Illumining Pen

 "I need a friend One I could pour out my mind to Without any farce Or pretense..."  Friendship is not just about taking... it's also about giving. There are times when people you have in your life are pests, rather than friends. Many are fiends in disguise. A Yoruba adage says: 'Owo epo ni araye nba ni la Won kii la teje' Which translates thus: "People of the world licks your hands of palm oil, not that of blood." Beloved, the point I'm making is this: choose your friends wisely. Choose somebody you can grow together, choose people with whom you can walk together, people who share your dreams and visions. Friends who are not afraid to tell you the truth. Friends who don't ooze pretense and falsehood. Friends who love you for who you are, though seeks to add value to you and make you better. Friends that cry with you when you cry and laugh with you when you laugh. Friends who can pray for and with you. Friends who push you forward in life and not...

 It's a MIRAGE😱! "It's a lie" "No, Foluke, tell me you've never had a boyfriend?" Foluke shrugged. There was a roar of laughter in the room among Foluke's friends. "So, that means you've never even had your first kiss" Stephanie asked, arms akimbo. "Well, something like that" Foluke answered, averting her gaze from that of her friend. "Something like that or yes?" Chinwe asked. "Hmm, yes" Foluke answered. She was already becoming nervous about her friends' questions. "Wait a minute, are you not clocking twenty-two next month?" Chinwe questioned Foluke again. Foluke didn't answer this time. She already knew where the conversation was heading. Many times, her friends had asked her to introduce her boyfriend to them, but she was always coming up with one excuse or the other for her imaginary boyfriend. She knew she had been lying to them to just feel among, and had always been asking for for...

 Happy new year fam😘🤗 "The righteous hate what is false But the wicked make themselves obnoxious And bring shame on themselves" Psalm 13:5 (NIV) What is false to you, may be true to another; that is the kind of world we find ourselves. There's confusion regarding what is true or false, so everyone has come to the conclusion: whatever you believe is true or false for you. And this has caused quite a habaloo! The Holy Spirit made me understand that "a man that does not stand for something will fall for anything". We are in a world where you will fall right flat on your face if there is no governing authority over your life and a standard you stand for. Some may attempt to use their own lives as standards, but the nature of man is too weak for man to be his own standard. There was a time in high school when I learnt in Biology that the sense of smell of man adapts to a smell after some time of exposure to the smell.  I challenge you with these questions today: Wh...