Dad's only one regret

It has been awhile friends!
This is very slack of me but i've had many other things of life to attend to.

Every phone call to dad has been the same. I ended up laughing and laughing and wished i'd written every of our conversations down. Oh well! One day! Hopefully!!

Yes, let me get to what brought me here today!

We got talking and dad, these days, is for ever grateful to God for being alive still.
By the way, dad turns 90 in couple of months and that's so exciting!!!

So dad said to me. You know, Yinka, "long life is a gift". "God gave different types of gifts to people", he continued. "And I think my own gift is long life".

So i asked him why he thinks God's gift to him is long life. He replied " You know, i really don't deserve to live this long, taken into consideration the fact that I've done a lot of bad things." "I think long life has to be a gift of God to me,  not that I deserve it." Dad said.
He went on and mentioned that there were many good people who one would think should still be alive but are gone.

One statement which really touched me was when dad said "if there was any regret i have in life is that i didn't give my life to Christ earlier enough". He went on: "the moment i gave my life over to Christ my whole life circumstances started to change. And I believe, he meant for the better.

Although this is not one of dad's jokes, I'm so grateful to God that dad shared it with me.
He further explained how he was just playing church but never really lived for God. Hmm..
I think i'd leave that for another time.

Thanks for reading this blog.
Hopefully i will be back here soon.
Love n blessings!

Solar or no solar!

Talking to dad yesterday, as usual, we got talking about the weather. Dad wasn't very happy about the very hot weather condition and the fact that it had not rained for a while- And it's the raining season as well! Argh!

I got talking about how blessed Africa is with the sun and how they can easily take advantage of the sun to generate electricity, since there's abundance of it.

To my greatest surprise, dad had a totally different view on that. He was opposed to the idea of tapping light from the sun and thought what a dangerous thing that is!

Dad now reminded me of how God had promised never to destroy the earth with the rain anymore. He was sure the destruction of the earth is now definitely going to come through the heat from the sun instead! (rolling eyes)

For my dad the idea of generating power from the sun is asking for trouble. But how? Ask me! Lord help!

Dad further narrated how nobody has been able to get to the sun planet as they've done to some other planets. He said the only reason for this is because the planet sun is too hot and unapproachable.

He then concluded that it is a dangerous venture to continue to generate electricity from the sun.

Poor me! As tired as I was, I didn't have much time to talk. I guess i might have to give dad the endless list of the many things which use the heat generated from the sun. That will be another time.-

As far as I know the solar system is so easy and more convenient as there won't be any need to build dams and all the hassles involved in generating electricity nowadays.
Just saying...