Would you take care of it for me? I will call later.” My phone buzzed, followed by a text from my sister. It was my ex-husband’s favorite - a set of sixteen plates and bowls and saucers that were free of dents, just white, the soulless white of our brief union. I was in the kitchen, staring at the fine china my last mother-in-law had given me on my wedding day. Three years after my divorce, on the very eve of my divorce anniversary, my sister, Oge, texted. Raaza Jamshed for Guernica Global Spotlights The story hovers in the precarious space between hope and despair, leaving the reader to imagine the future of the two sisters’ relationship.
JESUS HOLDING HANDS STANDING STILL FREE MOTION BACKGROUNDS PATCH
Through her rescue mission, the dressmaker finds herself struggling to break free from an old pattern of abuse and patch together an independent identity for herself. Written by Ukamaka Olisakwe and appearing first in OlongoAfrica, “Maybe Now, Maybe Never” is suffused with quiet suspense as the protagonist navigates the Nigerian city of Aba, its rush and its din, and its idealized notions of womanhood. The family crisis exposes the calcified contours of a sisterhood in which one sister benefits to the other’s detriment. A childless dressmaker must rescue her young niece from an unwanted pregnancy. You were bought with a price then do not yield yourselves up to become slaves to men. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body. Sin will take you further than you want to go keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.Choices are then made…the distance from your thoughts and feelings to your hands and actions is not as far as you might think….we can step over into the enemies trap -blink and you will miss it and you will ask “hey how did I get here-how did this happen? I did not even see this coming…NOW WHAT!”Ī price will be paid for those actions and reactions to those thoughts and choices…įor the wages which sin pays is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.then our senses begin to dull…our focus and vision gets fuzzy and the devil works to keep us laid back and comfortable -so we will not hear that still small voice telling us “hey, wait a minute…that is not good for you” or “wait! Stop! That goes againt God’s Word…you know the scripture…remember…”.We begin to straddle the fence…or keep jumping from one side to the other over and over…then we become complacent and numb to it and we form habits out of our sin and think it is ok or become immune to the conviction of our sin.It is when black and white (right and wrong) turns to gray…COMPROMISE!.Most of the time it is not an instant falling away… The little song also talks about how we are to be careful of our hands in what you do or touch, or feet where you walk, or lips what you speak… O Same as when we look from behind Jesus…step out of the covering…we are open target for disaster She looked from behind him…her covering.
“…she looked back from behind him and turned into a pillar of salt…”.the second glance is what will tie your hands (bind you) -the king of darkness pulls the strings! Remember that little song you may have learned in Sunday School or VBS when you were a child…įor the Father up above is looking down in love I many times wondered how people I have known over the years have fallen from God’s Grace…fallen away from him…how they could turn away and turn their back on all that they KNOW of The Word and from their relationship with him…it can happen so easily…none of us are exempt from that…look at your neighbor and say “it could happen to you…” Satan is a liar! He will trick you into believing him! We gotta be on guard at all times… WE ARE TO BUILD ON THE TRUTH…PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT BUILDING OURSLEVES UP ON OUR MOST HOLY FAITH! We are to build our life with the Lord upon the very same terms that we began that life…not the life that we left behind! I want to remind you that Satan seeks to devour you…īut, remember that Jesus came to seek and save that which is lost…Īs you have therefore received Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him. YOU CAN’T WALK WITH JESUS IF YOU ARE HOLDING HANDS WITH SATAN
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