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This Blog Post Has No Title But Holds a REALLY Important Lesson!

(Disclaimer: I write for a living. Just so all the references to headlines and articles make sense. As you were!)

This week, I’ve been struggling a little bit with feelings of unfulfillment. I’ve been feeling as though I haven’t been (as) productive (as I’d like) with work. I feel like I always have something I need to get done. I feel overwhelmed by the tiniest things, like my inability to write a totally-out-of-this-world, amazing headline. And because I like to analyse things, I concluded it was Post-Holiday Depression (that is a real thing; google it!), and I would snap out of it and get with the program after a couple of days spent in traffic and a dash of positive thinking.

Well, that didn’t happen. As I speak (write), I’m still feeling somewhat unfulfilled. But sometime mid-week (it’s all been a blur, people), the Holy Spirit gently whispered to me, only seconds after I woke up in the morning, that I should stop looking for fulfillment in things on this Earth. Fulfillment only comes from God.

My worth is not in the number of articles I manage to push out everyday. I don’t decrease in value because I don’t meet a deadline. My importance or significance is not attached to the number of things I am able to tick off my to-do list.

All those things are important, but they don’t define me. I am SO much bigger than any of the mundane things I place so much value on. I am an expression of God, for Heaven’s sake! I am a part of Him, and He is a part of me. GOD AND I ACTUALLY SHARE THE SAME DNA! If I never did another thing, or never lived another day… That. Is. Enough.

“Don’t work for food that spoils, but work for food that endures to eternal life…” (John 6:27)

Now, I just need to keep reminding myself of that. And manage my time a little better, actually.


Kunmi x

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  1. Unknown3 November 2015 at 04:44

    I've been here. In fact I'm here 4/7 at least.
    Great post x

    Hey, I wondered whether you knew how I could contact Editors at Cosmopolitan Nigeria. I would love to write pieces on there but there are no contact details available online and I can't DM on twitter either. Please help, as I spotted you're a writer there x

    BLEURGH - www.bleurghnow.com

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