Views: 96“My life brutally ‘ended’; 80-year-old murdered MP’s mother cries out!” This was the screaming headline of the Daily Graphic, the day after the 49-year-old Member of Parliament for the Mfantseman Constituency, in Ghana, was killed in a suspected armed robbery attack while returning from a campaign tour. “I feel like my life has been […]

Views: 53There is an old Chinese proverb that says, “The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.” How true! Personally, I have realized that the more I have to think about, the more I forget. My memory was sharper when I was younger and didn’t have much to think about. Now that I […]

Views: 50I keep a bottle of epilim (Sodium valproate) — without its contents — as a memorial of God’s goodness.  Within the span of a year — between 2011 and 2012 — my second boy had four seizures. They were caused by fever, and called febrille seizures. That was like once every three months!  We went […]

Views: 75The Hymn “Begone Unbelief”, Methodist hymn 511(GBH 80), was written by John Newton. John Newton was born into a Christian home, but his godly mother died when he was only seven years old. He joined his father at sea when he was just eleven. His licentious and tumul­tuous sailing life included a flogging for […]

Views: 67“God says, ‘You have spoken hard, rude words to me.’ You ask,  ‘When did we ever do that?’ ‘When you said, “It doesn’t pay to serve God. What do we ever get out of it? When we did what He said and went around with long faces, serious about God-of-the-Angel-Armies, what difference did it […]

Views: 78I went to the new VFS Passport Processing Center in Accra recently to renew my passport; and when given the choice, I chose the regular process over the VIP process, to save some money. The submission of documents, photographing and general initial processing seemed the same for both the VIP and regular, and I […]