Inspirational
The world is round for a reason!
By Ovundah Nyeche.
When nature decides to set you up…
Working in an overcrowded and understaffed government medical facility can stretch your patience and test your salvation. From demands from senior colleagues, to demands from colleagues, to demands from the numerous patients, to personal demands, the demands keeps coming.
Few weeks ago a secondary school friend of mine was trying to chat with me on Facebook, but that thing called “busy” had an urgent appointment with me, so I could not respond when the message was sent and thereafter I forgot to even open and read the message.
I also had to do an impromptu call on the weekend in the hospital and truly speaking, doing that call was annoying and painful. In the course of the call I met this middle aged lady who was brought in for a long standing complain.
I did the best I could for her, trying to give her my attention to the best of my abilities. After attending to her, I went to the doctors’ lounge and after I was done, I came back to give her family members her investigation forms and prescriptions.
Surprisingly, I saw my secondary school friend, who rushed to hug me. Telling me he was trying to chat with me to find out which hospital I was working in and that the woman I just attended to was his mother.
“Na so im relatives just dey smile”, I was wondering how they would have felt if I was rude, probably arrogant and maybe not sensitive to their plight.
Indeed this world is a very small world, you never know who is who or who can turn your life around. People may not always look the part. Keep on adding value and doing your best for people.
You never know, whose sister, uncle, father or mother you are dealing with and asides that you are dealing with God’s creation. You never know who the stone you throw in a market place will hit.
Do have a great week ahead.
#Selah
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By Ovundah Nyeche.
… And let us run, with patience the race that is set before us…
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In a world with so much pressure…
Pressure to be…
Pressure to become…
Pressure to being…
Pressure to arrive…
Pressure to remain…
Pressure to live the life, being portrayed to be the life…
Pressure to show your toys…
Pressure to be among…
Pressure to show you are among the crème de la crème or to hang around those who are…
It is important to “Selah”…
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It is important to ask yourself questions…
Why am I doing, what I am doing?
Why am I living my life based on the likes, shares, tweets and retweets?
Why am I basing my happiness on things?
Why am I living my life like a competition?
Why do I feel sad, when my friends have coins, but I have an empty pocket?
Why do I feel happier, when I am relatively doing better than people around me?
Why do I live in debt, just to prove an unnecessary point?
Why does my heart skip a beat, when I see people, I feel I am better than, having that perfect life on social media, when I can’t even figure out where I am?
Why do I sense a feeling of defeat, when I see them snap those gorgeous pictures in their car, while I just got splashed with water, as I tried to navigate my way hopping from taxi to taxi?
Why does chill run down my spine, when I see those beautiful pictures of my friends literally having a white Christmas… When I am white from the harmattan torture, and I am tortured just thinking about my expenses?
Why do I feel sad, when I have lived all my life an unmarried virgin, and the lady that did all kinds of runs and several abortions, is a married woman with several children?
😢 😢 😭
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... And let us run with patience, the race that is set before us…
There is a race set before us…are you still running, or you have allowed life to beat you to submission, as you lay on the track and refuse to get up.
The race was set by our maker, God…
Don’t allow life, friends, family or circumstances to set your race for you… Trust me it will be terrible…
Don’t also set races for yourself…
Unlike what many think, life is not a competition, where you compete on who finishes first… And where you pride yourself with the often used phrase “I got it before my friends… I am the man or the woman”…
Ensure the race you are in, is that which was set by the Lord…
Also, life is not a sprint… Or “sharp sharp” …it is not a dash.
The race is a race of patience…
A little here, a little there…
Keep running…
Stay on track…
Stay on your lane…
Make sure you are running in the race set for you and not on another’s race or track…
Don’t live your life… Doing needless competitions…
The Joy of the Lord is your strength…
Be all God created you to be…
And gauge your progress, not by others, but by the race set before you…by what God would want you to do.
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Jesus loves you… Give your life to Him today…
#hearword #OvdSpeaks #hearwordseries
By Ovundah Nyeche.
