Thankful Thursday: and it keeps getting better!

Almost the end of the week again..or as far as i'm concerned, it's already the end of the week, because we all know that once you have your last class, the day is "officially" over...what i do in my "free time" doesn't go on any clock!

Again, i've had a wonderful week, and i stand here looking back in amazement. This week seemed to once again be about patience and trust and holding myself back from freaking out, but instead just letting God's word guide me.

Which kinda brings me to a mini point i have today...It's mini cuz it's not the actual post, see :P anywho, it's again about the fact that whatever rules/laws God lays down, they are for our own good. Unfortunately it's easier to throw a tantrum like an immature two year old thats being deprived of candy. See, life, every single day is SO MUCH BETTER when you're living it according to the rules. There are rules to life, and some people refuse to acknowledge this. I won't lump it under Karma, because that is only a part of the rules. They are not there to punish you, their purpose is not depriving you of happiness. Most of the time, you realize that following given rules keeps you away from a substandard life. It's saying no to what you don't need anyways.

But still, for some reason, it seems to be human nature to want to do what you want when you want without any sort of looking beyond the surface. Throwing a tantrum is often the easiest reaction. I should know. I have the amazing ability to go from happy to pissed properly off in one word flat. I know this is wrong, because reflecting on such instances shows you the stupidity of you actions, and yet, at the time i er...sometimes, you know, get caught up in the moment and act without thinking..working on that though, because...

This might make some sense to somebody, and maybe none to anyone, but, on Wednesday, i had a test that i've been dreading and being negative about all semester. Now, in the days prior to this test, i kept meeting the theme of not speaking bad, or thinking bad of anyone or any circumstance, you know, those lines about may the words that come out of your mouth be edifying and all that, not ones that bring people down. Honestly, with all my soul, all i wanted to do was curse like a sailor and complain and moan about how terrible it all was. God spoke sense into me though, brought things into perspective and silenced me with logic. This lecturer, and this course had done nothing to me. It was i, who for some reason decided to adopt this horrendous attitude towards it.

Coming to my point now :P, i would like to highlight the fact that i was the one adopted an attitude towards the course. A negative attitude. The same thing which i now realize kinda messed with my whole upwards and forwards mobility :P. Slowly, and with a LOT of difficulty for me, i started blocking negativity concerning the course. If a bad thought came up concerning the lecturer, i'd shoot it down and think of a good thing about it and such. On the day of the test, amidst people who were nervous to the ears all around me,and saying all sorts of delicious evilness about the lecturer, and the fact that i did not study anyfink :P i was chilll about it. Just said my prayer and went on obeying the lesson He was teaching. Call me crazy, but that was my most important assignment, the working on me part.

See, any laws that would involve you correcting your mental attitude, cannot possibly be because God is bored. He wants you to have some sense so that you could live a better life. That's all i can say, really, because when i do what's right, apart from just having all them blessings drown me, i see the point! I see, in logical progression how it affects my life in a positive way. It's the same principle guiding my new found principles on sex...but that is another post :D

I am thankful for GOD! above all, because without Him...there is nothing at all

I am thankful for this week....oh how i feared this week! but it has turned out/is turning out megasuper in my favour...because He loves me more than i deserve!

I am thankful for them A's that i'm gathering...again, not my doing!

I am thankful that i am able to, with a simple prayer, cast all my problems into much more capable hands

I am thankful that even if i've been at extreme lows where i was so confused about God, questioned my faith, decided that i've lost my faith, lost my belief in Him, been skeptical, cynical, bitter, angry at Him and all sorts of things that i wish on nobody, He has somehow brought me to a place where i no longer...okay, not as much as before, feel crazy for stating the realities of His blessings in my life...like say what you want, but i simply cannot deny the "coincidences" that cross my path each day...sebi first time na mistake, second time na coincidence, third time, na pattern be dat :D

I am thankful for poetry

I am thankful for kindness

I am thankful for spoken word poetry

I am thankful for spoken word poetry on def poetry on youtube

I am thankful for what i said before+ that makes me cry :P

I am thankful for love!

