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SUPER CHEF

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If you walk into a restaurant... Perhaps the best in town, and you request a very complex cuisine. The chef will have to take HIS time to prepare the meal, not YOUR time and that means you will have to do a great deal of waiting,  much longer than someone who just walked in to grab a cup of coffee. The more complex your request, the more patience you need to develop. And why would you even think of waiting? It's because you can picture the meal right before you, it's because you know that no matter how long the chef takes, he would always beat your imagination with the taste, it's because you know it will be a 'life time' of culinary experience from the lifting of your cutleries to the putting down of the same... So what is the point I am trying to make?... Don't stop praying those complex prayer points, don't stop asking for those things that seem impossible, don't stop interceding for that stubborn soul, don't stop dreaming that seemingly imposs

The Peace We Seek

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THE PEACE WE SEEK… “Every city was once a village, every country was once a collection of scattered settlements and every road was once a narrow bush path” Oladele spoke intently to the large audience he had to convince beyond reasonable doubt of the need for peace and togetherness. “When the fingers are together, they are better able to beat the chest…a single finger is incapable of lifting a load to a man’s head”. His closing remark couldn’t have been more appropriate as the audience’s chorused applause reverberated throughout the hall. Happy he was able to make a convincing point, Oladele folded his lecture note and made for his seat. Later that day… The words of Pa Nelson Oyewole kept ringing in his ears. “…how could I possibly forget all his words of wisdom?, All the knowledge I possess and the wisdom I exude as a result of  just sitting at his feet as he sat on that old cane chair” Oladele’s words drifted into soliloquy as he joyfully and dreamingly narrated his day to