BEING THAT SUPER-PERFECT IS NOT ENOUGH

Dear Friend,

Being good to people is not just mere requisite for living. You may think it is normal in life to be good to people, to show kindness wherever we meet other people, to help others if they need our assistance, or even to greet others.

It does not end there.         

In fact, life is much deeper than you think. The little thing of life that you tend to take for granted or the small incident that occurred in your way and you overlook is that important part of life though you may not fully understand that from the onset.

What you give to life is often what life gives back to you. It may be so sudden that you will reap that but it will surely come.

This is why no matter the level you are in life, no matter the greatness of your personality; do not, I mean, do not toy with people who were there for you.

People are there for you at those particular moments when you need help. They just don’t come to you by accident. They are part of the blessings for your life.

Now that you have succeeded and excel in life, does it pay you to forget these precious people who helped you when you are nothing?

No!

Learn to appreciate and pay back. A word of thanks is not a waste neither is it a burden. Do not look down on people because you think you are no longer in their level.

Maintain your relationship with people irrespective of whom and where you are because you will need these people one day.

Do not be too arrogant to believe that you are higher than people. No one is higher than another person. What makes you different may be your attainment of wealth, education or whatever but it is only God who is above all.

You need to remain good to people and be in constant contact with them. People are precious. God created us all to be there for one another. To help, to admonish, to support, to laugh together, to care for, to cry together, to create, and even to destroy when the need be.

Think twice when thinking of doing away with people. You never can tell, you will surely need them when that time comes.

So stay being good to people! They are invaluable!

Cheers!

Princess Ayelotan

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IT’S NOT BAD AFTER ALL

Dear Friend,

Having the sense of judgement about life is very important. How we embrace life issues when they come depend on our maturity.

No matter what we may be passing through or we may have gone through, we need to understand that life is not bad after all.

What is bad is how we tend to resolve issues that come to us. We are not robot nor are we dummies that cannot think straight. We have the solutions within us; we have everything it takes to come out of those tunnels.

Things become worst because we allow it. Why has God given us the choice to live our lives the way we want? The answer is simple! God knows we are capable of building the best of our lives.  You have to explore your God-given wisdom, knowledge and comprehension to know that great person you are.

Let us not be stuck with the mentality that life is filled with chaos. Life is pretty cool, promising, and full of uncompromising love, Faith, lasting friends and contentment.

Life is not bad after all.

Cheers!

Princess Ayelotan

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TASTE OF HUNGER

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SHADOW OF THE SUN

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SOUND OF SIN

Oh God, why me? Why me? Why me…

I have heard that many times after times and when I heard this, I used to ask myself; why is it that people tend to confront God for the issues in their lives?

I mean why do we blame God for everything as if He is the culprit? And we may even get it far by gradually hating ourselves without knowing this.

We have asked God why things happened and because we feel that there are no answers to that, unknowingly we begin to feel as if we are worst off and that it is better that we don’t love ourselves anymore.

When problems come your way, instead of sitting down and brooding over the issues, which can lead you to nothing but frustration, why don’t you take this to God in an unusual calm way?

It is best for you if you can stop asking God unnecessary question; ‘WHY ME’ because you and I know that God is not the author of evil.

You don’t have to get yourself into that low-level profile of hating yourself even if the fault comes from you. You can pick up every fallen piece of your life and mould out the best of you from it.

After all, your life is not over until you decide that you want to end it. You need to understand that problems in your life don’t just appear like that to torment you; they help you to develop, to learn more about what this life holds and to build the real you from it.

So l implore you to stop this ‘why me’! Stop pointing accusing finger at God for nothing! It is a sound of sin! 

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Princess Ayelotan

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TASTE OF HUNGER

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SHADOW OF THE SUN

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A SINGLE DROP OF LIFE (3)

 

Dear Friend,

The two past editions focused on four groups of people on planet earth and why you must not identify yourself with Watchers, which is the last group.

This is the final edition and I’m going to briefly highlight below what you must do to get rid of Watchers in your life (that is if you have any).

1)      Stop COMPLAINING, go into ACTION! It is like you are supposed to get a project done and when you embark on it, you get tired and decide to stop, and pushing it aside for a while. This is what Watchers do!

