HELP! I THINK I AM SICK! 😞

First things first! Happy new year to y’all reading this piece. I hope you are on the bright (or at least fair side of life). I really don’t know how happy the year would be (in fact I’m sure there is nothing happy about the new year) for the many people who have lost properties and loves ones because of the 11 months of senselessness going on in Ukraine. My heart goes out to them, and all others suffering untold hardships in Somalia, Sudan and many other parts of the world (including my dear Nigeria). Jesus needs to come soon and wrap up this mess we call ‘life’ to usher in ‘eternal life’ ASAP….If you agree with me on this just type AMEN in the comment section 👇🏽

So, my last post here was in September, and I even came back with accusations, that you were the reason why I was not posting consistently on my blog (maybe I am right about that sha), but there is a bigger problem. I AM SICK! I have been self-diagnosed with inconsistency, and it’s taking a toll on me! It’s almost creeping into every area of my life, but let me focus on blogging for now. 😞

So my plan is to post on my blog once every week, but for three years now, I have struggled with it. I have tried several medications for this in the past guys; I have reminders permanently set on my phone to make a blog post (in-fact my wife yabbed me about it few days back), I have made a list of topics to blog about, I have definitely prayed about it too, but nothing seems to be working. 

It’s psychologically draining a-times guys, honestly. This is me being vulnerable and I am getting tired fam, but I refuse to throw in the towel. Here is me giving it another shot! I do not consider myself a failure because I only fail when I give up trying. So while I am motivating myself and saying to myself ‘I can do this’, I know there are some of you (let me not say many of you) who are on this ‘table’ with me too. Please let me know how you are dealing with your own sickness and what medications you are using, because by the grace of God, 2023 is our year of HEALING! 

So leave me a few words in the comments please, hopefully I am not in this alone 🙏🏽 

Meanwhile, I wish y’all a very rewarding and progressive year ahead. I hope and pray that it is your best year yet! Happy new year! 🎆

ITCHING EARS

This week I came across a nugget titled; ‘Itching Ears’, which I found very insightful and gleaned so many profound lessons from. I’ll share some excerpts from this nugget:

“From the conscience that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truths, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, O God of truth deliver us. We can’t stand the truth, so we heap for ourselves people to tell us what we want to hear. We read and cite works that agree with our prejudices. And we choose friends, politicians, and preachers to tickle us with versions we resonate with”.

Come to think of it, everyone of us is guilty of this to some extent, only that the degree of our guilt may vary. So it is safe to say that we all have ‘itching ears’, just that the ‘ears’ of some are ‘itching’ more than others. The truth is that may of us have become so mediocre that we get so uncomfortable around (or outrightly dislike) people who insist on doing things the right way and at the right time; excellence has become so discomforting, especially for many young people. 

For instance, feedback from many of the students who have come under my tutelage think me to be stern, mean, and some even say ‘wicked’, and their justification for these perceptions are; I insist on coming to class regularly and promptly, I insist that they study and make the best of their time in school, I insist on avoiding the use of smartphones during lectures, I insist on silence and concentration during lectures, among others. I am certainly not their favorite, but you know what? I may still not be a favorite even if I was permissive, and besides excellence is more valuable than some mediocre validations. So why not continue to pursue excellence?

Who’s with me on this pursuit for excellence; slowly but surely? Kindly indicate in the comment section 

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