Personal Reflections

Society is remarkably effective at teaching people how to look good. It is far less effective at teaching them how to be good. From childhood, we are trained in presentation. We are taught how to dress properly, how to sit properly, how to speak politely, and how to behave in ways that earn approval. None […]

There is a popular saying that when one door closes, another opens. It offers comfort, especially in seasons of disappointment or uncertainty. When something we hoped for slips away, the idea that another opportunity is waiting can steady the heart. But life teaches a harder lesson that many discover only after experience. Not every open

Faith, frustration, and honest conversations with the divine “They say prayer is talking to God, but sometimes, it’s also shouting into your shampoo bottle asking, ‘Why me?!’” — Michael Kubi, spiritual but occasionally dramatic There are days when prayer feels like poetry. Soft, flowing, sacred. Then there are days when it feels like a court

There was a time when friendship meant safety. Not perfection. Not constant agreement. But safety. A place where your name was protected, especially when you were not in the room. Today, many of our friendships would not survive that simple test. Ask yourself, honestly:If the people you speak about in their absence could hear every

Few ideas generate as much quiet tension in modern relationships as the phrase: her money is her money. It sounds harmless. It sounds progressive. It even sounds fair on the surface. But beneath it lies a deeper confusion about partnership, insecurity, and shared responsibility. Let me be clear at the outset. There may be reasons

It is a line that lingers. In To Kill a Monkey, directed by Kemi Adetiba, a struggling man reconnects with an old friend and slowly drifts into cybercrime. The money comes. The house improves. The strain of unpaid bills eases. From the outside, it looks like progress. Then his wife says it, almost under her

Ghana’s political culture has become trapped in a cycle of slogans, short-term gains, and election-driven gestures. Policy has increasingly given way to performance. What matters is not what works, but what can be named, branded, and sold to voters before the next election cycle begins. Winning an election no longer signals the start of governing.

The emotional betrayal of the calendar and the myth of the “fresh start” “I don’t know who hurt Monday first, but the rest of us have been paying for it ever since.” — Michael Kubi, long-time survivor of weekly betrayals There’s something about Mondays that feels… aggressive. Not physically, but emotionally. You can have a

On the irony of life’s rat race “I came into this world yawning, and life hasn’t let me nap since.” — Michael Kubi, somewhere between Monday and burnout I don’t know about you, but I was born tired. Not metaphorically, I mean it literally. Ask my mother. I arrived into this world late, yawning, and

I have been in church long enough to know how powerful it can be. I have seen broken people stand again.I have watched hope return to faces already tired of living.I have heard worship that sounded like heaven opened, briefly, in the middle of a hard week. So no, I am not one of those