We stepped into Glorious Bodies Glorious Minds (GBGM)… and that’s when it happened.

I met an angel 😇

…okay, not a literal angel — but it was definitely a heavenly moment.

We were greeted by a warm, welcoming smile, and my friend was gently escorted to the room where she’d receive her massage.

Then came the unexpected question.

“Channels of my spirit open up!” It’s a captivating song by Dunsin Oyekan that I found myself ruminating over recently. What if the very way you’re meditating is opening the wrong doors?

Last week, I opened a window into my university years—how I redefined success through God’s script rather than society’s.
But what I didn’t share was how I changed my thinking. How my restless mind found stillness.

I’ll be honest. I loved the idea of floating in glory clouds, lost in some grand, mystical experience.

But sitting still? In silence?

That felt more like torture than worship.

I remember walking through university feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders, wondering how I became such a failure.

It was a Thursday evening, I remember because that was the day IVCF(Intervarsity Christian Fellowship) would meet. I sat in the undercroft contemplating if I should make the effort to go to the meeting.

‘I remember struggling in this course and I had to do a re-sit. I studied hard, and prayed & fasted, and I’m here to testify that I got an A! God really came through for me.’

It seemed every week I heard these triumphant stories.
But that was not my story.

What if the darkness you’re facing isn’t your archnemesis… but an invitation?
Many of us have this primal fear of the dark, the unknown and tend to shrink back in the quiet.
But from the very beginning, darkness was never meant to intimidate those fashioned in the image of God.
It was the canvas where the Creator first declared, “Let there be light.”

“Do you know that humans have the ability to adapt to their environments? Sometimes when you first enter a new space it can be shocking, uncomfortable and even a bit painful to adjust to a change.”

“Muummmyyy I caaaann’t,” she responded in a sing-song tone.

I persisted. “The thing is, if you fully immerse yourself in the experience, with a mindset that you can handle it, you’d find that it may not be as bad as it was the first time when you retreated.” I gently immersed her feet in the foot spa and held it there for 3 seconds.

“Now be honest, is it burning you? Is it really that hot?”