Don’t let the picture of your future remain confined in the framed edges of your past. Jacqueline
Tag: Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Tuesdays Trickles – My Thinking Corner.
Every Tuesday, I share snippets of thoughts that I call ‘My Thinking Corner.’
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple. You can check this link for more details.
Most times, finding out who we are beneath the physical attributes which encase our being is the most difficult and profound journey that we can ever embark on, yet self-discovery is the most rewarding journey of all.
The difficulty experienced by most while on this path is the ability to turn off all the outside noise and to search within. To shut their eyes to all the external fluff and see through the eyes’ of their soul.
Sometimes, we’ve got to cut off a lot of the mindless activities that we crowd our mind with because they tend to drown out our inner voice and leave us with nothing.
Sometimes, we’ve got to simply breathe and learn to live.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
A Click A Day Series…
It’s been on my mind to start this photo practise series and I have procrastinated long enough. I literally fell in love with taking photographs and discovering not just new things from the side of the lens but new things about myself as well.
Like is aptly said, practice makes perfect and each day I’ll present a random shot taken in the bid to perfect my photography skills.
Please feel free to send in your constructive criticisms on how to improve (I am a big girl and can take it – maybe just bawl a bit in the bathroom, but that’s okay 😉
I also welcome you gladly to join me anytime you are able to do so.
Maybe, as time goes on, there’ll be a 30 day’s prompt/theme that can be followed for each month.
For today, I took a snap of this framed quote that I saw somewhere and it rightly expresses my thought.
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Now, let me go and get my camera 🙂
Jacqueline
P.S. Our monthly Meet and Greet/Blog Party comes up this weekend Sat 27th/Sun 28th. Hope to see you there.
Tuesdays Trickles – My Thinking Corner.
Every Tuesday, I share snippets of thoughts that I call ‘My Thinking Corner.’
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple. You can check this link for more details.
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♦ You have to believe in yourself and your talent. You must believe that small fact with your entire being.
♦ That little faith that you have in yourself is not just a catalyst for change but keeps you going even when doubt begins to set in.
Lovely nuggets of integrity come in from Lady Cee and words of wisdom from Deb Glover. You need to check these out.
I hope these words add some value.
Regards,
Jacqueline
Let Go and Live!…
Until we let go
of all the hatred
and embrace
the light of love
DARKNESS
will remain a companion.
♥
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
“May perpetual light shine on the souls of the departed in Orlando, and may their families find the grace to heal.”
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.
She is amazing at describing love and life in her poems. She creates such beautiful images with her words. Truly, she is a talented writer and I’m so excited to have her poetry book and to continue reading through it.
Interview with Me, Myself and I…Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha…
It’s not every day that I get to feel like a star *I’m winking* 😉
I’ve been granted a wonderful interview by the talented, awesome blogger chic, Mandi, and as the very first interview in her interview series, she did a splendid job.
I humbly urge you to peek in for a few seconds through this link while I go strut my stuff a little bit. Hey! Come on! A girl has to love herself a bit you know 🙂
Thank you.
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.
From the very first poem, “Dreams,” this book captivates with passionate and perceptive words. Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha captures a broad expanse of the human experience in this book of richly layered poems.
Midnight Motivations and Musings # 64
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
Midnight Motivations and Musings 58…
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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
Midnight Motivations and Musings # 54…
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Life lived dancing to the tunes of misery wears out the soul living it.
Yes indeed, our days are not always smiles and sunshine, but the truth is that misery and negativity are barely a head’s turn away and once you give it room, it becomes a permanent tenant and a difficult one to evict.
A lot of times when I am feeling down, I might brood for a while, but with training my mind to shut off the negative raps, I endeavour not to stew in it by getting engaged in little things that will uplift my mind and take the focus off me.
Not the easiest thing to do at times, but the alternative is worse.
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
PLEASE HELP ME CHOOSE MY BOOK COVER…
Dear friends of mine,
Please help me choose the cover that catches your eyes from this link or below.
It’s for my poetry book due to come out this April, all things being equal 🙂
Just add a little comment and the number of the picture that you prefer.
You can help me share if possible.
Thank you for your support and kind regards,
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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