MY GOD OF TWENTY YEARS

     Hello Daddy I just wanted to come to you to say a big thank you to the day you thought about forming me in my mother’s womb.

Thank you for when you formed me in my mother’s womb. Thank you for when you carefully formed my bones and in body.

 Thank you for when you brought me into this world successfully on the 1^st of July 1989. I was so ecstatic that I cried in glory of your works that my five senses worked to perfection.

Thank you for the already made milk you prepared for me and the loving home that you welcomed me into.

Thank you for making me the first born son of the wonderful you selected to be my parents.

Thank you for the first steps I took in crawling on to my two feet.

Thank you for provision you made available to my parents to cater for me- my food, clothing, shelter, water and other material elements.

Thank you for when you gave my parents two other children after me. Thank you for my beautiful sisters, Edwina and Davida. I know I wanted Davida to turn out to be a male when she was in the womb but I thank you for you knew the amazing little sister she would turn out to be for me.

Thank you for the making Benjamin my cousin come live with us since he was 7 and that he became a brother that I always wanted.

Thank you for the constructive criticisms my mother rained on me daily growing up and even still. Many times it gets me down but then when I carefully ponder, it raises me higher past my mistakes.

Thank you for those times when my dad beat me when I did things that displeased him because it all helped to shaped me into who I am now. Even for the times when I went to bed early when I had done something wrong to avoid my father’s chastisement only to wake up in the morning to receive it I say thank you.

Thank you for the friends and family I had, have and will continue to have all around me, in my community, church, school, society, nation and world as a whole.

Thank you for all my teachers who have taught me even the very tiniest bit of knowledge throughout all the classes and schools I have been in.

Thank you for the two car accidents I know of that you saved me from and for the many others I do not know about I say thank you.

Thank you for fighting my battles for me and lifting me up from the jaws of death.

Thank you for the angels of the Lord that encompassed me round about.

Thank you for results you gave me in all tests, assignments and examinations I took I say thank you.

Thank you for the day you convicted me and I made a decision for follow you for the rest of my life by accepting Jesus as my Lord and Personal Saviour.

Thank you for the water and Holy Spirit Baptism you gave me and I say Papa thank you for your gift of salvation.

Thank you for all the servants of God and vessels of God who brought my way and those I had the privilege of sitting under their feet to help me grow spiritually in getting to know you.

Thank you for when you helped me to discover my inborn talent and ability through some friends. Thank you more especially for the gift of writing you gave to me to be able to touch the lives of many.

Thank you for the ideas and manifold wisdom you grant to me daily in the writings.

Thank you for the past relationships I got into and for the reason that they taught me a lot about how to treat people especially women.

Thank you the one I’m now in and for how far you have brought Vida and I.

Thank you for my unique personality and identity.

Thank you for those hard times that I go through which makes me stronger.

Thank you for the way I smile, talk, laugh, sleep, drink, walk, run, think, sit, stand, run, write and for the many other things within my character I cannot continue to mention.

Thank you for making me like and you granting me the ability to love- You, me and all others around me.

Thank you for those times went I felt I couldn’t go on any longer for I learnt to trust in my God that watches over me.

Thank you for the times when I had no money in my pocket and my finances not good for I learnt that my Father owned the whole world and I was heir to his throne. In those times you carried me through and made sure I never lacked my basic needs.

Thank you for the idea for granted me a few days ago that will change the course of my life.

Thank you for every single time I talked to you and you listened.

Thank you for every single birthday I celebrated and now 20 years of age I say Daddy thank you.

Thank you those times when I was so afraid and shy for who gradually built my confidence and made me fearless.

Thank you for me not getting angry when people think I would.

Thank you for taking me to Ivory Coast- the little French I study, the tons of experience I had in work, the lovely people I met there, the money you gave to me to invest back home, the long distance calls I made, the stressful times I had in work and for pulling me through and for the wonderful family and friends that took care of me, for divine favour you showered on me, and the safe journeys you gave me I say thank you.

