CHOICES and FREEDOM

 Hello eku, dee de iwoyio.

Tick, tock, tick, tock, the year is gradually winding up. We need to be thankful that by grace, we’ve been kept healthy and alive through all the troubles and tribulations (rogbodiyan) of life in the year.

I would like to share another short story with you again this month. Enjoy it.

A “mouse” was put at the top of a jar filled with grains.

He was so happy to find so much food around him that he no longer felt the need to run around searching for food and now he could happily live his life.

After a few days of enjoying the grains, he reached the bottom of the jar.

Now he was trapped and he couldn't get out of it. He now has to solely depend upon someone to put grains in the same jar for him to survive. He also may not get the grain of his choice and he cannot choose either.

Here are a few lessons to learn from this:

a. Short-term pleasures can lead to long-term traps. b.If things are coming easy and you are getting comfortable, you are getting trapped in dependency.

c. When you are not using your skills, you will lose more than your skills. You lose your CHOICES and FREEDOM.

d. Freedom does not come easy but can be lost very quickly.

NOTHING comes easily in life and if it comes easily, maybe it is not worth it.

Please do not be like this mouse.

Happy birthday if you were born in December. Live today like it is a special gift because it is the best birthday gift. Have a wonderful happy, healthy birthday, and many more to come.

Have a great month everybody! May His sustaining grace keep us still

and see us through the coming year. Stay safe and stay healthy.

Eric O. Thompson

YAJ.