I am thankful for beauty in everything

I am thankful for beautiful people..nope, not looks this time

I am thankful for people so good, that they don't even realize how wonderful they are, pure, innocent, unspoiled by life...i'm not talking about nuns here. It's trivial things like acting "moral" that is NOT my criteria for a good person..hola if you feel me!

I am thankful that i get to have such people in my life

I am thankful for warmer weather! yup, we rockin that +3 like it's summer!

I am thankful that He...He moves past my screwups faster than i do

I am thankful that i get the opportunity to go home for new years. Thankful that i am in a position to be able to do so at this moment in time. No be everyday awuf :P

I am thankful for His lessons!

I am thankful for His word.

I am thankful that He never ever lets me down or leaves me in the middle of nowhere with no map and no point. He always has a point. Just obey dey go, and when you finally get the point, you'll be like woooord? :P

I am thankful for humorous poetry

I am thankful for green tea

I am thankful for Oriflame...teehee melove! melove!

I am thankful for my accidental friends, people with whom my paths have crossed seemingly by coincidence, but yet have come to mean so much to me.

I am thankful for negative people that are no longer in my lives, thankful that God gives me the strength to say no, and reject less that i deserve.

I am thankful that He's teaching me so much about loving me...it's not easy, not for me.

I am thankful that He's teaching me the difference between being caring, being there for someone, and being used and unappreciated.

I am thankful that He's delivering me from that

I am thankful for my Mommy!..and your mommy and your mommy too..aren't mommies the best? My mother means the world to me, and in every way that you can think of, i wouldn't be me without her. She had me, and she raised me good! Intelligence, love, kindness, humility, common sense and care she instilled in me, knowingly or unknowingly...i love my mother more than any words could ever describe. I am incredibly blessed to have her

I am thankful for my daddy...all my principles and moral stubbornness and allergy to "whats not right" are from him. Nothing to complain about there, because any way you look at it, sound principles and a good sense of morals are crucial! and theres the fact that he doesn't accept dulling, so you can't be foolish growing up with him around :P

I am thankful for BigBro and his sister and...lol all of them jor! they raised me! There is nothing like an older sibling to look up to..and i've had the most amazing role models whom i am ultra proud of...again, a blessing!

I am thankful for fairness

I am thankful for long back and forth conversations with lots of laughs and jokes that don't need to be explained.

I am thankful for comparison...same reason why i ain't even mad at all the people who did me wrong...it only makes me appreciate the good ones that much more

I am thankful for meeting up with one of those aforementioned accidental friends today. She's got two kids, a husband of 13 years...and she rocks! I am thankful for her. I really am

I am thankful for Bonjour..lol, nope, not good mornings o...even if i'm thankful for those too. See, Bonjour are these little confections, see, that i stumbled on after years of just walking by without a backward glance. Soft soft biscuit thing, yummy gooey sticky feeling (baileys! cappuccino! coconut! vanilla! creme brulee!) enhen, where was i? yes, marshmallow with just enough tang and all gloriously covered in chocolate... make that double thankful! :P

I am thankful for my sisters again...the most loving and supportive and coooool people i know! teehee...i raised them!..but they have their own uniqueness, vibrant, curious minds...i learn so much from them :)

I am thankful for my faculty! cuz we rock like that! this is good, ba? feeling a sense of solidarity and everything!

I am thankful for realizing simple things that i was blind to before...too embarrassing to even share..but it involves transport and alternative routes...

Thankful that i am able to help some people some times. I know i'll never be able to help all the people all the time, but i do pray that i get to help as much people as i can..can't think of a better way to share the love...not to mention that you get to feel good too! :D

I am thankful for that adorable couple i saw the other day. Both of them were well past 70..first, oga Chivalry held the door open for me, and then i spied him brushing snow off his wifes coat...it was the most moving thing i've seen in a while. Care is one of the best expressions of love :)

I am thankful!!!!!!

