Looking back on 2014

The Last Sunday of the year found me in church and there I am sitting expectantly waiting for some feel good prosperity preaching. Not to disappoint the pastor started off by saying his message was going to be a prophetic one for the New Year. I sat up eagerly waiting to claim the blessings only that this pastor went into preacher of doom mode talking about the challenges that we would be met with in 2015. Thanks to the coffee I had had earlier courtesy of the good church’s café I managed to stay awake through the sermon and it is a good thing I did, cause right at the end before wrapping up ,pastor Prophet of Doom took on an overcoming approach and there and then everything he had said made sense. The world will never be without challenges but as long as I lean on my savior Jesus Christ I’m assured of everything good or bad working out for me.

To bring it home I have been reflecting on 2014 as a whole, and my my it had some good, bad and ugly all rolled in one.

Remember the hash tag  #Bring Back Our Girls,  the hash  tags went around like crazy creating awareness to the issue however that didn’t bring back the girls and somehow the story did die out with an almost happy ending of 3 girls out of the 300 kidnapped finding their way home.

Ebola claiming 7k plus lives and just when I though the worst is over, a case was confirmed in Glasgow. Sadly 1 person in the west getting Ebola gets mores newsflash than the 7000 in Africa, not forgetting the many children who have been orphaned due to the epidemic.

 Lupita Nyongó beating Julia Roberts to wins an Oscar for best supporting actresses, oh that was a good one and it just went on to show that once God lifts you up there is nothing that can stand in your way coz suddenly there she was gracing People’s magazine as the Most beautiful woman when I had long started to believe the media that real black beauty was Beyoncé’s shade.

Planes vanishing off the face of the earth in this world of Big brother; and just as we were starting to forget about the Malaysian flight there went Air Asia… When I heard the news I prayed that plane would be found  regardless of whether it was at bottom of sea or not coz that is sure better than not knowing at all.

And then there  was me; started  2014 in the usual style very expectant but  with no resolutions( I don’t like the extra pressure that comes with the new year to do lists)Naturally I had prayer requests and a vision , one does need one in order not to perish like the good book says. I saw some of my prayer requests materialize into yeses, and others warm up the wait seats while others clearly blinked back with the answer as a clear NO. Ailments that I had never expected to knock on my door, (duh like anyone expects medical conditions) stayed giving me a run for my money. Yet looking back at everything I can say it was a good year, I was blessed, grew wiser or so I think and am not only still standing but dreaming away. Building castles in the air afterall doesn’t cost anything and right now as I close my eyes, Life is a beach- roll on 2015.