Farewell Sweetheart......
I remember the first day we set eyes on each other at the rural rugged evangelism to Sumaila village in Kano, you were singing while I was praying for the saved, we knew instantly we were for each other. Our love blossomed from then onward, The secret bible studies at the back of the Nasarawa Hospital staff quarters where solid foundation was laid in God's word concerning our marriage, the mutually shared believe about what marriage should be according to the word of God served as the bedrock upon which our union stood on and able to survive the storms and the hardship we went through during marriage. I could remember the early years of marriage how you stood by me through the hardship of accommodation while trying to run the clinic.
Despite all that happened to us I cherish you dearly and you were assured that I loved you intimately with my heart. I was amazed at how you accepted me and coped with my stubborness and uncompromising attitude in the face of your humility, How you cared for me and the children were qualities I found so unequalled in my life experience, how you packaged useful and thoughtful gifts for me and the children on our birthdays was humbling. I must confess It is difficult without you in our lives but I must take solace in the strength you deposited in the children and the comfort of the Holy Spirit and the fact that you are in the bosom of Almighty God who loved you more and knows all things.
Surely you are precious more than rubies and beautiful more than lilies.
You are a rare rose in the midst of thorns.
Goodnight Benny
Peter-7th March,2018