The average age of marriage in the Arab world ranges between 20 to 28 among women and 25 to 32 among men, but prior to them making things official and the big celebrations that follow, they were merely sons and daughters, with no knowledge of how to run a household.
When you think of marriage, your mind automatically goes to spending your life with someone you love so dearly, the beautiful celebrations and the carefully-planed honeymoon. It is not often that someone thinks of the immense responsibility that comes along with it.
You go from being treated like a child to becoming fully responsible for a household. You got bills to pay, cleaning to do, laundry to get done, a mortgage to worry about, and so much more.
The idea of marriage is pushed onto us before we’re even old enough to comprehend it. A family friend visits and notices how adorable you are and suddenly, you’re her son or daughter’s significant other.
Girls grow up playing with kitchen appliances and baby dolls and boys grow up constantly hearing the phrase “the man of the house,” without ever understanding what it really means.
There is so much that we don’t even think we need to learn until we become grown-ups overnight. You have to call one of your parents and ask them how to turn on the washing machine and google what is the easiest dinner recipe that can be cooked with the handful of ingredients you have in your pantry. READ MORE:
Budgeting, taxes, grocery shopping and homeownership are just a fraction of the things getting married and moving out entail. We usually have a false sense of independence when we start earning our very own income, but that entire income is often fully wasted on luxuries like shopping and going out.
We never had to budget because even if our wallets are empty, we still have food in the fridge, the house bills paid, and both parents to “lend” us money that we both know will never be paid back.
Marriage should be between two adults, who each can hold their own. Not an experiment where both parties are having their first taste of adulthood.
Parents believe that by making their kids’ lives easier, they’re shielding them and protecting them, when in fact they are raising them to be codependent adults, who can’t get a task as simple as cooking a meal done on their own.
Our attitude toward marriage needs to change. It’s not just a joyful occasion in which two families are joint (and in some cases, a single-family is joint even further but that’s a whole other story). Marriage is a responsibility, which both parties need to know how to be homeowners and how to live on their own.
A Letter to Goat without a yam and Yam without a goat.
Dear Goat with a yam and Dear Yam without a goat,
With upmost joy, I am writing this short epistle to you and I am happy because you are one of the luckiest category on Earth and well as those with goats and yams. Singleness is blissfulness. Enjoy it.
Now, I will advise you
To stay on the farm. It is still the safest place to live and get a goat or yam and even after getting your goat or yam, stay there.
Look for your goat/yam on the farm. You will definitely see your specs on the farm.
While waiting for the yam, engage in profitable foraging and while waiting for the goat do make yam omelette, porridge, òjòjò†, etc with your life.
Continue doing what your Farmer-owner asks of you to do and
Let His decision overwrites yours. He alone knows what is fitting and suitable for you.
If you can do all these, I can confidently say that your singleness will be blissfulness and your engagement will be heavenly.
Signed
A former goat without a yam for 8 straight years now with the sweetest yam on this side of heaven.
† òjòjò is a cake made from grating yam and mixing with condiment and then fry with either palm oil or vegetable oil.
It was said in Ancient parchment that the association between the farmer, the goat and the yam is not easily broken and as such each got its uniqueness to differentiate the other from other farmers, goats and yam. Now let’s see the characters of the much talked about Farmer-owner who is both the rearer of the goat and planter of the yam.
First of all, let me tell you that there are many wannabe farmers out there. Infact, their master is one short ugly guy who was a former labourer in the farm. The Farmer-owner gave him so much power until he thought it in his heart to have a more grander farm than his employer using the Master’s resources.
He even co-opted lesser labourers into his rebellion.
This former labourer and his minions do stole from goats, yams, vegetables, flowers, water, etc from the original Farmer-owner’s farm, changed their DNA to RNA – Rebel Now Acting, can even taught them language of the heavenly farm and released them to come and fellowship with the fellow goats and yams. So beware, not all bleating goats and fine yams you came about speaking the language of the farm are actually from the farm.
Now, the characters of the Farmer-owner are:
The Farmer-owner is ancient. Therefore, He has sure banker experiences on cultivation of goats and yams. You can trust Him to give you the best from his barn and pen.
He has brought many goats to yams and vice versa through diverse means. He even promised in His ancient manual that no goat will lack a yam and vice versa. Rest assured, yours is being prepared.
