INK IN THE PEN

INK IN THE PEN

Some say life is kind.

Some say life is hard.

Others say life is sweet.

The truth is, life is all these things—depending on the eyes that see it and the heart that feels it.

Every individual has a different definition of life, a different perspective, a different experience.

Ink is Pen

                   

Life is like an ink pen.

The pen’s case is the body.

The ink within is the blood.

And the one holding the pen—the writer—is the soul.

The writer is the life of the ink. The more the writer uses the pen, the faster the ink runs out. The only way the ink doesn’t fade is if the writer refuses to write. But when the ink flows onto paper, it leaves a mark in the world of words.

When the ink is gone, the pen is discarded. Its usefulness has ended.

So it is with life: the ink is the pen, and the pen is the ink. Without one, the other cannot exist.

We all have an expiry date. No one escapes it. And when that moment comes, it often arrives like a flash.

  

Refuse mental hobo

                   

The real question is this:

What marks will your ink leave behind?

What legacy will you write with the time you’ve been given?

The seeds you sow will determine the harvest you reap. Refuse to be a mental wanderer. Refuse to be a mental hobo.

Because adulthood, at its core, is responsibility.

Responsibility for yourself.

Responsibility for your words.

Responsibility for your family.

Responsibility for your work, your future, and your legacy.

To be an adult is to accept the pen in your hand and write with purpose.

Your ink will one day run out. But the words you leave behind—the lives you impact—will remain long after the pen is gone.

-Ohiosumuan Ihonde Wilson Jr 

NEW MARK

A New Year Proclamation

The year is not truly new unless we approach it with a new mentality, new ideas, a new attitude, new behavior, renewed character, and a fresh plan to bring change and make a difference. This is a new season, and every new season requires a new reason—so that we may give it new meaning.

Yes, it’s a New Year! If you listen closely, you can hear the birds singing a new song—so don’t just hear, but listen, understand, and rejoice. Sing, dance, and celebrate, because a New Year has come.

Think about the last season, learn from it, and recommend for yourself a good reason to matter in this new one. For me, this year will be great! No more scattered blessings—I now hold the master key to open every door of success, achievement, and overwhelming riches from above.

I shall matter, no matter the matter. I am the new celebrity of the year 2020. The only choice left is for you to celebrate me into greatness, from glory to glory. Amen.

And this I declare also to you who believe: you are a new mark in this new season.

OHIOSUMUAN WILSON JR

Life time

Life and Grace

By Ohiosumuan Ihonde Wilson (Jnr)

Sometimes in life, things can feel like rush hour, and other times they move much slower.

But being slow in life doesn’t mean you are slow in everything you do.

Take the snail for example: it may crawl for hours just to reach its destination, but the fact that it is slow does not mean it won’t get there. What matters most is not the pace, but the focus — the determination to keep moving towards the destination.

So, our thinking, our focus, and our direction are what truly determine where we end up.

Even if we live in a world of ordinary people, there will always be a few extraordinary ones — those who dare to do extraordinary things.

Life does not always treat you right, even when it seems like it does. You may have wealth, exotic cars, mansions, beautiful wives, lovely children, thriving companies, and much more. Yet, what if life still feels empty and miserable despite all that?

It takes the grace of God for a man with a heart of gold to live a life of true peace.

Grace abounds everywhere, but if you cannot recognize it, then you are blind in a world already full of grace.

Life is about withholding nothing, because everything we have comes from someone — God. You may think your achievements are the results of your hard work, but remember: many people work tirelessly, day and night, yet have not achieved what they desire. That doesn’t make them lazy — it only means their appointed time has not yet come.

Fear and its Power

FEAR KILLS BEFORE WE DIE

Fear is an unreal reality — a shadow that cripples real abilities meant to make a difference in our lives.

There are two kinds of fear: the fear we have, and the fear that has us. The first begins like a small whisper, a tender threat we ignore. With time, it grows into a mountain too heavy to move, because we nurture it with acceptance and ignorance. When we dwell too long in this prison, fear makes us its captive, paralyzing our will and draining our strength until it kills the very essence of who we are.

The second — the fear that possesses a man — is the greatest enemy of all. Though fear is dead and unreal, it kills the living by making them walking corpses, bound in chains of doubt and defeat.

But how can something unreal feel so real?

Because fear becomes alive in the hearts of those who accommodate it, whether through ignorance or laziness. As long as fear is welcomed, it will always seem real and will control the boundaries of our lives.

There is, however, one fear that gives life: the fear of the Creator. The Bible says “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” This holy fear empowers us to face every false fear of the world. For out of Him we were created, and only in Him can we be redeemed.

May God grant us the wisdom to fear Him rightly, and the courage to walk free from every other fear.

Contact and Connection

Morning Reflection

Contact and Connection

It was April 2009.   I was returning from Delhi by flight with a monk of the RamaKrishna Mission sitting next to me and a journalist from the US sitting on the third seat . The journalist started
interviewing  the monk as planned earlier.

Journalist - Sir , in your last lecture, you  told us about Jogajog ( contact ) &  Sanjog (connection ). It's really confusing. Can you explain ?

The Monk smiled and apparently deviating from the question asked the journalist: Are you from New York?

Journalist - Yeah...

Monk - Who are there at home ?

The Journalist felt that the  Monk was trying to avoid answering his question since  this was a very personal and unwarranted question. Yet the  journalist  said:    "Mother has expired. Father is there. Three brothers and one sister. All married..."

