Long distance marriage was harddddd but I thank God it’s all over. I’m happy to be reunited with my boo.
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🎙️ Didier Drogba in 2020: "8 years ago at Chelsea, our coach Villas-Boas was sacked by the club and us players had a team meeting where we acknowledged our part of the responsibility for his departure. Captain John Terry spoke, Frank Lampard, Petr Cech and the other leaders of the group also spoke.
We then decided to put all our strength into the Champions League even though we had just lost 3-1 against Napoli in the first leg of the round of 16. We had been chasing this trophy for 8 years and we hadn’t finished better than runner-up. Everyone decided to put their egos aside and fight for each other, with the same goal.
After that meeting, I asked 23-year-old Juan Mata for help: "Please, Maestro, help me win the Champions League."
He looked at me like he was saying, "Man, you're crazy. You're Didier Drogba, it's up to you to help me win."
I replied that "I have been at Chelsea for 8 years and I have never won it. So believe me, you are the guy who will help us win it. I will even give you a gift if we win it.”
Three months later, we were in Munich for the final, in their stadium submerged in a red wave. Bayern were leading 1-0 with 8 minutes remaining and I was discouraged. But a young man named Juan Mata told me: "Keep believing Didier, you have to keep believing".
Me, I was in tears and I answered him: “Believe in what? It's over, I'm going to cry like a few months ago when I lost the AFCON final with Ivory Coast.”
And then, we play the final minute and we get a corner. Last minute, last corner. Juan Mata takes it and the rest is history! The lesson of all this is "ALWAYS BELIEVE". 💙
The Movie PASSION OF CHRIST:
“Mel Gibson warned actor Jim Caviezel that playing the character of Christ was going to be very difficult and that if he accepted, he most likely would be marginalized by Hollywood.
Caviezel asked for a day to think about it and his response to Mel who was funding and directing the movie was: "I think we have to make it, even if it is difficult." And something else, my initials are J.C., and I am 33 years old. "I didn't realize that until now."
Mel responded with “You're really scaring me you know.”
During filming, Jim Caviezel who plays the part of Jesus lost 45 pounds, he was struck by lightning, he was accidentally struck twice during the scourging scene leaving a deep 14-inch scar, he dislocated his shoulder when the cross was dropped into the hole with him on the cross. He then suffered pneumonia and hypothermia from being nearly naked with only a loin cloth on the cross for endless hours. The crucifixion scene alone took 5 weeks of the 2 months of shooting.
His body was so stressed and exhausted from playing the role that he had to undergo two heart surgeries including open heart surgery after the filming production.
Jim explained, “I didn’t want people to see me. I just want them to see Jesus. Conversions will happen through that.”
Almost like a clairvoyant prediction many amazing things happened.
Pedro Sarubbi, who played Barabbas, felt that it was not Caviezel who was looking at him, but Jesus Christ himself, as he played that role he said of Caviezel, “His eyes had no hatred or resentment towards me, only mercy and love."
Luca Lionello, the artist who played Judas, was an avowed atheist before shooting began. He eventually converted, and baptized his children.
One of the main technicians working on the film was a Muslim converted to Christianity.
Some producers said they saw actors dressed in white they didn’t recognize during one of the filming sessions, and when they reviewed the recordings they realized they couldn’t see them in that footage.
The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing US religious as well as the highest R-rated film of all time, with $370.8 million! Worldwide, it grossed $611 million.
More importantly, it has reached 100’s of millions of people around the world.
Mel Gibson paid $30 million out of his own pocket for the production of the film because no studio would take on the project.
Today Jim Caviezel simply and boldly proclaims his faith in Christ, and the miracle it was for him to represent Christ as an actor and a greater believer of Christ because of this experience.
ṢÈNÌYÀN ṢẸRANKO (HARD TO BELIEVE)
In 1989 I had reason to travel with my dad to a very remote village around SẸ̀PẸ̀TẸ̀RÍ in ÒKÈ ÒGÙN area of Ọ̀yọ́ State.
I cannot remember the name of the village precisely for now but I know the village was about fifteen kilometers
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