21. GRACE, NOT FOR GOD’S SAKE. At a time, in a world aflame with restless doubts and risks, where fear stretches and hope retreats, there flows a river, deep and stout, a throne of grace beneath our feet. With every dawn that breaks the night, a promise in the air, for the conscious, to...
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SECTION III: RELATIONSHIPS & UNDERSTANDING 17. THE LION HAS NO HORNS There lies a story of strength, of a noble king; this one truth persists, a tale to be spun. In the kingdom of beasts, where the bravest align, ruled a regal creature, majestic, a lion. His roar shook the valleys, struck fear...
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15. THE FINAL VERDICT After all the testimonies have been heard, all the evidence examined, stones thrown and accusations made, after the rumour mill has ground its last grain of gossip into dust, the cancelled now have served their sentences in digital exile and castigation; what remains? The gallery empties. The stone throwers disperse....
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12. THE REJECTED STONE I was the one they passed over, rough-hewn and irregular, scarred by weather and time, too crude for their careful blueprints, too honest in my imperfection for the polished walls they were building. The master builders came with their measuring tools, their professional, practised eyes scanning for stones that would...
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SECTION II THE JUDGE & JURY 9. STONE THROWERS They gather at the edges of people’s joy like crows at roadkill, black-winged messengers of what one should not dare, should not attempt, should not dream of becoming. Their pockets are full of rocks, smooth stones polished by years of throwing, weighted with the gravity...
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6. IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES If tomorrow never really comes, what songs will sing out loud from these beating drums? The dubiety, very intense, where fears and doubts abide; we ponder dreams we dare not tell, the ticking clock, a thief of time, with every chime, a silent rhyme. What tales will fade in...
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3. BE SLOW TO SPEAK, SO THEY SAY! In the very beginning, before the first word was spoken into existence concerning human and the universe, there was a profound silence, not an empty void, but a pregnant quietude filled with infinite possibility. In that sacred stillness, the Creator contemplated the masterpiece that would become...
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The Tides of This Time by Ibikunle Dashur Synopsis The colection demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of the human spiritual journey, moving fromn existential questioning througt moral confrontation to redemtive resolution. The careful sequencing creates a narrative arc that mirrors classical spiritual autobiography while the recurring motifs of journey, time, and light provide thematic ooherence....