Hey, hey, hey guys! Merry Christmas!!! I had a lovely time on Christmas eve with friends who have become family. We had a carols service and it was fascinating! Teens alooouuud! Seeeizzzee the moment! ;) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. //John 1:14 Jesus, thank You for choosing to come to planet earth. You rock forever! <3 font="">
So, I'm sharing this lovely song joy to the world by pentatonix.(I discovered pentatonix when I was taking the studio shots for my book. The photographer was jamming to it and I was like, wow, who are they? so yeah, I got hooked.)
here goes!
Aaaaaaand, my book! It's all ready, freshly baked from the oven of words. ;)
I'm so thankful to my lecturer who wrote the foreword for me! Most of the poems in this anthology are from the years when I was taking Creative Writing at University of Ghana.
Thank you, Dr. Azdei for teaching me how to turn the lemons thrown at me into cool glasses of lemonade of words!
A garland for the soul. There's a kindle version too! I spent tons of hours trying to get it on kindle on Christmas eve. I slept close to 4am, guys. But it's soooo worth it! Snag the kindle version or request for the paperback and I'm gonna sent it right to your mail box. :) and lemme know what you think after reading! oh, and kindly review it on amazon for me! Thanks!
Father God is so, so, so faithful! I'll be back to gist you guys on so many other things He's doing in this heart of mine.
so my anthology is almost ready. hopefully by Christmas it's gonna be all ready! as in hard copies ready!!! I'm so excited!!! I'm planning on having a kindle version as well. still working on that. I'm so thankful to Gd for making all of this possible. It's been quite the journey. I can't wait for y'all to read the lines f poetry on my heart.
Self-publishing is so awesome!
I have so many other stories I need to share. working on that.
If you guys outside Ghana would need a copy, just lemme know.
Hi guys! so I sorta promised to be back to tell ya'll abut the depression thing. ok, so for starters enjoy this song. it leads to bits of the story I need to tell.
I'm like Moses in the desert
When that bush went up in flames
You said, "Go and tell your story"
He said, "God, what will I say?
I'm so scared, unprepared
What difference will I make?"
Sometimes I feel the same
If it's weakness that You want
I've got more than enough
But some days I am so afraid
To show this world your love
But I'll give You all of me
And my insecurities
God, I don't have what it takes
But here I am anyway
Here I am anyway
God, I've got so many questions
Wonder why You placed me here
You have given me these passions
But they come with so much fear
Sometimes it don't make sense at all
But I guess if I was brave
Then I wouldn't walk by faith
If it's weakness that You want
I've got more than enough
But some days I am so afraid
To show this world your love
But I'll give You all of me
And my insecurities
God, I don't have what it takes
But here I am anyway
Here I am anyway
If You say go (If You say go, if You say go)
I won't say no (I won't say no, I won't say no)
If You say go (If You say go, if You say go)
I won't say no (I won't say no, I won't say no)
'Cause it's weakness that You want
That's how You show Your love
Your power is made perfect
When we are not enough
If it's weakness that You want
I've got more than enough
But some days I am so afraid
To show this world your love
But I'll give You all of me
And my insecurities
God, I don't have what it takes
But here I am anyway
Here I am anyway
Here I am anyway, anyway
Here I am anyway, anyway
This song by Josh Wilson is my jam! Especially during the
wilderness years of my life after service. You see, the plan was to snag
a scholarship abroad for masters right after my one year national service. But it so
didn't happen that way. Father had been telling me many times about His
purpose for me to teach and be in ministry but I was like nah, abroad is more lit!
(not to say that if you want to go abroad for studies it's bad.
Absolutely not! Just be sure if that's where God wants you to be. We all
have different journeys).
So back to the story. I could literally not wait to say
goodbye to these streets of broken promises of ghana and start over
somewhere far, far away. So of course, I gave many excuses about why
teaching is not not not my thing.
I told God :
I'm shy so I can't handle being in front of a class.
I look way too young for my age and the kids will bully me.
It's not what I want to do.
I don't like it.
The money ain't great.
So God being who He is, He allowed me to wander around for a
couple of years, searching for a job I thought I'd like (far from
teaching) and depression set in along with some crazy accusations and betrayals.
Then, after a couple of years, He mercifully presented me a
chance to teach. I had applied for masters at Uni of Ghana{my alma mater} so I was like, ok
since the results ain't in, lemme just do this teaching thing for the
meantime and move on to do the masters when I slay the entrance
interview and exam.
And slay I did. But
the interesting thing is, by the time my admission was in, I loved
teaching so much I decided to defer! I know, sounds crazy...
But that's what happens when God leads you to walk in the purpose He
designed you for. You might think you're not cut out for it, yet He
still tells you to trust Him and obey. Cos He knows you better than you
know yourself. He's awesome like that!
And the abroad plans? Well this is where Father has me
now, and I'll bloom right where He's planted me until He tells me to
move. I'm glad the Norwegian quota scheme and all the scholarships
bounced me cos I'd rather be walking in purpose. Who would have thought
I'd come to love these streets of broken promises?! I can't quite
believe it sometimes!
The time I spend teaching the kids and getting to know
their sweet hearts is so fulfilling that I don't regret or second guess
letting go of my masters for now. He's actually leading me to do
something different related to teaching/ministry for further studies.
Whaaaaaat?????!!! Mind blown!!! This can't be me. This can't be the same ol' Genevieve! This can only be Jesus!
Like moses, we all feel inadequate sometimes concerning
what God is telling us to do. But obeying Him is so worth it, I promise!
Ask our good, good Father if what you're doing is what He's told you to
do. If it is, carry on, Love warrior. If not, please obey.
And turns out I'm not even that shy like I thought. I'm not
nervous when I'm teaching, it's like I've been doing it forever. And
the kids do NOT bully me! And God is taking care of me each day.
#winning. & abroad? yeah it's lit alright. But my purpose right
here, right now is more lit cos I'm abiding in the will of my Daddy.
Okay, I'm done telling you my life story. Carry on with your life.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do
not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you
go." Joshua 1:9
Testimony so
this morning {sunday morning}, I woke up, switched on my phone and it went all blue on
me with some Chinese inscriptions on the screen and eventually
it went completely off. I was like what at all is all this? Smh
So I prayed and told God to let angels fix the phone for me cos there's no way I'm going to buy a new phone with my tight budget.
So I left the phone, did my quiet time and funny thing, my devotional was talking all about what I was dealing with.
So
I later on picked up my semi 'yam' phone so I could listen to music on it and
went about doing what I had to do during the day and I refused to let
the whole thing steal my joy. I decided to look at the good side, like
how it was giving me time away from social media to actually rest and
catch up on my reading.
Then this evening, I decided to charge the phone and see
what would happen. And guess what?! It started charging! I turned the
power on and even better, it switched on! No Chinese gibberish!! And I
went like, the angels fixed my phone, Praise Jesus!!! Jesus is into the very little details of our lives!
Maybe it was some mini test to see if I'd be grumpy with God if my phone is withheld from me. Well, I hope I passed the test!
"I will give thanks to You, Lord, with all my heart, I will tell of all Your wonderful deeds."// psalm 9 :1