I bet you don’t expect any result from any abandon project, do you? What you don’t work for can never be meaningful to you. If you want to get to a stage in your life that you can boldly say; ‘I have arrived’, then you must put on the shoes of perseverance, of patience, of hardworking, and to stay optimistic.

2)     Get yourself focused. I remember I told you that Watchers are just lazy and busy-bodies to have time for productivity in their lives. This is where you must be different. Focus on what will profits you and your future. If a Watcher comes to you complaining about how another friend of yours tends to make it more than him, please, tell him off. You don’t have to do this with anger but be wise to avoid getting involved.

3)     Be Optimistic. When the Watchers around you are cursing rich people that you knew or not, do not join them. You will do yourself more harms when you involve in topics like that. Instead, appreciate the rich and then the Universe will favour you too.

You don’t or cannot see anyone in the Achievers’ group wasting his or her time over unprofitable topics. They don’t have time, believe me. Achievers love their works with all their lives because they knew how important successes mean to them.

4)     Gone and gone were those days when you will need the help of the entire church members to come and settle the dispute between you and your spouse or your children. STOP reporting to outsiders what goes on in YOUR HOME! If you have a problem, go to God in prayer.  Nothing is too big that God is too small to handle. Talking out bring even bigger problems that you may never be able to solve. Everybody has the ability to misinterpret what you tell them. All you need it God’s wisdom and of course self-control.  You have that God-given ability inside of you to settle troubles in your home. Watchers will only be happy to help you further destroy the joy you long for in your home.

5)     Distinguish yourself. To be at that level where your world will be looking at you upward and with awe, then you must be different. Change your pattern of speech. Change your way of dressing; do not fall into the habit of dressing as if you are always in mourning or in poverty. No matter how hard the economy is right now, that does not mean that life is bad after all.  Be clean at every second of the days even at night. You won’t attract goodness to you if you are shabby.

6)     Be positive and kind in your words to your spouse, to your kids, to your family members, to your friends, to your neighbours, and above all, to strangers. Who knows where your successes will be deliver to you.  Get into the habit of loving people genuinely. I met lots of people in my trips and I try to keep record of the numerous emails I got from them so that I can mail at least twice a month. They are wonderful people! And they have been God’s disguised blessings to me in many ways.

7)     Finally, I want you to fall in love with MONEY! Do not laugh because this is serious. STOP squeezing money bill into your purse, bag or pocket. Ensure you stretch it neat before you put it into your purse. Be kind with money and it will be kind to you. Respect money and it will respect you and come to you. If you treat each bill of money in your hand anyhow, it will flee from you. DO NOT finish or spend the entire money you have in your purse or wallet. Leave at least a currency bill………soon I will explain this fully in another topic.

 

Cheers!

Princess Ayelotan

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TASTE OF HUNGER

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SHADOW OF THE SUN

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WHY JUDAS?

It’s so amazing how many people have destroyed their future by their characters and their ways of life. Whenever there are chaoses in their lives, they tend to blame it on God. Most times when you hear someone close by your side complaining about how cruel life has treated him, what should you do is to sum up the boldness to ask that person if at all things that are happening to him are not as a result of his wrongdoing.

I will use the case of Judas Iscariot in the bible. He was described as a subtle man and heartless in all his ways. He was just all bad in his ways that if one can fully describe him, Judas was not in the right position to have blessings from God. Few days ago when I read his history, I asked myself so many questions and one of them was; why Judas? I mean why was he chosen to be the son of predicament? Why was he chosen to be the betrayer of Jesus?

Do you know why he was given this title? By looking at his personality and his actions, there is no doubt that such disaster should come upon him. Judas was just too corrupted to be trusted with the things of life. Here are few examples;

1)      Judas was in charge of the financial duties of Jesus and the other disciples. What was expected of him was nothing short of ensuring that every penny is accountable for but it turned out to be so sad that Judas fell prey to the love of looting the treasure and getting away with it. If he believed that none of his co-disciples were not aware, what he forgot was that Jesus sees all though the Master never talked about it.

