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The fool says in his heart, ‘there is no God’... Psalms 14:1

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I really do not mean to insult anyone, but check this out: It’s just amazing that people actually sincerely believe that there is no God. Their argument usually is that there’s so much that goes bad here, so many going hungry and starving, natural disasters that claims the lives of so many that shouldn't be if there was a God and so on. There’s no doubt that these things do happen, and it’s sad, really, that it happens at all. But does all that really mean there’s no God? It’s just ridiculous, the thought of it. People just don’t like to feel bad, and anything that makes them even remotely uncomfortable has just got to be evil. Usually, people who live in regions worst hit by hunger and famine and starvation and the resultant deaths, aren’t the ones claiming there’s no God. The majority of them do believe in God. It’s usually those who see the images, who have probably never gone without food except for when they chose to, who say things like that. What’s worse is that th...

It All Began The Night Before...

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I woke up late (6:25 am) to what looked like a regular day, and rushed to the kitchen to do the dishes from last night (not like me to leave dirty dishes overnight, but I was done with cooking really late, and was so tired). I entered to see that someone had left the tap running, and the floor was covered with water. That was not something to look forward to waking up. Well, I had to mop up the water, do them dishes, then join in the morning devotion which I just sat through. It was the beginning of a dreary day, and it all began the night before... See, I live in the outskirts of a city called Abuja, and heading home from work during the rush hour is hellish, especially for someone like me because I don't know how to spend an hour waiting for a bus, or run after the bus and fight with people to get on it when it arrives, or spend an hour (at least) in the traffic jam in order to get home. It makes me really grouchy, five evenings a week. So I opted for staying at my friend...