Among the list of items I buy from the market are eggs. Typically because of its nature, it is the last item purchased.
Knowing how much I bought a crate of eggs last 2 months and bearing in mind the constant increment, I had budgeted for a few cedis more so that I wouldn’t be too surprised at the price difference.
Indeed the price had increased. Out of the blue when the egg seller told me the new price, I exclaimed hilariously in the Twi language: ‘ɛneɛ yɛnnni kosua biom oo’ to wit we won’t eat any more eggs.
The very conscious seller retorted as if a spirit possessed her to spill it out forcefully in a micro second, ‘yɛbɛ di paa’, to mean we surely will eat. I laughed over her aggressive retort and paid for the crates I requested for and left.
Walking to my car alongside the head porter, her phrase and extreme confidence which inevitably sank as faith in me kept occuring and reoccurring. I was paraphrasing them in mind as such:
“We will eat eggs no matter what”.
“The business of selling eggs will still be alive regardless” .
“People will still purchase eggs irrespective of the price hike etc”.
Madam egg seller, I do not know your faith even though I’ve been your customer for over a year, but I wish to say that if there is any way the Christian’s scripture “Let the weak say I am strong and let the poor say I am rich” has ever been preached convincingly, then it is what you depicted on Saturday at the Dome market around 7:40am.
If man were not a speaking spirit and people are not and do not become what they repeatedly say, confess or do, why will this seller with all conscious aggression refuse a proclamation that will end her source of livelihood?
If one says often and consciously says “I am blessed… I am well, I will not lack” etc and interestingly is never found wanting and another ‘carelessly’ exclaims “I am dead or mawu o” at the least unfortunate event and mysteriously dies, then there must be more to what we say carelessly or thoughtfully that we have paid attention to.
Even though both proclamations “physically” have no correlation with the state they will later find themselves in, but per this article I wish to say they inevitably called their next moment into being.
Thinking through the entire scenario and the daunting lesson it had echoed in me, my mind kept replaying the many times I had heard preachings about “our tongue”. Scriptures in Proverbs 18:21, Psalm 19:14, Proverbs 12:18 and the likes which reiterates the power of our words, I couldn’t help but pause by my car and write this piece before driving home.
Indeed man is a speaking spirit and we are and become what we repeatedly say and confess; playfully or consciously.
Indeed man is a doing spirit and we are and become what we act, carefully or carelessly.
Therefore speak right and proclaim positivity because you may never see the invisible being waiting to shout AMEN to your blessing or doom.
I am the Ghanaian villager who has just learned that nothing should be said carelessly even if you meant it as a passing joke because words have life and the spirits that manifest our words do not joke.
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