Legacy - III

Issue #62 - A Good Name and Convictions

Oct 29, 2025

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This Week’s Letter

A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

Have you seen a sloppy road before? A road that goes up and down like a stream.

I was walking down that road when my name was yelled out by a bike man.

This was around Ibadan Street, in Sabon Gari, Zaria.

I was returning home from a long day at a friend’s place.

I spend most of my Sundays either sleeping or with my friends.

The bike man stopped and asked if I was going home, and I said yes.

He took me home and dropped me at the entrance of our house.

He greeted my mum and zoomed off.

I have enjoyed taking free rides, along with my mum and siblings, simply because my dad was a well-known mechanic in the whole of Sabon Gari.

When you hear - Oga Femi, everyone knows he is the one.

Today, I want to talk about the free rides we enjoy because someone built a relational legacy.

Because your Dad or Mum built a name for themselves.

Those names weren’t created overnight; it took years of hard work and integrity.

Relational Legacy is more of the relationships you build, not just for today, but for the future.

Nations and Kings do this; they join themselves through marriage alliances to broker generational peace.

They join armies with other nations to go to war.

Men of power do this; they marry to take the name of the next family or join forces.

I have written on Relationship and Community; you can scroll down on the home page to read them.

So, I don’t need to go too deep on this.

What I will say is this: build a relationship knowing it’s a legacy for your kids.

You and your friends should find a way to ensure all your kids know each other.

Your kids should have easy access to the friends you’ve built.

And the Onus is on you to build great friends who would reflect greatly on your kids.

But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

I think this one is very common.

A father’s joy is seeing his children practising his convictions.

You see Parents ensuring their ancestral practices are being passed down.

This happens in all religions and cultures.

It’s also a common theme in the Holy Bible where God consistently tells his people to educate their children about His precepts.

It’s all right for children to grow up to find God or their convictions for themselves, but as a parent, if you’ve done all the work before them, why not make the work easy by setting a clear foundation of what they should serve and not leaving it to chance?

You do this by ensuring they go to Church, read their Holy Bible and open them up to books and meetings that reinforce the belief.

I believe convictions are not just a religious thing. It’s everywhere!

Your convictions around money.

Your convictions about people.

Your convictions about love.

The list can go on and on.

Solomon said it more clearly: