Stephen Colbert: What do you think happens when we die Keanu Reeves?
Keanu Reeves: I know that the ones who love us will miss us.
There is a purity of truth in that reply.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: June 6, 2020
Possibility
“We don’t give children a name as an expectation to live up to, we give children a name as a possibility to live into” – Benjamin Zander
I find this quote and the concept behind it powerful as I have applied it in my life.
We do not stop calling a child Joy because she is currently bringing us pain, the name remains in spite of circumstance.
My signature on my formal emails is, “With joy”. Sometimes I write pretty tough wake-up calls, queries and also respond to tough wake-up calls and queries, but I sign all emails – “With joy”.
Sometimes, when I am proofreading an email, I get a nudge to remove the signature, because of the present pain I feel, but I remind myself that the present discomfort is temporary, but my joy is permanent. This helps me to embrace the conflict within and stand true to my proclamation – “I am with joy”.
Remember “abracadabra” – I will create as I speak.
I also think this is powerful in all relationships – formal, informal, romantic, or adversarial. We give a name to our partner or adversary not as an expectation, but as a possibility.
How would you live if everyone you meet is actively working for and not against you?
It is a possibility. Explore it.
– Osasu Oviawe
The power coin
The security power offers is you can say what you think.
The danger power offers is you can say what you think.
– Osasu Oviawe
Enough said
2 Timothy 4:1-8
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry. For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Homily:
Advice worth committing to memory.
Enough said.