Day: May 25, 2019

Turning tramplings to trampolines

~ osasuoviawe

In hindsight, we treasure our tramplings. We see in them, trampolines.

Ask for any example of success in people’s lives and you will get stories of failure, stories of difficulty, stories of rejection. Trampling stories.

It is never easy to go through a trampling and nothing guarantees that it will become a trampoline. Or that you will even be here to have hindsight when it’s done. But one thing is sure, no one avoids tramplings from birth to death.

The truth is, trampolines give us highs that take us nowhere. Tramplings change us for better or worse, depending our true character.

Find ways to enjoy both.

– Osasu Oviawe

Who hates you?

~ osasuoviawe

John 15:18-21
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said to you, `A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.”

Homily:

Who hates you?
Who loves you?
Who persecutes you?
Who advocates for you?
Are they the people you expect to?

To the above questions, I remember the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson –

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”