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Looking at life, I just can’t help laughing and praising the Most High!
All our thanks should go to Him!!
I can’t help but remember a Yoruba story, possibly from the Odu Ifa Corpus. It says so many people prepare evil machinations against the mountain. The mountain doesn’t eat, nor does it drink!
These are people for whom the mountain has been useful at one time or another. The mountain remains loyal to them, but the story says they always end up betraying it.
They even try to shift the mountain. But then, it’s a task they find impossible.
Whatever your worries might be, know that things can only get better.
Are you down?
Have friends betrayed you?
Do remember that he that is down needs fear no fall. Some positions are where a person reaches, and such positions will become the turning point. Some people do evil to you only for you to reap the good things of life.
Those are the people the Yoruba call ‘Alenibare’.
The brothers who sold Joseph into slavery never knew they were doing him a good deed. Instead, they felt he was done for.
He became prime minister, and his brothers had to obey him. His father did, too. To cap it all off, he saved them from hunger.
If the Redeemer had not been crucified, I very much doubt whether there would be Christianity today!
It’s not for nothing that my people say, ‘Baoku, ise o tan’. That is, there’s still a lot of hope for the living.
Please, get going, for God, in his infinite mercies, will bless all your positive efforts!
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