" God made you a bigger apple of his eye π"

" But mummy why don't you look like a mummy..? my youngest son (Seven years old at that time) asked me, he sternly said " the mummies of my friends in school are big!!!..but you look small like aunty Kate who is not married..." I knew there was no escape route this time from his interrogation (as it were). With my hands busy with needle work, I had to confront this moment of truth... lost in an animated train of thought, I reminded myself of who l am. "Segilola in Yoruba language means - Jewel π is Wealth. This name was bequeathed to me by my grandfather, Papa Titus Adefioye, a fastidious farmer from Ile- Ife, in Osun state, Nigeria. His father was a major dealer in Gold, and the name Wuraola (Gold is wealth) was likewise willed to me π. But when I consider the rock (hard place) from which I have been cut (groomed), I confidently make my boast in the Lord - I'm a rare jewel shaped with the hammer and chisel of adversity, adorned by the Master for His glo...