The picture on the left is of my son on my knees, Olu-funsho (I love to call him Funshito). Whenever I return from work, and I'm welcomed by his toothless smile, my heart leaps for joy and every hard time I've had in the day just evaporates. Just today I listened to something a respected worship leader said. He said, and let me try and paraphrase, Help us Lord not to cringe away when You raise Your hand thinking You want to hit us but help us see that You want to put Your arms around us. When I heard this, my heart leaped in me because I have been meditating on the fatherhood of God.We are so quick to assume God is the strict disciplinarian who...

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NEGLIGENT DRIVER

August 3rd, 2007 began as it usually does for my family- wake up, bathe the baby, take our baths, get dressed and leave for church. The difference this time was that we would be going to church in our car, with me on the wheels (I'm grinning from ear to ear). We got ready and soon we were in the car, my (beautiful) wife Mojisola, our chubby baby boy, Olu-funsho and I. We had to buy fuel and pick a friend, who happens to be my instructor and a member of our church along the way, so the real test of my driving had not really started. When we had picked him and bought fuel, we started the next phase of our journey to Gbagada, where our church is located. Being very new at driving on the roads of Nigeria, I had to drive slowly and carefully so while other drivers are speeding off, I'm just crawling...

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Expand, Extend, Enlarge

On Wednesday, August 1st, I did something I had always dreamed of doing: I drove in Lagos traffic! For many of you reading this, you probably don't think its a big deal. But when you consider that I am close to thirty years old, own a car and haven't been able to put it on the road for more than two months now, simply because I don't know how to drive, then you may begin to appreciate my breakthrough.The question I asked myself, as I hit the Agege Motor Road was this, "Why has it taken me so long to do this?" It was a question that I knew the answers to even before I asked. I wasn't daring enough and I must say that it was not that I had not tried to learn to drive but I had received a lot of setbacks that have made that area of my life a no-go area. As I told one of my friends of this landmark...

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