Everything has an Expiration Date

When your Ugandan elder spoke the words, “Daughter, everything has an expiration date,” he wasn’t merely offering a cultural observation—he was releasing a timeless spiritual truth that reverberates through the visible and invisible realms. In that one sentence lies a divine principle: everything created in time is subject to time, and whatever is not eternal must, eventually, be released.

“Don’t worry about the stones the enemy throws at you. Just take them and build a firm foundation.”

The stones thrown by the enemy—insults, betrayals, setbacks, accusations—are not meant to destroy you but to reveal what you are built from. When you do not retaliate, but instead repurpose what was meant to wound you, you become a master builder of your own destiny. These stones represent the trials that prove and purify

“Why I Chose Silence”

Lessons From My Grandmother

“Why didn’t you say something? Why didn’t you defend yourself?”

She looked at me with eyes that had seen much and simply said:

“Some fires die quicker when you stop giving them wood. She wasn’t talking to me, she was talking about me and what she was saying was not important.”