"Power is like an egg." -Ghanaian Proverb
What if you held incredible power? What if you had the opportunity to shape the fates of many? How would you use it?
Would your response differ if it were only one life?
Hold power too tightly and create a destructive mess out of self and surrounding situation. Fiddle with it aimlessly and the same may happen. Treat power like a responsibility in order to catalyze the growth of something more profound and wonderful than you could possibly have imagined.
In other news, my apologies for being absent last Tuesday. We had travelled to Senegal that day and, as we (parents and I) were generally discombobulated, I chose to keep what thoughts I had, to myself. We spent a week in Dakar with my brother. He played the part of "The Director" in "The Clumsy Custard Horror Show with the Ice Cream Clones," or some such title. For fear of ruining the production on the grounds that you have yet to watch the play, suffice it to say that it was loads of silliness, and that "The Director" faced an early, but rather timely, demise.
We have arrived back to Ghana today, and are overjoyed to say that we were well looked after during our 11hr 15min layover in Lagos, Nigeria today. We left from the tarmac of the Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar at around 1:15 a.m. At 5:45 this morning we reached the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Our next fight was scheduled at 5:00 p.m. that day, which is today.
Well, since we were transit passengers, we got very little hassle. In fact one might even say that we were catered too! We were led by an airport official to the front of each queue of people, even into and beyond the check-in counter. Then we were taken to a little corridor usually reserved for the Nigerian Immigration Service and allowed to sleep on their two two-seat sofas. They held our passports, of course, for security reasons, but gave us freedom to roam about the terminal. We even made friends with some of the officers, exchanging light conversation as some came to check on us, and others to start their shifts. In all, 12 hours did not seem so long today.
Where does that leave us now? In Accra, for one thing. Secondly, we are as worn-out as old shoes.
I will say this and then leave you be. If you are eligible to vote in the United States, you are anticipating a very important national step. Pray for your leaders, not against them, because the Bible says so. Pragmatically, it should be obvious to ask for good on behalf of the land in which you live. Still,
Romans 13:1-2 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
1 Timothy 2:1-3 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.
What if you held incredible power? What if you had the opportunity to shape the fates of many? How would you use it?
Would your response differ if it were only one life?
Hold power too tightly and create a destructive mess out of self and surrounding situation. Fiddle with it aimlessly and the same may happen. Treat power like a responsibility in order to catalyze the growth of something more profound and wonderful than you could possibly have imagined.
In other news, my apologies for being absent last Tuesday. We had travelled to Senegal that day and, as we (parents and I) were generally discombobulated, I chose to keep what thoughts I had, to myself. We spent a week in Dakar with my brother. He played the part of "The Director" in "The Clumsy Custard Horror Show with the Ice Cream Clones," or some such title. For fear of ruining the production on the grounds that you have yet to watch the play, suffice it to say that it was loads of silliness, and that "The Director" faced an early, but rather timely, demise.
We have arrived back to Ghana today, and are overjoyed to say that we were well looked after during our 11hr 15min layover in Lagos, Nigeria today. We left from the tarmac of the Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar at around 1:15 a.m. At 5:45 this morning we reached the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Our next fight was scheduled at 5:00 p.m. that day, which is today.
Well, since we were transit passengers, we got very little hassle. In fact one might even say that we were catered too! We were led by an airport official to the front of each queue of people, even into and beyond the check-in counter. Then we were taken to a little corridor usually reserved for the Nigerian Immigration Service and allowed to sleep on their two two-seat sofas. They held our passports, of course, for security reasons, but gave us freedom to roam about the terminal. We even made friends with some of the officers, exchanging light conversation as some came to check on us, and others to start their shifts. In all, 12 hours did not seem so long today.
Where does that leave us now? In Accra, for one thing. Secondly, we are as worn-out as old shoes.
I will say this and then leave you be. If you are eligible to vote in the United States, you are anticipating a very important national step. Pray for your leaders, not against them, because the Bible says so. Pragmatically, it should be obvious to ask for good on behalf of the land in which you live. Still,
Romans 13:1-2 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
1 Timothy 2:1-3 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.
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