Friendship

Ok, so it has taken me forever to come back and post something....I wasn't sure what I wanted to talk about hence me taking 20years to write something....lol

I actually did think about friendship as something to talk about but dismissed it cos I was extremely pissed the day I wanted to write (yeah, I know...me, pissed?) so ended delaying and now I am back to it again.

I have been doing a lot of thinking about friendship, what it is, if I am being the best one to all my friends, the whole shenanigans....and I have come to the realisation that friendship is hard work! It is a lot of work spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. I used to think that so far as you gist well with someone, then you guys are friends but alas, this ain't so (yeah, more fool me!)

It is a lot more than that, from what I know now, friendship is loving someone warts and all, being there for them even when they don't think you need to be, laughing, crying, fighting, disagreeing and making up. I have also realised over time that not everyone will be your lifelong, tighter than tight, know you inside out friend. Some may just be friends to increase numbers at a party (as my friend says), others will just be friends that pass through your life for a season.

Friendship is a growth process, it teaches us to deal with different people and sometimes, love the unloveable (not even sure that is a word in the dictionary, lol). You won't always get it right but if you keep at it, you will eventually be the best friend you can be to your friends.

Proverbs 18:24 says that "A man that has friends must show himself friendly and there is friend that sticks closer than a brother....I believe friendship is defined by this verse

Let's be the best friend to those who know us........

the beginning

OKAY!!!! With butterflies in my tummy and a silly grin on my face, I start my walk....

I have no idea what I am doing, lol! I feel like this is much more complicated than I thought it would be with all the creating layouts and backgrounds and finding how to even start blogging! So please bear with me if I am a bit slow on the uptake :)

For all of you wondering what in the world has she got herself into, don't worry, even I am thinking the same!

All I know is that there is this deep urge within me that I am not doing my part to touch the lives of those around me hence me being here typing away....hopefully once I get fully into the groove of it, things will be more interesting....

Hopefully the next time I put something up, I will be making more sense and be on the right track...till then.....