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Prayer

I’ve started a new habit. I make a list before I pray.

Notice how only those things that are important to us make it into most of our prayers?

I think Prayer is our personal daily (or periodic) reminder of things that matter and that we care about.

I am growing and constantly curating my prayer list. I check it twice or more and then I pray as much as I can and as deeply as I can for those things that make my list.

I find that the more I pray about things, the more I practice deliberate and intentional action in regular life, towards the betterment and improvement(within my powers) of those things I prayed about. And with God’s grace, I am starting to notice a gradual but consistent shift.

So join me…

Pray for your dreams

Pray for your tomorrow

Pray for your family and friends

Pray even for your foes

May the prayers we utter, be thoughtful and kind

And May all our prayers be answered.

#prayer #sunday #thoughts #prayer list

Eagle in Grant Park, Chicago . . I’ve always loved eagles. I recall a vivid memory after dinner at a swanky Chinese Restaurant in Lagos called Golden Crown. The food was perhaps the best I’d ever tasted at the time. Prior to this event, my only experience with dining away from home was at Mr Biggs, a now defunct (or slowly dying) fast food chain I was lucky enough to get take-out from when visiting my parents at work in downtown Lagos. . This exposure to the culinary wonders of fine dining spurred me to make a mental note. I was going to open up a rival restaurant and call it ‘Golden Eagle’. It would be the best ever and I would even put up a Golden Statue of a bird outside the restaurant. Well, that dream is yet to be realized. I still love food, but restaurants these days, are mostly not worth the time, let alone the money. . One thing I still love, EAGLES. Maybe it’s because I wish I could soar high to truly appreciate the beauty of the world from an eagle’s eye view. Maybe it’s just theIr wings and association with royalty, strength and presence. Whatever its is, I invite you to enjoy this picture I took in Chicago, Illinois, alongside Michigan Avenue in Grant Park.

#lollapalooza #chicago #summer #michiganave #aversionofevents #lagos #lagosisland #victoriaisland #surulere #goldencrown #goldeneagle #memories #nostalgia #birds #eagles #fountains #grantpark #chicagoarchitecture

Love Hurts...

Love hurts so deep It feels like you're cut from inside Love hurts like a gunshot That makes you bleed out your eyes Love hurts for so long It feels like drowning alive Love hurts from a distance But Cupid laughs right by your side

#love hurts