Hi Friend,
I trust you and yours are well. I just heard a word which I believe will encourage you especially if you have ever felt unfavoured or unfulfilled. I know someone who’s been however God turned it in her favour. Why? Because she wouldn’t quit amidst set backs difficulties, disputes, and abuse, she persevered.
Can you give it one more push?
Hello Friend,
Having lived a little, I have observed that people can appear to seemingly have it all together and yet be missing something within. Something beyond their reach, out of their remit or ability. That’s when one needs to be remembered, listened to and enabled. Let’s take a look at the life of Rachael.
That’s a religious statement!
Very superstitious, another says!!
Quite hypothetical and has not been empirically proven, many chatter!!!
I have battled whether or not to share this piece as the past couple of months have been challenging for me, especially as it pertains to my love life.
Without revealing much which I believe your imagination would capture, I have pondered hard and long on the varying definitions and assumptions there are about love. Some of which are:
Love is a feeling
This suggests that love is a complex and irrational emotion which tosses like a yo-yo instead of a conscious decision that stands firm. Emotions oscillate like 
pendulums: they can be up one minute and down the other. That somewhat explains the increasing divorce records – there is no resolution among couples neither is there commitment to the vows they make. Words are no longer bonds. Prenups act as security while the threat is the alimony. “So, hey if you like mess with me…just be prepared to watch me walk!” they say.
Love is isn’t always “me first,” It doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, doesn’t revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth… 1 Corinthians 13:5,6
Love is temporal
I’ve heard it time and time again – “all good things must come to an end”. Seriously? Following the first point, it is largely believed that love has a beginning, grows overtime and can come to an end. You can have it till the 
moment it expires. The expiration can be triggered by anything from lingering desires to new taste. Love can be switched on and off. Where then is the unrelenting, enduring, and stable force which in times past has overcome hate, heal hurt and stood the test of time?
Love is always patient; love is always kind … Love never comes to an end… 1 Corinthians 13:4,8
Love is conditional
Love is subject to conditions. This is a widely portrayed on our screens, society and homes. The modus operandi here is ‘Tit-for-Tat’ where the love lasts for as 
long as both parties are compliant to the set rules. When a road block is encountered and the ‘real’ looks nothing like the ‘ideal’ situation or environment, burst goes the love. When the going gets tough, the tough get going is not quite held here; and although the lovers agree, love is sacrificial, there is a caveat, contract, and condition to the cost requirements.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:7
After all is said and done, love wins! Quite frankly, there is no winning without a fight. There is no middle ground, your are either fighting and taking ground or losing! Overcomers scale walls, obstacles and challenges to enjoy the breakthroughs, loots and trophies. Let love conquer, fight for it!
Other Valentine Editions
Love at the Upper Room – You Showed Me
Beloved
Come and see the man!
Will you be mine?
His Love, My Salvation
Because He Loved Me
Endless Love
You qualify!
I Love You
The quality of your life is linked to what you know. Coming to this realization should redefine your understanding of knowledge as merely being power to life itself.
Most people spend their whole life acquiring or sharing knowledge. You are either getting to know someone or something, or groups of people or market are coming to the knowledge of you. Did you even know that your value or worth in life is tied to what, who and where you know (people, places, things, experiences, proclivities, abilities, and skills)?
A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash. Proverbs 15:14
The major difference between children and parents, proteges, mentors, students, and professionals is knowledge – the former is still learning while the latter is applying what they have learnt.
If you have good sense, instruction will help you to have even better sense. And if you live right, education will help you to know even more. Proverbs 9:9
Let’s define life as the “experience of being alive or the state or mode of being”. I believe there are 3 levels of life or living:
Now here’s the test – do you know how you got here and why you’re still here? Do you know Jesus? Do you know me?😃 Be a knowledge savvy! Continue learning!! Get to know!!!
…for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day. 2 Timothy 1:12b