Watching someone you love battle through ill health crushes the soul like nothing else.

If a kiss could take away the discomfort, you would offer the longest one.

But alas, every illness must run its course, and with it, your emotions.

Until it passes, we plant a smile on our lips and a prayer in our hearts.

– Osasu Oviawe

The earth’s rise and fall are shaped by the passing of water, wind, and fire.

We focus on time because it is the most observable vehicle for all three.

Time actually does nothing.

– Osasu Oviawe

The best thing you can do for those you love is be here for as long as you can.

Presence is the real gift of love.

– Osasu Oviawe

Everyone has an insecurity about their body.

Our mind’s eye is more focused on it than all the other amazing parts of our being.

It gets worse when the tongues around us amplify it.

But our insecurity is a part of our beauty, and changing it turns the shame we felt in having it into a fear of the after-effects of removing it.

If you do not find beauty in spite of your insecurity, you will not find it without it.

– Osasu Oviawe

The hardest part is just before the end.

If it gets really hard, it’s about to end.

Let the hard part pass.

It will pass.

– Osasu Oviawe

There are three sides to a story: the length, the breadth, and the depth.

The truth is always in the depth.

– Osasu Oviawe

Decide what you don’t want in life and leave it.

Choose what you want in life and live it.

It is that simple, yet that hard.

– Osasu Oviawe

Your spirit knows.

Your soul knows.

Your body knows.

Your heart knows.

Your head knows.

Your hand knows.

Your will overthrows.

– Osasu Oviawe

May you never be faced with circumstances that help you learn how strong you truly are.

And if those circumstances come, may your strength be enough to carry you through.

Amen.

– Osasu Oviawe

When you are in the presence of someone who walks with God, you will experience a peace within like no other.

When you are in the presence of someone who uses God, you will experience a storm within like no other.

– Osasu Oviawe