See Right, Act Right

See Right, Act Right

I find myself unable to discuss or see 
people in a negative light
It was a strange place to be
A whole new realm that isolated me 
in some way
When I am among people and the topic 
goes in the direction of Mr. So and So 
did this evil thing to me or Mrs. Such 
and such said the 
following things about me
I find my skin crawling and my 
defenses up
I don't do this naturally, it just is.
When I am with my team and we're 
discussing stuff, I dodge all the 
unnecessary stuff
I don't want to know who is doing 
that bad thing or who is not performing 
up to par 
I find it nauseating to say the least
Talking ill of people even when it 
ought to be discussed
A brother caught covid from his 
girlfriend
They were not married and ought 
not to be together that way
Someone pointed my attention to 
it and I felt somehow
Like the person wanted to 
force-feed me poison
The person meant well and I should 
know what is going on but I really 
couldn't bear the heaviness of such 
talks
I understand that it is normal for 
people to share such talks and 
bond over it
I once worked as a personal assistant 
to a pastor who will pick a 
person and talk about the person 
with his wife all the way from Lagos 
to Ibadan and will still chew the 
person like a bone all the way from 
Ibadan back to Lagos
He will keep digging out faults and 
misdeeds like a dog unearthing 
buried bones
It was a crazy habit I could barely 
stand at that time
There was a day the pastor's driver 
came to my office and told me the 
pastor picked me as a topic and 
talked about me all the way from 
Lagos to his home town in Ekiti and 
on the trip back to Lagos
I was like Trump to CNN on that trip
The driver said "Oga and 
Madam finished you, sir! 
There was nothing about you they 
didn't dissect. 
The driver wanted to keep talking 
but I shut him down. 
I don't care even if I was the topic 
of the discussion. 
I don't want to talk about those who 
are talking ill of me. 
I find myself resenting the driver 
for bringing me the information
I had to tell the Holy Spirit to please 
cleanse my heart of all negative feelings 
brought about by his words to me 
towards my former boss and him.
I was once with two friends I love 
dearly
One of them had a radio studio and 
the other was a veteran journalist. 
Both of them had been cruelly dealt 
with by a media organization they 
both worked with at a time
I was there to present a GSW stories 
show
They both got talking about their plight
How this did that and how that did those
Where and when meetings were held 
against them 
by their former colleagues and how 
they had been badly betrayed by people
I knew the people they were talking 
about although I didn't work in the 
same organization as them
Their words changed how I perceived 
these people
I disliked that
I don't want your experience with 
certain 
people to taint how I see them or 
relate with them
I will rather see the best in everybody
I get a lot of feedback about people 
and to some close associate I am 
playing the ostrich by simply refusing 
to hear their version of the evil being 
done by some other people
I sometimes 
feel their need to talk to me and how 
my shutting them down made them feel
It is indeed human to desire to be 
listened to but if what you are going 
to say will denigrate someone else, 
I really don't want to hear it
If people are ganging up against 
you - pray
If you are sure the Holy Spirit was the 
one that revealed your enemies to you 
please don't report them to me
I simply don't want the information 
that will smear someone else or drag 
them in the mud
I notice Twitter is full of those who 
thrive on gossip, bad blood, violence, 
and mental abuse
I have read several times the claim 
"I am here for the violence"
I pity people like that
Scavengers like vultures and termites
Decomposers...
They feed off dead flesh because 
they are dead within
I am an eagle, I have all the 
communication I need in my divine 
state
I pity also people who count themselves 
so important that when a slight is done 
against them it destabilizes them easily
Someone wrote something about me 
recently, many queued up on my timeline 
expecting a response
Some had the boldness to tag me and 
draw my attention to it
I blocked all those who tagged me and 
those who brought it to me on Whatsapp 
were told to go and get a job!
I have trained my senses not to feed 
off the putrid nature of the carnal man
If I have to speak on an issue, I am the 
one with the narrative and the heart
I choose my meaning with love and
I will not be led down the wrong path
by someone else's ill feelings
I will never be caught reacting to any 
issue
There is something called ignore
There is something called taking a High 
ground
I believe believers will do well to 
practice 
the higher life in bliss than rolling in the 
mud and dragging others in it
Last Sunday a brother came to me and 
said "I heard some things about you 
that I knew weren't true. 
I know they were not true because I 
know you. 
The person who told me those things 
is close to both of us but I wanted to 
speak to you directly so as to find out
 if those things are true
I stopped him at that point
I told him I don't want to hear anything 
the other party said.
I love the other person and that's all 
that matters
Anybody can take offense at any time
It is your right to be offended
Your offense does not have to generate 
offense in me
Love made me
Love is my default
I only see others through the lens of love

-GSW- 

PS: The Holy Spirit is the best companion
of a believer
Immerse yourself in Him and let him
change your life
When you see people through his eyes
You will lose the appetite to drag them
down or even punish them for their
ignorance
Being foolish in compliance with the
leading of the Holy Spirit is always
the greatest wisdom
I learned that the hard way