IN EVERY SITUATION, GIVE THANKS

No matter what you are going through,

No matter what mud life has dragged you through,

Smile rather than frown,

And thank rather than curse….

Because it could have been worse.

When Men Talk About Tomorrow, 'the gods' laugh (Chinese Proverb)

This is my favorite quote at the moment, because it makes me think deep and realize how powerless we human beings are about the future.

I don’t know ‘the gods’ being referred to in this quote, but I’ll take it to be a set of comical creatures who can see the future.

I believe in predestination and I just wonder how ‘the gods’ reacts when humans make plans for the future without knowing what fate holds for them in the next few seconds.My father passed on at a relatively ripe age, but as at then, he had a project at hand: He was building a house at Abeokuta. I wonder the smile on the faces of ‘the gods’ whenever he talked about completing the building, and they probably had a little laugh whenever was at the building site inspecting it.

I am sure ‘the gods’ must have had a grin on whenever Michael Jackson was rehearsing for his U.K. concert which he never lived to perform at, and maybe ‘the gods’ must have burst into a great deal of laughter when MJ as he is fondly called by his fans was taking those drugs/injections from his doctor, hoping to get well as soon as possible.

On a lighter note, I’m very sure ‘the gods’ must have screamed ‘Laugh wan kill me die’ when Dele Momodu decided to contest to become Nigeria’s president and they must have ‘rolled on the floor laughing their asses out’ whenever Patience Jonathan was stepping on those podiums hoping to deliver mind blowing speeches to those ‘widow kids’ and ‘her fellow Nigerians irrespective of their Nationality’.

Even though ‘the gods’ laugh at most cases, I’m sure they must have shook their heads in 1899 when Adolph Hitler was born in ‘Braunau Am Inn’, Austria when they saw the over sixty million people who were going to die from his actions and decisions. But i’m very sure my good friends, ‘the gods’ must have burst into a hysterical laughter the moment Hitler walked into that bunker hoping to find refuge there.

 

I wonder if ‘the gods’ were like ‘Buhahahaha’ when Muammar Gadhafi ran into that culvert with the hope to escape from the agitated Libyan rebels. How did they even laugh when Idi Amin made that ‘strategic’ decision to attack Tanzania via the North of Kagera River in 1978.

I’m sure ‘the gods’ must have laughed with a baritone voice when the biblical Haman was designing the gallows on which he was eventually killed. They must have laughed ‘yepaaripa’ like a Yoruba man when M.K.O. Abiola, still in jail, hoping to be freed and sworn in as Nigeria’s president, was discussing his plans for Nigeria with Kofi Annan. I guess they must have laughed till they broke their ribs that moment Gadhafi declared himself the ‘King of Kings’.

When you were fixing that appointment, did you even imagine the reaction of ‘the gods’, while publishing this post here, hoping to get a good reaction from my readers, I hope ‘the gods’ did not have a good laugh at me……………….

Rather than make laughable plans, why don’t you just take a more feasible action now and stop procrastinating, make that call now, your phone could be gone in the next few minutes, read that book now, it could get missing the next second, express that feeling now, tomorrow may be too late.

As a matter of fact, my bible tells me live for today and not to worry about tomorrow, that tomorrow will take care of itself (Matt 6:30-34) , check out    James 4:13-14 too…….will you check it out now or later, ‘the gods’ are watching and probably laughing too