Obaa Yaa
I am worried
Dear Obaa Yaa,
I am 35 years old, with no husband and no children even though it has been my wish.
I am becoming worried about the situation because of societal pressure, but more importantly, I would love children of my own but not without being married, because I know the problems associated with single parenthood.
What should I do to attract a man to marry me!
Single woman, Accra
Dear Lady,
What else can you do than making yourself attractive, sociable, sharing your time and efforts to the cause of others to show care and concern for them?
You see, when you show love, you receive love. Make yourself attractive and you will attract.
Don’t sit at home and brood, go to church, attend prayer meetings, socialise with church members and for all you know there is someone also looking for someone like you.
You also have to pray to God to give you someone you can live happily with. It is not just getting a husband, but someone who is a husband in the real sense of word with respect and responsibility, care, concern and love for better or for worse.
Obaa Yaa
Dad says he won’t pay my fees
Dear Obaa Yaa,
I am facing a big problem which is threatening my education and life as well.
I am in my last year in secondary school but my father is threatening to stop paying my school fees for reasons I cannot disclose.
I am appealing through you to any person or organisation to come to my rescue to help me continue with my education.
I am ready for any job, be it a driver or houseboy. I am a worried person. Please help.
Benson, Accra.
Dear Benson,
You are ready to become a houseboy or a driver in someone else’s house and must be ready to do anything for your father to change his mind.
I suggest you go down on your knees and own up for what you have done and ask for his forgiveness.
Bear in mind that times are hard, not only in this country. Most people do not even get regular meals, so if apart from food and clothes, you are lucky to be receiving secondary education, then you have to be grateful to your parents and concentrate on your studies.
If you are still keen on continuing with your education, then go and tell the whole story to an elderly person and ask him to accompany you to your father and apologise.
Obaa Yaa
Pastors take too much money from members
Dear Obaa Yaa,
A FRIEND invited me to his church a few weeks ago and I was embarrassed at the way the priest demanded money from the congregation.
Will God bless such offerings extracted from church goers?
Etornam,
Volta Region.
Dear Etornam,
It is true that some churches demand money from their congregation. But it is also a fact that some of these churches uses these funds to build proper places of worship.
Utilities like water and electricity bills plus certain allowances or salaries of full –time workers in the church are also settled with this money.
Indeed if these money is put to proper use, it will enhance God’s work, and contributors would be blessed.
But if the money is misused, the people may think they are deceiving the congregation, but they cannot deceive God.
