FRAGMENTS

So, from what I can recall, this will be the first time I'll be typing directly on the blog. I usually have the topic I want to share with you guys already typed out, so all I need to do is copy, paste and edit.

And, I'm going to stick to the latter.

Today though, the Lord called for something a bit different, and like I will for the rest of my life, I obliged.

When the word "fragments" dropped cleanly at the bottom of my heart, it brought along with it, a picture of my life's current state. As someone who has continually found comfort in the steady bed of knowledge I have gathered through the relatively short years of my still-much-to-uncover life, the most scary periods for me, have been those days that didn't and couldn't for the life of me, fit anywhere.

For someone who has always admired, and with time, had to painstakingly learn and practice the blessed phenomenon called "order", the feeling of a moment or even worse, a string of encounters, thoughts, feelings or expressions that make no sense, set my nerves on edge and my teeth grating in sheer frustration.

I mean, what's the point of learning to be orderly, if there are going to be days that leave you wondering, "Wait... What just happened?!"

Now, beyond all the flowery words and musical lyrics that I can't seem to do without, I really hope there's someone reading this that is nodding so fervently, because they're finally seeing the thoughts of their hearts being expressed in writing.

Those moments

that somehow change the

narration of your story,

and leave you wondering what sort of curve ball

has just been thrown

at you.

I believe not a single one of us, is a stranger to the points in our lives that make no sense; that seem completely pointless and unneeded in what we feel is the grand scheme of things; and make you wonder just where it is you're going.

For instance, I was already done typing all of this, but somehow, when I tried to check it out in desktop mode, I lost a meaningful chunk of it. And now, I can't help but wonder, "Dear God, was it really necessary?"

I mean, the sooner I finish this and upload it, the better right?

But instead, I'm typing it again, a part of me genuinely hopeful that someone would be able to make sense out of those six italicised lines, containing a potion of my mental rants.

Back on track though; in the previous version I'd already typed here, I wrote this to us:

Even as much as we're no strangers to the unlinkable periods of our lives, we are also no strangers to the God who has promised to, "lead us in the way we should go, and counsel us, with his eyes upon us."

And this scripture, is one of the many I lean upon, when I'm bent over, dazed by the happenings in my life that just. don't. correlate.

So today, I want you to have something; it's a mantra you can repeat to yourself over and over, in those days that seem like totally unlinkable fragmented pieces of the uncountable-tiled puzzle, that is your life's story:

Though my life, some days may seem unlinkable,

In the steady, constant hands of God,

everything finds its place.

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You, my friend, are loved completely.

And if this blessed you today, don't forget to share the link with others as well!

—Ofure Angela Ogbidi.