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    Anger, they say, lies in the bosom of fools (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But what defines a person as a fool exactly? Is it the thought process, or the angry action itself? Backing up a bit, Jesus told a story in Matthew 18 : 21-35, of a servant who owed his boss a lot of money and couldn’t pay up when it was accounted for by him. From the description NIV gave of him, he owed ‘millions of dollars’ which implies he’s also kind of rich to an extent (at least enough to amass that kind of debt) or doing some kind of business that gave him the confidence to borrow that large sum…enough to lend another.  So, given his reputation and the ‘respect’ he commanded from ‘Junior servants’, it is imaginable the humiliation he felt when he was bundled off with his wife, his kids, and all he had to sell off at the slave market - reputation in the mud, his shoulder pad balloon was deflated and he felt exposed.  But why the take out on the ‘lesser servant’ though? Was it sheer frustration?...

  The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field...and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. -Mt 13 :44-47 "A fu ihe ka ubi eree oba" is an Igbo adage  which loosely translates to : " when one sees what is greater than the farm, he sells  the barn. This implies that when one sees something of high value and important he gives up his 'storehouse' (his entire treasury/savings) to get it....at all cost.  On the face value, this adage feels like just about any other saying, but on a close look, it has a lot deeper implication. 'Oba', which means 'barn', in the traditional Igbo context connotes one's storehouse where they stock up the volume of yams harvested (as yams was one of chief food and yardstick for measuring wealth in the ...