July

July. Month of our many celebrations in my family. My baby sister's valedictory and my younger brother's birthday. Ideally, I would have asked what the fuss was all about. I mean 3 people have been through secondary schools in my family, and we had all gone through birthdays before, so na wetin? But God reaally opened my eyes to see the purpose of our thanksgiving. In spite of the waters that had threatened to drown us and the fires that wanted to burn us, we were still together and we were not doing too badly. We were in health, we have shelter, my siblings are not doing poorly in school as a matter of fact, they were doing very well. Things were falling in place for the one who is job seeking and me; well I'm in God's hand. God opened my eyes to see that we were not where the devil wanted at all. We were doing above average even outside of our 'circumstances' and some even use us as prayer point ( I pity them!!!!) so we rolled out the drums  and celebrated. In thanksgiving and in expectation of that which he will do...but kai, this thing hard o....