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When Memory Speaks
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*WHEN MEMORY SPEAKS* 

Not quite long in the past
When years, hours
And seconds slip by

Then, time never went fast
It's  years of manners
And respect for old

Amazon was the time
We sit in circles 
And papa tell us comical stories

Then mother read poetry of emotion
Cum with laws of nature
As our bed time story

Looking back at the smiles that once shared
Looking back to the pages that almost forgot
When memories speaks, it make we wish for rebirth
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Chidinma
Chelsea
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Trouble for Lampard as important Chelsea star pulls out of his country’s game with injury
BioreportsNov 11, 2020Read original

– Christian Pulisic will not be part of USA squad that will face Wales
– The Chelsea star has been told to leave the camp for a return to Stamford Bridge
– Pulisic has been in superb form for the Blues since he joined them from Dortmund
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Christian Pulisic who currently plays for Premier League side Chelsea has pulled out of the United States’ squad that will face Wales on Thursday, November 12, because of injury he sustained.

The 22-year-old was warming up for Chelsea’s Premier League game against Burnley before he sustained the injury was unable to play for the Stamford Bridge landlords.

According to the latest report on UK Sun, Christian Pulisic has been excused from the USA camp so as for him to return to Chelsea and continue his recuperation processes.

Greg Berhalter who is in charge of USA national senior men’s team explained that Christian Pulisic will be missed in his squad.

“Christian Pulisic is leaving camp tonight.

“He had a great three or four days with the team and he was able to get treatment, be with the guys and connect with the staff again.

“It was great to see him. Unfortunately he won’t be taking part in the match. He’s a player that we are certainly going to miss and with his quality we wish we could have him on the field but that’s not going to happen.”

Meanwhile, Pulisic joined Chelsea from Borussia Dortmund and has played 28 games for the Blues so far scoring nine goals.

Chelsea are currently occupying fifth position on the Premier League table with 15 points after eight games played.


Christian Pulisic, Chelsea star, pulls out of USA squad to face Wales with injury.

Photo by Darren Walsh

Source: Getty Images

Earlier, Bioreports had reported how Olivier Giroud who is currently on the books of Premier League side Chelsea is reportedly plotting to leave the Stamford Bridge landlords in the January 2021 transfer window.
The former Arsenal striker is not having it rosy this season in the Premier League under Frank Lampard as he has only played 33 minutes for the Blues in the English topflight.

Timo Werner and Kai Havertz’s arrival at Chelsea has affected Olivier Giroud getting active playing time this term in the Premier League.

Last season during the transfer window, the France international almost left Chelsea due to lack of games, but he later agreed to remain at the club.

His current contract with Chelsea will expire at the end of the ongoing Premier League season and a new deal has not been established between the player and Blues’ chiefs.

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Today's Message
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Please, READ and REFLECT on this for tomorrow. 



33rd Sunday of the Year  “A” 

 *HAVE NO FEAR IN USING GOD’S GIFTS* 

            Each year, when the liturgical cycle approaches its end, the Church proposes to us texts from the Scriptures which touch rather directly on the return of Christ to earth at the end of time.  The epistle of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians clearly alludes to it.  Today's gospel also speaks of it:  the master of the house who goes on a journey is the symbol of Jesus who went away and who will soon return. 

            In today’s gospel parable, Jesus shares a story about trust.  The Master who was going on the journey handed everything he had over to his three servants.  He did not give his servants just a little cash to tide them over until he returned.  He gave everything he had over to them.  When he returned, he expected that his servants would respond by giving their best back to him.  The first two did.  The third gave nothing of himself back to the Master. 

            The story is really about a trust that is never accepted.  The master gives the servant the talent because he trusts in the ability and the intelligence of the servant.  The real problem is that the servant never accepts and lives out that trust.  Instead, he lives in fear; he does nothing; he takes no risks or chances.  That sense of fear; that stance of simply waiting is not rewarded – it is punished. 

            You can imagine what he called him - FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real), as someone defines it, had paralyzed the useless servant. 

            Obviously, the Master is God who is extravagant with His people.  He gives His life to us, all His love, all whom He is.  He does this freely, generously, and without reserve.  The third servant missed this.  He took the money as a risk rather than as a gift.  When the Master returned he said, "Here's everything back, safe and sound."  That is not what the Master wanted.  The Master wanted the servant to be generous with himself just as he had been generous to the servant. 

            God gave Himself as a gift to us.  We are to give ourselves as a gift to others.  Jesus put this another way, "The one who saves his life will lose it.  The one who loses his life will save it."  Everything we have is a gift.  Our lives, in turn, must be a gift to others. 

