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Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
I seek my contentment and peace without apologies because it can’t be purchased and it’s so easy to lose in today’s world.
when you’ve been pierced
by the blunt edge of pain
you will know that
the sharp sweetness of joy
is far better to hold
close to your chest.
©
Jacqueline
When you raise a woman, you raise a village – African proverb
Women are the real architects of society – Anon
I saw her from afar
She certainly stood apart
Like a beautiful Rose
Caught in a family of bramble.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
Jacqueline writes from her heart on passion, pain, suffering, loss and LIFE. I have been incredibly moved by her poetry and I know I will return to “Out of the Silent Breath” again and again.
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Everyone deserves to love and be loved and true love first starts with you.
Loving yourself and accepting that you are whole and worth it, is not being self-centered.
You should know that you are enough without expecting someone else to complete you. It’s a fallacy to anticipate that. No one can complete another.
They can only complement what you already have, thus when you feel inadequate, your sense of inadequacy emanates from within and this is not something that someone else can fix.
What happens when they are no longer there or when they fail to fulfil all your expectations?
How long will someone else have to patch you up?
When will you realise that you are worth loving you for you?
If you are unable to love yourself for your own sake and treat yourself appropriately, then it will be difficult to cascade a non-existent blessing to someone else, for it’s really out of what you’ve got that you can give others.
God’s love is free and without encumbrances.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
When you are committed to doing something, you wait for no one, especially when it’s something that you are meant to do by yourself and for your well being.
Don’t sit waiting for love or life to find you. Go out and get the life and the love will follow.
Sometimes, in order to move on, we need to cease waiting and get going.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Finding resolutions to issue’s requires looking at them from different perspectives.
If a mind is fixated on a thought that rejects other angles of views, chances are that such a view will be skewed as well as myopic.
The mind of a thinking man is expandable beyond our imagination and only limited by the measure of our thinking.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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There are times that I have been asked how I can prove that there’s a God and I have always responded with the same quote above.
God is God all by Himself. I cannot limit him by trying to define him in the human context, neither can I constrain his Supreme presence because I seek for him to appear before me so that the doubting Thomases can believe that he exists.
I would rather believe deeply in God and live my life serving him through my fellowship with others than to spend a thousand years drifting in disbelief.
Every day, I see God. I see him in the gurgling laughter of a little child. I see him in the brilliance of the shining Sun, I see him in the birds that roam free and feed on the fat worms of the earth, I see him in the flowers that bloom in glorious colours, I see him in the love of my children and husband, I see him in everything that surrounds me.
Do you see God?
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
“I want to stay curled and cosied and chocolated….forever in my mother’s arms.” Sanober Khan
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#Hugs are free, but they are one of the best and simple things life offers from our loved ones.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
“People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.” Leila Sales
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Appreciate people for who they are because we are all different for a reason. Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Certainly, I know that I am not perfect,
And that is perfectly alright.
Neither are you, or you and you!
Human flaws are characteristics we all share in common.
Some flaws are deeply entrenched,
Like the mandatory make up stripes on a zebra,
While some flaws are momentarily switched on,
As changeable as a flash bulb.
Some give it a posh title – eccentric, uniqueness, schizophrenic, deficient, myopic …and so on,
Or the simpler names – faults, shortcomings, intolerance, and so on. …
I call it exposing your humanity,
You being who you are.
In each of us, exists a beauty and a beast,
Like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
It all depends on which side of your humanity you choose to expose.
In each of us exists a redeeming quality,
As minutiae as it may be.
Consider the good qualities of a man,
Weighed against his faulty sides,
And judge his character based on that which outweighs the other.
Let us bear with each other,
For the fault lies in our differences,
And none of us is above such criticism.
Don’t spend too much time dwelling on those flaws,
Life is too short to waste on things that cannot change,
But by all means, change the flashbulbs as often as you can,
For better illumination on the path of your journey,
Your final destination will be worth the effort.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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