Tag: stories
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Keep the wonders of Naija!
In Naija, or like we call it, home, we think a lot about movement, and bustling streets and buildings tall and straight as trees, and the grey skies we hang on to, everyone happy to see another day, at least there is wonder here, and magic too, for where else will you see blind men, …
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Keep connecting to your desires!
I was asked yesterday to describe soulful grants. My mind went straight to my heart. Of what use is a grant if it only knows the head, forgetting that the longest journey you will ever take is the one from your head to your heart. So my response: Grant writing is a way of connecting…
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Keep telling your story!
When stories go a distance, they become crooked. So too the story for today. It began as any other, with plans beyond time. Then life intervened and the journey turned into another moment in need for deeper reflection. We are all stories, carrying kernels of truth, mixed with untruth, all shaped as we journey along…
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Keep love!
Love so beautiful, oozes with joy. Today we witnessed love, witnessed beauty, witnessed joy, that we too professed love, and so does the moon, and souls, and people in search for love.
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Keep those that guide you!
It’s been over 20 years since we met and everyday seems so sterling. I am learning to recognize and respect the place where I feel so cherished and secure and in my academic life, it’s in his presence. I am able soar because he told me I could. Told me too that who was I…
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Keep being a child of blessings!
A child becoming better than you is a blessing. Today, I learnt about the blessings I bring. Keep this. Edo language.
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Keep choosing time alone!
This story about a girl who lived alone inspires me. She smiled often alone too. In a world where leaves fall on their own. This girl alone, too deep in their thoughts alone, forgot the serenity of feasts. Those full of grace. In a land where many choose paths, that destroy or unknowingly build, she…
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Keep seeing goodness!
Some words have wings, forcing you to soar when spoken. Today I saw the message in the words “see goodness” and we are certainly soaring to the skies. I kept saying I’m where I am supposed to be. Everything about today was divine that those words made my eyes see for myself how blessed I…
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Keep celebrating his grace!
These words I read today “dwell in the moment, know the moment, be the moment” are reasons why his grace on days like today will always be sufficient. We are in our dwelling phase and moments I received from today are but examples of why his love for me has no bounds. I am a…
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Keep the big wins!
I was so happy for a friend recently. I am for all my friends but this one hit a bit different. See with the massive layoffs happening I have known not one or two or ten or more that have lost their jobs so every single news of anyone I know rebounding following the storms…
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Keep the storms and pain, they teach how to be creative!
Looking back, it was good that I went through pain, good that storms came my way. They both taught me how to stand. So now, I consider myself fortunate when all sorts of storms come my way. I say a silent prayer in thanks, as they remind me that God is still using all of…
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Keep words that dwell in you!
The words I write, are always wanting to be of use for a day. Today, three words crept into my soul from the beginning and so I wrote them down again. Be of use. To whom, I wondered. Myself. Of course I will make use of my time on earth. But who else, my Zobam,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 