Thank you for granting me admission in Presbyterian Boy’s Secondary School and for taking me from there to the University of Ghana. For the courses I undertook and I’m still taking I’m still say thank you.

Thank you for direction that you always give me every second in my life.

Thank you for the life of the blessed person who is reading this now.

Thank you for making me a blessing in the lives of many people

Thank you for giving me life in the first place for without if I would never have enjoyed what plans for me.

Thank you for being with me.

Thank you that I will never stop thanking you in my life for you are Good!

Thank you for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit who are ever-present in my life.

I know that even as I celebrate my 20^th birthday which will mark a turnaround in my life, I appreciate all you have done for me. I cannot even start to imagine what you have in store for me and so I thank you for what you have done and what you keep unfolding day by day to me.

Thank you for everything!

Thank YOU! In Jesus’ Name…AMEN!

 

Adom the graced #2

If you have read the first script on my cousin, I told you I will fill you in more on stuff on the amazing stories on her. I remember so many people telling me that all I just wrote on her was mainly about her hair. I wonder what people are going to say this time.

Well you by now, you will already now, I’m in Abidjan staying with her, though I will be leaving back to Ghana in a few days. Now back to her.

She has been my closest friend yet still a family relative in this country I found myself in. I recall one time during the beginning part of this year; I told her she is my sister. Guess what she said? “No! We are only cousins, not friends” She said that laughing. I remember her elder sister also making the comment one time, when she said I was kind of like, in her own language, bothering her. She said making those female hand gestures, “you and Adom (the woman in question) are friends, but you and I, are family!” I just stood there stunned. Maybe it was true but I have never really taken the thought like that before. But then come on folks! We were all cousins! Why the distinction? (I didn’t ask you for an answer; I know! )

Adom, my cousin, sister and friend… of course she’s a growing teenager with all those moods swings, which is very interesting to oversee… I prefer to call her woman, not a girl! In the long run she’s going to be one, if not already! Going back a little into time, I know I have really been worrying her. How do I know? She always tells me, but apparently she tells that to almost everyone, I bet you will be on that list soon!

Well it was this one day as always when I asked her to make some food for me, being as polite as always. Oh my God! You know what she told me, “ Go and prepare it yourself.”

“Ohhh!” I can see you almost saying that! I told her that I could but I just wanted her to prepare it for me. Shocked to the core when she told me, “then you aren’t hungry!” So unfair, you think? No! Because in the end I still got my food, she prepared it! Most at times when she is doing stuff for me, mainly cooking, she tells me, she isn’t going to do it the way I like it and she is going to add all those things I detest. You know how times our sisters get and with Adom, there no difference. It makes you kind of want to get close to her and when you do get close to her she says, “Don’t touch me!”

Hmmmm, with the don’t touch me issue. I mean what’s wrong with touching your sister’s hand, is there a problem. Sometimes I think it is one of those stages of teen years because my biological sister, Edwina is just like that. “Don’t touch me! It is not for you!” The latter part of the statement firstly sends me into a laughing jamboree but then when the show is over. I ask her, in this context Adom, “Me, your brother I can’t even touch you and then someone who at this moment we don’t even know, can! Hey… I mean you have a sister, have you ever had the moment with her before (if you are a brother). The whole little things with your siblings can blow your mind off.

 

Adom – the graced

When I talk about this woman, some would prefer to call her a girl. There are so many things that you would be surprised by her. Well she’s my cousin, from my paternal family side. I have barely stayed with her for a year. Of course, she goes to school in MGIS, where I work now, about to graduate from writing her IGCSE which she finished this week, and her SAT exams she completed on Saturday. Hope her all the best. There’s a whole story in this woman, many of you can learn, other parts in the plot that will go to amuse you.

Allow me to start from Tuesday. I came home from work to meet her in the most beautiful hairdo I have seen her make over the long time I have known her. Hope she wouldn’t take me wrong to think that was the only nice one I have ever seen, I mean you know us guys; things really do take our breath away!