            The problem with this third slave is that he refused to take risks; he would not step out into the unknown.  Filled with anxiety and fear, he projected his guilt upon his own master.  In the end, he loses everything he owned.  Had he acted with some degree of innocence, he may have received a much more understanding treatment from his master. 

            Jesus used the parable to teach his disciples and us how much the Father trusts us.  You do not give a treasure to someone you do not trust.  And that trust is meant to bring confidence to the person who receives it. 

            This Gospel story can be easily misunderstood as an endorsement of our modern-day achieving society or of high interest rates.  Actually, the lesson has nothing at all to do with investing money or accumulating wealth.  Jesus merely uses the analogy of money to make an important point about our lives as Christians.  Jesus is telling us that each of us is expected to perform our Christian duty according to our individual abilities.  Each disciple of Christ is graced with his or her own unique power and capability to perform God's will.  Each is expected to live up to that power and that capability.  Moreover, the lesson is clear that the power conferred on us grows with use and withers with disuse. 

            The Lord expects us to make the best of what He has given us.  The parable is nothing to do with money.  It is to do with grace.  He expects us to use the gifts of sanctifying grace which He gave us at our Baptism, and which He renews throughout our lives.  His gifts must not lie dormant.  They must increase and multiply.  Otherwise, He will judge us to have wasted what He himself invested. 

            The man who did not invest the money had some wrong ideas about his master.  He was afraid that if the investment went sour he would be punished for his mistake, even though the risk-taking was the master's idea.  Because he feared his master as a fierce and exacting man, he decided to do nothing - and he produced nothing. 

            Jesus gives us this last example in order that we might know what to expect if we do not trust Him.  It is the example of a person who is afraid of God.  "I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground."  We should not be afraid of God.  Let us be afraid of offending Him, let us be afraid of hell, let us be afraid of what Jesus might say to us: "And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."  But let us not be afraid of God. 

            Paul had to remind the early community of this message.  They were waiting for Jesus’ return.  They wanted to be prepared and ready.  And so, they decided to stop everything; they decided to have tremendous faith in Jesus and just wait for Him to return. 

            But Paul says, "NO" - that is not faith - faith does not mean simply sitting back and putting everything in God’s hands.  Faith means recognizing God’s trust in you – it means living in light and getting on with life.  It does not mean living in fear and complacency.  It means recognizing God’s trust in your ability to carry out His plan and His work. 

            What about us?  The message is the same.  God trusts us.  God has faith and confidence in us.  God knows we can and will make mistakes, but surely that is better than never acting out the trust God places in us.  Who has the greater faith – the one who simply puts everything quickly back in God’s hands or the one who takes some risks and chances in doing something about the problem? 

            Sometimes we pray that things will work out with the other person, but we do not do anything, we do not risk saying or doing anything.  Sometimes we hope and pray that our situation will improve, that things will work out – but we do not reach out and talk to someone about it.  We hope that someone will return to the practice of his or her faith, but we do not want to take the risk of talking about our faith. 

            Real faith is not putting everything in God’s hands right away.  Real faith is recognizing God’s trust and confidence in us and trying to do the best we can, or at least trying to do something.  That third servant never really accepted the trust the master had in him.  Hopefully, as we hear God’s word and share at the Lord’s table, we will know the love and trust of God for us. 

            The talent that the master had given to the wicked servant had not become the property of the unfaithful servant.  This is why the master took it away from him, as if he in fact possessed nothing: "From him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."  Indeed, when God gives His grace to us mere mortal human beings, we need to respond to it with faith; we must correspond to it, striving with our entire being to do so. 

            The grace of God calls for the free consent of the human person, and it is only with this consent that the grace of God becomes God's gift to the whole of the person who receives it in faith.  Without this correspondence on the part of the human person, the grace of God remains a good that belongs to God, and he who believes he possesses it is, in reality, the poorest of men. 

            God has entrusted us to invest this treasure of His in His Kingdom of Love.  Ours now is to carry out that trust, whatever the risk.  Jesus risked His life.  Jesus gave His life in order to reveal to us the depth of the Father's love and concern for us.  He gave His life as the ultimate investment in the Father's promise that the power of His love would win the victory over death itself. 

      Talents are not made to remain buried and hidden in a person's anonymity.  On the contrary, as Jesus said:  "You are the light of the world." (Mt. 5:14) 

      The talents received, whether they be natural or supernatural, must be developed and used for the good of all.  It cannot remain dormant (quiescent) and inactive.  It must either express itself, in good works, or it will dry up and wither, and our last state will be worse than the first.  "For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away." 

