... At the foot of the Hill [Psalm 121]

Oct 31, 2013

Random: Vacation and alil bit of photography

Hello People,

Its been a while, I know. I don't have an excuse for not coming here because i have alot of stuffs written down that i want to put up BUT its just not happening, reasons i wish i know i could explain.

Anyways, I came to inform my Lovely Blog followers of my blogcation (Thats blog-vacation, If @hattylola will let me start coining words) I have alot of things i'm working on and its not really taking me away from writing but its taking me from typing and keeping up with the internet.

However, While i'm away if you want me to post an article you can send me a mail (tomi.akibo@gmail.com) and I'm always putting #DailyExhortations on my facebook page [ https://www.facebook.com/footofthehill ] and you can like the page, so you get regular updates :)

I was in Jos last week and it is a very beautiful place, here are some pictures
from the trip
This is me in journals and Notepads :)

fell in love with this lamp

Let it "fall"

full moon

This way, please :)

Suyaaa

Lights


Yeah, Security -__- 

Wise men that built on the rock

Patriot

I went to see chickens. don't ask

corn field





Lagos from above, God has an amazing view





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Oct 18, 2013

#TruthSeries: Why I don't take alcohol


I sat up on the bed as i heard the constant knocking against the ceramics, the noise filled the atmosphere with the grunts of pain.
I sat still as all the memories just kept flooding in "When will all this end" I said, more out of pity than spite.
We've come a long way to still be spiteful about this. Scenarios upon scenarios came crashing on my shoulders, weight i wasn't ready to carry this midnight. 

The late nights.

The stench.

The endless rants.

The lets-pretend-lastnight-didn't-happen mornings

The promises.

The broken promises.

Time and time again "I will reduce it" was all we heard, if the efforts were obvious, the mirage of the words would have been a little tangible. But, Shadows, we still chasing.

One memory that cannot fade - I came at you like a roaring lion - barking it out at past midnight, my frustrations, my hurt about your other thorn. Wrong timing, i agree. I was hurt.

I'm not even married to you yet I feel cheated and betrayed constantly with every obvious lie. What you think? I'm 12? You raised me smarter than that, you should know better.

The knocking against the ceramics from the next room has not stopped "Why do you do this to yourself" I ask myself. Somethings we never understand but "they" also say the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging the problem right?
How can we work together to solve this problem, if everyone but you sees this as a problem?

Thats why all efforts has been futile all these years, prayers seeming unanswered. 
Then i heard again "Don't blame them when they don't see the problem, the forces working against them are higher. Deal with the forces"(Paraphrased)
 After that i stopped blaming you, stopped resenting, I let it go. 

Then I almost became you. 

I made a mistake once that cost me one of the most important things in my life. For someone that doesn't take alcohol, for a very silly reason I downed more than half a bottle of white wine. 
No, I won't re-tell my misbehavior.  I will only re-tell the most painful part of it. In the midst of my half-conscious misbehavior and not being able to put a filter in my mouth she said to me

"You are just behaving like your father" 

The one sentence that  has ever cut through my very essence, even in the chemically induced state. The pain from the cut brought tears, although I laughed out almost immediately(blame the drink). I've forgiven her.  I never forgot, I never forget. 

My name is S.
And I will never drink anything alcoholic again. 

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Oct 13, 2013

Spoken words: 31 to be exact

Hello Everyone,

When i first listened to this spoken words, goodness. It was just simply amazing, I had to do the pause-play-rewind till i got the lyrics. This is an inspiration for the Ladies out there.

Time to change our status; 31 to be exact! Enjoy the video.


This is the poem for those of you that can't watch the video. 

