This is my first personal topic on this website and I hope you find it encouraging and inspiring.

Well for starters I have to say good afternoon and also ask how you are doing today. Hope life has not been too hard on you. Life itself sometimes can be like an orange. You only can get the sweetness out when you squeeze it and that squeeze can be painful or discomforting but it's all about the sweetness and not the process. If you focus on the process or "squeeze" you just might never get the sweetness.

I have so much joy in my heart today and I will tell you why but before I do allow me share a brief history about me with you.

I am a British / Nigerian (my dad was Nigerian while my mum is British). I was born in Abraka Delta State and lost my dad to Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease when I was 7 years old ( My mum waited till I was 16 to tell me the whole thing about my dads death.

2 years after my father died my mum and I left for the UK with all the memories of my father she could find. My mum refused to get married again despite being just 37 when my father died so I am her only child. Her birthday would be in less than 2 weeks and she is already well over 70 years old with no regrets.

My mum raised me a Christian but I was never keen about a lot of that religious stuff even though I would accompany her to her local church gatherings here in the UK and she added a lot of Nigerian (African) flavour to the place despite being white and British. I had to include African when I mentioned Nigerian because back then a lot of British people only knew Africa and thought Africa was a country and not a continent.

I pretended to love God all because of my mum but was secretly a member of an all female British gang which I joined when I was 14. 2yrs later at age 16 I witnessed one of us being raped by her boyfriends father and during investigations I got arrested and questioned and that was how my mum found out about my gang involvement.

She sat me down and gave me a long talk where she encouraged me to ask questions. So based on what I witnessed I had to ask her about my dad and for her to tell me all about him and by God she did! She told me about a man who was beyond any man she ever knew and made me proud to have had him as a father and I also now understood why she chose to remain single after he died. Her final words to me that day were, "your worth can only be found when you live for others". That was my turning point as I decided to become better (though still not loving God).

I decided to venture into medicine due to my desire to help people with medical challenges. Something my father never had proper access to and I worked hard to become a surgeon. It was at this time I met my husband who happens to be a gynaecologist and such a darling. After being licensed to practise and working for some years as a surgeon , my desire to be of greater help to others made me now consider becoming an emergency medical specialist as that would enable me to have first hand contact with trauma patients on the field and offer maximum first time help before hospital care because often times its the first help or first aid that could determine if one lives or dies.

I eventually was accepted and given an emergency team to head and it was during this period that my colleague shared the Gospel of Jesus with me and for the first time in my life I actually listened and surrendered my life that day and it has been an awesome experience.

Now it's on record that some persons Here on this website have found it unbelievable that I would choose to leave the comfort of the hospital as a surgeon and rather become a "super" paramedic with all the toughness and roughness of the field plus a lesser wage. Well I had my passion driving me and it was later I knew that it was God who created that passion in me in order to direct my path.

Now to the big news. If you think people are not being inspired by your selfless life even without your knowing it then you need to start paying attention. A year ago I joined an initiative known as the mobile intensive prayer unit and we have been building a prayer network for medics and helping them deal with traumatic situations and teaching them via the gospel. Now unknown to me, one of us on the network knew about another initiative known as citizenaid and being close to the originator, spoke fondly of me and recommended me as an ambassador for citizenaid.

Citizenaid is designed to train members of the public on how to help the injured during emergencies e.g terror attacks, accidents and so on. I just got a call from them offering me to join them as their ambassador though I am yet to put pen to paper with them (which would be next week as we formally meet)

They already hinted that I would be their VIP representative to the World Trauma innovation conference coming up here in London in September and also their VIP representative at the Royal College of emergency medicines annual scientific conference in October with a whole lot more lined up.

I am now more than glad that I followed my passion and followed my mums golden words, " Your worth can only be found when you live for others". All my initial ups and downs in life have led me to this point and learning to trust God cemented it. I am about entering into a new phase of selfless medicine and I know God is going to join me on this ride as He has always done.

My husband said something to me 2 months ago. He said "I see babies come into the world almost daily and these babies all need someone to help them come out and I have seen quite a few burials. All the dead also needed someone to help bury them. Makes me wonder why so many who were born and who will die still choose to be so selfish".

Be inspired and learn to live to add value to someone besides yourself. In the end I am here because you are there. I am who I am because of you and as long as you live and I live also, you will always give me reason to become more than I am today just for your sake.

God bless those who read to the end. Going out to celebrate now. Cheers!

Wow......

Glory be to God
I am inspired.

Congrats OP

CatfishBilly, hopefullandlord, akintom, hahn, adepeter26, Dalaman, and the others

Come and join in saying a big congratulation

Analice107 and Ishilove come and celebrate and bless God

Citizenaid is designed to train members of the public on how to help the injured during emergencies e.g terror attacks, accidents and so on. I just got a call from them offering me to join them as their ambassador though I am yet to put pen to paper with them (which would be next week as we formally meet)

They already hinted that I would be their VIP representative to the World Trauma innovation conference coming up here in London in September and also their VIP representative at the Royal College of emergency medicines annual scientific conference in October with a whole lot more lined up.

