Seasons

Season is a period of the year marked by special events and activities that involves changes in weather and amount of daylight. Seasons result from Earth's orbit around the Sun and Earth's axial tilt relative to the ecliptic plane. In temperate regions, four calendar-based seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. For tropical regions, we have two seasons: the rainy season and the dry season. Some have a third cool, mild, or harmattan season, present around sub-sahara region. Regardless of the time of year, the northern and southern hemispheres always experience opposite seasons. This is because during summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun than the other, and this exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. For approximately half of the year (from around March 20 to around September 22), the northern hemisphere tips toward the Sun, with the maximum amount occurring on about June 21. For the other half of the year, the same happens, but in the southern hemisphere instead of the northern, with the maximum around December 21. The two instants when the Sun is directly overhead at the Equator are the equinoxes. Also at that moment, both the North Pole and the South Pole of the Earth are just on the terminator, and hence day and night are equally divided between the northern and southern hemispheres.
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The Seasons are for Reasons

God created seasons for reasons. If not so, he wouldn't have done it. God is not interested in what makes man happy, he's interested in what makes man fulfilled. Everything God created around man was there for his fulfillment. Nothing was there for show. Whatever God created is good. If it is not good, it is not God, if it is not God, it is not good. There's a being that always abuse everything God does- that is the devil. He's not interested in anything good. He always wants man to see the negative side of everything God does. If God made beauty, he would make you feel guilty with it. If God made seasons, he would make you see reasons why they are not good. But who cares? Don't care about the devil. Don't care about his tactics. For everything God does is good and will always be good. #Blessings

Test for a true friend

Friendship goes beyond greetings and exchange of pleasantries. We’ve got different definitions to friendship and there are various types. However, the basis of any friendship is agreement. Their attitudes and behaviours must agree, if not all, at least some. There must be a basis of congruency- a factor that makes you correspond in character or nature. If you are looking for a good friend, check yourself first if you are or can be a good friend. Sometimes, we desire some things in people that we don’t have ourselves. An acid test for a true friend is love. Any person that claims to be your friend and does not express love is not a true friend. One of the major expressions of love is giving. The person can give his time, energy, resources, money, even integrity on your behalf. The person can forgive, can be patient, selfless and not proud or bumptious. Now, this doesn’t mean, until you find all these qualities, the person is not a true friend, No! you will see traces of all these qualities, if not obvious, at least some of them. The important thing is love is expressed from a sincere heart. I encourage you to be a true friend, and you will surely find true friends around you. You are attracted to who you are. Be the person you want in people. #Excerpt#TheLanguageOfChange #Chapter4 #ChangeYourExpressions #Blessings