P.S...live by the rules..they are not there to constrain you, but to set you free. Not to keep you from things, but to make sure you get only the best and never settle for substandard...try.. :D

stay blessed!

In line with the last TT..

I pray that this is the attitude ya'll have towards every situation that you find yourselves in in the coming week...if you're happy o, sad o, thankful o...and especially when our humanity tells us we're at the end of the road...Faith will set you free from every limitation and every lie...

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*hangs head sheepishly*...so who feels like giving me a mini tutorial on adding youtube videos to posts?

Stay blessed, stay faithful!

Thankful Thursday: when in the midst of a storm

It never ceases to amaze me just how apt God is. He will always send me the messages that address whatever problem i might be going through. In the past week, it's been messages about faith and just letting Him do His thing and not stressing about anything. Thats easier said than done. I have been on the verge of a major freak out since before this week started. All the people freaking out around me are not helping matters either...

And yet in the midst of all this, He calms me, He is not too much in a hurry to repeat the same reassuring words to me. He says to me, He says, calm down, i've got it all in control, do not give in to the lie that fear is. Fear is a lie, anxiety is a lie. They are things that distract you from remembering the fact that God has it in SUCH control. Like when..er, Peter, abi? sank when he started doubting...thats what fear is,a distraction that takes you away from His awesomness, because you get so caught up in trying to make this fear go away, that you forget to ask God to do that. The moment you ask Him, it will poof and disappear. I promise.

I am thankful for His care

I am thankful for the calmness He grants me in the midst of what is only an illusion of a storm. He however understands that i'm just a lil human girl, and the illusion is sometimes more than i can handle

I am thankful for all the miracle He don sprinkle this week week...na so so ojoro :D all the things i was dreading have just sorted themselves

I am thankful for His lessons...on Love this time..in the last two days i've learned to love somebody i had uncounsciously make up my mind to dislike..not as if she made it hard to dislike o! but God has opened my eyes wellu, and now all i can see is the good in her..an it's a beautiful thing...we often create barriers and then are surprised when we're stuck...liberate your souls! serious "set your conscience free" stuff...for real..owe no man anything except love...that lesson goes beyond just finding it in me to love her...but that one na long tori :P

I am thankful for aformentioned woman...i no for learn lesson without her

I am thankful for my lovely sisters and their love for me

I am thankful for my friend Ivi who might never know how she turned my mood around today by simply acknowledging that something was the matter with me

I am thankful that God talked sense into me today and talked me into praying instead of sulking

I am thankful for my Dean...amazing person! make God bless am wellu

I am thankful for His laws that He's engraving in my heart step by step

I am thankful that He is carrying out a "out with the ick and in with the good" campaign in my soul

I am thankful that He doesn't let me hit the floor...He barely lets me trip, not to talk of fall sef

I am thankful that i am surrounded by some truly nice people

I am thankful for...lol for chemistry between people

I am thankful for frozen toes...because i get all cooled out like a three year old..lookit that! my toes can't feel!

I am thankful for crisp snow that explodes into a carpet of twinkling diamonds under the streetlights

I am thankful for the warmth of being indoors

I am thankful for markets...seriously, i have an addiction

I am thankful for tea and cakes and chocolates and biscuits...hush, don't judge me! :P

I am thankful for kindness and good humour and courtesy

I am thankful for fairness

I am thankful for pidgin english

I am thankful for Naija songs in Pidgin..anybody heard Shakara by Falz? heelarious!

I am thankful for laughter

I am thankful for beauty

I am thankful for learning to love myself

I am thankful for inspiration

I am thankful for books

I am thankful for warm cozy beds

I am thankful for His perseverance

I am thankful for the way He lifts all my problems up, up and away

I am thankful for this blessing of being able to experience life with the abundance of His grace...His way is the best way to live life to the fullest...every day...EVERY DAY is a celebration

I am thankful that praising Him comes naturally

I am thankful for all the support He's sent my way in my daily devo's

I am thankful for the Nneka song He put in my head that i was singing all day...that song helped me meyn "God no go give you anything wey you no go fir handle!"

