Papa, can you hear me?

PRAYER
Oh God-our heavenly Father.
Oh, God-and my father
Who is also in heaven.
May the light of this
Flickering candle
Illuminate the night the way
Your spirit illuminates my soul.

Papa, can you hear me?
Papa, can you see me?
Papa can you find me in the night?
Papa are you near me?
Papa, can you hear me?
Papa, can you help me not be frightened?
Looking at the skies I seem to see
A million eyes which ones are yours?
Where are you now that yesterday
Has waved goodbye
And closed its doors?
The night is so much darker;
The wind is so much colder;
The world I see is so much bigger
Now that I'm alone.
Papa, please forgive me.
Try to understand me;
Papa, don’t you know I had no choice?
Can you hear me praying,
Anything I'm saying
Even though the night is filled with voices?
I remember everything you taught me
Every book 1've ever read...
Can all the words in all the books
Help me to face what lies ahead?
The trees are so much taller
And I feel so much smaller;
The moon is twice as lonely
And the stars are half as bright...
Papa, how I love you...
Papa, how I need you.
Papa, how I miss you
Kissing me good night..

iJoke

THE BIGgest joke in my life happened today!

You want to know what it is? Here's what happened:

I received a text message from OMF (Christian bookstore) where I bought an NIV Bible (for teenage boys, yes, you read it right, I still look like one, don't I?). The message reads like this:

Good pm sir. This is Hannah from OMF Lit Bookshop. Congratulations, you have just won iRead Booktags from us. Pls claim your prize here at the bookshop and bring an ID. C u!

I was in my cube in the office when I got this message. The inside of me was screaming. I thought it is a gadget because it is 'iReader'. I looked it up in the web and saw images of iReader. A gadget similar to an ebook reader appeared. But I had second thoughts, so I read the message again. It says iReader booktags. it might be just a book mark for an iReader, I thought. But my colleague in the office said it is like Kindle. And I started to believe that it is a gadget that I have won. I was excited, so excited. I replied to the message saying, 'ok' and I followed it up with 'I wonder what it is...'

I was not able to focus in my class and kept thinking how good God is because 'I won a gadget.' My mind wandered and thought how this gadget could make my teaching easier. After class, I headed straight to the mall and went straight to the book shop. On my way, I was imagining what it looks like and how big it is. It seems I could not wait to hold it in my hands and start sliding my point finger on its touch-screen screen. My hands were itching.

The lady in the counter of the bookshop asked me for an ID after I told her, with a wide grin in my face, that I received a text from a certain Hannah. I asked her what an iReader is. She smiled. She got my uni ID, checked my name against the info in their computer. 'Yes, it is him,' she said as she turned to another lady. Then the other lady got something from what seems to be a bundle of paper wrapped in a brown envelope. Then she got on her hand a sticker paper printed with what seems to be calling cards then she said "You can stick this on your books sir, there are a number of tags in this paper." She counted the tags.

And I was like 'so this is the iReader booktag...' as the crack in my face turned into a frown. If you saw my face you'd be dead laughing at me.

I held my phone and pretended that I called somebody up and that I was in a hurry out from the bookshop. I took my exit as if I was not embarrassed. Then to counter my dismay, I went to Bliss and bought a red Vurve tee. My addiction to tees saved me from further disillusion.

But God is still good. I know that one day He'll give me a gadget - iPhone, ebook reader, iPad, whatever.

Lesson learned: read the whole thing, don't be too excited and not all words with' iS' are gadgets.

iJoke

Today, I am reminded of this...

2 Timothy 3

¹ But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

⁶ They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷ always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. ⁹ But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.