Category: ‘Folajimi’s Jots

When Love is a Characteristic

I hate it when people make fun of others when they fall,  it hurts me especially if it’s in a way directly connected to me,  most especially if I was trying to get over what just happened like my favorite team lost, or my friend fumbled or….  Just find any example of things that’d hurt you.

But then I realised I do it too,  use other people’s weakness to get at them,  poke fun at them(seems to be my hobby), and it’s fun doing so……  But my Bible says love your neighbour as you love yourself….  Self interpreted to be ‘do unto others what you want to be done to you’ so why then am I hurt and touchy when it’s done to me but don’t expect others to be hurt when I do mine. Isn’t that a fleshy nature.

I am learning from this and I want you to do too….  If you ain’t comfortable when it’s done to you, you have two options,  grow a thick skin or more flesh to accommodate it when done to you OR stop doing it….  If you can’t tolerate it and finding it hard to stop. Look up to God and let him guide you.

You and I want a good world? You and I have to work towards it.

 CONFESSION : I love you just as myself so I would do to you what I would let happen to me…

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You judge❓

I know actions speak louder than words.  But now that everyone is keeping his/her actions under control, is it okay to stick only to knowing someone truly through their words? But then any one can lie about his person and keep the truth from you for a lifetime…. Oops, words are still not trustworthy. Then we should stick to actions and wait for the day the person would show it, not so? …. Oh, yeah, that would be like monitoring the person, and of what benefit is that? Haven’t we work to do? Or can we monitor and continue our work? There are two things involved, it is either we stumble or we waste time and affect our progress. You wanna make it in life? Very easy, DON’T LOOK OUT TO JUDGE ANYONE!

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IF I HAD A SINGLE WISH

We probably have heard lots of stories of people who have been given choices of having at least one wish or at times three wishes, be it a fable or a legend, and we probably have heard different wishes made by these characters; some cunning, some plain; some foolish, some wise; some expected, some unexpected; some fascinating, others, just off it, but then have we ever put ourselves in the shoes of these characters.
Well, I have put myself in these shoes so many times and I am still looking for that perfect wish I would be satisfied with. Should I say I want to be extremely rich? I do not want to die? that I would be happy forever? have nice kids, very nice ones? Be Famous? Leave a good legacy behind? Godly? Smart? Wise? funny? charming? Perfect? Unavoidable? Invisible? Invincible? What could I wish for? remembering that the fact that each wish has a good and bad side of it.
Now I see the reason for the amazing wishes we hear those characters make, like an instance where the Lion would ask for the Zebra as meal, the Hyena asks that the Lion doesn’t finish the food and the Zebra asks that none of these wishes come true.

So If I had a single wish, here IS what I would do- I would wish that I live my life according to the plans of my creator without erring.

PERFECT??

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