I am now more than glad that I followed my passion and followed my mums golden words, " Your worth can only be found when you live for others". All my initial ups and downs in life have led me to this point and learning to trust God cemented it. I am about entering into a new phase of selfless medicine and I know God is going to join me on this ride as He has always done.

Congrat Space. I celebrate with you. May the Lord keep you for those who need your help and keep on taking you higher.

This is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing, spacetacular.

I'm sure you know this but ADPKD is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait in families meaning that if one parent has the disease, there is a 50% chance that the disease will pass to a child of either gender.

But with your new found closure in Christ you'd be fine; just study and meditate on Galatians 3:13
And Psalms 91.

God bless your soul.

While atheists are planning to ruin the lives of people with their malevolence and purposeles lives , a Christian is excited to be part of a cause that will add value to the lives of others .

May God guide you as you enter this new chapter of life , Amen . I'm inspired already . Congrats spacetacular

Great, touching, engrossing (yeah, yeah), and..... well, I'm inspired as well. Congratulations Spacetacular and more power to your elbow. It's great to see one who takes delight in altruism and selfless service to humanity. While others find it a BURDEN, you chose to make it the core of your being. And kudos to your hubby. Going by his words above, you guys are a perfect and matching couple. I believe your mum is joyous, probably just as much as you, or even more. You have my best wishes.

TLuzzie:
You're an idiot_, an annoyingly incredible fool. Through what kind of retarded_ Spectacles do you view the world, you moron_? Don't you have sense? Even if you don't, CAN'T you try and have it FOR ONCE?

Look at them . Conspicuously being belligerent. Who knows if he is sincere about congratulating you .

abeg shift

spacetacular:

This is my first personal topic on this website and I hope you find it encouraging and inspiring.

Well for starters I have to say good afternoon and also ask how you are doing today. Hope life has not been too hard on you. Life itself sometimes can be like an orange. You only can get the sweetness out when you squeeze it and that squeeze can be painful or discomforting but it's all about the sweetness and not the process. If you focus on the process or "squeeze" you just might never get the sweetness.

I have so much joy in my heart today and I will tell you why but before I do allow me share a brief history about me with you.

I am a British / Nigerian (my dad was Nigerian while my mum is British). I was born in Abraka Delta State and lost my dad to Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease when I was 7 years old ( My mum waited till I was 16 to tell me the whole thing about my dads death.

2 years after my father died my mum and I left for the UK with all the memories of my father she could find. My mum refused to get married again despite being just 37 when my father died so I am her only child. Her birthday would be in less than 2 weeks and she is already well over 70 years old with no regrets.

My mum raised me a Christian but I was never keen about a lot of that religious stuff even though I would accompany her to her local church gatherings here in the UK and she added a lot of Nigerian (African) flavour to the place despite being white and British. I had to include African when I mentioned Nigerian because back then a lot of British people only knew Africa and thought Africa was a country and not a continent.

I pretended to love God all because of my mum but was secretly a member of an all female British gang which I joined when I was 14. 2yrs later at age 16 I witnessed one of us being raped by her boyfriends father and during investigations I got arrested and questioned and that was how my mum found out about my gang involvement.

She sat me down and gave me a long talk where she encouraged me to ask questions. So based on what I witnessed I had to ask her about my dad and for her to tell me all about him and by God she did! She told me about a man who was beyond any man she ever knew and made me proud to have had him as a father and I also now understood why she chose to remain single after he died. Her final words to me that day were, "your worth can only be found when you live for others". That was my turning point as I decided to become better (though still not loving God).

I decided to venture into medicine due to my desire to help people with medical challenges. Something my father never had proper access to and I worked hard to become a surgeon. It was at this time I met my husband who happens to be a gynaecologist and such a darling. After being licensed to practise and working for some years as a surgeon , my desire to be of greater help to others made me now consider becoming an emergency medical specialist as that would enable me to have first hand contact with trauma patients on the field and offer maximum first time help before hospital care because often times its the first help or first aid that could determine if one lives or dies.

I eventually was accepted and given an emergency team to head and it was during this period that my colleague shared the Gospel of Jesus with me and for the first time in my life I actually listened and surrendered my life that day and it has been an awesome experience.

Now it's on record that some persons Here on this website have found it unbelievable that I would choose to leave the comfort of the hospital as a surgeon and rather become a "super" paramedic with all the toughness and roughness of the field plus a lesser wage. Well I had my passion driving me and it was later I knew that it was God who created that passion in me in order to direct my path.

Now to the big news. If you think people are not being inspired by your selfless life even without your knowing it then you need to start paying attention. A year ago I joined an initiative known as the mobile intensive prayer unit and we have been building a prayer network for medics and helping them deal with traumatic situations and teaching them via the gospel. Now unknown to me, one of us on the network knew about another initiative known as citizenaid and being close to the originator, spoke fondly of me and recommended me as an ambassador for citizenaid.

