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          I hope you enjoyed volume 2 and picked vital lessons. This volume promises not to fall short of that standard. Today, we’ll be looking at ‘your heart as the background of your life’! I’m sure you’ll like to know what this volume has for us.           Before going into that squarely, let’s just establish a footing again. Students know that to experience academic success, they have to make efforts to ‘hide themselves’ at some point to study. By this I mean leave public view and distraction associated with it to study well. This is also a function of the background.  Also, many people believe that the spiritual controls the physical. I believe this too. The spiritual in this sense can be regarded as the ‘background’ certainly because it seems invisible. This is why we return to our closets (background) to pray sometimes. You can then tell from this that the background seems to...

In the previous volume, we were able to establish the truth that the background although hidden and sometimes undesirable, it is much more important than we thought. This could be seen from several life illustrations. With that mind, I’ll like us to forge ahead in paying attention to the background with ‘No Roots, No Fruits’.  When we look at a tree, we are interested and attracted by the fruits which we consider desirable and useful to us but we fail to ever imagine if something called ‘a root’ ever existed. Of course, we barely compliment the root. ‘Nice root’….sounds awkward in your ears right? But here’s the blunt truth: ‘there could have been no fruit on that tree without the root! The root appears first even when it is hidden. I’m sure you’re aware of the relevance of roots to the entire plant (anchorage, absorption of nutrients). Furthermore, the root bears the weight of the plant and even the fruits that are appealing to you. This means that a t...

The background is usually the hidden part or portion of things. The fact that it is hidden poses a major challenge to several people who are concerned with the visible, outward and attractive appearances. I’ve discovered not just from nature but life generally that although the background seems ‘undesirable’ to many, it has the most tremendous effect! It seems to be the driving force or engine, thus giving room for the need for us to pay close attention to it. Finding it hard to believe thus far? Here are some examples you can relate with: ·          When you look at a beautiful house, of course you applaud the nice painting and structure but you forget that there’s something hidden that keeps that beautiful house standing. It’s the foundation! The foundation represents the background! Imagine a house without a solid foundation. Collapse is looming! ·          For every interesting...