Enlightening | Spurring | Strengthening
For your goodness and loving kindness, Lord, I will trust and praise you with all my heart, in spite of it all. I will believe and lay hold of your promises for me. I will look to you and lean on your everlasting love, because you God unchanging, are.here with me, and have shown yourself strong and faithful, not once, not twice.
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness (Jer 31:3).
Continued from last week…
There was no little commotion in the city at the break of dawn. Cleo the local paparazzi was back with a bang, this time causing a major stir outside one of the hotels, a favourite spot for many of the city’s prominent politicians. The hotel security had been forced to intervene to keep him at bay in light of the clientele arriving for early breakfast. The area outside the hotel was awash with newspaper vendors inspired by the early bird pulse. Several political and social pundits swirled the proximity in small groupings conversing in hushed tones over the headlines.
Continue reading “THE 8TH FALL – V”Continued from last week…
She moved to the window and slightly drew the blinds sideways. She intently stared outside, her face gently pressed against the window pane in hopeful squeeze, as if trying to pick out a needle from the ocean.
The moment seemed to last forever. It was as if time had come to a standstill. The rapid throb of her heartbeat seemed to echo across the room, saturating it with great anticipation. She felt a warm sensation sweep over her heart as she stood there, all care decisively arrested. “But why? Why now?!” She muttered to herself in strong curiosity.
Continue reading “THE 8TH FALL – IV”Continued from last week…
She slowly paced across the room, a glass of water firmly at hand, her eyes pensively staring at the walls. She took a deep breath, shaking her head curiously as she made her way to the living room. Bemused, she switched on the light and for no apparent reason moved straight to the lone portrait sited at the bookshelf at the far-right hand corner of the room. That memorable evening at the dance floor with her dad on her sixteenth birthday was forever etched on her mind. Her heart began to race with emotion as she reminisced.
The memory of this evening had a permanent imprint in her heart of hearts.
Continue reading “THE 8TH FALL – III”Continued from last week…
He looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. The gladiator went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
Suddenly there appeared numerous chariots of fire, too numerous to count, securely surrounding the city. Flames of fire gushed through the eyes of the riding armies: A scene to behold! In an unprecedented display of might, an array of non-conventional tools of warfare fortified the perimeters of the city walls. Jericho was under siege and she knew it not. The calm before the storm descended upon her inhabitants and they were way too oblivious of it.
Continue reading “THE 8TH FALL – II”The scene in the throne room was dense with tension as Sleek the Intricate, livid than ever, went through his charge sheet in meticulous detail. Lines were drawn in a spirited battle royal. He gestured wildly, his face a montage of animated expression as he pressed in. Accusations against the Royal Apple rose like a monumental skyscraper way into the outer space. There was no letup in the Sleek’s push. A heavy darkness engulfed the ends of the earth, its central power grid rattled to the core, the hosts at the nerve centre following the unfolding proceedings intently.
Continue reading “THE 8TH FALL – I”We rejoice in the wonderful gift of a new year, praise be to our risen, soon returning King. May He clothe you with Faith & Courage and may you march forth to lay hold of all the promises He has in store for you–to the latter. May you be mighty in Spirit. And may you victoriously soar with wings as an eagle to a Dream Come True 2022, in every respect of it – Amen!
But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved (Heb 10: 39).
Year
it has been
Minutes flash past
Hours scrolling through
Drawing the curtains down
In definitive applause highlighting `
Moments and scenes flood in gratitude memoir
Glorious retinue overwhelming with nostalgia eventful
Bidding farewell to the year that curiously came and wenteth
Hope-filled three sixty plus five that united all at the universal colour of resilience
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Moment
That drenched
With nostalgia indescribable
Heartfelt chords overflowed with wonder
Hope-filled throb thrilling soul with joyful glow
Mary broke with merry at her first lullaby magnificent
Ceaseless praise rising gloriously from heart’s fountain
Joy and goodwill to all men in divine fashion unveiling ever-after
New beginnings unfold in awe-striking spectacle lighting up the peoples
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