David Chuku

Medical Laboratory scientist.
Fashion Designer.
Movie Enthusiast.
I'm only a sinner saved by GRACE.

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

There is a strange paradox in modern dating: the men with the strongest principles often have the hardest time building a stable personal life.

In theory, it should be the other way around. If a man is honest, dependable, loyal, caring, and willing to take responsibility, he should be exactly the kind of man women want for a serious relationship. He should be the one who builds a strong family, earns trust, and becomes someone’s safe place.
But real life often tells a different story.

Many men who are seen by others as decent, honorable, and genuinely good people remain single for years. Some go through painful divorces. Others step away from relationships completely after one deep disappointment too many.

And this is not just an empty observation pulled out of nowhere. A study from the University of Nicosia analyzed data from more than 13,400 men and studied their lifestyles over several years.

He came to the conclusion that men who are more kind, agreeable, good-natured, and reliable, the sort of men society often describes as “decent,” are more likely to remain alone and often have less romantic success with women.

At first, this seems illogical. Society constantly says that women value male reliability, loyalty, and responsibility. But when it comes to real relationships, it turns out that good qualities alone do not always guarantee personal happiness.

So why do men who seem like the best candidates for a serious relationship so often end up without a wife, a family, or a long-term partner?

[Oluchi Media @General_Oluchi]

Ever since my children learned to call my number, I no fit rest again. Yesterday, I hid in the pantry while they were looking for me. After searching around, they ran upstairs to tell their father to call my cell. I picked up and the next thing I heard was, “mummy.”

“Just 3 mins ago…What do you want?”

“Nothing. I was just looking g for you.”

Then while at Walmart, the other one called to ask when I’m returning.

Oh chim!

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

The Eucharistic Miracle of Legnica, Poland (2013)

On Christmas Day 2013, at St. Hyacinth’s Shrine in Legnica, a consecrated Host fell to the floor during Communion. It was placed in holy water to dissolve per Church custom.
After about two weeks, the Host had not fully dissolved. A red spot appeared on its surface, later identified as human heart muscle tissue showing signs of agony. DNA tests confirmed it was human.

In 2016, Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski officially recognized it as a Eucharistic miracle with “the hallmarks” of a supernatural event. The relic is now venerated in a golden monstrance at the shrine, drawing pilgrims worldwide.

It is seen as a sign affirming the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

[Max-chi @Kakashi_j6]

On another episode of my Bolt experience.

Yesterday, I was in Chevron drive when I received a request from Bera Estate. The name on the app was a lady's name, but a guy called me to give directions.

After I was done with the security, I drove straight to where he wanted me to be, I informed him I had arrived, and he said, “Please wait, she's coming out.”

[Craftyhands🧶 @pearl_jessy]

@firstladyship No rice was shared, no Eniola Badmus distributing money😂😂.

It’s a MOVEMENT ✌️

[SabiBoI Joshua✍🏿. @_SouthpawJosh]

Don’t 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 the episode with Mama Joke Silva if you get offended easily.

1. Because after over 40 guests and counting on this show , I still don’t understand how people watch Bae U Barbie’s show and miss the whole essence of it.

2. You cannot compare this show to Ebuka’s interviews. You definitely cannot compare it to Tea With Tay. You go into these shows with completely different expectations.

3. I don’t know about anyone else, but despite all the negative reviews flying around, this episode was honestly beautiful to me.

4. And you know what this episode made me realize? Some of these legends actually come on this show just to relax. And by relax, I mean laugh freely, gist, loosen up, and test another side of themselves we rarely get to see.

5. This is a side of Mama Joke Silva I have never seen in all my years of watching her.

I never knew she could throw clapbacks at humour and deliver them so effortlessly 😭

6. She smiled after almost every response and still spoke with that calm, cultured English that only her generation carries so elegantly.

And somehow, while watching her, I kept seeing traces of Sir Olu Jacobs in her.

7. The smile. The calm delivery. The rise-and-fall tone when speaking English.🥹

8. It honestly made me realize that marriage goes beyond couples resembling each other physically. Sometimes, you unconsciously begin to take on each other’s mannerisms, expressions, and even verbal traits.