And God said, “It was not good for man to be alone”,
So he created YOU
But somewhere along the lines
Someone changed your perspective
Shifted your view, like Eve.
You listened to the wrong voice
And took a huge tasty bite of deception
Now your stomach is upset
Because your spirit won’t digest it
No longer the woman that walks in the confidence
Of Ultimate artistic design
Submit your name change
We’ll call you Compromise
This is what happens when the Gospel
is according to whoever sits at the top of your playlist
and the media has become your bible
searching scriptures of magazines
being told you are dancing lead in Satan’s recital
But you are not her and she is not you
Cause we are called to so much more than
Make-up, hair, clothes and shoes
And dropping it like it’s hot even if we’re able to
We are women of a different status, 31 to be exact
We are content with not looking like anyone else 
because we know our differences 
are not a reason to be jealousbut God’s fingerprint
Don’t run around talking about how they are no good men
Because we know if we apply half as much effort on the inside
As we do on the out, we’ll stop drawing the wrong attention
Slow to speak, quick to listen.
Receiving intervention from a higher dimension
Seeking purpose, watching our God given visions
Come to fruition, never forgetting,
That we have been forgiven much
So we eat, we live, we breathe,
We give, we even sweat LOVE
Always ready to hear from the women with silver hair
Seeds have been sown and their wisdom
Saturated our soul, clipping our dead ends for growth
You’ll find us always promoting unity, serving in our community
Using our gifts and talents as an all glory to God opportunity
Wake up in the morning with a grind for the most High on our mind
Constantly being refined to be the exact of our architect’s design
We have no hearts, here’s the answer before the question
Any man that wants a heart will go to Christ knowing that it’s in his possession
Yes we are Beautiful and bare foot in the kitchen of grace
Pregnant with purpose, begging to Praise, Jesus is who we crave,
Awaiting to come to full terms so we can deliver back what has been deposited
Knowing good and well, one day we all will be audited
Mercy gives us second chances so we aint receive but we ought to get
We needed an intervention; Christ came to do lost prevention
On a cross he was stretched and fully extended
And we, we were given an extension, hear me
An Extension, hear me,
Because this price was worth far more than your finest Indian Remy
I know we can change the things we don’t like all for a simple cost
But Botox, Lipo and Implants aint got nothing on what was accomplished
On that cross
Because you can’t implant in yourself a new spirit
Or Lipo suck away your sin, you can’t lap band your addictions
And you can’t Botox away your depression
We All need Him
It’s time to change your status
Thirty one to be exact
Don’t be afraid of what’s abstract, let the Spirit of God be what attracts
We are women of a different status, this world we will impact
We are women of a different status, thirty one to be exact 

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Oct 11, 2013

Abnormal: The new Norm.



"Who among us has never stolen something from his mother" This was the question that came up when a group of university boys sat down to discuss in the hostel that afternoon.

Tk proudly indicated that he had never stolen from his mother, with the roar of "You are a liar" "Not even one meat from the pot?" "Go away" "In all your life" "Liar" he got from the other boys surprised him. He had to keep quiet. 

Listening to her relate the story her son told her got me thinking, 

Is it not the right thing(Morally) to not steal from your mother? Is it not the right thing for a government official not to loot? 
Is it not the right thing not to cheat during exams?

Is it not the right thing to speak the truth? Is it not the right thing to put the exact amount on a business proposal?

The list is endless...

When did normal become abnormal? when did speaking the truth make you uncool?  when did not cheating during exams mean labeling you "SU" 
Regardless of what we all think, there are still "abnormal" people who just want to do what is normal to do.

If someone asks me "Are you a virgin" and i say "Yes" the next thing you hear is "Its a lie, say the truth" You get labelled old school because you just want to abstain till you get married.

I ask myself again. 

When did normal become abnormal now making abnormal the norm?
When doesn't really matter now does it? The deed is done.
The way out? i have no answers for that. but i just have a challenge for everyone that abnormal is now the normal for them.
How about trying something normal for the change?
how about we just want to do right just because its the right thing to do? How about we start believing that there are actually people who just want to do the right thing and you can be part of them?

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Oct 10, 2013

#DailyExhortation: "Covenant of peace"









Ezekiel 34: 25-26
25And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

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Oct 7, 2013

#DailyExhortation: In Perfect Peace.


Isaiah 26: 3-4 "In Perfect Peace"

3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength

Have a peaceful week.


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Oct 4, 2013

#DailyExhortation: Be Still

Good Morning everyone,


Psalm 46:7-11
The Lord Almighty is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Come and see what the Lord has done,

    the desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease
    to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
    he burns the shields with fire.
10 
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”
11 
The Lord Almighty is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Have a wonderful day and don't forget to be still no matter what.


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Oct 2, 2013

#DailyExhortation: "He is Love"



1 John 4: 7&8
7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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Oct 1, 2013

#DailyExhortation: "Not of the world"





1John 2

15Do not love the world or anything that belongs to the world. If you love the world, you do not love the Father.
16Everything that belongs to the world—what the sinful self desires, what people see and want, and everything in this world that people are so proud of—none of this comes from the Father; it all comes from the world. 



17The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever.


Read, Meditate and be encouraged
Have a wonderful day.

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