The Monk, with a smile on his  face,   asked again: - "Do you talk to your father?"

The  journalist looked visibly annoyed...

The Monk  - "When did you talk to him last?"

The journalist, suppressing his annoyance said:  "May be a month ago."

The Monk:  "Do you brothers and sisters meet often ? When did you meet last as a family gathering?"

At this point, I saw  sweat on the forehead ok the journalist. I wondered who was conducting the interview, the Monk or the Journalist. It seemed that the   Monk was interviewing the Journalist.

With a sigh , the Journalist said: "We met last at Christmas two  years  ago."

The Monk: " How many days did you all stay together ?"

The Journalist (wiping the sweat on his brow) said : "Three days..."

Monk: "How much time did you  spend with your Father, sitting right  beside him ?"

I saw the journalist looking  perplexed and embarrassed and scribbling something on a paper...

The Monk:  "Did you have breakfast, lunch or dinner together ? Did you ask how he was? Did you ask how his days are passing after your mother's death?"

I saw drops of tears coming out from the eyes of the journalist.

The Monk held the hand of the journalist and said: "Don't be embrassed, upset or sad. I am sorry if I have hurt you unknowingly... But this is basically the answer to your question about "contact and connection" "( jogajog and Sanjog)".  You have 'contact'  with your father but you don't have 'connection' with him. You are not connected to him. Connection is between heart and heart... sitting together, sharing meals and caring for  each other; touching, shaking hands, having eye contact,  spending some time together...You  brothers and sisters have 'contact' but you have no  'connection' with each other...."

The journalist wiped his eyes and said : "Thanks for teaching me a fine and unforgettable lesson"

This is the reality today.  Whether at home or in the society everybody has lots of contacts but there is no connection. No communication .... Everybody is in his or her own world.

Let us not maintain just "contacts" but let us remain "connected"; caring, sharing and spending time with all our dear ones.
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PAIN OF LIFE

I look through the pain of life I see gain , though it seem not be easy but I use brain, and using the brain sometimes is not brave, so learn to wait.

I wait and try not to be in haste, as I wait my heart race, i was so afraid not to be late because if i am late my time waiting will be a waste, but I paste my thought on the praise to the most high to help me to win the race.

Hmm....  believe me Chris lose His weight in the race because I failed to train trying to catch up with the train and even though it rain i shake but I keep my pace while it rains, trying to catch up with the train, I was stained but I ignored the stain and focus on the gain , because the gain has all it takes to clean the stain.

But only to the people that endure the pain .

No pain, no gain , never Lost your gain to your pain. you have to keep running not to late because you have a train to catch even when you're not in haste.
Life is like a moving train we all journey trough it but to a different destination.
I pray we all get their safely and forget all our pain while rejoicing with the gain.                       

I look through pain and I see gain.
Look with your eyes and see with your heart.

I remain Chris.
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SPOKEN WORD POETRY

Thinking of one of the world famous spoken poet like Irwin Allen Ginsberg? 

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet, philosopher and writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. 

Howl and Other Poems is a collection of poetry by Allen Ginsberg published November 1, 1956. It contains Ginsberg's most famous poem, "Howl", which is considered to be one of the principal works of the Beat Generationas well as "A Supermarket in California", "Transcription of Organ Music", "Sunflower Sutra", "America", "In the Baggage Room at Greyhound", and some of his earlier works. 

SPOKEN WORD POETRY

Spoken Word Poetry Concerth appening on Friday, 23rd of November 2018. Where our very own AKUTSAM will be performing his Poems alongside few other Poets who will be performing theirs too; with a blend of Live Band from the GBADUN SQUAD.

VENUE: BOGOBIRI HOUSE, Number 9, Maitama Sule Street, Off Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos.

TIME: From 6pm (2hours Max)

I hope this invite is accepted, as your presence will mean so much to me that day; for we will be celebrating his birthday as well, in an atmosphere of Spoken Word Poetry.


AKUTSAM George
 (GiftedGeoval),
Your Dutiful Host.

THE FOOD OF LIFE

This observation and thoughts this morning according to the inspiration and the voice on my head.

No strength without practice,  no understanding without knowing with an adequate observation,  no power without knowledge,  no success without sacrifices, no physical growth without food. 

A sense and physical food of act is needed to keep everything in life and every achievable things in shape,  because everything will loose its shape eventually when the secret behind it to grow is withdraw.
Something always require something to get something and to keep the growth of something In check and without something the thing will lose shape and value with time.

THE FOOD OF LIFE AND ITS ACHIEVE-ABLE EVENT TO GROW

Here are few tips to THE FOOD OF LIFE:

• It only takes learning to know,  and constant practice in learning to growth stage by stages.

• It takes knowledge to be powerful,  and a constant flow in learning to know is the growth to knowledge and power. 

• It takes observation and evaluations of thought to understand,  and a constant observation reading through things every-time,  gives growth to our sense of understanding.

• It takes understandable act to produce wisdom, and the constant act in the production of wisdom,  the wiser we become.

• It takes love to live happily,  and the constant practical love we display the more we grow to love and live life happily.

• It takes ignorant to remain a fool,  and how constant we ignore determine our growth gallantly as the president of all fools.

•  It only takes self observation to discover our talent, and the more we put our gift and talent into practice the  better and perfect we will become in becoming it.

Feed your life with the right food and watch it grow eventually.

Morning to you all

From: Chris
Editor: willz