Life of Pi

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Written March 6th, 2018

Bonjuor!

I said I would share a few testimonies from my prayer Journal. I haven't forgotten. Will do that tomorrow by God's grace. I also said I would be sharing Dolu's devotionals. Here goes.

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Written By Dolu

2nd January 2013

Life of Pi Check it out in: (Matthew 5:3-8, The Message)

One of the best things that happened to me yesterday was watching Life of Pi. I’d hate to spoil the movie for you, so all I’ll share is the subtext you get from the book and its movie adaptation.

The subtext of Life of Pi can be summarised in three lines: 

1) Life is a story. 2) You can choose your story. 3) A story with God is the better story.

I can lie to you all year and tell you how you will have an amazing life and that everything good will come to you. However, all I can really promise is that in trusting God with your life and in handing over your life-story to Him, He’ll take every letter, every comma, every hyphen, every triumph, trial and success and turn it into a magnificent work of art. It’s your decision ultimately who you want in your life-story. I’d say choose God but the choice is all yours. I hope you choose God.

Yours in love, MOI

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A word from Dolu's husband

In 2012, Doluwa started compiling some of the previous notes she had written during her quiet time and interactions. At the outset, Doluwa had the intention of publishing the manuscript, though she never got to do it, she kept sending out the devotion- al via mail to friends and family. The very rst devotional titled ‘Wine and Wineskins’ was sent out on 1st January, 2013. Doluwa also encouraged her friends on the mailing list to invite others to join the list.

I was looking through some of Doluwa’s notes recently and I found something she wrote about ten years ago: “When I die, I don’t even want to be remembered for doing great things for God or for people. All I want people to reminisce about my life is this: ‘She loved God.’”

The essence of Doluwa’s writing was to nurture her love for God on a daily basis, hence the longing to encourage others to also grow in their love and walk with the Lord. Doluwa loved read- ing and interacting with people and she always found ways of in- corporating what she read (inclusive of messages) and her daily interactions into her writing. She was so much in love with John Buyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and this classic work had an immense in uence on her writing.

A constant theme in Doluwa’s writing was intimacy with Jesus through scriptures, prayers, mediation and how God transforms our entirety as we live in obedience to his voice and instructions. Her favourite scripture was Ephesians 3:20, and she believed in the ability of God to do beyond our greatest thoughts and prayers.

On 9 June, 2013, she said something very profound to me. “Yes, I would date you, but you must continue to lead me back to God and never to yourself. “I had the privilege of being married to Doluwa for a year, two months and 22 days and I can attest that she loved God and also loved people.

Sometime last year, Doluwa, intuitively started talking and

writing about a season of rest and catching of breath that the Lord was bringing her into. Doluwa wrote and sent out her last devo- tional on 13th October, 2016 and indeed Doluwa went to nal rest on 11th November 2016.

I will miss her smiles, hugs, love, dance steps, punches, wis- dom, encouraging words and companionship.

By compiling and publishing her writing, Doluwa’s dream of printing it comes alive.

Dayo Fashina

October 2017