Always remember to place everything under His care. Struggling to do it on your own is a major waste of time and Joy...just cast your burdens on Him and trust that it will be done. Doubt, anxiety, worry...are emotions that we should learn not just to put aside lightly, but to throw away with great force. Personally? i reject every lie and stubbornly only believe that He is gonna make it all alright. Trust. :P

Have yourselves a lovely and very much blessed week

P.s...try it, honestly, try it today, tomorrow, and come back and tell me what happened. Dedicate EVERYTHING..nothing is too mundane to place under His care...the way He'll sort it will leave you standing with your jaw on the ground...

Thankful Thurdsay : I was made to love You..and be Loved by You

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I am thankful for Tobymac :D

Yesterday was my birthday...I am thankful that He saw me through another great year

I am thankful for His blessings...

I am thankful for the love i got yesterday...it was..a LOT! i have the best friends and family in the whole wide world :D

I am thankful for this one friend of mine, who's birthday is today. I am double thankful that i have him in my life

I am thankful that one thing one thing, this week is almost over

I am thankful that God lifts me above every problem every day...if i told you guys, you'll probably be like yea riiigghhh! but for the last month and some weeks, everything that might have been a problem to me just dissolves into thin air, it gets solved, it gets taken care of...and i am thankful to Him who makes it so :D

I am...thankful for His corrections and nudges and prods when i'm not doing right

I am thankful for His word

I am thankful for encouragement

I am thankful that i have people who love and believe in me...it's the most precious thing ever

I am thankful that sometimes, i cry, most times, i laugh, and some days i wake up grumpy...i'm human, and it's a beautiful thing to feel..it really is

I am thankful for all the times i catch my bus!

I am thankful for my lecturers :D i have some really super ones!

I am thankful for His grace and favour..which He gives liberally, regardless of if i'm deserving

I am thankful for my grandparents :D who love me trulydeeplymadly

I am thankful for that wikid cake yesterday..yum yum!

I am thankful that i have lived 18 years surrounded by the most awesome people right from birth. I have had the best role models growing up, never for one second lacking the older sibling figure that i always longed for

I am thankful for my classmates..who really are sweethearts

I am thankful for bloggers ^_^ i love you guys tons!

I am thankful for youtube..i have learnt so much!

I am thankful for that freaky eloquence thing that happens whenever i pray out loud or er..sing a prayer..seriously! i spout poetry and i'm like wha?

I am thankful that He knows better than me what i want, and more importantly, need

I am thankful that He has a plan for my life that is more awesome than anything i could ever dream up

I am thankful that He pays attention to the little things...and often, those little things are the things that make all the difference :D

I am thankful that i am made to love Him :D

I am thankful for the kick ass devotionals i have...really...great words, great message

I am thankful for commercials...oh how i love commercials! :P

I am...er...i am thankful for assignments that have an end in sight from the moment i put my pen to paper

I am thankful for facebook and yahoo messenger and all the mediums through which i keep in touch with my lovelies

I am thankful for Wisdom that He gives to me little by little each day..as concerns dealing with people and understanding them individually

I am thankful for His lessons on...everything

I am thankful for inspiration

I am thankful that He is teaching me to curb my aggression...

I am thankful for chewing gum..yup, i am a chewer!!!

I am thankful for music

I am thankful for discretion, for His guiding voice

I am thankful that the truth ain't going anywhere!

I am thankful for my sisters...who as little as they are...are wise enough to forgive me for a lot of wrong things i've done them :P

I am thankful for forgiveness!

I am thankful for people who understand me and are there to listen to me ramble and rant until i calm down

I am thankful that it is possible for me to surrender everything into His hands and know that i have nothing to worry about...Jesus take the wheel!