9. One thing that genuinely shocked me was hearing her say she didn’t know her husband was 19 years older than her before they got married

But the way she explained it made so much sense in her world. According to her, “How would I have known when he was handsome, young, and bubbling?” 😂

10. And honestly, this is probably the mentality that has kept their love beautiful for decades, even while the internet keeps spreading hasty rumours about Sir Olu Jacobs’ health.

11. Every chance she gets, she hypes her husband with so much love and honour. You can literally feel it.

12. And am I the only one who thought she came to promote a movie?Only for her not to mention any movie at all 😭

13. Instead, she just chipped in about future characters she still hopes to play or direct someday, especially stories deeply rooted in Nigerian culture.

14. Also, one thing I respected deeply, Bae U Barbie never crossed the line when it came to Sir Olu Jacobs. Not once.

15. Every single time his name came up, it was “our legend” this, “our legend” that. He even called him “Sir Jay” repeatedly, and I realized I’ve barely heard people in the industry refer to him that way before.

16. From the flow of the questions too, it’s obvious Bae U Barbie and his team actually communicate properly with guests and their management before recording.

17. I remember Chioma Good Hair mentioning her manager in her own episode, and Mama Joke Silva also mentioned Sodiq here.

18. At the end of the day, this show clearly isn’t trying to be CNN or Al Jazeera If you want deep seriousness from start to finish, there are other interviews for that.

19. But if you want to relax, laugh out loud, and watch legends feel human again, then this show will work for you.

20. And respect to Bae U Barbie for that final moment. Postrating and saying, “Thank you ma for coming.” That simple act carried so much respect.

And yes, If you get to see this, You actually proved me wrong in this episode by staying in your lane and handling the conversation around Sir Olu Jacobs with maturity and honour.
I genuinely enjoyed this episode, and I still don’t see any reason to stop watching this show.

As always, thank you for coming to my T€D writes ✍🏿.

#tedwrites #olujacobs #jokesilva #curiositymademeask #baeubarbie

[David Chuku @DavidChuku3]

@QueenTea__ Best of the week, QueenTee

[Beauty of the Catholic Faith @advoluntas]

♰ 🇨🇴 Make Streets Catholic Again 🇨🇴 ♰

🎥 The Savior, painted by Pavel Jones in Bucaramanga, Colombia 🇨🇴
Video Pavel Jones

[Kelvin_Talent📊🥂 @Kelvintalent_]

YOUR DREAMS ARE VALID 🥂

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV in Acerra

A shepherd with his flock

[ONOME🇳🇬🇦🇹 @Onomz_D1]

In the final few months leading up to me leaving Nigeria, my mentor told me something I didn’t understand then.

He said, “Now that you’re leaving Nigeria without a defined relationship, you’ll struggle to find someone in the long run who’ll truly love you without factoring your location into the equation.”

I shrugged it off but, I’ve seen firsthand what he meant and he wasn’t lying.

[Vitalis Kalu @VitalisKalu]

Guy, I so much believe I can make millions without doing fraud.

[Fr. Chris Vorderbruggen @FatherChrisVor1]

It is strange to mock Christians for remembering the Cross when the Apostles themselves preached “Christ crucified.” (1 Corinthians 1:23)

Christianity has never believed Christ remained dead.

Christians proclaim the Resurrection constantly. Every Sunday exists because of it. The empty tomb changed the world forever.

But Christians also refuse to look away from Calvary.

Why?

Because the Cross reveals the love of God.

The wounds matter.
The suffering matters.
The blood matters.
The sacrifice matters.

“And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.” (Zechariah 12:10)

From the earliest centuries, Christians honored the Cross not because Christ failed to rise, but because He truly died for the sins of the world.

This is why crucifixes developed throughout the ancient Christian world. Not because Christians worship death.

But because they understand what happened there.

Modern people often want Easter without Good Friday.
Victory without sacrifice.
Glory without suffering.

But Christianity does not separate Bethlehem, Calvary, and the empty tomb.

They belong together.

And frankly, Mormonism’s discomfort with the Cross has always revealed something deeper about its theology. Historic Christianity places the death and Resurrection of Christ at the absolute center of salvation history. Mormon culture often places far greater emotional emphasis on the “living Christ” while becoming uneasy with the suffering Christ.

Yet the risen Christ still bears His wounds.

Even after the Resurrection.

The glorified Christ did not erase Calvary.

“And he shewed unto them his hands and his side.” (John 20:20)

Christians do not look at the Cross and see defeat.

