Monday, March 05, 2007

THE ACADEMIC gOD 1


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A certain rich man once lived in the East with his family. He lost his life on his way back from one of his usual business trips…what a colossal loss!

Not too long after, all the wealth and glamour his immediate family once knew fizzled out –his wife never worked. The penury was as intense as the wealth they once enjoyed, even much more.

Bills piled up. Debts heaped. Hunger plagued. Diseases ravaged. And one after the other, the three children dropped dead: The woman was too poor to settle their hospital bills. She was herself sick to the point of death but she couldn’t afford to get a proper medical attention. So, she remained in their grand, but once glamorous house, waiting for death.

Her lawyer brother, who had been oblivious of her misfortune, came visiting one day. While they talked, he observed that some striking framed papers hung all around the living room. He took a closer look, only to receive the shock of his life. “…These are share certificates of choice multinationals in the country!” he managed to exclaim at last.

The illiterate woman had taken them for mere wall decorations. She did not know her husband –before his demise- had made investments that would suffice for their standard of living even if she never worked all her life. But due to her ignorance, they lived in penury amidst plenty.

Aren’t you another ignoramus?
Before Jesus died, He bought us shares so that we never have to lack a thing. He got us equity in the ‘Bank of Health’ so that we might dwell in health. He even went as far as making us decision makers in the ‘Prosperity Incorporated’ so that our souls prosper. So much more, He got us shares in the ‘Success Holdings’ that we might be the head and not the tail. So, be it the business, the profession, or in the academic sphere, you are not to fail –as long as you dwell in the house, named salvation.

Academic success is your heritage. You call the shot in the company it is produced. You are not to beg for it or slave for it; you are to work it into being.

There is no way you can be what you don’t know you are. You can never be a success when you don’t know you are one. You are not trying to be a success you are a success. He said, “I have said,“ Ye are [academic] gods…”” Let it settle in your mind because until you are in the heart, you can’t be on the earth…
To be continued

THE APPLE OF MY EYE


THE APPLE OF MY EYE

Gorgeously wrapped in the white lining as the angels
Pierced by a large ebony adorning circle
Edged above and beneath by sulcus flesh as the Queen
You glow in the morning like the eastern sun
And close up in the night as a crying baby his mouth.

You are the dearest to me of all of me
That with all dexterity I protect you
Not even any other part of me can reach you
I clothe you up in a twinkle of yourself
The huge arms of my lids hugging you tightly.

The most costly soaps can’t clean you
Even its fragrance doesn’t move you
With my tears only do you bathe up yourself
You are refreshed in the fruit of my sorrow
You feel me just like me.

Still will I keep you
Still will I admire you
Still will I protect you
Still will I cry for you
Still will you be the apple of my eye.

By Adeyemi Adeleye

TRUE BEAUTY


TRUE BEAUTY

Beauty is not how you dress
But what dresses the heart

Beauty is not good looks
It is good thoughts

Beauty is not a spotless face
It is a blameless heart

Beauty is not make-up
But the make-up of the heart

Beauty is not what you do
It is why you do them

Beauty is not fluency
Beauty is transparency

Beauty is not appearance
Beauty is character
The character of the heart

Only the Porter really knows
Just how beautiful the clay is

Man looks outwards
But God looks inwards

So true beauty is not what man sees
But what God sees…the state of the heart.

By Fisayo Opeyemi