I am thankful!!!! because there is always something to be thankful for...for the rain, for snow, for the way that little kid smiled at his mom, for the young man who gives up his seat for the pregnant girl, for the veggie seller who charms you silly, for the random women who tell you you're pretty, for the fact that you woke up this morning, for the fact that you have somebody to call and say whats up? to, for getting to work in one piece, for a bed to come home to, for music, for the lush green leaves on the trees, for the bare naked trees shivering in the grey winteryness, for tea! for makeup, for water, for beauty all around us...no matter what is going on, no matter how terrible you think your day is going...there is always something to be thankful for...so just focus on that..and you'll be surprised!

lol..He just dey butter my tea, dey sugar my bread dey go...i wish this joy on all of you!

be good!

Thankful Thursday : it's the little things

I am thankful for getting my econs presentation done in one night, and it turning out just fine!

I am thankful that i learnt a whole lot of things that evening about faith and trust and casting my burdens and committing everything into His hands and knowing that it's gonna be all right. My mouse stopped working, my mousepad on the laptop stopped working,..me i just started singing "God will make a way" :P it was really strange for me not to freak out, but i kept feeling this voice saying to just keep smiling and trust Him and see how it will turn out..so i kept singing, even read my bible small during the "break" and as He promised that it will be done before morning, it was done!

I am thankful for the bus driver who waited a whole minute as i ran for my bus...because of that, i wasn't late for class.

I am thankful for the A i got in my oral test today.

I am thankful that i am learning to make friends with my classmates..for a while there i looked upon them with relative skepticism..

I am thankful that God is so Awesome! His plans will numb your mind with their brilliance, and watching them unfold is a joyous thing! almost too good to be real, so you keep pinching yourself :P

I am thankful for God's patience with me...i for don slap myself upside the head tey tey

I am thankful that no matter what, He reminds me of whats what.

I am thankful that things are looking up for New Years! it's astonishing how everything is coming together! because..

I am thankful for the new friends i have in my life. People that turned up suddenly, and it's like i've known them forever. People that just pour in the positivity!

I am thankful that i have grandparents who love me

I am thankful that i have a roof over my head

I am thankful that even when i feel that i can't go on, He has faith in me. That is at the same time humbling and daunting...I cannot take responsibility for coming through! but..

I'm thankful that He understands that i'm only human

I'm thankful for His word

I'm thankful for His word that is not in the Bible, but in the actions and words of those around me. Inspiration and support and lessons in Him surround me every step of my day

I am thankful that i get to smile a LOT each day

I am thankful for youtube :P

I am thankful for my sisters

I am thankful for cloudy days

I am thankful for sunshine

I am thankful that each day i'm put on a journey of learning something new

I am thankful that i can realize that what i sometimes see as obstacles are merely stepping stones in God's plan to make a better me. In His plan to make me into the me He means me to be.

I am thankful that even though it gets hard sometimes, and boy does it get HARD...i can take a deep breath and ask Him for strength..He always comes through

On a side note though, i know it's a good thing from the ideological point of view, but in practice, this thing be breaking me! I have a temper. God has a well worked out plan to get rid of that. It is a very very formidable temper i have. I get irritated very easily and i have the worst tongue you'll ever come across. I mean no harm, but when i'm provoked, i go into hedgehog defense mode and can say some pretty unpleasant things. This is my wahala, and lately, i've noticed that whenever i'm tilting towards giving in/giving in to it, my conscience doesn't let me be. It feels like i'm literally suffocating, then i want to cry and then i just get really frustrated and upset. On the one hand, i'm happy with this, because it means that i'm not indifferent to it, that there is a struggle somewhere to move towards the light...but it's hard. Thats all i can say, especially when every moment my buttons are pushed. It's my cross to carry until i learn to control it..next post i will put up the bible verses that i read to talk sense into myself...James...dear James is a good place to start concerning this tongue of mine...

I am thankful that this week is almost over! went by right quick, and God had me floating by on His Grace all through. It's not my doing lai lai...feel beyond blessed!

Have a great rest of week...and i'll be back soonish!