We see the moment death itself began to die.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

One of my favourite things about the Catholic church is that no matter what country I'm in, there's a space where I'm welcomed, and I know the service by heart. The Mass may sound different but feels exactly the same.
That's how I know that I am home.
The Catholic Church is universal!

Why do you like being Catholic?🥰

[gugaomaga @gugaomaga]

Unexpected Prize Family Games Challenge 😂

[iDoser @doser_i85668]

GET THAT BANSHEE OUT OF HERE🤣🤣
A woman in the middle of this joke😂😂

[Rev. Fr. Chinenye John Oluoma #FadaOluoma @fadaoluoma]

A Public Confession.

I appealled to a sister of mine for financial help. She sent me 5m. Then I went to bless a building project for someone I also take as father, he sent 500k for fuel after the exercise. I was thrilled, excited and visibly happy. I felt it was too much because I didn't use fuel of 5k for the entire journey.

I was honestly and sincerely grateful to my sister who dashed me a whooping 5m but wasn't excited or happy that much, but here was i literally jumping to high heavens for 500k. When I settled down, I reflected on the whole thing. Why wasn't I as happy or as excited with 5M as I was with 500k? Logically, I should be more excited and happier with 5M than 500k. It wasn't ingratitude. I expressed my heartfelt gratitude to my sister and I truly was grateful. So it wasn't ingratitude, ingratitude is an attitude, excitement is a feeling,

The answer is EXPECTATION. I EXPECTED more from my sister and had little or no Expectation from the man that gave me 500k. Notice that I didn't do nothing for my sister, she owes me nothing. I did something for the man and he owes me appreciation, no matter the form it comes. Yet the discrepancy in feeling happened. Expectations lead to entitlement and both are cancers.

Many of us are like that. Many are like me in many ways, even in our relationship with God, that's why I want to share this with you. Feelings are true but not the truth. How I feel is true, but how I feel is not the truth. We must learn to subject our feelings to analysis and reflections. Here are some advices:

1. Make your expectations realistic. I won't say reduce them or increase them. The cliche is "reduce your expectations" and that's fine by me still. Do not have expectations from things beyond your own control. Expectations lead to entitlement, both horizontally( while dealing with earthly beings) and vertically(dealing with God). It is the cause of anger, frustrations, ingratitude, disillusionment and delusions.

2. Faith is not expectations and vice versa. I have been saying this for some time and hopefully some day y'all will grasp it. Let's take a look at Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego(S.M.A)before the fiery furnace. They had faith but not expectation. If they had expectation, they would have said "God will definitely and unfailingly save us from your fire, we serve the living God". And everything in their mind would be that God will save them from the fire.

The opposite outcome will be totally unthinkable, unacceptable and irreconcilable with their concept of God, it will be an intractable dilemma, an evil to be avoided by all means. That's expectation. When that opposite happens, those who think Iike them will be in dilemma and totally bamboozled if not dejected. But notice that S,M and A didn't pray for deliverance, they had faith not expectation. They said: "we know that God can save us, but even if he will not, we will not bow down to your idol". That's the confession of faith.

Think same of Daniel before he was thrown into the lions den. Then think of Stephen as he was stoned to death. Peter in the prison. Paul and Silas in the dungeon. They all had faith in God and not expectations.

When Habb 2:4 says: "the righteous shall live by faith", this is it. That's same thing as Jesus saying man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. There is a subtle replacement of Faith with expectations among believers today.

Can someone receive a miracle without expectations? Yes. Can someone fail to receive a miracle even with expectations? Most certainly yes, that is exactly the fate of the miracle seekers today, they don't get nothing, what their prophets do is heighten their expectations all the time and they get addicted to it. Those who break lose eventually become disillusioned or rebels against the Faith they once proclaimed. Can we have faith without expectations and vice versa? Absolutely yes.

[Pong✨ @viani310]

The anger of a math teacher😂😂

[KingFtp® @KingFtpFx]

Your time is now ….
God best time for you is now, put in the work and you will see tremendous results.

Lock in brothers / sisters

[Big Mama, your ARM! @AshleyShyMiller]

When I say I’m nosey, this is what I mean. She sat down in her trunk, listened , and notice the sunglasses 😂😂😂. (Mind you, she doesn’t know the movie)