HE SEES ME

Thirteen days ago, I was at a park in Abeokuta, just arriving from Lagos. On alighting from the bus, I discovered that my right sandal was almost pulled off at the big toe grip point. So I started scanning around the park for a shoemaker but didn't see any neither was there any one selling flip-flops in view. I continued dragging it along. As I approached the roadside where I'd cross to the other side, the shoe finally pulled. I started looking around again for a shoemaker.

Just as the shoe pulled and I was trying to think of what to do, I heard a guy in a shed beside me calling out to me. I ignored the call because I was not sure it was meant for me. He kept calling and added "Shoemaker is here." Good gracious, my shoe pulled just at the front of a shoemaker and I didn't know!" I did see there were some men standing there from the corner of my eyes, but I didn't bother to check them out. I knew God was telling me something. I was going through a difficult time and I needed some reassurance from the Lord of His care for me. Indeed He is the Living One Who Sees Me. Lahairoi!

HE KNOWS MY NAME

And He did it again! I needed to get to the main road from an area where it is not easy to get public transport. I saw some public buses, but it was as if they were not ready to pick anyone on the road. I did not want to stay there for too long, so I prayed that the Lord would get me out of the place somehow. And He did. Few minutes after narrowly missing a bus that dropped some passengers across from where I was standing, a chauffeured jeep truck pulled up beside me and the woman at the back seat asked me to hop in. She was coming from the same place I came out from and was heading in my direction. I thought to myself:

"Lord,
You do really know my name,
You hear me when I call
And before the world began,
My life was in Your hand."