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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#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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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 jealous, but 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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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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#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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#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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#DailyExhortation: Be Still

Good Morning everyone,

Psalm 46:7-11

7 

The Lord Almighty is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress.

8 

Come and see what the Lord has done,

    the desolations he has brought on the earth.

9 

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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#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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#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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#DailyExhortation: "Back to Love"

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life

Read, meditate and be encouraged. 

Have a wonderful day.

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#DailyExhortation: "11:11"

Hebrews 11:11

"And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise"

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#DailyExhortation: "FearLess Walk"

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2     He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3     he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,    for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

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#DailyExhortation: "Here I am"

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Is it not to share your food with the hungry
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
    you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
    with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
    and your night will become like the noonday.
11 The Lord will guide you always;
    he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
    and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
    like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58: 7-11

Have a wonderful day.

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