DOWN   God, you give true peace To people who depend on you, To those who trust in you. -Isaiah 26:3 ERV   Episode six   When he got home that night, he paced the living room for sound thirty minutes muttering, “Jesus, Jesus” in between gusts of rushedContinue Reading

DOWN   Life promises us a bath in a fancy Jacuzzi It only doesn’t tell us The Jacuzzi is filled With painful pebbles.   -Adegbola Goodness     Episode one   Okwanze Andrew Kenechukwu rose out of his dream with a smile on his face. He only had a hazyContinue Reading

A mere wash in the bathroom, you call it But I see it as a miracle. You might see it so too, if you look through my spectacle. How one slips under the spray or splash of water; Cold, tepid or hot, Dirty, tired, maybe grumpy And steps out clean,Continue Reading

Lanre sat at dining table watching his parents set the table since they wouldn’t let him do anything, they said he was their guest. His Mum placed the ceramic plates on the red checkered table linen and she dished out the meal. Lanre had always admired his parents marriage andContinue Reading

“Hello Omolara.”   “Nope, it’s not Aunty Lara. It’s me, Sam.”   She searched everywhere in her room for her phone before she remembered that she left it in on the settee in the parlour after watching a TV show. She was coming downstairs for it when she sighted SamContinue Reading

Chinedu was scanning through his mail; there were a few invites from other churches and ministries, there were messages from people seeking counsels and a plethora of mails from various missionaries seeking financial support. His heart went out for the last category. Being a missionary himself for a decade beforeContinue Reading

Lara loved music and singing, Saturday afternoons always meet her at the church for choir rehearsals.   Today she’s sitting at the last column alongside other tenor singers, sandwiched between Abraham to the left and Mabel to the right. Everyone stayed put as they waited for Mr Effiong, the ebullientContinue Reading