MIND POWER

This was the question I heard some years back from a friend before my service year. We were talking about gifts, talents and how one can get the best out from his God given gift to become exceptional from others. This folk just shook my brain with the question saying: Don't we have many youths who are gifted artists around the globe? Singers that are better than Olamide, Beyonce, Nathaniel Bassey, Frank Edward are in one local place struggling to make it yet they have no one to listen to them. "They have a gift and so what?" "You see, if gift and talent is enough, those guys in the village would have hammered by now." This was his statement to back up the above question. Why am I telling you this? We have lots of people who strongly believe in their gifts and talents. They thought that is enough for them to function well in life. But as it was said by John C. Maxwell in his book, "Talent is never Enough." Talent is not all to become best at wh...

This was the word of a depressed lady after a long time of waiting without having a man to marry. She said: "I'm getting old and my breasts are sagging. Yet I have no man around me. Will I still get married?" Crazy right! That was a scary word from a depressed lady in her early 40s as I read from my mail before the COVID 19 stay at home order. You see, we have people around who are depressed, down with situations that are too hard to explain. We have men working around looking great, yet insides are pains and griefs. As for me, I am not God or an ordained pastor who can look at a situation and give a perfect solution to end those pains - oh how I wished! But I'm so sure that as we have problems, so we have solutions. As we have a beginning, so we have an end. As we have sadness, so we have happiness. But the problem is how can we find the right answer to our questions? What should we do in the midst of these pains? Perhaps, maybe you've been in that s...