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WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE TODAY?

What you choose determines what you become

What you choose is determined by what you believe

What you believe determines what befalls you

Choose right today

Live right today

Choose to have pure thoughts

Choose to have clean heart and clean hands

Choose to be in right standing before God rather than

Being an enemy to God

Choose peace over war

Choose purity over sinful living

Choose reconciliation over conflict

Choose love over hatred

Choose generosity over selfishness

Choose optimism over pessimism

Choose positive confession over negative words

Choose hope over despair

Choose faith with works over doubt and fear

Choose giving over hoarding

Choose to be on time rather than give excuses

Choose to live for God

Choose today and choose early!

J.B Eshun © April 2015.

Computer Era Parent.

The 21st century computer era parent;
She meets her husband on badooo,
Marries on Facebook
Honeymoons on instagram,
Gives birth on ipad,
Changes diapers on wechat,
Teaches her children their first words on whatsapp,
By age three the child is using the latest Samsung phone,
He takes packed porridge sold by the road side for breakfast,
Coca cola and pizza for snack,
Papaye French fries for lunch,
KFC bucket chicken for supper.
Wakes up in the middle of the night to take in cornflakes and milk...
The only form of punishment is to take the child to New York to spend holidays with an aunt or uncle,
Seize the iPhone for an hour but leave the DSTV remote in the hands of the child.
The child has more rights but never responsibilities
The child is deemed more important than his maker (Yahweh)
All scriptural admonishments to raise children are read as against "The Child's Rights"
No one has the right to correct a child he did not give birth to.
The child is more right than the parent that brought forth that child.
Is God happy?
Or we are being wiser than God?

What a generation to live in!!

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CALL UPON GOD

When you are down
Woke up sad and it seems the day is going to be bad!
Call upon God

When you work and your boss is making work for you unbearable
Your colleagues at work are being uncooperative and unfriendly
Pray to your maker.

When that marriage is taking your life away
Your spouse has become something or someone you have never imagined
When your children are going wayward and you have sleepless nights with wet pillows
Before you talk to that friend in the office, that counselor down the road
Before you take the phone and call your parents!
Lock yourself up in your closet and cry unto God first.
Call unto God; until he answers, don't come out of the closet.

When the fiance or fiancée who has promised to marry you keeps cheating and treats you with disdain.
Come out from the emotional and love blind blanket
Watch and pray
Pray until God speaks!

When life has become so difficult and you cannot make two ends meet
Everything your hand finds doing crumbles.
You seem not to succeed at anything you do
Move away from that crowd
Move away from the grumblers and complainers
Make a plea to your maker
Never give up,
Keep praying
Keep working
Keep believing and trusting God

The light will surely shine again.

See you on the bright side of the day, week, month and year.

J. B. Eshun

Hausa Koko!

It was bright and sunny afternoon
I sat under the mango tree
In centre of the city
With my calabash of
Hausa koko and roasted groundnut from the hot sands of the savanna

I swore to myself 
Any insect that would drop from the tree
And find its way in the calabash of koko
Oh ! My God ! , Will go down the memory lane
In my throat.
With my sachet of sweaty water
I was ready for anything
Down my salivary throat.
Passers-by could not walk past
Without giving me a funny stare
Kai! I was never bothered
By their inquisitive curious looks
I enjoyed my delicacy
Awkwark ha!
Hausa koko in a hot sunny afternoon
Well, that's me

After I had had my nutritious sumptuous meal
I stretched on a lazy chair to take a nap.
The nap was however
Short lived!
Ah! Hausa koko + groundnut + any unfortunate insect+ sweaty sachet of water= an afternoon of a long nap, but can sometimes be really short.
Hahahahahahahaha!

MY DEARLY BELOVED

It was cool quiet Saturday morning
I was in church early enough to start my mourning
No one was dead
To everyone around me
It was a time for joy
But i was in a state of shock
The only comfort i could give myself was a silent solemn mourning

I sat in first row
In my neatly pressed black tuxedo
In a cool cold quiet morning
I was in a very dark sunglasses
Darker than that of the security detail of President Obama
Close to the action
I never wanted to miss a glimpse
I sat and watched
My lovebird for years
Marry another man

My worst moment arrived
As the priest pronounced
The covenant vows of marriage
Every word came to me
As a sword
Sharper than Lord Blades
Pushed through
The soft tissues of my heart
That did not end there
The veil was removed
I could behold
My beloved
Who promised
Me her love
As the veil is rolled up
I could feel
My heart bleed
The drops of blood
Were thicker than
The tears of Jesus
In the garden of Gethsemane

As the lips draw closer
My heart was failing
My hope was falling
I could feel the church warming

Yaaaaaaaaaaaw!
Wake up!
You've been sleeping too much lately.

J. B. Eshun (c) 2014