In Project Management, budgeting is central to all operations; everything thing is reviewed under a particular baseline but in reality, nothing really goes according to budget – something somewhere comes to shatter our perfect plan. Then why is budgeting still preached in all economic life endeavors? The only thing that comes to mind is that we want to feel safe about the future – control gives us a sense of peace. We know the future is unpredictable but we choose to predict it.

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One story that keeps coming to mind is the widow of Zarephath and her ability to give out her last meal to a man she hardly knew. This particular story was strongly impressed on my mind during a financially tight month in my life ‫ no profit (infact it was a loss) for that month so I deluded myself into believing that it automatically equaled no tithe. Oh was I shocked during one of my family routine prayers that I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to give far more than I had been giving on a monthly basis (don’t mind me; the salary habit is still in me). On a serious note, this was a struggle for me; “how can I tithe on a loss and to make it worse (or should I say better), I was expected to give five times my average?”

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Last week Tuesday, my dad passed away in the hospital; he lived his life for the development of others sacrificing his own personal comfort for the success of others. So when I was faced with either attending the speaking engagement for the Youth Corpers Passing Away in Delta State or just staying at home to mourn him, I chose the former to fulfill his legacy. The flight to Benin was smooth but the conversations that went through my heart took a different direction ‫ many of us are destined to die but what we leave behind is what really counts.

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I hope it’s no more news to you that 300 (three hundred) Zain executives were laid off last week and despite the fact that I have some other articles to write about, I have no choice than to invoke my calling by educating those that believe that this kind of thing can never happen to them. It is actually not what has happened but the feedback of what has happened and the chain reaction that can easily develop from this kind of event.

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