Rustyque's Blog

She is a motherless child

Nine months in a womb

Surrounded by living water

Protecting her and nurturing her

Guiding her into a new world

Years later she takes her first rejection

With it comes no pain

With it comes no tears

For she is too young too understand the love lost

When she knows not what love is

She is a motherless child

Nature brought her here

Nurture guided her through

Was it something she did? Was she not good enough?

So many questions and not enough answers

Motherless child, childless mother…who cares!

Time lost that can never be regained

Honour not given to where it was due

Emptiness, a void, a missing piece of a complete puzzle

I am a motherless child

But they call me blessed

For many daughters have done well but I excel them all 

If you show someone the future you have taken away their hope. How far would you say this is true?

Towards the end of last year I could not for the life of me get excited about the coming in of the New Year. All I kept hearing was “I can’t wait for next year”…”roll on 2010″ and all I could honestly think about was what I was going to eat later in the day. So what is hope? Is it wishful thinking? is it an expected want? I guess for me it is a firm assurance regarding things that are unclear and unknown. Hope is a fundamental component of life without hope life loses all meaning.

So why is it that so many of us myself included are afraid to Hope? Some say it is due to fear others say impatience.  A few days ago I lost a dear colleague and friend she was never married and had no children. She lived in hope that she would one day be married with children and she died with that hope. Not once did she ever think it was not going to happen. So we should never be afraid to hope or to dream because if you don’t have a dream how can you have ‘a dream come true?’

A famous preacher Dr G Campbell Morgan tells of a man from Chicago whose shop was burned down in a massive fire. The next morning he arrived at the ruins carrying a table, set it up in the middle of the charred debris and put up a big sign which read ‘Everything lost except wife, children and Hope – Business will resume as usual tomorrow morning!’

If you have hope, you can keep going. No matter how hard life is, no matter what dark valley your journey has you in, you can keep going because you have Hope.

(RIP Paulette Allen)

Wow we are in 2010! Now lets see how many New Year resolutions are going to be written, re-drafted and broken within three weeks.

I mean seriously how many people have actually kept their resolutions they made at the beginning of the New Year? I for one have never kept any of them and alas as I get younger (I use Olay) I can’t even be bothered to write them. Call me negative, or pessimistic but that’s just how it is.

So with that said I have decided that this year I am going to turn over a new leaf (hopefully I wont break this) and not worry about writing a list of all my wants, things I am going to start, give up etc but to write a list of things I will do for others.

So here are my twelve things to do for others for 2010.

January – Dedicate myself to a Charity in Nigeria

February – Buy a Valentine present for someone – Just to remind them of Gods love

March – Work on a project within the community

April – Buy Easter eggs and donate to a charity for kids

May – Volunteer this month to work in a women’s refuge

June – Be a mentor for young people

July – Feed or witness to the homeless

August – Missionary work in Romania or Jamaica

September – Teach at woman’s monthly meeting

October – Join an after school reading programme

November – Become a school governess

December – Think about all the things God willing I will do the following year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!