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Many people would feel the same way Diane Warren did as a young girl. She was this kind of girl who didn’t want too many people around her but always loved to be alone, and so was misunderstood and somehow different from everyone around her. She lived with her parents in California. At a point, she ran away from home and later came back. She had passion for music and was always fond of writing songs that expressed her feelings and circumstances. She’s so creative and gifted with words.  While her mother thought there was no way in what she was doing, her father encouraged her and raised her hope of becoming a great singer and songwriter in future. With that encouragement, she produced her songs and began to sell them. Her first song brought her to limelight, and she released other hit songs which featured other artists with biggest names in music. People like Celine Dion, Trisha Yearwood, Toni Braxton, and LeAnn Rimes. Her music career stepped up to the next level when her songs be...

Is it possible to overcome fear? Every now and then we are cumbered with so many thoughts that put fear in us. So how do we allay those fears? I remember in my forties when I used to fear a lot; m y fear threshold became so low that I literally feared anything and everything. The fear was about my family - my husband and my children. I always thought about little things- “ How are we going to do this? How are we going to do that? What would happen after this? And so on. ” I became so distraught and frantic. What happened? Nothing!  All the things I had feared and became so anxious about just became needless. They weren't as serious as I thought.  You know the challenge with us as humans is that we don't usually learn from the past unless it's very serious. The moment something happens, we do it and forget about it. Even the same situation could repeat itself over and over again and we will still express the same fear and anxiety towards it. One thing to understand is that ...

Every parent wants to have good children. They want their children to turn out good and be a blessing to the world. They give them good education, home training, and legacy to as much as they can afford. But sometimes, parents face challenges with training their children. Some of the challenges could be financial, environmental, social or spiritual.  However, parents are not happy when their children are not doing well and want to do everything to make sure they get them back on track. Sometimes the children could engage in wrong activities that could tarnish the image of the parents. In such situation, it has to be a more committed effort from the end of the parents, involving both physical and spiritual. Talk with them, pray with them, and if needed, consult a professional, like children psychologists or counselors.  Though it’s always better to put your children on the right path early in life. So that it will be easier to put them back on track if they derailed. Notwithsta...

Life, first of all, is a gift. It is what every one of us receives without payment. Nobody ever bought the life they are living. All living things live life free of charge. If life could be bought, the rich would have bought extra lives, so that in case they exhaust the one they have, they can put in the extra ones. But that’s not so. Every one of us is given this precious life to live and enjoy every day in one single lifetime. However, we have a different number of days to live that life on earth. Many times, we wished people who are close to us who have died had longer days to live here on earth with us. But the most beautiful thing is that we will still meet again.  Life doesn’t end here. Our loved ones are not dead, they just moved to the other side, where there’s no more sorrows, troubles or shame. Death came to take off their garment and transferred them to a place of rest. For as many of us that are still here on earth, let’s appreciate and enjoy every moment we have with o...

We often hear opportunity comes but once, meaning it’s only one time we have a big opportunity in life. Perhaps there may be small other opportunities, but the big one only comes once in a lifetime and once it’s missed, that’s all. Okay, maybe not all the time. Life itself is an opportunity, in fact, the greatest opportunity. The good news is that we all have it. We don’t need to start looking for it. If you are alive, it means you have it.  So why is life the greatest opportunity? Life is the greatest opportunity because it’s from it that we are able to do everything. If you’ve got plans to go to school, marry, have children, help people, do something and so on, it’s because you are still alive. For someone who is dead, there’s no plan or future ahead of them. The only thing after death is judgment. No one asks the dead what their plans are. They can’t even talk with them. They’ve got no plans. But as for us who are still alive, there’s a lot we can do here. Every time we open ou...

What would life mean to you? We’ve got several definitions and understandings about life, coupled with our own personal experiences and beliefs. But do you have a concrete definition of life? Sometimes we refer to life as a series of events, experiences, situations or circumstances that happen to us or people around us. And therein we found so many interesting and uninteresting things that both make us happy and unhappy. Would that be a definition of life? or maybe several stories that we’ve heard from people of how they lived their lives because of their decisions, convictions, and beliefs.  This might be a little controversial but it’s never. It’s an understanding. Though there are many things in life, they wouldn’t be enough to give a good definition of life. If someone is happy at the moment, he will say life is good. If another person is unhappy at the same moment, he will say life is unfair or cruel. But those are just circumstances. They are just situations that have got not...

How is it? That sometimes, it’s difficult to express our feelings, talk to someone or just even open our mouth. Perhaps it could be an accumulation of stress or one of those moments when we feel overwhelmed by what we go through. The feeling comes more often than not, and at such moments, we just want to give up all and have at least some rest, maybe a lasting one. The troubles and difficulties are just so much that we don't even know who to talk to or who can solve our problem or really understand what we go through. So, these are what we feel, and a lot of times, they meddle with our decisions and cloud our judgment. But how do we go through this? How do we handle them and bring out a good solution? First, I want you to understand that no matter how personal or private the feelings and situations might be, they are what some of us have gone through. It's not your fault to have those feelings and experience.  But here's what you can do. You know our feelings are important....

The first time I read her story, I was blown away. Hardly is there anyone in the account of the history of the world who has risen so far to such a high level of wealth and influence from a ground bottom of abject poverty as she has done. She was born by a single teenage mother. Her assumed father left her mother not long after a single sexual encounter that led to her conception. Her mother was a housemaid. And after her birth, her mother traveled north and left her in the hands of her grandmother. She lived in lack and was so poor that she often wore dresses made of potato sacks, and children in the neighborhood would come and make fun of her.  Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed as ' The Preacher' for being a brilliant young girl who recites the Bible verses every time.  She later moved and went to stay with her mother, who gave birth to another daughter around that time. However, as her moth...

INTRODUCTION : Joshua Abiola Olojo Foundation is a foundation that sprung up from passion for helping people and sharing God's love. My husband (of blessed memory ) and I had always had passion for people. We wanted to help people, especially those who are in need, at least in our own little way. And that was the life that my husband lived before he passed on. He loved everybody, even the unlovable and always looked after people's well being.  His passing to glory made a lot of people to miss him, including his very own children and myself. What is life for, if not to bless people and glorify God? Our foundation is built on spreading God's love to the ends of the earth and reaching out to the people who need help. BACKGROUND; After my husband's demise, myself and my children were in deep pains. We mourned him for years. And I saw how my children felt. They were so afraid that their father was gone. And I imagined the orphans, the hopeless, and the destitute . So muc...

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Few years ago, I had moments of mourning and silent cry after the death of my husband. My whole world was coming to an end and I felt my life was shattered. While in this moment, I had an encounter with the spirit of God, and for the first time, I knew God as my father. Peace entered my soul and I became free from the burden of sadness and hopelessness. I saw my life in God's hands and experienced unprecedented joy.  It is with this joy that I have written my first book- LIFE IN GOD'S HANDS to help those who would need it. This book is a book of hope for those who are going through hard times and difficult moments. It is for those who are going through protracted problems that have defied any form of solution, and for those who are trusting God for solution, but don't know how. I shared my hardest moments in the book, and how I was able to heal and still healing through the unbeatable light of God's word, and understanding that my life is all in His hands. This book, I ...