Just saying

It was right at New Year when Donna discovered she was expectant. She had mixed feelings. She did not know whether to be happy or not. She had just broken up with her fiancé two weeks to their wedding day. She was afraid to share the news with anyone since she did not want to be judged. She kept it to herself. As we all know, pregnancy is one of those things you cannot keep as a secret for long. As the weeks passed, she started experiencing a lot of discomfort. As far as she could remember, this kind of discomfort was not linked to any of the pregnancy symptoms she knew. She visited the ante-natal clinic. Upon check-up, she was referred to a gynaecologist who discovered she had fibroids. It was also at that moment that she was told that her baby had a fifty-fifty chance of survival. Donna became devastated. She realised that she actually wanted the child no matter what other people thought about her. She was ready to face whatever was going to come her way as long as she...

Abraham was an ordinary man called by God to a land of promise. He was humble, teachable and had great faith in God’s promises. God blessed him with wealth and success in everything he did. Abraham always relied in the directions and counsel that came from God. In every move, Abraham enquired of the Lord. His life was centered on God and he was a man of great faith. By faith Abraham obeyed the command of God to move to a country he did not know. As much as Abraham was wealthy, he had his own challenges. Wealthy as he was both from the material things and God’s promises, Abraham would still ask “Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?” Gen 15:2. The ultimate test of Abraham’s faith God eventually made good His promise and gave Abraham a son. But this son would soon be a stumbling block between Abraham and his relationship with God. So God had one great lesson for the old man. “Take now thy son, ...