4327 months ago I was 3 months away from being a mother to my now 2 year old son. Even though I had been a Christian for as long as I could remember, I had a deep yearning to take my relationship with God to the next level even though I did not know what that was. I knew there was no way I could do it alone. This is also around the same time I was parting ways with the father of my then unborn child.

Despite growing up in a traditional church and even serving in the leadership of the church through out high school and my tertiary life I was never really a member of any church.  I made a conscious decision to be a member of God and a member of Christianity  and spiritual fulfilment. I was always committed to this wherever I went. Because of this I was always open to most churches as long as I felt a connection and spiritual fulfilment. Despite this open mentality I have always found myself in a traditional church until this time. However my yearning continued to be unfulfilled and I always felt the need to fortify the love I had for God through action. My greatest motivation became the unborn child, my son. I wanted him to belong, I wanted him to know God through me.

As a soon to be new mom, I consulted with my pastor and made my decision.  I chose love, the love of God, the love of my child and the love of His promise.  Like the forgiveness I received from God for my sins, the choices I made came at a price of forgiving us for the relationship that did not work out. Something I am still trying to perfect everyday.

The journey I take requires a lot from me, everyday I am learning about Christianity, myself and being a parent.  I continue to have internal conflicts and often find myself being swallowed by the church girl.  I made a request to God that I wanted to grow in Him as a human being and that’s  partly the basis of my imperfections.  My human actions sometimes conflict with the expectations of the church girl but I try to base everything I do in love and that’s what inspired my first title.

Yes, Love Is Fortified by Actions…

  • Actions towards self
  • Actions towards our loved ones
  • Actions towards strangers
  • Actions towards God and everything we do.

In Eph 4: 32 the bible say “Be kind to one another, tender- hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you”. As I conclude my first blog post, I cant help but to wonder what actions we are taking  as Christians… at a time when the world is in such a turmoil, be it the South African students, the French or the Nigerians and maybe even the girls in need from the informal settlement over the freeway;  what action is fortifying our love…

Until we meet again, in the cyber world let me leave you with this thought

“you’ve got to find people who love like you do” AU whatever that means for you…

ChurchGirlHuman

LM.