Nothing less (Part 1)

I want you to take a few minutes to carefully identify the difference between these two pictures below and when you are finished continue reading.

What did you noticed about the picture?

Something happened to me when I was very young and remain as a memory that never leaves my mind even to this day. I have experienced many things that I don’t remember but there are few experiences that I can never forget and now I know why. These experiences are never meant to erase from my mind because they are survival kits to help others.

When I was going elementary school. By this time I was now living with my grandmother which is my dad’s mother. She had full custody of me because of a court case with my biological mother and as result I was taken away from her and placed in foster care. Both parents were denied custody and that’s when my grandmother volunteered to take me from the system and I end up in her care.

Both parents were allowed visiting rights but were never allowed to have me for a few years. While living with my grandmother one day the teacher called my dad and informed him that I was too advance compared to the students that were in my class at the time. She said something like my mind is ready to start studying in primary school and that for my age I shouldn’t have such an intelligent mind. My dad had to withdraw me from the school but I was too young to start primary so I had to stay home for a few months until the next term after my upcoming birthday to be able to register in primary school.

A year or two after a while attending primary because of my ability to record information quickly and find solutions easily. The new school had was to skip me one grade up after the 2nd term. Everything was going great with my studies and I was known amongst most of my peers as one of the smartest kid at home and in school but something strange happened one night.

One night I was asleep and I had a dream. It was as if something called my spirit out of my house and when I looked up a bird looking creature threw something looking like salt down in the crown of my head. I woke up feeling the sting of it. When I woke up it felt like someone had pure cold water in the crown of my head. From that day onwards my whole life took a major turn. Suddenly I lost interest in academics my head felt blank like I couldn’t retain anything. I would be in class and teacher is talking a bout lessons and I am looking at her fighting to understand what she is saying and sometimes even in the midst of me trying to focus as much as possible I didn’t even hear a word she said. My mind would always go blank like a light that keep switching on and off.

I knew something was wrong but I didn’t understand it nor did I know how to communicate it to others. Something changed in me and the fruits that I began producing was poor. My grades were shameful and my family especially my dads very disappointed in me. I remember when I did my final end of school exam and the results came out that I didn’t pass a good score to be placed in one of those top schools my dad was so disappointed that he didn’t want to come at the graduation.

Looking back I understand why my dad would feel that way because he knew I was always a smart kid and thought that I was wasting time in school. What he didn’t know was that life is spiritually and that everything happens first in the spiritual realm and then manifest in the natural.

Life continues like that for me for years I would apply for schools/colleges get accepted but never complete my studies. I can read well and I can write at the average level but why couldn’t I excel beyond that level I had when I was in basic school?

I thought this was all me and that I was not born as one of those children that would excel in academics. I lost all confidence and started believing the words that were spoken over my life by others. When I left high school I didn’t do well in my exams and could not get a job and my dad was exhausted with my failures and other complaints about me that he refused to send me to additional schools. I left high school very young because of skipping grades as mentioned earlier. After a few months at home I knew I didn’t want to end up being apart of the statistics of no education, no job and only look at as a baby machine or sex object. So I decided to try again. While I was applying for a government learning institution one of my in laws heard the news and told my dad to tell me not to waste my time. She said some of her families have a lot of qualifications and applied for the institution and didn’t get accepted so she’s pretty sure I wouldn’t be. Even though I was offended when I heard that and not just offended but sad to know that I am out of options but to be honest looking back I understand why she said what she said and I’m not longer offended. She was speaking out of doubt and not necessarily to discourage me but then I didn’t thought that was the case and I felt, lost, ashamed and disappointed.

(To be continued..)

Gems from todays kit

No one is born halfwit or valueless because we are made in God’s image and nothing less

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