My Diamond Musings

If there was no Mandate,

The Affirmation of our Faith

And our Propensity for God’s Kingdom

Will not be this Incredible and Priviledged  

We will never know the place of Sensitivity

In our Covenant Walk with this Gorgeous Good God

We will never appreciate nor understand

How to acquire God Vision for our Lives

And not live with Personal Ambition

We will never know God as

The never – failing source of all things

And not lack any one thing

We will never know that

You can stay away from cutting corners and

Still make it to the top

We will never know

God can build an Edifice Debt – free

With no fund raising or begging mere mortals

 

We will never know about the Pillars of our Destiny

The Serenity and Joy its Pursuit gives

We wouldn’t have learnt how to go as commanded

Even if inconvenient

We wouldn’t have known that life will not give us what

We deserve but what we demand

And never to watch what we don’t want

Nevertheless,

What we do not know or might never know

Wouldn’t have never mattered

If there was no Mandate on May 1^st 1981

But before the Mandate on that first day of May

There was a birth on September 27^th

Generation yet unborn and incipient

Will never stop blessing the name of the Lord

Because the Mandate came to pass

Oh my Diamond Anniversary Musings!

                                                                Dotun Owolabi

                                                                September, 2014