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The Ember months are here again!

The ember months are here again friends,the hustle,the bustle,the razzmatazz of make quick money wrestle with everyone as we go further into the ember months.This is always the time when lots of evil permeate our immediate environment,but it always seems to me like the recurrent events do not even teach our people any lessons.More often than not,people make thesame mistakes that have been made and again and again they are trapped.

I particularly think that this year is a very peculiar one.What,with the increase in robbery attacks both on our highways and in our homes,the incessant kidnap cases,rape cases,murder cases and other cases which are better left unmentioned here.And now the ember months are here when these marauding beasts terrorize the society even more.

I am yet to see any people as religious as Nigerians who wish away reality by words like "it is not my portion" or "Allah kia aye".Well,whose portion is it then?Nobody would ever wish himself evil.Do not get me wrong,I believe in faith or the power of positive thinking but my angst is that it is always obvious that most people simply pay lip service to those words because their actions are very far from what they say.There are certain things you just cannot wish away and reality is one of them and truth is yet another.As long as we are alive,evil will continually trail us!.It is what you do when you meet evil that makes the difference!

It is a very beautiful to do:prayer,never seen any better gift to man than to talk to the maker of the universe,truth is,God in his infinite wisdom equally blessed us with wisdom such that we will not always come running to him for things we can handle;like you need not pray and ask for God's will before you brush yout teeth or do you?Likewise you need not ask for God's will to be careful in this season.

However,for the sake of emphasis I would remind you of what you know;No unplanned trips because most unplanned trips lead to unplanned deaths,no accomodation of strangers because he could be a spy,no unnecessary show off beacuse you never know who is watching,no keeping of late nights because evil is at its best at nights,no getting drunk because wine makes you foolish to the point of selling yourself,no trusting anyone beacuse it is a wicked world we live in,everyone is a suspect,lock your doors and look out for the children because you are your best security apart from God and most importantly,no prayerless life because once you are not praying,you are exposed to every and anything!.

The ember months are here again,more than before,make CAREFULNESS your watch word.May we all see the end of these months.

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Danny Moore said…
Amanda!this is a most beautiul piece.You are a good writer,capable of holding yur reader spell bound and so willing to see the end.Well done...stumbled on this while making a research..
September 17, 2011 at 12:54 PM
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