Chinonso Okonna's Blog

Sometime in April 2022, I sat down with my course preparation partner in the kitchen area of our classroom away from the rest of my colleagues in the Graduate Training Program (I have written about my Graduate Training Experience, check it out). We were discussing the framework for the course we were to prepare and I told her "I really want to put in my best into this to make up for the time I didn't maximize in school". I wanted validation for this work in order to take away the guilt I felt for not graduating with the grades I wanted from the university. To cut the long story short, I couldn't even complete the course preparation because my training ended. It is important that we have the right motive in order to be truly successful. If I had completed the course I was preparing, the level of arrogance I would have displayed, would have been out of this world because I would have felt I was better than everyone else, thinking about it now I didn't ev...

"I was made this way, it's not my choice, I didn't choose to be sexually attracted to my gender, I have accepted who I am". "I have always taken what's not mine, since I was a child, I believe since it has stayed this long that's how I was made, I shouldn't stop the real me". Picture from Pexels.com Amazingly, I have heard things like this from people, and I actually get where they are coming from. Every human born on earth came with the sinful nature gotten from our first parents Adam and Eve. So many people have used the excuse of being born sinful to claim their lifestyle is as a result of who they were made to be not their choices. It is true humans were born evil by nature,  we came into the earth sinful but a lot of us decided (by choice) that we wanted this nature changed, so we embraced the option of salvation and transformation offered by God through His son Jesus Christ. Dear brothers and sisters, this world is controlled by...

It's the eight month of the year already, how time flies so fast. Welcome to August Sometime ago, I had a conversation with a friend and it was about how he doesn't intend to hide anything from his wife, he said even before marriage, he will deliberately keep her informed about his dealings. Before now I knew the importance of openness but I understood it better after watching a movie where secrecy ruined a beautiful relationship. The truth makes free, not just the truth of God's word but telling the truth in to our families, friends and in our various relationships.  I once heard someone say "if I cheat, I won't tell my spouse ohh, it will be better no one knows and everyone is happy". In as much as I understand that cheating should not even be on our minds, it is important to tell any truth you feel your family, friends and partner should know. No one is saying it is easy to share certain details about your life that you aren't proud of, but...