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My best work of art

Jul 18

Posted by Nkolika in Personal, Spiritual | 6 Comments

I would like to formally introduce my best work of art. Not that I am the creator, I was merely the vessel used by the master artist: Our Heavenly Father. Her name is Emmanuella Chinyelu. Chinyelu means “God gave”. She is the sole reason why I was absent for some time.

She’s 2 months old now and I must admit that motherhood is a mystery that I never knew was so deep and fulfilling.  Anytime I look at her tiny frame and features I’m filled with the same emotions I get from every piece of art I create: joy, happiness, sadness and fulfillment

  • Joy because she is MINE.
  • Happiness because the union between  my husband and I is now complete.
  • Sadness because I know the world is cruel and I cannot completely protect her from the cruelty of life itself.
  • Fulfillment because I desired to be used by God to create a new being

Yesterday she received her triple vaccination and she wept the whole day. Never did I imagine that one day I would stand by and watch the one being I would like to protect so much go through so much pain. But it was necessary and is definitely necessary to allow our loved ones to go through life on their own and become who they’re made to be. Sometimes it’s a great show of love and kindness to let them suffer because you know it’s for the best.

One thing I know for sure is that my art would be different from now on. Because I now fully appreciate what life is all about and how much of it is way beyond our control. Now I know the value of enjoying every minute and being thankful for every second that passes by. Now I know………..

Grant, O Lord, that my heart may neither desire nor seek anything but what is necessary for the fulfillment of Your Holy Will. May health or sickness, riches or poverty, honors or contempt, humiliations, leave my soul in that state of perfect detachment to which I desire to attain for Your greater honor and Your greater glory. Amen

— St. Ignatius Loyola

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Happy Easter

Apr 12

Posted by Nkolika in Spiritual | No Comments

As we celebrate the ressurection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, may we always remember His death and suffering……………what He did just for you and I. And may this season be the source of endless joy and happiness in our lives.

The patient and humble endurance of the Cross – whatever nature it may be – is the highest work we have to do.

St Katherine Drexel

 

The Son of God. . . worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.

Gaudium et spes

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What do trials mean to you?

Jan 31

Posted by Nkolika in Inspirational, Spiritual | No Comments

Today’s a good day to do a little quiz. I decided to find out  what book of the bible I was and was not surprised when my result came out thus:

You are the book of Job.

Immovable even in the midst of trials, you never give up or give in!

You are viewed by others as stalwart and tough, inclined to being a little egotistical at times, but they admire your confidence and tenacity!

Mmmh, it still marvels me how accurate these quizzes can be.  Egotistical????!!!!………………dunno about that part.  My approach to trials has always been that they are there to strengthen me. In the lives of  the countless number of Saints who walked this earth like Mother Theresa of Calcutta, St. Padre Pio, St. Elizabeth Ann-Seton just to mention a few; suffering and trials were always a source of endless strength to them and they embraced it with so much love and resignation. The greatest example is the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, who walked this earth in the midst of trials and endless suffering. When things happen that I do not understand I always say “Thank you, Jesus”.

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

St. Augustine

How do you approach the trials that may crop up in your life from time to time? What do you do with them? 

Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him….He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends, He may throw me to strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me; still He knows what He is about.

St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

Would you want to find out what book of the bible you are? Find out here

May we learn to embrace the trials that come to us with love knowing that our Lord is ever closer to us at such times.

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