Furthermore, this Ancient Farmer has a farming manual which he called ancient parchment. In there, you know his dos and donts on how to find a goat, a yam, be a caterer, engage in productive foraging, made yam sauce, relate with other goats and yams and many more things He want to tell you. If you don’t read this parchment, your life may be trial and error.
Also know this and know peace, your Farmer-owner is not a giver of the following to any products from his farm:
A goat/yam disturbing you for frying.
A goat/yam overuser. A goat that only know how to benefit from yam without being a benefit to yam and vice versa.
A hitter and an abuser of grace, gifts, body and words.
Community goats and yams.
Or any goat/yam behaving contrary to what was written in the Ancient parchment.
If you supposed goat/yam has those behaviors, then know for sure that it is either s/he is probably drifting from the farm or s/he is originally from former labourer’s farm.
Don’t mind that he/she joins other goats and yams to jollificate weekly and probably speak the language therein. The stealer of their souls has done that before to falsely accused a real GOAT.
In addition, this Farmer-owner is firstly concerned about finding forages for goats, fertile soils for his yams, bringing goats to yams and yams to goats. So if you are not of his farm, go and meet you father, he too has your specific specs in barn and pen.
Moreover, this awesome Farmer-Owner is not just a farmer. He is a vet doctor, a soil scientist, a rain maker, the rain Himself, a fertilizer, an insecticide, an herbicide and many more things. With you in his farm, your daily nutrients is guaranteed.
Whereas, this Father-farmer will not force any goat or yam on you. He brings the goat or yam that is suitable for you, you do the talking.
Lastly, this Farmer is expecting all his products back after declaring the harvest of his vineyard.
As the Worth of the goat is not in the ability to fry so also the sweetness of the yam is not in being fried. If that’s all there to you, you may probably had started spoiling.
Now, a good yam is not idly waiting for the goat to make an egg omelette with her. She is also making yam pottage with herself with expecting the real goat.
Then, a responsible yam knows she is not for any goat. There is a specific goat for her specific yam from their Farmer-owner’s farm.
Moreover, it is only bitter and rotten yams that peel themselves on soso media for likes. A real and worthy yam don’t and won’t.
In addition, a sweet yam is also o not swayed by sweet bleating from various goats, their pockets or gyms bit she is only interested in who the Father-farmer said is hers.
As far as football is concern, CR7 is my GOAT but I hope you know that CR7 is not all about football, there is philanthropy, business, husband and father’s side to this football GOAT of mine.
The real worth of a goat is not in the ability to fry yam. If that is all you are planning to do then your goatness has dysentery but the Worth and joy of a goat lies in righteousness, peace and joy of the Holy Spirit.
A real/potential GOAT doesn’t sleep off during morning devotion as a result of hangover from yesternight UEFA matches. A real goat is a priest of his pen
Furthermore, the worthiness of a goat is also reflected in this fact that he is not after every yam he sees. He is okay with his given yam because he knows that the insulating material must be kept clean. A real GOAT is a defender of purity.
…but a GOAT had a Farmer-owner…
In addition, the joy of being a goat also shows in that while other ewu gambias are playing and kicking their yams about, he is most concerned about how to wash, clean, beautify and make egg sauce with his yam and yam products now or later. A GOAT is a caterer.
A goat is not on social media arguing on why Bubu is taller than Ashi rather he is actively engaging in one productive foraging in order to prepare a barn for his yam. A real goat is a provider.
Lastly, I wish to tell you that the goat may or may not have six packs, beard or deep pocket but a GOAT had a Farmer-owner because he is not a lone ranger and he is traceable to a pen.
I love my wife and I am doubly sure she love me in returns. If not much. But despite that we still had moments of disagreement, conflicts and vexation simply because we are human beings. We keep malice in-house 😀😀😀, stop talking for some hours, changed countenances, and what have… Read more: How My wife and I settled our disagreement.
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Christian sisters should be sweet yams. Yes, they should. God is the planter and that brother that used to tell you, ‘ you are my honey,’ every blessed morning is the goat and you got to help him to become a G.O.A.T.
But how? You should know that, although Farmer-Owner which is Yahweh God has brought you to you goat or you have brought you goat to your owner, you must know that you can’t be peel, toasted, roasted, touched anyhow or boiled.
You can’t. It’s not yet time.
And I want you to also know that the desire to be eaten, boiled, peel, roasted, grated or even fried is legitimate and God-given but it is not yet an appropriate time. What should be touching you is now word of God, your pillows and or a cup of tea.
