WELCOME TO MY HEAD!

This definitely has to be my best month yet in this year. Grateful for all that has happened so far in this year, the highs, the lows, the disappointment, and every other thing. Thank you Jesus!! I am sooo sooo sooo sooo grateful!!!

Grateful for the grace to be useful to people around me. Got a message from Funke that she wanted to do an application and she wanted to ask me if I would be on her team. I felt flattered honestly and I'm definitely grateful for that. 

Grateful for new relationships formed. Today I laughed sooo much and was really happy. Grateful for the oil of gladness and the garment of praise God has bestowed upon me. To God be all the glory!!!!

Grateful for journey mercies granted unto daddy to Abuja. Just this month alone, daddy has travelled several times and God has continuously granted him safe journey. Really really grateful to God for that. Also, I'm really grateful for family. After work today, I joined mummy to watch a movie and it was such great vibes sha. So today. I'm also grateful for the gift of Folashade Okeowo.

Grateful for good health that God has granted unto the entire FemiShade Okeowo family. A couple of times we've fallen sick but God has really been faithful. I'm grateful especially for my parents cos everytime, I'm reminded that they are getting older and even tho it hurts, I'm grateful that they are still so strong and healthy!!.

Grateful for the gift of prayer because I know that Pelumi will be healed completely in Jesus name. I will come back and testify on behalf of Pelumi by God's grace. 

Basically grateful for music.

Started redoing my CV today and I am grateful for this new step definitely in the right direction. I have so much hope of the wonderful things to come and I am excited in advance, so today I am grateful for hope. 

Another presentation in my training today and honestly, it went soooo well and I am definitely proud of myself. I am really looking forward to my new career in Data Science.

Grateful that I am no longer scared of Python. We were given a group task and even tho I have new group members, I know it will go well. We started the work in class and mehn, I feel soooo good because I as actually doing the cleaning by myself. I honestly felt sooo cool.  Thank you Jesus for divine wisdom and knowledge. 

Almost got into trouble at work today and I even had to leave class earlier than normal because Ben was calling me. Got to work and I was able to do what Ben wanted me to do. I was soooo bothered mehn but everything ended well. Thank you Jesus for helping me out. 

Grateful for the gift of eternal life that Christ Jesus has given to us. Was watching the funeral of the Queen and different thoughts kept coming to my mind, and in all, I am grateful that we have the hope that we would see all our loved ones that have passed in heaven. Thank you Jesus for coming to die for us. Hallelujah!!!!

Grateful for the gift of music. Went for a ministration in Methodist church and it went really well. Apparently my dress tore but God came through and I was able to cover it with a jacket I had in the car.

 Went for Melharmonic rehearsals today and because it was raining, I had to take my car and guess what: I was stopped by FRSC and I had soooo many offences 😭😭😭...... chaiiiiii... it pained me sha... but the good thing was that I was only billed 2k out of all my offences... lol... anyways I didn't allow it to spoil my day and we move!!!

Had a guest lecture series for Click-on today and it was quite nice. The class sessions are coming to an end and honestly I am kindda sad sha. I have come to really really like my classmates and I have learnt so much from them and today I am really grateful for members of Click- on 2.0 morning session!!!!  

Done with the first week of Python and honestly I feel different from how I felt on Monday. whew.... God is good sha. Looked cutey today too. 

Grateful that I still have a job and I can be doing this fellowship at the same time. Glory be to God. 

Grateful because it looks like I’ll be completely my Meng program after all 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾. I got a call from my supervisor last week and he told me to come to permanent site today. Initially I was to go last week Friday but he later changed his mind and told me to come today. I didn't know how I would run it considering that I have training in the morning but I sha took excuse and left the training and drove as fast as I could to mando. Saw him and we had a short discussion where he said we will definitely do this work and I had hope once again. Dear Lord, let this be it this time. by November 13th, I hope to do another post saying that I am done with my project in Jesus name. Amen. 

Grateful for the gift of of Opeyemi Okeowo! My big brother Opeyemi turns 30 today!!!!!! I am glad I have Ope as my brother. He is awesome to say the least.  He also did something great to mark his birthday, he sent money to mummy for her to buy stuff for an orphanage and I think that was so nice of him, even though I was really stressed on Saturday when I and mummy went shopping for the stuff but we sha did it. We went to the orphanage really early and it was quite emotional, it reminded me once again that I have work to do in this world and I am super sure that God sent me to do this.  It was still really early when I got to work and I even bought bread and akara and ate at work. Went to my training and we are starting a new module today which is Python and I won't lie, I am definitely scared cos I practically know nothing 😪😭 but I leave everything to God and I am sure He will see me through.

 Grateful for the heritage I have in Christ. Church was great and I enjoyed every bit of it as usual.

