In You

Beautiful is your name, great has been your fame amidst the shame, the blames and how lame life was.
You stood tall hanging on from every fall, as you faced brick walls that ended up becoming the ground breaking stones of the empire and legacy the world celebrates in you today.
How knowing, loving and following God made your life what people strive for.
In you, I have seen and known that dreams are more precious than gold when you said “all men dream but not equally”, “men who dream by day are dangerous” “Joseph’s dream came to pass when he was interpreting people’s dreams”
Wow! That’s a 4 years old note of mine, I fall back to when it gets gloomy and misty. All because you heard His voice and said here I am Lord, send me!
Wise, Agreeable, Trustworthy, Excellent, Respectful, Submissive, Faithful, Honourable, Gracious, Kind-hearted, Helpful and Generous.
Just like the 12 tribes of Israel so are the 12 qualities of a beautiful and virtuous woman. Of which the first 6 caught my attention more on their first letters creating a word that matters in every man’s life – WATERS!
For a man is but a fallow land without the waters raining down to flourish and nourish him else he is shallow.
In you, I see streams of many waters because the mother’s love never runs dry just like God’s enduring love is endless and unfailing.
“E ba mi kiira fun Mama mi, Orisa bi Iya ooh ko si laaye!”
A mother of priceless qualities who can find? More than rubies, more than gold is she worth in the eyes of the world.
In you, I do not just see a mother, but a good mother, in fact, a great mother, Charles Spurgeon said: “I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn words of my good mother”.
For there are times when only a mother’s words, faith, and prayers can help on life’s journey and inspire in us confidence we need from day to day.
“Iyawo mi, Ololufemi, Ore mi, Alayo mi, I will love you forever!”
A wife of noble character who can find? A wife who stood by and through the days of ‘Kakuri’ the jalopy till the days of Prado and Mercedes,
Knowing it’s the same God that does all these
In you, I do not just see the life I desire but that which I yearn for in Christ. In you, I see who my wife ought to be, so if you don’t possess these virtues of this Zion’s daughter am definitely holding back my proposal.
You could never be appreciated enough, you could never be thanked enough for the gift of you in our lives. I celebrate this golden landmark, I celebrate the start of greater glory upon your life.
For in you I truly have seen that it pays, yes it pays to serve and love God.

 

– EnowithdH

In celebration of My Pastor, Funmi Johnson on her 50th Birthday and to all the lovely virtuous mothers, ladies out there and my dearest future wife *winks*, This one is for you!

*Translations*

“E ba mi kiira fun Mama mi, Orisa bi Iya ooh ko si laaye!” – Can you help me praise my mother, for there’s no idol like her in the world

“Iyawo mi, Ololufemi, Ore mi, Alayo mi, – My wife, my dearest lover, my friend , the source of my joy