Fope's Blog

Life. It's short and unpredictable and weird, but still very full of good things. So much can happen within a short period of time. T wo months ago, I had one great-grandmother and two grandmothers.  Today, I have one grandmother left.  We kind of knew it was coming, but you're never fully prepared for deaths. Still, it's real and we are here planning two burials simultaneously.  It 's interesting. Well, not interesting, maybe weird is the word I meant to use. Photo by Temi Coker via Instagram  See, one of the main reasons I wanted to come home was to see my grandparents, because it felt like death was looming. But thanks to some twisted happenings, we didn't get to see. And here I am writing about life and it's weirdness. Just look at what has happened around the world in this month alone (Paris, Nigeria and Mali to name a few). You could literally be here one moment and not the other. Since my first encounter with the death of a loved one , I already

I've been MIA ! I'm sorry😔. It's because the party has been happening on Snapchat. Yup! I've been so so random on there that blogging hasn't been top on my list. Blogging has been my space to just do my thing, and it just so happens that Snapchat lets me do that without the countless edits and rewrites.  It's kinda like vlogging and /or my life in pictures. And if I screw up a little, it's gone in 24 hours (well, it's gone until some super tech savvy people go digging). So I love it! And I should totally have invented Snapchat 😕. I still love my blog's peace and quiet and will definitely be back soon. There's also the bit that I'm likely to be without consistent internet for two or three months, and I'm certain that whenever I do find internet, it will to be splurged on posting a picture. So just so you're not left out, here's where the party's at: join in... Or don't😜! 

Hey guys! Feels like it's been too long since I last blogged. So hello! How have you guys been? While I was away, a few ideas danced around in my head, and I danced back with some of them, got to know them better and we've sorta become friends. One of them was fashion related. And if you know me you're probably going: "huh? Fope, you hopped on that train too?". I wouldn't consider myself a highly fashionable person, I try though. Once in awhile I have seasonal 'themes'. Like last summer, I was feeling very 90ish. You know, shoulder pads, retro glasses, poofy afros, bold colours, patterns and red lipsticks... you get the gist. Three summers ago (or however many summers ago 2012 is), I was a 'girly girl', all fancy summer dresses and all. If you're wondering what I do in the winter, I'm always on energy saving mode- that includes using the least possible amount of energy to get the anything done, which goes for dressing too. So why

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  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

Basically just what the title says: I'm starting a new series of psts and they'l all have "Fopsy's Days With Jesus" before the day's title. That already feels like a handful to type, so it might just be #FDWT...because it's 2014 and hashtags are a thing. I originally started this on a different blog, but I figured I'd just merge everything. Makes life easier. :) They'll be daily reflections on what I read in the bible or hear on the radio or watch on YouTube... all having to do with Jesus anyway.  It’ll be anything and everything.  Enjoy!

You know how you can say you've been a Christian all your life? Like your parents were as Christian as Christians get. You could count the number of Sundays in your life where you'd missed church on one hand. The dress code was and still is "if you can't wear it to church, you can't wear it at all". You kept as much of a distance as necessary from all things worldly because it's "flee all appearances of evil" right? You heard it over and over again-no sex before marriage. It was a no-brainer and yes you got it. After all, the bible did say thou shall not commit fornication. Hmm wait did it?  Anyway, you knew Jesus as your Lord and saviour, because often enough they'd say you know your parents' salvation doesn't make you saved; salvation is a personal decision. So you understood these things, understood the ways of the church, the rituals of service, and the shame that came from answering in the negative to whether you had your qu