Memories 10

It seems like a distant past, when all my focus was to pass Delf B1. Same month, a decade later. The songs bring back memories, memories 10 of a world that shaped me.

Je serai la, toujour pour toi. I will, not because I want to, but on the altar of pleasing the One who cares for me. I hear the sounds, music, laughter, silly banters, I get to count it all in my half year count my blessings. There was my favourite teacher M. Moctar, il vous enseigne comme si I’enseignement d’un bébé,
So, I look at my now and wonder in another memory 10 would any of these truly matter, would I even recall them. My predominant memories are joyful ones, the punctuations of unhappy ones I dig to pull out. What sounds am I creating? What pictures have I painted?

I look back with gratitude, grateful for a road taken I would ordinarily never trod upon. Grateful for a success just on point a alliance francais, pour mes amis who made six months in the unknown worth every moment even our disagreements.
Today my thoughts are not filled with questions bothering on whether I would pass Delf B1, when would my going to law school be fully sure. I wonder if I can truly rise above pettiness particularly when in my head I do think that’s the appropriate response, of my lack of emotion to the bloody mayhem is normal, I think about creating colourful memories with friends, kinda rest assured rent renewal is hitch free…

Fleeting at the best it all is at the end of the day. My next memories 10 is going to eclipse the one just gone by. However, I get to experience it not a day at a time but moment by moment. So here and now, I choose to guard my heart. For therein are my next decade birthed.

PS: note to self “Oghale pettiness is of the devil”.

© 27th June, 2018

Walk in the Blessing

Got to work early as usual. It was not yet 9am before the hungry signals began to beep. Being the only one in my department and needing to hold forte, I sat wondering how I was going to cope with my brain in need of food.

I took in my work with a soft pedal, no need to stress the brain. With each tick of the time cat walking by, I began to wonder when I’d be able to go get breakfast and not have to worry of something coming up which the department would need to handle.

Suddenly I realised, I had bought wafers and stored in my drawers for today. With so much glee, I reached for it and ate away very pleased. So here I was sitting and working with a brain in need of food, while I had brain food beside me.

I guess its the same way I’ve sought God for things of which He has already blessed me with. Yet sometimes, I walk without the fullness of that which is mine in Christ Jesus.

Pause and check: are you moving about hungry in a house stuffed with plenty to eat and drink? All that pertains to life and godliness has been given us who are in Christ Jesus. Walk in the blessing.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3.

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness though our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. II Peter 1: 3

Itsetosan © 17th of October 2011.