Citizenaid is designed to train members of the public on how to help the injured during emergencies e.g terror attacks, accidents and so on. I just got a call from them offering me to join them as their ambassador though I am yet to put pen to paper with them (which would be next week as we formally meet)

They already hinted that I would be their VIP representative to the World Trauma innovation conference coming up here in London in September and also their VIP representative at the Royal College of emergency medicines annual scientific conference in October with a whole lot more lined up.

I am now more than glad that I followed my passion and followed my mums golden words, " Your worth can only be found when you live for others". All my initial ups and downs in life have led me to this point and learning to trust God cemented it. I am about entering into a new phase of selfless medicine and I know God is going to join me on this ride as He has always done.

My husband said something to me 2 months ago. He said "I see babies come into the world almost daily and these babies all need someone to help them come out and I have seen quite a few burials. All the dead also needed someone to help bury them. Makes me wonder why so many who were born and who will die still choose to be so selfish".

Be inspired and learn to live to add value to someone besides yourself. In the end I am here because you are there. I am who I am because of you and as long as you live and I live also, you will always give me reason to become more than I am today just for your sake.

God bless those who read to the end. Going out to celebrate now. Cheers!

just to inform us that u'ar now been promoted to higher rank. abi?

KingEbukasBlog:


Look at them . Conspicuously being belligerent. Who knows if he is sincere about congratulating you .

abeg shift

I find it rather appalling that you view every issue involving Christians through the atheist-theist prism. So, because she's a Christian, I must hate her, is that how your brain works, Ebuka the first rate "logician"? So, you take me for a deceptive, dishonest charlatan like you who types long posts just to pretend to be what he's not? You're really a case.

bennyann:
Congrats OP

CatfishBilly, hopefullandlord, akintom, hahn, adepeter26, Dalaman, and the others

Come and join in saying a big congratulation

No beef intended.

Wetin concern conductor for ojuelegba with agbèrò.

Anyways óò, I didn't read, but congratulations

Ẹkú ìṣe Olúwa.

adepeter26:

No beef intended.

Wetin concern conductor for ojuelegba with agbèrò.

Anyways óò, I didn't read, but congratulations

Ẹkú ìṣe Olúwa.

Na so. As long as ductor dey for the conductor it's OK. It sound like doctor.

Go and read it jor

Frank317, where are you o

When is Buhari going to return.

That's our concern currently...

Hustle no pay today (zero SHOE MENDED)

bennyann:


Na so. As long as ductor dry for the conductor it's OK. They sound like doctor.

Go and read it jor

Frank317, where are you o

You Sabi find my trouble.

Later you will be saying "what's funny" àbí?

Thanks for sharing your story.
Congratulations on the new position. You deserve it.

adepeter26:

You Sabi find my trouble.

Later you will be saying "what's funny" àbí?

But you are the one that started with the trouble now. I only continued the trouble

Where is CatfishBilly sef

What do you have to say.

Frank317, come and see your closest UK pal oo

Babalawos, when you self go upgrade naw

bennyann:


But you are the one that started with the trouble now. I only continued the trouble

To you

LoL

CatfishBilly:
Thanks for sharing your story.
Congratulations on the new position. You deserve it.

I trust you doc. You can't fall my hand.
Respect!

adepeter26:



To you

LoL

Mstchew

Otematum where are you?

bennyann:




Mstchew

Otematum where are you?

Shior

Next person jare

adepeter26:

Shior

Next person jare

I like the kid in that meme. Is he yours?

bennyann:


I like the kid in that meme. Is he yours?

Yeah

BTW, why the @bolded??

bennyann:
Analice107 and Ishilove come and celebrate and bless God




Congrat Space. I celebrate with you. May the Lord keep you for those who need your help and keep on taking you higher.

Thank you so much. Just came in from my celebration dinner with my husband, mum and a few friends.

Ishilove:
This is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing, spacetacular.

Thanks for reading. God bless you

KingEbukasBlog:
While atheists are planning to ruin the lives of people with their malevolence and purposeles lives , a Christian is excited to be part of a cause that will add value to the lives of others .

May God guide you as you enter this new chapter of life , Amen . I'm inspired already . Congrats spacetacular

Amen Mr king. I will always do my best as I serve my God given purpose.

TLuzzie:
Great, touching, engrossing (yeah, yeah), and..... well, I'm inspired as well. Congratulations Spacetacular and more power to your elbow. It's great to see one who takes delight in altruism and selfless service to humanity. While others find it a BURDEN, you chose to make it the core of your being. And kudos to your hubby. Going by his words above, you guys are a perfect and matching couple. I believe your mum is joyous, probably just as much as you, or even more. You have my best wishes.

My mum wouldn't stop holding my hands today as I could see pride and joy in her eyes. She put all about herself into me and my husband is a whole other story. His life challenges me daily and for that I am grateful.

Love is an action and not a word. Learning to love and live for others gives the kind of joy and fulfilment words fail to describe.

Still rocking 4:44 album by jay z so I couldn't read this
Was it any good guys??

Lool
kingEbukasBlog the athiephobe