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Ghanaian actress and actor Jim Iyke’s lover, Nadia Buari shared a story on how many compete with others and at the end of the day, miss their own destined path in life. She gave a typical example of her experience while jogging. “I was jogging one day and I noticed a person in front of me, about 1/4 of mile. I could tell he was running a little slower than me and I thought, good, I shall try to catch him. I had about a mile to go my path before i needed to turn off. So I started running faster and faster. Every block, I was gaining on him just a little bit.

MANCHESTER -- Sepp Blatter has confirmed he will stand for re-election as FIFA president as he hopes to serve a fifth term. - Platini backs Russia and Qatar World Cups - Blatter: Russia 2018 not in doubt - Blatter suggests U.S. could host 2026 World Cup The 78-year-old, who was first elected in 1998, is serving his fourth term and was elected unopposed in 2011 after his rival Mohamed Bin Hammam withdrew.

In Christ, we are freed. we gained our salvation and redemption. Christ is the representation of divine freedom. St. Proclus of Constantnople in his homily even noted that with Virgin Mary and most especially with Jesus, Eve's and Adam's faults are taken away and forgiven, as such the fault of humanity is forgiven which is symbolically shown through baptism. In baptism, we are dead to sin and our past faults are taken away and we become a new and freed people. We are now called to live a new life, thus old things have passed away and we are drawn into the wonderful light of Christ's salvation. Remember always that old things belong to the old and we should not combine old things with new things otherwise there would be a complication and worst personality.

1.0 INTRODUCTION The concept of “going back” signifies retreating oneself. Allusions could be made to the scripture where Jesus withdrew to a lonely place to communicate with God. (cf. Mt 14:23) Certain questions become very pertinent in the course of this reflection. To say “I am back”, connotes a place- place of happiness, place of love, place of spiritual life, place of sadness, place of holiness, place of sin, a place of pleasure, place of learning pastoral and missionary spirit and zeal, a place of wisdom and intellectual activities. It is to be noted that ‘a place’ has a relative influence on specific individuals. This signifies that certain individuals would even be corrupt and unholy at the spiritual and calm environment, inversely, people could be even holier in the most corrupt places-take Ajegunle as a case study.