If you were born in February, come out and dance!!!🥳💃🏽💃🏽
surprise surprise!!!! guess who’s 1 todayyyy🤭🙈
It’s truly crazy to me that I’ve been writing for a year, although not consistently. When I started this newsletter, I was in a very low place in my life. I honestly don’t know what the issue was, someone said it was an identity crisis, it felt like deep confusion, anxiety, sadness, fear, and maybe even identity crisis.
I needed to really figure out who I was and what was holding me back from being that. As very far from this as my letters may seem, it was my own form of self discovery. Learning to live in my present.
I have discovered a lot about myself, some things I knew, some thing I didn’t. Some things that shock me, in a good way and in a “girl wtf?” type of way. But one thing I have discovered is that I truly enjoy learning.
Last week, I listened to an episode of You Can Rest Here and Mazino and her guest, Nicole, spoke about something that I think is very important. Inspiration. Mazino said “everyone creates from something”. They spoke about it in relation to Christ and light and it reminded me of the foundation that I am privileged to have in Christ.
My mum has been a Sunday school teacher for a long stretch of years and she never wanted her kids to have the shorter end of the stick when it came to Bible stories and now ledge of the Word and whatnot. My mom’s teaching method is very relatable in the that she’d bring the verse down to your everyday experiences.
One of the teachings I vividly remember was one at our old church location at PenHall in VGC. This was some time in junior school, so it had to be between 2013 and 2016. She was teaching about teachable spirits with the parable of the sower in Matthew 13:18-23. She likened it to a classroom where a teacher would teach and some would pick up the concept and some others don’t. For the purpose of the teaching I believe, she said that the difference between the two groups wasn’t their IQ level but the divine ability to be taught. She went to expatiate on correction, criticism and condemnation, their differences and how they apply to us as Christians.
If I’m being honest, the whole teachable spirit discussions you to annoy me to the marrow. What do you mean someone’s SPIRIT welcomes teaching more than the next person?? But knowing what I know now from my experiences in life, I’ve seen that the inability to take and give criticism and corrections constructively and positively is what hinders a lot of people from growth, fulfilment, and success.
I know a lot of Christians talk about the peace that comes with walking with Christ but for someone who isn’t categorically religious, I’m here to tell you that, it’s not a façade.
I know I don’t write a lot about the Christian aspect of my self discovery journey
because I feel like it’s a very personal thing but I may actually do more of that
but I’ve seen a difference between the way I handle criticism and correction now as opposed to before. Even the way the “blow” lands, the way I understand the “blow”, and the way I take the “blow”, it’s all different and I truly wish it was something I could lucidly explain.
When my mum was in her fashion designer era, she always prayed for God’s influence on her creativity every night devotion. I always wondered why somebody that God has already given talent asking for influence again. It was high key giving greedy o. But I think I get it now.
I want my work to last a test of time and I want growth to be visible in the work that I put out
Not just this one, all work that I end up doing
And for me, I think creating with God has been working wonders so far and on sticking to that and seeing where it take it. Hopefully my work will be like a light that never goes out.
I really appreciate you guys for being a part of this and supporting me for a whole year!!!
this thing is still crazy to me o, I no go lie
Happy birthday to us!!!!!!!!!🥳🥳
I’ve already taken up too much of your time with this long ass newsletter so I’ll do bullet point
I had a galentine’s party yesterday🤭 (it was my first, I was too excitedddd)
I and my friends curated the best Valentine’s Day playlists for the IP Club in our school.
I still never finish my project, make nobody ask me plenty questions abeg
Congratulations 💕