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It's interesting to experience how trainable the mind is.  You know you hear all these things about not knowing how strong you are until being strong is the only option there is. Yeah, where was I going with that? I can't remember. I've spent the past 10weeks trying to figure out if I can figure out whether the mind is the brain, the brain is the mind, the mind and brain are one, the mind is a product of the brain, the mind is an organization board for the brain and a few other mind-brain twisted relationships. No I don't just sit around doing that, it's for a class I'm taking (I'm a psychology student). But yeah tonight I'm staring at my laptop and thinking I have to write something before I go to bed that's not a cheesy love story. Because I don't think I could think up anything that wouldn't be a dub of a Bella-Naija love story.  So yeah it's amazing what the mind can do if you would just train it to. With food, it's b

I saw this article on going to God via Google and normally it would have sounded like a bad Sunday joke aimed at engaging the younger church crowd, but today it sort of hit home...hard.  http://www.todayschristianwoman.com/articles/2014/november-week-3/seeking-and-googling.html The part where it asks whether or not we actually believe in an omniscient (and I’ll add omnipotent) God or whether we just profess it. It’s almost sounds like a rhetorical question when you’ve grown up or gotten so used to hearing Him being called these names.  But final year is hard. It's hard because professors are becoming increasingly difficult to please, as though G.P.As were no longer important. They come to class and say, “oh the class average is pretty high, it's about 71%, it's about 76%” as though that's what we cared about. In reality, the whole class is bunched up in the 70s and what good is that to anyone. So with school choosing her own path, and the future looking just as

Let's pretend today is yesterday, because that's the day I planned on publishing this :). This song is really beautiful!  So I'm being a nice person and sharing it, so everyone can know that the champion of heaven made a way for all to enter and that fear is not an option because He makes us brave. More like because I need to keep reminding myself about that. Since I'm so smitten with it, it was the background song for today's bible reading. I'm very proud of my progress, I’m not slacking with reading my Bible these days. Even though I could be better at typing out my reflections. I actually have a bunch of unedited drafts sitting around here somewhere. Today, I read Genesis 35. I think I've read all of Genesis to this point. It's really interesting to be following Jacob's life. Well not quite "following", but at least it's a close view on the major events in his life, almost like a Facebook page (except that

Originally  posted on  Friday, 7 November 2014 Hi world, Today was a Proverbs 31 kind of day. It's amazing how God's word is new all the time. Do you know how many times I've read this Proverbs 31 chapter? From the very many movements encouraging women to strive to be the kind of woman described there to my serious respect for Janette's " I will wait "  piece. Pause. If you haven't heard this already, please help yourself to it right now.  Yes, she is a very talented lyricist. Glory be to God.  I read Proverbs 31:10-31 and it's interesting how I picked out so many things that still need to submit to the Biblical standards.  From my sleep habits, to my attitude towards the future. I thank God for the Bible, for all that is in it and for this renewed interest in digging deeper. I figured it'd be best if you just read it: A Wife of Noble Character 10  [ b

Originally posted on  Thursday, 6 November 2014 Today I read  Genesis 27  (in NLT.... if that matters to you) and at the end of it I found myself wondering what kind of woman Rebecca was. Let me give some background to this passage, for a while now I've been reading Genesis and Acts (on a long overdue bible plan on my bible app). So I've been reading Genesis since Abraham sent his servant to go find a  wife for his son Isaac . I've followed the story since when this servant was unsure that he'd find a woman willing to follow him back to be the wife of his master's son. I've read through the parts where he prayed to God for a specific sign and Rebecca- unaware of his prayer-did exactly what the wife would do if she were an answer to his prayer. I loved that story a lot because I'm all for God being as specific as possible. Faith is a great gift from God and even believing in an unseen God requires great of Faith. But when you ask God specifically for so