​ She looked as her children huddled in front of the tiny television set. It was only seven this Saturday morning yet all her six children from the nine year old down to the nine months old toddler were awake. There had been no light for days and they had been in the dark. The… Continue reading IN PURSUIT OF PARADISE

His head bobbed to the crooner that bleated through his car stereo. The meaningless words seemed to make a lot of sense to him as he sang along with a passion matching that of the artiste’s as if he himself was bewitched by the waist that inspired the song. He looked ahead and smiled as… Continue reading ON BLIND SIGHT

She watched him change before her eyes. She watched him over the years as his tender nature took on a much gruffer one and his voice hardened from the once soft spoken sound, and his easy going nature slowly became clouded under the grumpy, impatient snappy one. She really did not blame him. How could… Continue reading She watched him change before her eyes.

  The white men had brought in horses. She watched with despair her husband’s ravenous eye. She had always known him to be such a man but the coming of the white men had unleashed the beast in him. He had struggled to purchase every artefact and merchandise brought in by the white men. He… Continue reading WHEN THE HORSES CAME

This is beautiful and I just had to share. I know so many people have had to come to this point in their lives. And if you are struggling with getting there please permit me to encourage you. It really really pays to trust and submit to God. He makes everything clear to you and… Continue reading Like Fresh Air

He had done this several times and he enjoyed the thrill of it. He always looked the part of the poor victim who had high hopes who had had it dashed. And more dramatically so in instances where they felt collectively guilty and weird around him and were avoiding him because of it. Adamson had… Continue reading WHEN THE JOKE’S ON GOD

  I remember my dad to be a very loving man. Somewhere along the line, he joined a church and things changed. I did not have a say because I was only a child. He was an external auditor and he always went out early and came back late. I was treated differently from my… Continue reading I AM GREATNESS

Faking smiles does not help anybody. So true. I was faced with some discouragement today. I will not go about with a plastic smile pretending like nothing. But I won’t go about with a dark cloud over my head either. When will I get a chance to really prove God, if I am never faced… Continue reading Be Hopeful

Today is the 17th day of February 2016, which happens to be my birthday. Today is also a Wednesday. That being the case, it is appropriate for me at this time to share something that happened to me six years ago on a Wednesday on the 17th day of February 2010. I was having an… Continue reading BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER

Her little brother was lying down in his own pool of blood, oozing from several knife stabs, dead. Her parents were all over him screaming in pain and agony. She just stood, transfixed as the commotion unfolded before her. It seemed her little mind could not comprehend all that was going on. Then her mother’s… Continue reading I DIDN’T MEAN TO; THEY TOLD ME TO DO IT