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"Read like you've not prayed, and pray like you've not read" ~ X This is what I call balance. Exams are close. Deadlines, CA and assignments are flying up and down. It's what I like to call rush hour. Everywhere you turn there is material to cover, notes to revise, slides to go through, and honestly it can feel like your head is carrying the weight of it all. But in the middle of all this activity, it is important to not just prepare, but to seek God as well. Sometimes we swing to one extreme. We either read and read and read until our brain is tired and we forget that God cares about even the little details of our lives. Or we pray and pray but refuse to sit down and do the actual work that is before us. Wisdom is knowing that both have their place. One thing I really admire about David in the Bible is his habit of inquiring of God. Before battles, before decisions, before movements, David would ask the Lord what to do. He played his part well, he showed up, he f...

"Just because something did not do what you planned it to do does not mean it is useless" ~ X Sometimes we label things as failures simply because they did not follow our script. As though life was designed to go out way, we had a picture in our head, and when reality refused to cooperate, we quietly pushed the experience into the “waste” basket. But life is rarely ever that linear. That friendship that did not become forever may have taught you discernment, that opportunity that did not turn out as expected may have built capacity, that delay may have saved you from something you were not ready for. Not everything that misses your expectation misses its purpose. We are quick to measure usefulness by outcome, but usefulness is often hidden in process. Growth does not always look like achievement.  You may not have gotten what you wanted, but you got experience, you got perspective. You got strength. And those things are never useless. Dearest reader, so before you discard tha...

In the words of PIE, “David had resume.” Yes, it sounds funny but think about it well. Oga was not just allowed to enter the battlefield to fight a giant based on vibes or “I just feel like I can do it.” When he stood before Saul, he said, “Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.” That was not empty confidence, it was experience speaking. David had history.  He did not just say, “Trust me.” He said, “I have done hard things before.” If we bring it to real life statistics, killing a bear or a lion with bare hands is almost impossible. The survival rate of a human in an unarmed fight with a bear is almost zero. Most people who survive bear attacks survive because the bear eventually stops, not because they overpowered it. It had to be a collaboration between divine intervention and uncommon boldness. God showed up, yes. But David also showed up. And that part is importa...

As a society, we live off half phrases like; “Jack of all trades, master of none.” "The customer is always responsible right"  Where the full phrase infact is “Jack of all trades, master of none is oftentimes better than a master of one,” and "The customer is always right in relation to their taste" See how meaning changes when context is restored? Now imagine running with the first half phrase, you see the error? That's what happens to when we take advice from a single story, its essence is lost.  So maybe the lesson is not just to take things at surface level,  Maybe the lesson is “understand the full story before you build your life on it.” Dearest reader, be careful of the stories you swallow whole. Ask questions, seek context and do not let half truths drive full decisions. Life is too layered to take things at surface level. Get the full gist. @favvy_Okwans🖤.

There’s this park in school that is always surprisingly clean. Like, neat neat. Every single time and I used to wonder how it manages to maintain that state with the several cars that park there daily. Students rushing in and out, tyres dragging sand, pure chaos sometimes. Yet the place will just be shining like it has personal bodyguards. Only for me to pass there yesterday because I had a Saturday class and guess what? I saw people cleaning it. Actual human beings, sweeping, arranging, packing dirt. Doing the work. It felt odd at first. Like I had just caught the park in a vulnerable moment. And suddenly everything made sense. I now feel silly for lowkey thinking it was magic. The way it always maintained that clean state every time I saw it. As if cleanliness just “happened” as if order just stayed. But seeing the process explained the result, and it made me think, nothing is magic. Even magic is a result of unseen or invisible actions. There is always something happenin...

There comes a time in one’s life when you come to the shocking realisation that nobody is coming to save you. And the funny thing is, you have always known this. It has always been somewhere in your head as a fact. But it was theoretical. Just something you could quote and nod to. Then life shows you a shade and you’re like “damn” because see how quickly that theory is turning into reality. Life happens. Every single day. Good days. Bad days. Confusing days. Days you want to disappear small. And the crazy thing is, no matter how bad it gets, you will survive. Somehow, you always do. That issue you are stressing over right now? You will get past it. You will look back one day and almost laugh at how it kept you up at night. And somehow, in the very dramatic way life works, you might even land yourself in a much messier mess. Because growth does not retire. It keeps stretching you. Like the words I used to end my fresher’s welcome spoken word piece, “Growth is not comfortable, dreams do ...