YOU ARE NOT BARREN
SULE T. Joshua A semantic research on the word “barrenness” rally around the words “ unproductive ”, “ childless ”, “ sterile ”, and “ unfruitful ”. A woman can spend her entire life without a child and feeling defeated because she was told she is barren. A man can suffer throughout his lifetime in abject poverty and shame because he was told he can never be fruitful in life. In all these perceptions and beliefs, a blind young man was told he can never make it in life but later became the renowned singer in town. Many people say things they don’t know or mean. Wait a minute perhaps I should ask you the big question; “Does God intend for his children to be unproductive, childless, sterile or unfruitful? Thomas Edison was a dull student in class. He was unproductive academically, so to speak . The teacher tried his best to ensure he became better but Tom’s brain was too dead to be awakened.. One day, the teacher wrote to his mother, suggesting that sh...