            Invest your life -- all of it, even your money -- in the Kingdom of Love.  It is worth the risk.  Invest your life in the Kingdom of Love so that, in the words of today's Gospel parable, the Father of us all may say to you, "Well done, good and faithful servant ... enter into the joy of your Master" (Mt. 25:21). 

            God our Father is a gracious, compassionate, merciful, forgiving and caring God. 

            May your love be upon us O Lord, as we place all our hope, trust and love in You.  Amen.  

           In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  
 

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JenniferC111
MIDNIGHT PRAYER
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****MIDNIGHT PRAYERS**** 

*DATE:*  14th November, 2020.

*PRAYER POINT*
Father! Tonight by your infinite mercies; throughout this month and beyond, please Lord let evil happenings/occurrences and unprecedented mayhem be very far away from me and my entire Household and hide us under the Shadow of your Wings.    
*In the name of  JESUS* 🙏🙏🙏

***God bless your night***

*MNP ©️2020*

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Chidinma
How The Yoruba Magun Works In Married Couples
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See How The Yoruba Magic Charm ”Magun” Works When A Married Woman Cheats On Her Husband
EdujandonNov 13, 2020Read original

The Yoruba tribe that occupies the South-Western part of Nigeria are unique people, this their uniqueness can also be seen in the way they sometimes go overboard to ensure that their wife remains faithful and loyal to them.

It is a known fact that there exists a charm in the region that is called ”magun”, the charm is primarily used to deter married women from cheating on the husband.

The best way to describe magun is “do not climb.” Magun has been used for centuries to catch a wife who has an extra-marital affair or to put a promiscuous woman in check.

It is also believed in some quarters a number of parents put magun on their daughters to discourage pre-marital s3x and ward off rapists.


The shocking part of this is that the charm is put on a woman without her knowledge.

A stick of broom or thread is usually placed on the floor for a woman to unknowingly walk over it. Once she works over the thread or broom stick, the charm takes its effect.

Now there are different sorts of magun. However, the three most famous ones are;

1) a woman and her lover stick like glue during the process of s*x. The man cannot detach himself from the woman. This sometimes leads to death and in some cases a public humiliation of the stuck couple.

2) In another variation when a man sleeps with a woman who has magun on her, he starts to crow like a rooster. It is said that the man would crow for three times and by the third time he would end up dead.


3) Another popular variation of magun is that of the man somersaulting three times. Just like the chicken magun, when the man somersaults the third time he ends up dead.

As crazy as magun sounds, there are many stories of the charm dooming lovers. In 2015, in Cross River State,.

Magun is popular in Nigeria. In 2001, revered Nigerian filmmaker Tunde Kelani released a movie called “Thunderbolt: Magun” which dwelt on the mystery of the charm.

Even with the popularity of magun, it really hasn’t stopped or slowed down extra-marital affairs. Not many people have what it takes to do such a bold move.

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VALENCIA CONFERENCE CENTRE EMBRACES TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ITS 2021 ACTION PLAN
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The Action Plan is based on the Centre’s mission and vision as a reference venue in hosting mainly international conferences and conventions to further the economic development of Valencia.

The Conference Centre has presented an ambitious Action Plan for the coming year, which will be conditioned by the current economic and health situation.

The Valencia Conference Centre’s Board of Directors has approved the Action Plan and budget for 2021. This roadmap is part of the new 2021-2023 Strategic Plan, which takes into account the current scenario and its possible evolution. The Action Plan is based on the Centre’s mission and vision as a reference venue in hosting mainly international conferences and conventions to further the economic development of Valencia.

The Councillor for Tourism and Internationalisation, Emiliano Garcia, explained that “the objectives of this strategic approach aim to increase the volume of business and maintain sustainable, efficient infrastructures, while also maximising levels of customer satisfaction. Accordingly, the Centre has mapped out various lines of action to strengthen its international business activities and to promote the use of cutting-edge technology to adapt to current trends and respond more swiftly to new challenges.

In turn, the Centre’s Managing Director, Sylvia Andres, added that in its role as a venue that is committed to its environment, the Centre has proposed initiatives that contribute to improving the community and are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. One of the most outstanding aspects of its in-house social commitment is the drafting
and implementation of an Equality Plan. This Plan presents a set of measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in all areas of the Centre.

In addition, the Councillor highlighted the fact that “the current exceptional circumstances also call for exceptional initiatives, which is why we have drawn up an action plan that is more ambitious than ever. The strategy we have devised aims to continue promoting the Conference Centre as the economic driving force of our city, with a responsible management model that will help us to move forward and look to the future with optimism, within the framework of caution required by the current situation.

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