Trends, trendy, trending…
Just go on Twitter or even Facebook, an “influenza” types #BumBum and boom it trends and almost everyone, even those who would not normally shout or tweet about this will just follow…
An “influenza” says “oya” everyone sample this or that and those who would naturally frown at this join in the craze…Many people are moved primarily by what others do…
Many people live to trend, trends.
Little wonder when someone “blows” or “hammers” doing something, it is not strange seeing a lot of people doing likewise.
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Be careful about the kind of groups you join on WhatsApp, Facebook or other social media networking sites…
Be careful about the kind of people you follow online.
Be careful about the kind of sects or philosophies you imbibe online.
Be careful about following people who always shout doom, gloom and disaster and emphasize about the hopelessness of life.
Be careful about drinking from well of those who always shout that life has no meaning and living serves no purpose.
Be careful about following people who pride and relish posting about disaster, violence and vices.
This may look like just talk.
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But not too long ago, there was the fire challenge. Everyone who is sane knows fire burns, everyone who is sane knows fire can wreck havoc and yes it can even cause fatal injuries, but no…
The intent of this challenge I will never understand, but some people followed the trend regardless of the consequences and that was it…
Also there have been outrage over a number of other games and challenges, which took lives, after encouraging people to take their lives..
The power of Imitation…
Mind who you follow and listen to…
Your life is so precious…
So so precious…
That Jesus had to become flesh…
That Jesus had to pay the full price…
Just for you…
Jesus Loves you, you are not alone.
#selah #hearword #OvdSpeaks
By Ovundah Nyeche.
Days ago I got a knock on the door of my house, I looked through the peephole, opened the and saw a neighbor panting for air…
“Oga na wetyn na” I inquired… This one you want to break my door?
“Ovd, there is an emergency oh” the breathless neighbor said…
“Which emergency” I asked in response…
Someone had slumped near my neighborhood and he had come to my house so I would help go resuscitate him… Those with unlimited access to ambulances 🚑 may never understand this.
Chai…
I thought they had forgotten I was a doctor…
I went there, to see what was going on… A a crowd had gathered around the man, with everyone suggesting all manner of things…
From the absurd to the ridiculous…
The man who needed my attention was now seating down on the floor, and on careful examination he had an empty Ventolin inhaler by his side…
And a little conversation showed the man had not eaten the day before…
A bucket of water had already been recruited by one of the rescuers and someone in the crowd was about to empty the whole content of the bucket on the bewildered man…
“Shebi” we were told when you pour water on someone who fainted the person would immediately be revived.
I told the overzealous bucket holder to calm down…This was not a comedy skit…
Long story short…
Water was not poured on the innocent man…
Pouring water on someone that fainted out of “hunger”will not address the hunger issue or even the fainting.
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Taking your life will not address the problem.
Taking your life will not erase the problem.
Taking your life will cause more problems than answers.
Taking your life cannot be rationalized by any reason at all.
It is not even your life in the first place.
Why snuff out what you cannot create?
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Truly speaking…
Time changes perspective…
Time changes narratives…
Every situation is subject to change…
Never make a permanent decision out of a temporary problem!
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Speak out if you have any issue or issues…
Open up…
You will discover first hand, that there is nothing happening to you now, that cannot be surmounted, or has not been passed though by someone else.
Seek help…
Talk to someone…
Seek help from professionals..
You are not alone…
When there is life, there is hope…
When there is Jesus, there is hope for today and tomorrow…
Because Jesus lives, you can face tomorrow…
Because He lives all fear is gone…
He holds your future and life is worth living, because Jesus lives…
You are not alone…
Commit everything in His hands…
It won’t end the way you think…
Keep hope alive…
Don’t do it… Live again…
#hearword #OvdSpeaks #hearwordseries
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krisdman
December 18, 2017 at 1:57 am
May ur kind and open heart attract Gods favour and blessing upon ur life Amen… Doc Ovu i admire what ever gives u inspiration thanks… 4rm krisdman
Ovundah
December 18, 2017 at 5:59 am
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