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Photocredit: Fineartamerica.com As a child, I found it complicated to describe a sour taste. I don't consider it bitter because lime is sweeter than vinegar. Therefore vinegar is bitter, and I can't place lime in that category. Then also, I can't call lime sweet because sugar is sweet (lime can't share that space). So "bitter sweet ", that's how I resolved to describe the taste of ' sour '. In learning the English Language, I was taught the rules of 'word and opposites.' In distinguishing, a word is either here or there. It can't be both at the same time. The opposite of big is small. So if something is big, it can't be small and vice versa. What happens when two opposites collide? Oxymoron is the literary answer but in life, I want to call this situation sour. Now I can start talking. Has anyone here ever felt sour? As in happy yet sad, focused yet confused, faith-up yet doubtful, courageous yet fearful? We have learnt t...

On my Wedding Day👰 I heard ladies are relatively more excited about weddings Than guys, Well, That may be ‘not applicable’ in my case I think I am more tensed than excited Because I will have a lot to do. I will like to sit by the window of the car painted lavender and navy blue Looking into the snow, like I wasn’t born in America😝 Because I will like to envision the colour of the Accra ‘tro-tro’ To paint the sunflower I received the day I said ‘Yes’, I’ll try Nothing exotic really, Just a group of fine people who will need to enjoy local, classic and dance Waltz “Hosanna” by Koda, Ewe Medley by Joe Mettle, ''Joyful Noise'' by Eben. 'It all comes down to love by Bebe Winnans, The prayer by Donnie McClurkin and Yolanda Adams The playlist goes better with my special dedication to Mum, Dolly Paton’s ''Coat of Many Collars'' Don’t ask me how it fits.😂 I will be very busy Because I have to do a duet, sing a solo And chew a cak...

On the cross shaped tree are two types of lines –horizontal and vertical. In the environment of earth we were made to live with “people”. Humans are beings with a spirit, body and a soul. The spirit emphasizes a vertical relationship (man and God), the body emphasizes a horizontal relationship (man to man) but the soul emphasizes the cross (horizontal and vertical relationship). The soul is as broad as the sky and as deep as the ocean floor. It's the summary of the will, emotion and intellect. We go “soul-winning” because the position of the soul is critical to dictating the state of the spirit and the destination of the body after death. Precisely, I will look at the emotions and how it plays in our human relations on earth.  Let’s talk about relationships. Have you met good Christians that backslided because of a new boyfriend or a new girlfriend? I am not a love expert or relationship counsellor, I’m just a girl inspired by God to share a story. You may want to under...

Capsules of Hope for 10th June Learn to appreciate growth and actually “ GROW ”. If someone or something is not adding value to your life, it is reducing the value. There is nothing like a neutral effect. If you have money and you do not invest it, you are not increasing the value, neither are you keeping the value because the market fluctuates almost daily. The technical truth is that the money is losing value and you have not realized it.  The lack of knowledge of the principle of value adding  is what the last servant in Luke 19:20 showed (“Then the other came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your pound. I wrapped it up in a piece of cloth”). He thought that by not investing the pounds given him, he had returned it to the master in the value he got it. But listen to the Master “Why then did you not put my money into the bank? Then when I returned, I could have collected it with interest” (Luke 19:12-27). Stagnation is retrogressive, don’t entertain it.  Invest in b...

One of the best experiential learning exercises used for team-building is the “Trust-V”, all of the times I coordinated and partook in this, the same things happened. The farther you go in the V, the more you have to “trust” your partner to lean on them.👬 I can guarantee that your broken heart would heal, trust me. Many people in glorious marriages once experienced disappointment, so “chill”😊! I can assure you that every wound you incurred in your journey would heal. Moreso, I promise you that those failed attempts at achieving your dreams? You will still make it someday, look back and appreciate the experience💃. But I’m very sorry😞, I cannot assure you that you can resurrect a dead trust. I can’t console you that you can remake a broken trust. I’m sorry, trust is like slime, I can’t guarantee you can stand to build it again. People have tried to recover the trust they broke, it took some the rest of their lifetime. So I advice that be careful how you treat people. 90...

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THE GOOD ITSELF (The debt of Love) I have met people who did me so much good with the promise that I do more to others, I must pay my debt. Now the question is: Ain’t you owing something?. Several times, people have asked about my source of motivation, especially after the 4.0 GPA “hat-trick” record. If I told you, then I didn’t say anything far from this. My life is a pursuit to pay this debt. This debt I owe shall take a lifetime. Romans 13:8 says ‘Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.’ The debt of love is always outstanding because we will always have people to show it to (until death). In John 12: 8 Jesus said ‘You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me." In otherwords, for the debt of love to humanity you will always have it outstanding.  Our purpose on earth is to pay this debt of love. I remember occasions at the school library (which w...

Hat-Trick Series (Ep. 2) ‘What is the difference between job enlargement and job enrichment?’ the teacher asked. The class was quiet about the question and noisy about closure. It was 8:35pm already, 5 minutes beyond closing time. Our bodies might be physically present but mentally, some of us just flew from the window, appeared at home and are currently laying under the warmth of a thick blanket on a cold winter night. Albert Einstein Finally, the lecturer went ahead to answer his question but I was upset. I was angry because my answer was exactly how he said it. I thought it but I didn’t raise my hand to say it. Have you ever been asked a question, thought the answer, thought you ‘will be wrong’ or you are shy, refused to speak and then the answer comes and GBAM ! … You were RIGHT?  I hated that moment. Often, I have been scared to get it wrong. That syndrome of carrying pregnancies of ideas and not going to the labour ward, I call it the ERROR OF COMMISSION. I...

