The Gist with PMo

April 30, 2019

The Gist with PMo

In February, my church launched their monthly singles' hangout. Due to the fact that we had so much fun at the first one, I was pretty excited about this one. Plus, the fact that my pastor's wife was going to be a special guest further increased my joy. She is not the typical pastor's wife so her company is delightful!

Anyhoo...we were all seated in a cosy circle with our special gem centrally positioned when a really fine guy with a guitar started singing worship songs to God, we all joined in.

Next came the anchors to do a brief introduction of themselves afterwards quick mingling amongst participants just to familiarise ourselves with everyone present.

After that were two spoken word poets, Christabel and Cephas who delivered two beautiful pieces.

Christabelle❤

Cephas

Then, was a had a short book review.

We'd been reading "startup nation" by Dan Senor and Paul Singer and there was a special segment for people to share thoughts on the book. What stood out from all the comments was how one of us shared that he has a new outlook on life birth from watching the Israelites rise to be one of the thought leaders in tech, business and the military regardless of the hostility constantly confronting them. In his words paraphrased "I take everyday as a war that I must win!". That was profound for me and it essentially captures the Israeli spirit. I really do hope to pay them a visit sometime to experience it first hand.

Next, we played two games with PMo. The first was the sentence game where someone makes a sentence out of the last word in the previous player's sentence. It was really fun especially when people started recycling sentences such as
Player A: "God is Love"
Player B: "Love is God"
Player C: "God is Love"
Lol...

Of course the moderators didn't find it funny but we definitely did.

The second game was the visual variation of the Chinese whispers game. To play this game, we were all lined up in a single file facing the east with the exception of first person on the line, PMo, who faced west so she could get instructions from the moderator. The moderator started by acting out a sentence that she would act out to the person before to her who would dramatise what he had seen to the person before him and so on till the last person on the line.

The original messenger to the second one

Lost in transit after like 15 people. Lol

It was a really long line and by the time we got to the end, the message had been absolutely lost in transit.

Totally....totally....lost!

PMo was so shocked at how diluted the original message was becoming by the minute she kept laughing all through.

Afterwards, we all settled down for a mini heart to heart session. Somehow, the conversation was steered towards rejection and it was amazing to see that a lot of people actually deal with this everyday. The causative event comes from a variety of reasons some trivial and others really personal. Regardless of what the reason is, it is important to explain that whenever people reject you and try to suppress your shine in the process, it's not the time to think that you have a problem because you do not! I believe that in knowing that truth, your mind can be clear enough to logically deal with the rejection.

Following that was the moment we'd been waiting for! *insert drum roll*

The gist with PMo!!!!!!

So, PMo is turning 40 on the 8th of May and for the very first time, she exclusively shared her 40 life lessons with us. I really wish I could put it up here but I think she's compiling it into a book so keep your ears open for info. What i can say is it was worth the time. She was very generous with sharing her life and even more generous with the stories too.