Dear reader, I hope all is well with you. I wish I could ask you how have you have been over a cup of coffee, not that I ever drink coffee, though. I only water and soda, but it sounds much better when you say ‘let’s meet up for coffee or beer’. It sounds a bit weird when you say ‘let’s meet for a glass of water at our famous water shop’.

Now that I think about it, is there a reason why we do not have water shops, where they serve water with no flavour, although lime water has that nice refreshing taste to it. I wonder why water does not taste fresh without lemon added to it. Let me know about what you thing about opening a water shop, and thank me later for the awesome idea.

Anyway, someone close to me just posted a picture of me on social media and captioned it “this person loves herself”. I have never had the anxiety of wanting people to tell me that I am beautiful, and it never came to me that I should have someone to compliment me. But, I will always want an input on how a certain outfit looks on me, though.

This is the kind of courage that most of our young girls lack, and they sometimes look at themselves in the mirror and they are unable to say to themselves that ‘my, my, I look very beautiful’, without having someone else to tell them that. Well, I want to remind them that they are wonderfully and beautifully made, so they should not care about who says what about them. Self-love is important.

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Recently, while I was browsing through YouTube, I came across some theories. It was very creepy staff, but at the back of my mind, I thought about something very deep that had me thinking about my love for money.

Do we love money more than God?

That question hit me very deep, and I had to open my computer and start writing about the matter. I, specifically, am always on my phone searching about ways to become rich. But, how far am I willing to go in order to become rich? How much time do I invest in on God? How many times a day do I read the bible? And, do I even pray every day, or do I pray some days?

I do not have answers for many of those question, and for that, I have one thing to say:

Dear God, please forgive me. Yes, we all want these nice things: cars, houses, and everything luxurious. But, have they become like idols to us? Have these things become gods to us? I know we grew up with the theory that idols are statues and monuments, but what about the things that we love so much today? Are they not idols or gods?

Have you not killed, or at least thought about committing something as far out as murder, for money? Let us not act all innocent here. Whether it is fraud or corruption, money has led us to thinking about doing things that could lead us to loving God less, and money more. So, to stop this, please lift your right and say: I do not want to love money more than God, and I love God more than money.

The Bible says: “seek first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added upon you”. So, let us learn to be patient, because everything works out for those who love Him. I am the head, and not the tail; and I am above only, and not beneath.

I know we live in a time where everything is possible. Everybody has all these nice and fleshy things, so we put ourselves in debt because we also want those same nice things. But, have we stopped and wondered what extent those people went to in order to get those things? So, we need to learn to perceiver and trust God during the process. It might take a while, but he has given us life in abundance, so we have all the time in the world.

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