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We have been friends for very long. It seemed normal to call often, chat every day and think about him like food (at least 3 times a day). It passed for a ‘good friendship’ and nothing more (I mean it). Until one day faithful to only itself, he spilled oil over the troubled waters. ‘‘I LOVE YOU’’ he said. I felt like vomiting. What? Who? How? When? Where? Why? I would have pretended I misunderstood but in all our playfulness and openness as friends, he has never used these three words in such order and in such short sentence, no preface, no epilogue. My mind was bursting with rhetorics that needed answers so they become authentic questions. ‘I only like you as a friend, can’t you see I can date everyone except you?’ Michael’s countenance changed into twilight. I could no longer see the happy face that hugged me about 30 minutes ago when we arrived at this eatery. The joy eloped, the sun stood still for the next 10 minutes before I stood up like a robot, face above his head ...

A spoken word poetry this August. After over 7 ministrations of this piece at arts festivals, weddings and conferences in Ghana and Nigeria, Elizabeth Ewudiwa , winner of IBC Youth Contest 2017, presents the winning piece. Do not miss out.

Letters to the Media Series (An Epilogue) One day, a lady showed me a picture of her course-mate dressed so inappropriate she said she felt ashamed to even respond to their Facebook chat. I looked and I saw over 200 likes and hundreds of comments. So I wondered, no matter the verbal dexterity I exude in my posts I haven’t gotten near the attention she has. Then it struck me what the media wanted. The media’s basis of performance appraisal places ‘trade’ on everything we presumably own physiologically. I choose to call it trade because she decided to sell off herself to earn a few more comments and likes. It’s alarmingly crazy what people do to be ‘Facebook heroes and heroines, Instagram Slay Queens and Kings, Snap Chat Geniuses and Superheroes’. If you don’t teach your children to be self-confident and less dependent on public opinions, the media would do that in a bad way. Two boys gave themselves a challenge that whoever gets a higher number of followers on Twitter withi...

Letters to the Media (Ep.5) She is 35 and on Facebook it is written 25 He is Chidi but on Facebook he says Barack Nelson. She’s not fair enough So she makes Celine Dion her profile picture The media age is different from the actual age But there’s a meeting place This moot-point is called SELF ESTEEM People feel either too old or too young, Too fat or too slim They are just too ‘me-like’ so to turn ‘media-like’, They downsize a huge portion of their breakfast Divest their lunch And invest their dinner in a foil paper for tomorrow Calling it a slimming course. Let’s get less MEDIA-LIKE The truth is that we make the media And we can destroy the erroneous perceptions we have built like a Tower of Babel Which is only reaching to the height of our ignorance. Our differences is the strength of us That’s why we are higher animals Not because we have stomachs, it’s the shape of our stomach Not because we have heads, it’s the shape of the ...

Dedicated on the 13th day of May, 2018 to all virtuous mothers in the world and specially to those whose memories are legendary💖 You don't know the things we go through to see our children happy You don't know the tears we hide to see them laughing Oh, you cannot understand the pain we chide to see them powerful No, you can't fathom the sacrifices we make to see them be who they ' can ' be. We may be poor , but for our children we are ever rich We may be weak, but for our children, we are always strong We may be sick, but for our children we are ever fit. When it comes to our kids, we can fight life itself Don't pity us when we fail to continue because death slipped in. Love us because we did all we could. Mama, you are a gem that I love. A rare jewel found in nowhere else but you. May our mothers ever live long to see us celebrate them more💕!!! A poem by Elizabeth Ewudiwa (c) 2018 All Rights Reserved. Share with a 'Mother figu...

Episode 1, A Woman's Plights Series.                                                  Dedicated to every woman who fights to keep the dignity. Dear woman, You are the biggest meat in the largest pot of soup. Should I ask you pardon my words? I don’t think so. You have tolerated more insults and have been humiliated much more. No! not by men, but by thyself . You have an ‘ideal’ image, one generally presented by the world through the media and peers. I hurt to see young girls growing into this ‘deceptive’ perception of what and who really a woman should be. Fleshy? Soft? Quiet? Dull? Passive? The world has changed, please do too. A beautiful woman, everyone loves her and wants to be like her. She is very acknowledged by the magazines and video screens. I hate it to the core, seeing that the external appearance of beauty has sunk your self esteem bec...

Final Episode, Love-Is-Waiting Series. Valentine in this piece of art is indicative of perfection. Hence the title can also translated as ‘If Perfection Refuses to Come’ (Let’s give our relationships the opportunity to work💝) Scene One (Standing words) Liz👩: The first day I thought of you, I was in a mess. God sent you as a message to fix me, I guess. You are a Rubik’s cube solved right. Victor👨 : The first day I set my eyes on you was the day I said my goodbyes to my mind’s personal space. You invaded my thoughts and even if I were to be Scofield, I wouldn't have been able to break free from the prison you placed my heart in with your body's movement and your vocal discipline. Liz👩: If words have the power to heal, then you are my doctor😎. Victor👨: You see, when you spoke, I knew God had listened to my prayers. You were everything I dreamt of,  And your specifications were perfect enough to match my missing rib. Liz👩: The first day I to...