Tamilore Amodu turned 8 today and I am grateful for the gift of her. She is definitely a gift from God and today, I remember how I specifically prayed for God to provide a child for uncle laolu and aunty Taiye.  Today I was also reminded that I had said that she will be my little bride on my wedding day but obviously that has not happened and it looks like it won't happen again cos my babe is now a big girl 😂😂. I also sent a little gift to her and I'm grateful that I was able to do that. I mean, I can never repay her parents for all they did for my siblings and I in CU but I can try my little best to be a good aunty to Tamilore and Semilore.

Grateful for the strength and grace to be an engineer. Today was super busy at work. Did quite some work and I remembered why I wanted to be an engineer. It was fun sha 

Grateful for my presentation today. Did my power BI presentation with my group member Halima in my fellowship class and I personally think it was super awesome! Didn't sleep until 2:00am yesterday night and it was all worth it because we were commended and everything came out really fine.... yipeeeee. By the way, I think that Power BI is the bomb!!!!! I think I have definitely found my forte.

 Today, I am grateful for new skills learnt. I am grateful for the ability to learn and implement. I've been learning quite a lot in my fellowship and honestly, I'm super glad that I can understand and implement also.

Grateful for recognition; Got a perfume in class today!! So before class ended today, Fati came up to announce that Hajia Aisha had sent in her list for best students in the Excel Presentation we had on Wednesday last week, she began to call names in no particular order and lo and behold, I was part of the top 5 students. I won't even lie, I was definitely pleased. I will probably never use the perfume but I am definitely so proud of it. Yipeee!!!!! Celebrating 'little wins'.

 Grateful for my Masters program irrespective of how it is going right now. If any body had told me in 2019 that I would still be doing my masters right now I wouldn't have believed at all.  This was not the plan at all. I left a life in Abuja for this. I left a relationship for this, I left a position in Church for this. As much as I don't think too deeply about things, sometimes I can't help it and I end up asking myself what if I didn't leave Abuja, I sometimes wonder how my life would have turned out. I don't speak about these things so people think I am not hurting over this situation but the truth is that I am and I am sooo sooo confused.  I still believe that God will make a way for me to be done but in every situation, no matter how unfavorable it is, I am definitely grateful to God. I mean I have my COREN certification, I get to be there for my parents, I get to serve in Church, I get to do classical music freely, I got into this fellowship, basically I am ...

Grateful for the community called Church. Today was Children's Harvest and I was recognized as one of the Aunties of the day. I won't lie, it felt soooo good mehn. The service was also sooo beautiful.  One of the things that struck me in the service was the service conductor or MCs. They are my friends and the significant thing about it was the fact that when I was younger, my dad used to be the MC for such services and over the years it has been passed down and now people from my generation (who also grew up in the church) are now doing it. I think that is super awesome and it says so much about continuity in a society.  

Grateful for the gift of Classical music. Went for Chorale rehearsal and it was awesome as usual. My voice is getting much better and I am so proud of it. Classical music is more or less my life. It brings me so much happiness and makes me feel alive. I'm grateful that I have this talent. 

Today I am grateful for answered prayers, especially for things that seem soooo insignificant.  This morning I said a prayer under my breath and it was answered. It felt like a joke but it was indeed answered. I asked God to allow my period to start today (Friday) because last month, it came on a Monday and the pain that came with it just made my entire week a disaster. Thankfully, for this month, by Monday, I'm hopeful that the pain would have reduced drastically and I will have a great week. 

Today, I am grateful for the gift of a car.  It might be surprising that I am starting with a material thing but I guess my humanness is just showing itself. lol. It is rainy season and it has been raining sooo often.  Each time rain falls and I am in my car driving, I am always reminded of how blessed I am to be 'protected' and not have to be beaten by the rain.  A couple of years ago, my laptop got damaged because I got caught up in the rain and it was affected. But now the story is quite different. I don't have to worry about being out of my house at anytime and being caught up in the rain. So here is me saying thank you to my God almighty for providing me with a car. Thank you Jesus for my Peugeot 407!!

Well, it's been a while, not like anybody is reading this but still I am still saying I'm back! So, where have I been? Simple answer: trying to make my life make sense. It has been one hell of a year,  lots of lows but still a good number of highs. I kindda dropped out or rather gave up on my masters program (still hoping for a miracle tho), I almost got married, I got accepted in a fellowship ( will probably write a blogpost on this) and so many other things, but yeahhh, I am still standing strong. Anyways, it's a new month and I've decided to tag this month 'MY GRATITUDE MONTH'. To be honest, lately I've realised that there is indeed so much to be grateful for in my life and despite the things that are not going so well, I still have soooo much to thank God for and that's what I'll be doing throughout this month.  I will really try to do this consistently and I hope that I don't miss any day sha, fingers crossed. So here we goooooo........