The dead Alive;Images Of Death

Today as my week comes to almost an end the thing that seems to be preoccupying my mind is death. It may seem strange to you but the past two weeks three people I know breathed their last. Their ages between 3months - 55years. The common denominator in all  of the three is that they died of natural causes.

When most of us picture death,darkness comes to mind. I actually searched for the images of death on Google and what came up to me was darkness and skeletons. I looked at this more critically and wondered if truly that is what death represents(deep analysis is my thing). To many of us we believe and think death is something totally horrible. Actually its the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone.

But I couldn't help but look at the people who are alive today. We continue to live in dark cocoons of  ourselves with skeletons in our closet. The truth is some of us embraced death a long time ago but look at those that are physically dead to be in horrible situations. What is the point of walking aimlessly without purpose in life? What is the aim of living and yet still harbor so much bitterness for the people around you that you live a dead life?

If death is darkness and so bad. Why do we who are alive continue to encourage harbor so many skeletons in our ward robe which is our heart? We may not have control of death and even prevent it from coming but one thing I know is we can make the choice to live in the light. Let us learn that the flesh we have is to cover our bones till such a time we shall be skeletons and cannot represent any life.

Being able to breath each moment is an opportunity for each one of us to reinvent ourselves. Its an opportunity to be better people and be that change we want and desire.
Have a blessed day.

My Friend turned Foe

Yesterday I was all excited rushing home to prepare rice and pork. It had been a tiring day and I knew a good home cooked meal would cheer me on. As soon I opened the door I heard my friend making noise from the kitchen and I knew things are not going to be smooth as I had thought. No sooner had I closed the main door than I noticed him advancing to my direction. Without a second thought I knew I had to dash and close the outlet from which he was able to access my sitting room...

Yes my cousin forgot to close the tap and water had flowed half way into the sitting room. I drained buckets and buckets of water thinking of the lesson this incidence was meant to teach me and this was my conclusion.

In life we all have friends that help us in our everyday life. Water from the taps in our house is a good friend we use to help us in our daily living. However the same water if left unattended with open taps will lead to lots of destruction and become a foe. We therefore need to know there is a limit to which we allow the water to flow from the tap.In the same way, we need to know there is a limit to which we allow our friends to medal in our life. Too much meddling will be destruct-full. It is important for us to have a tap to control what we allow to come into our life and to what extent we allow it in.

Hope it makes sense to you as it did to me. Have a blessed day.

File to one level.

Over the weekend i had lots of cleaning to do my back hurts till now. I still wonder how i would perform if i was to go to the garden all day. The only thing i can say in all this is that everything takes getting used to. Perhaps more frequent cleaning would resolve having aches all over. Let me state that when I do the cleaning myself I feel really satisfied with the standards which is never the case when another person does it. Oh well like i said it will take some getting used to.

So anyway during cleaning my nails chirp and some end up longer than others. I find them looking untidy and so I have to manicure them a process which involves filing to bring them to the same level. Once done i am filled with admiration and feel proud of myself.The growth of the nails is uniform and i am able to maintain tidy nails.

Applying this to real life. I thought about the various situation that present themselves in life. More so in relationships. At some point a spouse may find themselves at a higher level than their partner. During such situations its important that those involved figure out how to get to a level ground. That way like my nails they are able to grow together. Situations will call for the two sitting and looking what is more practical moving down to get to the level of the one who is lower or growing the one who is down to get them to the level of the one who is up. Let me give you an example.

If two people are in an argument and one is shouting at the top of their voice. The only way to come to a level they can move together is to lower the one who is shouting.Only then can they have a decent conversation. Say two one partner is feeling low and down the only right thing to do is to see how best the happy one can lift the spirits of the one who is low. That way there is a lot of calm in the house and planning of things becomes easier.

So yes situations will call for filing down to enable growth together and neatly. And at times it will take getting down to the level one partner is to raise them up so that you can move together.

Hope it makes sense to you.