Also, forget not that though the coming G.O.A.T is a Christian, he is also with a God-given instincts to boil and fry. He may speak the languages of angels but he has godly desires in him.
Furthermore, be aware that not all goats are domesticated goats. Some are mountain goats (wild one), some are wannabes (infact baby antelope looks like goat) while some are ewu gambias* and not all goats have potential to become G.O.A.T. Only the Capra hiscus can survive all weathers and you should know that you own goat many not be in your locale.
Therefore, you must help him by not seductively peel yourself, park yourself into his barn, for the habit of sleeping in his barn, touch him inappropriately (Yes, you can’t touch him too!) or arouse the goatness in him till appropriate time.
If you want to be boiled, peel, grated, roasted, touched or even turn to yam cake (òjòjò)* , tell him to come and see the yam caterers to do the required and you too should go and see goat caterers to do the neccesary.
But a potential GOAT should have self-control? Yes, of course, so a potential Y.A.M should self-control too. Not be any of your efforts, but by the grace of thy Farmer who art in heaven.
If you can do this, you will be able to Y.A.M i.e. Yes! Am Married and be able to YAHM (Yes! Am Holly Married) before thy Father-Farmer.
You are a Goat. That sister that you used to call every 5AM, I meant the same sister you have shown to mentors, parents, friends and family is the Yam and God is both Goat rearer (Psalms 23:1) and Yam planter (John 15:1).
Now, the Yam you have brought to God or the one He has brought to you must not be peel, tasted, touched inappropriately, played, fry, boiled, roasted and toasted until it’s appropriately approved because the law said, ‘thou shall not eat until it is appropriate.’
Before reading on, I wish to tell you that some Yams are sweet yams, some are water yams, some are aerial, Chinese or bitter yam. Some are even yam lookalike but no matter what, you must not eat it.
… Yam you have brought to God or the one He has brought to you must not be peel, tasted, touched inappropriately, played, fry, boiled, roasted and toasted until it’s appropriately approved
And I wish to tell you that the desire to eat, peel, touch, boil, toast and roast is God-given and okay but until the acceptable time, no touching.
Now, if you want to eat, boil, taste your yam, go and see the yam caterers (her parents) and paid and do the neccesary ‘fees’ and ‘rituals.’ You must do the appropriate ritual to be qualified to eat your yam and have it.
After you have done the required, now you can boil, peep, roast, toast, grate, make egg with you yam but I am advising you don’t ever play your goat.
After doing the above, then you move from being a goat to being a G.O.A.T.
Do you understand or I should go depper?
Stay tuned for part 2 (for Christian Single Sisters Only).
Dear virgins, if virginity is all you have, you have a lot.
“If virginity is all you have to give, get out and all the bla bla bla,” they roar. Even those who are not virgin and also senseless are attacking people that did many things they can’t do. Dear virgins, if virginity is all you have, you have a lot. The demeaning words of people against you shouldn’t move you. First and foremost, it is not easy to be a virgin especially in a world like ours. A world where immorality is dominating. A world where the church is not even free from it.
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For you to be a virgin, it shows you are decisive in nature. You took a firm decision and you’ve kept it. This is a decision Bible study teachers find difficult to keep. This is a decision tongue speaking champions and those attacking you can’t keep. Do you know many who cried that I should help them overcome? Do you know someone following me up when I joined a fellowship was telling me to help him escape? Do you know many of your fathers in the church and home have destroyed teens? Many have advised you wrong, tried to entice you, to have you but you refused. That’s a very high level of decision. Keep it up. Decision is a trait that many lack and it shows you’re not only a virgin but a decisive human.
To be a virgin shows you’re disciplined – sexual control cum self-control are rare characters in our generation. Even those who condemn your stance are as free as water, drinking water from every well. You have a higher tendency of doing exploits in life when you can control sexual desires and pressure, so, you’ve something to offer. Don’t allow the hate from people on your stand to wait till marriage affect you. Dear stupid counselor and influencers, if you’ve nothing to say or write, keep your mouth shut and stop expressing your ignorance. If they have sense, they’d have known this and rather than bash them, they’d have encouraged you and asked you to tell them how you did it. If you are able to control your zip in life, you’re able to achieve many things in life. C. N. Ebere.
You have a higher tendency of doing exploits in life when you can control sexual desires and pressure, so, you’ve something to offer.
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