THE Page BETWEEN THE RICH AND POOR by Mkpisi.
"If you see your brother standing by the road With a heavy load from the seeds he sowed And if you see your sister falling by the way Just stop and say, "You're going the wrong way"
The ETHNICAL CENSUS or call it yearly home coming, which one can say without gainsayng to be ANAMBRA yearly Tradition, after all it seems the festivities are centered around Anambra and branch off to other states just by Vapour , where meetings of all standard are lined, where Alumni assemble as RÉUNION but in actual it is to take stock of the Big boys and snub others who are not that well to do or who can't spend money as if they did not sweat for it.
It is a yearly Pilgrim that has come to stay, come Shine or rain, Poverty or in Riches, it must be observed with Pomp and pagentary.
All TOWNS mark meeting Umunna, Ime NNE and all other sort of meetings, which makes the entire thing exciting, then from New Year all Burials that wasn't executed at a period, will be celebrated with Fanfare.
Marriages will sprang up for those who take pride in marrying the right way as many prefer to take a Girl, make her pregnant and they start calling each other Husband and wife, maybe because of extra expensive marriage rites which involves spending money the Boy never had, so to avoid stories that touch the Heart, he take a Short cut.
"You've got to try a little kindness
Yes, show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets"
But today is not about the ownership or Ndi Nwe NmeNme but the Gap or say the Gulf created in the minds of the "Don't Have", to them either you share your Wealth to them or you are tagged onye ogwu ego or sounding same in English where is comes without thunderous Norms, it is called Ritual money, but don't let the Caveat of Onye Ogwu Ego frustrate you, most times it is just the Legend of Nwata kpakaria ibe ya na Nku, asi na okpalu na Ajo Ofia and Nwanyi manaria ibe ya, akpo ya OGBANJE (When a Child out fetch his peers on Firewood Hunting, he will be accused of procuring from Evil or Forbidden forest, on same fate when a Girl is prettier than others, they all tag her OGBANJE "REINCARNATED").
If you make money and nobody tagged you with derogatory nuance , then you need Deliverance because they have not noticed you and your new level.
My angst today is the way some people think you take thier Akara aka (Destiny), imagine a Brick Layer in the Village will think that one took his BRICK LAYING destiny and use same to make wealth, emmmmm, hmmmmmmm, let me tell us, if you have a hidden Talent or Destiny and you are doing Menial Job and from look of things, you can't clip the nails of a Fowl, then you think somebody takes over same Destiny and make wealth with it, it simply means your real talent is to be Poor.
Your son is in the Village constituting nuisance and you think somebody took his Talent or destiny?.
Anybody that traded such will be in the village to practice the trade of the Destiny owner.
Now I know why Jesus went to eat at Zacheus house, even though they have tagged him as Ekperima back in the days but Jesus know that Poverty is a Virus that affects the mind and makes the owner of poverty not to think of success but to always think of those who Made it, they find the imaginary source that gave them wealth and not the one that made self poor.
Nobody will waste his time trying to acquire Talent or Destiny of a Local Champion, because if you take destiny of a Bicycle Repairer, you can only improve on his Bicycle repairing business, meaning you can come down to his level and use the Talent.
If a Man take such talent and started importation, definitely it is not from Bicycle repair level as he has never traded in Dollar or in Millions, unless it was because of such people that Jesus said in MATHEW 25 VS 14-30..READ IT.
Stop thinking somebody took your talent because your talent is not useful and you can't use it or improve on it.
Most preachers uses the teaching just to exploit you, take all you have and make you hate those who can help your life or lift you off the Poverty table.
You that expects help from another, have you helped others?.. You have Opportunity to be a Sweeper, cleaner, Gardner and a Rich neighbor contracted you to help out in his house, then you gave him so much Bill with the notion that he has money, then after he paid you for services rendered, the same you will go back telling him about your problems including paying your Children School fees... Don't you think you are wicked and stupid?.
The only thing you can give to him which is services, you charge him for it and you think he is stupid to Notice?.
Why can't you do it free from all charges and from your heart, so it will become a burden on his mind and even if he doesn't pay back, posterity must pay you back.
There was a situation that makes me to ponder, a Certain Man whose Philanthropic gesture is legendary, he has been taking care of the neighbors children both Schooling, health, wears and many things of life just because he wants to infect them with prosperity of tomorrow.
Every trip to the Village, he always drop largesse to the Woman whose Children he takes care off.
On a certain day during the peak of PEARS, he told the Woman that he wants to buy Pear he will take back to his Base,the woman informed him that she will harvest Pears which she brought and SOLD to the Man, just as the Woman left, the man was strolling on the Village Path with a friend and saw another Woman heading to the market with Quantity of Pears to sale, he halt the woman and ask her to sale to him, the woman brought down the Pears Basket and the Pears are more robust than what the neighbor sold to him, more butter like and twice the quantity of what the other sold to him.
The outsider called the price that is half of what he bought the lesser one, and as he wanted to pay her, the woman now look closely at him and ask him "Are you not.. So so and so?, owner of that house?" pointing toward his palatial home and the Man Nodded..
The woman said in plain language, I won't sale the Pear to you, have it and I am coming Back with Plantain.
Let it be my token of appreciation for all the goodies you have done to the less privilege in our community.
Not only it was a shocker to the Man and his friend, it changed the man's narrative and those who are eligible to receive largesse hence.
There are many who hide under Have not and establish a SHYLOCK FIEFDOM, they can't even give you a Cup of Water to Top up the Water in your Car, to them you must pay because you have money, they never knew that A LITTLE KINDNESS will always lubricate rusty joints and open Doors that are stiff.
When I talk of given, it's not about the Church kind of giving, but the kind of giving Heaven and Earth founds worthy.
Do you know you can take a Hawker Child off the street and build the life and that is better than TITHE you paid for 10 Years?, God is not our mate nor in battle to test who out donate others, in your Poverty, you can shine the light for others to see.
On your Affluence you can use just percentage of the money you spend on laundering self as Oputa Obie, spread it a bit and in the true word, you will be Onwa na etiri Ora.
Finally, don't ever think you are too Poor to help as you can help even in your position, don't think you have helped many and no thanks from them, it is not new, even Jesus cure 10 and 9 narie, only one came back but it never stopped him From doing good.
May God help and put in our mind, the spirit of kindness and Love..
I remain Last Born Mpa Nnukwu, Mkpisi Ndi Egede, Nwa Chukwu Ku na aka na ONWU agaghi egbu nwu ya, Dibia Onu Ike adighi agbalu Ekperima afa, Anu Ana agba Egbe ona eme Love, and asi ka acha Ndigbo saying leave spiritual Bondage in 2022 just live right .
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