Hope Written In The Sky
I looked at Mercy, so innocent and full of life, with the confidence of a glorious future all written on her face. It looked so Ironical to me, comparing her look to the present reality; being a little girl who lost her father when she was barely six months and her grand father few days after she clocked a year, even though grand dad was 75. What about her mom who had to leave for the National Youth Service, popularly known as NYSC in Nigeria, where any newly graduated individual had to serve the nation, before he/she can be considered a graduate seeking for a job; And mommy had to go to fit into the society properly, to at-least secure what I call a programmed future, leaving Mercy in the hands of a bigger sister, who also had her challenges to face.
Mercy never seems to be asking the question, “Did mommy have to go leaving me in this cold world she just introduced me into?” I have on the other hand, never stopped pondering on series of questionable incidences around the world, Just like you have never stopped asking questions about life, future, seeking the right direction to go and sometimes blaming God or the people around you for your present state without considering the fact that there were those times you were like Mercy, when you never had to worry about how you were going to eat or be clothed, not because you knew people were responsible for it, but because it was only supernatural for a provision to have been made, even before you were brought forth.
Yet you worry as if you can think better than the Provider, as if your being has been kept by your knowledge.
I was scared to realize that hope was written in the sky for Mercy, which is why she could smile, and I saw it (hope) reflected on her face.
Look up to the sky, what does it say? “It is over for you or there’s surely hope, there is surely better days ahead”.
No matter how dark the cloud might be, it will brighten up again. No matter how long, it can never be darkened for 24 hours.
If Mercy has hope, beloved, you have no excuse because “God having provided some better things for us….” Heb. 11:40.
I love you but the Lord loves you more than I do.
Yours at-all-times.
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