I want to praise the name of God for the awesome transformation He is bringing into my life. God has been connecting me to great friends, linking me to treasured books and tapes. Most importantly, the scripture is opening up to me with such depth of revelation like never before. I can’t be grateful enough for the visions God is birthing into my heart. Glory to God!
-Agbaroji Chimeremeze
If I do not feel a sense of joy in God’s creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human.
-Kallistos Ware
Hi. My name is Yahweh and I come from a State called Forever. I bet you’ve heard my story before so I’ll just give a few lines here just to get straight to the point.
I live just across the street so you can find me anywhere, anytime. However its not been that easy catching up with you. I know you been busy; a lot of times you’ve had to show up and say hi. A lot more times however, you didn’t. I know you’ve had to go through so much stress so often. You’ve got kids, work to do, stuff to attend to, business to manage. The technology that makes life easy ironically makes the world faster and your world harder. Yeah, I know; at least, I guess so. I guess that’s why you’ve not been picking my calls lately either. And then I wait all day long just to hear from you, waiting by my phone, hoping you’d care to call. Dashing my hopes every minute I thought I heard my cell phone ring only to find that there’s not as much as a missed call from you.
Point is, I’m guessing you’ve had old friends to meet, addresses to locate, invitations to honor, assignments to submit, cases to close, colleagues to deal with. That’s not to say I haven’t got any of those but I always have time carved out just for you. Yet I don’t fall in any part of your schedule? I mean, is that it? Cos you haven’t as much time to even at least write and say why you won’t be coming; and I thought we had a relationship.
So I want to ask. I want to lay it down right here, right now, straight as an arrow. What do you say? You know I couldn’t just break up with you even if I wanted to. Why? Cos I love you so much already, I cant! I just cant! So what do you say? One advice: decide for yourself. It wont do you any good to just let the ‘nays’ have it, cos you are your own man. And c’mon, I just want you to be happy.
You know, I’m done guessing cos all this guessing just wont make any sense in our relationship, just as it wouldn’t in any. I’m just saying, talk to me. Just talk. Tell me ’bout your fears, your day, your feelings. Let us talk about faith, about love, about anything you can ever think of! I am saying, learn to talk to me. Just talk. Just come to me anyhow and we’ll talk some more. Beat time and come. I mean, what have you got to lose?
So this is it. My name is Yahweh. I am just, and this, this is my plea.
Signed
Yahweh
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in
Wow!
Its almost like a week ago we were sharing the good cheer of Christmas looking forward to a new year. Today, we mark the first day of the fourth month of that same year and the ticking time is still on the move. In what may have seemed like no time, a lot has happened: God has really come through on His word for greater works than any we have ever seen. We have crossed so many milestones together and what’s more, my country now has a new leadership en route.
Amongst a myriad of tasteful word crafts and arts, we want to dedicate the next 30 days to thanking God. The need to give thanks to God Almighty cannot be over-emphasized so we employ you to join us as we all appreciate our God through the month of April.
We would be sharing testimonies, quotes and special pieces towards giving thanks to our God. To join in, you just send any article, poem or testimony to our mailbox at christapoet@gmail.com and we would happily share it on this and other platforms we control.
It’s a month full of praise.
Enjoy the ride!
God bless
Ezeonyeka Godswill
Chief Editor
Christ A Poet Team
As I swallow the second to the last morsel of eba*
I almost choke it up
When I heard the news reporter
Give a detailed report of the impending chaos
I got up hurriedly
Rushed to meet my family
Packed our precious belongings
And rushed to the basement
Day after day, week after week
The racketing of bombs above our heads
The anguished cry of the captives never dies down.
In my sleep
I shed unshed tears
I pray unprayed prayers
Hoping against hope.
Taking stock of the situation
Outside my comfort zone
My horrible dream comes true
Tears find their way out of my eye sockets
Dismembered arms, amputated limbs
Gorged eyes, flayed faces
Some recognizable, some not.
My stomach retched at the sight
I walked in a dazed stupor
Drunken in anguish, reeling from shock
Weary from psychological stress
Stumbling, stumbling across my fallen brothers
What hope is there for me?
And my ever distraught family
I sighed and gnashed my teeth
As I remembered my last morsel of eba*
That meal is better off than me
Sitting coolly in one place
Not caring anything about the affairs of this world
So my thoughts ran paranoid.
Alas! out of the thick black darkness
A bright light knifed through
Shining, cutting through the darkness
Bringing with it love, joy and peace
Peace, Oh peace like a river
Giving me peace in times of war
Like cold water on my sun-fried back
Cooling my very innards
With the Prince of Peace riding in glory
Accompanied by the shout of angels
Saying “Peace, on earth”
Then ceased the wind
And there was a great calm
Giving me hope again.
Its not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’