Like I said I came from work, and we were having the usual Tuesday Bible study at home, where members of the church within our community came around to participate. I came in late with my uncle, I hadn’t seen her yet. I was so tired from the days work, but when I settled, OMG! Seeing her, made tiredness slip and my eyes beheld the glory! In her own words, she looked, “cutish” Wow! She was beautiful. Of course, you didn’t want to shout that out at a Bible study, would you? Well, then we closed the programme, when I shook her hands just like everybody there, I wanted to compliment her new look. The thing is, with her you just can’t tell if she really feels whatever you are saying or not. You know those mood swings. I had heard many “thank you’s” from her, that weren’t seemingly heartfelt. I don’t know if you have had that thing before. Maybe you gave your sister something, and she just said, “Ah! Thanks” You know, you just know whether to continue or not to give. I don’t know but I just didn’t! Maybe because, we just closed the meeting and we were all packing to go back. You know, you feel like it is not the right moment, so you would reserve it for another perfect moment same night.

I went down to my room to change. Just for your information, her room is upstairs. She came downstairs just to the sitting room. I heard her talking with a friend from the meeting, who was just waiting to join the others to go home. I thought she would pass by my room on that occasion, she always does. But this time she didn’t! You can’t believe that when she went up, she locked her door! So yea, tomorrow! I went to bed. Knowing how she was, I knew she probably didn’t like that I didn’t compliment, maybe? Like I said, with her you couldn’t really tell. I mean come on! Ladies, who wouldn’t want guy to compliment something nice you had on, forget a guy even, just anyone!

The next day, you know what happened! Yes even before that, she was not coming to school because she had finished her exams, and yeah! Surprising as it may sound, I didn’t see her in the morning before leaving to “school”. I left early with my uncle to work. We both leave early. Our rooms are downstairs and Adom and her sister, and her mother (my aunt) are upstairs, and the door to the top is lock, so if no one comes to open the door, you wouldn’t be able to go up. Yea, that’s what happened, we didn’t meet.

On arriving home yesterday night, I saw her going into the house. I think she went to buy something, or just for a walk. She has the same hair beautifully done again. I was in the car with my uncle, well, she didn’t even come to say hi or something. She saw us, of course, the car was parked right in front of the gate. Just that we couldn’t get down because, we had to take something down our street. Seriously of course if she came over and said hi, this doesn’t matter. I would have had a perfect chance to compliment her hair…but No!

We met later downstairs, talked for a while in my room. I told her I wanted to complete some work back some school on my computer in the hall. She said, “Okay! Then I’m going back to my room, I’m going to sleep” So I accompanied her up stairs through the kitchen. Now I was so tired, that I overlooked her hair this time. I just didn’t notice I hadn’t still said anything. I mean, a whole day gone without. How would you feel? When we were up the stairs we talked for a while and I had to leave again down. She said, “My hair, you see you have told me anything, you have even noticed.” Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I felt so bad! I tried to explain, that I had wanted to tell her since yesterday, that her hair was very beautiful. She just nodded, like the “yeah right you did!” kind of nod. At least that is what I saw. I felt so bad I went straight to my knees, like most times with her to apologize. She just nodded again. So this time I held her hands but to no avail. She pulled me by my hands, moving me away from the door, still on my knees! This time she came down the first stair, me on the upper side. She said, “You get up!” I replied still holding her hands, “not until you have forgiven me.” She stood this time, “get up, I want to go and sleep” I shifted away for her to pass still on my knees, “you can pass.” She didn’t, still insisting that I should be on my feet before she leaves. Then I said, “Forgive me, then I’ll get up” She nodded didn’t say nothing afterwards. So I said, “Have you forgiven me?” She nodded YES. I got up and watch her go inside and close the door. Then I nodded went back down to start my work. Sometimes I guess wonder, what goes on with women. You can’t know everything about them, can you?

That’s just from yesterday! I told you there’s a whole story with this woman. Imagine 6 months before! I tell you more soon.