2)     During a meal at Mary, Martha and Lazare’s house where Jesus dined with his disciples, Mary was glad to pour expensive oil on the feet of Jesus and wiping them with her long hair. It was a meal few days after Jesus had raised Lazare from the dead. You can imagine the joy that filled the heart of Mary that prompted her to do what she did. On the other side, Judas was not happy about this. Do you know what he said? ‘Why waste this oil for nothing? Why can’t it be sold and the money given to the poor?’  Don’t you feel funny about his question? I couldn’t help visualizing the deceptive type of man he was in his days. Jesus was quick in replying correctly, which I liked. Of course, we can always have the poor among us but at that time, Jesus was just on earth for a limited period of time.

Every disciple has a dutiful role to play while serving his master. Judas went the wrong way. They were twelve of them, and among there was Thomas, the doubting man but the bible did not record Thomas being a thief or cunning. This means that among the twelve, Judas was the only one with the bad behaviours and wrong way of life.

It is therefore no doubt that God chose Judas to be the one to serve as the betrayer. My belief is that if Judas had lived his life in the orderly way; if he had served God with all his might; if he was honest in all his doing; if he accepted others the way they are; if he respected his service and duty; if he did not drown into the habit of embezzling the treasure account, I am sure he won’t have fallen into the line of being the betrayal.

And you; are you like Judas in your work? Have you developed the habit of signing out unnecessary and unauthorized documents because you want to profit from it? Are you enjoying cheating your employers? How happy are you if the thought of stealing comes to your mind? Do you always believe that you can commit a crime and get away with it? Have you ever paused to imagine what the consequences will be if you are caught?

The wise will always know that life is best when we avoid anything that will get us into irreversible mistakes. You still remember what happened to Judas in the end. As soon as Jesus gave Judas the sop, the Satan entered him (Judas) and he went ahead to betray Jesus to death.

It was when Jesus was taken that Judas realized his error. It was then that Satan departed from Judas. The final result was disastrous; Judas committed suicide. He never thought he could go that far in betraying his Master. His actions had spoken for him.

Please don’t try to go in the way of Judas. The outcome of it can be a lifelong. Choose to live your life for the goodness of others. Serve with total commitment. Show love to others. Be contented with what you have. Don’t allow the idea of outwitting others of their hard-earned money gets into your head. Flee from theft; run from deception and finally embrace the best of that life has to offer!

Cheers!

 

Princess Ayelotan

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TASTE OF HUNGER

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SHADOW OF THE SUN

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WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING?

 

With all the tensions going on around us, it is likely anyone can easily give up.  Looking at the economic recession, the never-ending battles among the nations, the terrorist attacks, the various accidents and lots of other calamites, there is every tendency that life will not hold any meaning to you.

Most times when you hear the report of a terrible incident, the first question on your mind will be; WHY?

What you have to learn is how you must rid your thought off this fixed question; why. Instead, I implore you to be at a point in your life that you are capable of living on irrespective of what circumstances you may find yourself.

I want you to know that only one word has been keeping me going on in my journey of life. It is not that easy to just live on but this word remains so precious to me, the best guide for everyday living.

So what is this word?   FAITH!

Does this make sense to you? You must have heard this word hundreds of times without you giving it a deep thought. You have come to the realisation that FAITH isn’t just a five-letter word. When you see it that way, then it becomes that to you. And that won’t hold any power to help you.

So does this word FAITH helps? This is simple! Just apply the same belief that you have when your father or mother promises to buy you that which you need and asked them for. You believe the word of your parents; you know within you that they won’t disappoint you.

The same is applicable to when applying FAITH. It means that it is what you believe in that you get. If you have it in your mind to attain successes no matter what, then that is FAITH. On the other aspect, if you have this fixed mental habit of visualizing failure, of holding unto negative thoughts, or surrounding yourself with people-who-never-see-anything-good-in-another-person, then you have pre-prepared yourself and your God-given life for extreme failure.

Now, let me ask you; are you ready to apply FAITH into every aspect of your life or you still wanting to keep pace with negativity?

Choose right; Choose FAITH!

Cheers!