Decades: Chunks of Time

Love...what is love? Love is seeing that old lady carrying a heavy bag, and rushing forward to help her with it - unconscious action to aid another person . Love is sitting in a bus and waiting two hours for it to fill up, then giving your seat to a woman with a baby on her back, because the remaining space is not condusive for her. Love is knowing your friend is very low and cash, and taking action to help out by sharing the little you have . Love is ensuring that those around you are happy, by doing all you can to make life better for them . Love is praying for people around you - even those that you cannot remember their surnames, that all their needs be met, each and every day. Love is knowing you might not achieve all you set out to do in a day, but also knowing that helping others reach their goal is even better than if you had. Love is keeping a smile on your face for others to gain warmth from even though you are sad. Love is self-sacrificing . Love is all-encompassing . An...

Saturday is going to be the seventh day of the seventh month of the two thousand and seventh year. Very significant, to Christianity here in Nigeria, at least. Churches are holding programs on that very day, but we Seventh day Adventists hold all Saturdays sacred. Sacred as in we worship on that day and try to keep it holy. Now I am not going to enter the nitty- grtty of religion, or sect or the Bible. All I just want to say is that wherever we are, let's try to do some good on that day. Let us reach out to someone on that day. Let us bless someone in some way on that day. Let us go out of our way to put a genuine, heartfelt smile on somebody's face on that day. Let us assume the role of an angel to someone on that day. We will never know how far a little bit of kindness can reach, but we will always know that we did some good in the world, this millenium. The next time we'll get a day like this again is 07-07-3007. If you know you'll be around then, no problem. You can...