In Loving Memory.....

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE (GUEST BLOGGER)

I wanted my first post as a guest blogger here to be fluffy and happy go lucky vibe and all that jazz but there is no light in Nigeria ,heat has been unbearable and traffic ehn ,”o worst”.

That preamble is to prepare you for that this isn’t one of such posts.

So I have often wondered a lot and sometimes aloud to my sisters about a particular testimony people share in church .I believe strongly this testimony should in fact be regarded as an attack of the devil and should be a prayer point instead.

It is usually goes thus:

Pastor: Mummy Tope ,share your testimony with us.

*Mummy Tope uses 1 minute out of her 3 minutes to render praises to God when she has been specifically told not to because no time, but Mummy Tope is a typical Nigerian and can’t be shut down.

Mummy Tope: I am here to testify to the goodness of the Lord. Daddy Tope that has left us for 25 years has finally repented and he came home last week.

*Mummy Tope sobs uncontrollably*

Mummy Tope: Daddy Tope left shortly after Tope was born. He left us for Sisi Jetwe and she had 2 kids with him but I know that Sisi Jetwe charmed him oooo, she charmed him * insert dramatic hand wave here* but look at God ,he brought Daddy Tope back to us.

 He ran into hard times financially and he went for a deliverance, the Pastor prayed for him and the scale fell off his eyes, now he has come back to us .He is penniless and but what is important is our Daddy  is back.

First of all Mummy Tope, I hate to break it to you but that does not quite ring like a testimony and here is why: that’s not Daddy Tope, that is a relic. That is a man that has used his most useful years serving someone/ some people other than you. That is a man that has nothing to offer you financially (sometimes) ,romantically ,friendshipcally (yes ,I used the word),spiritually and even mentally.

What brought Daddy Tope back is poverty; he knows that you ,gullible Mummy Tope, will always take him back no matter what he does.

Tope is now 25, so what exactly is Daddy Tope bringing to the table for her now that he is almost finished. It surely can’t be fatherly advice because that is now easily accessible through uncles / mentors. Tope feels no attachment, no nothing, just the memory of that lone night her Dad stepped out for what seemed then like his usual stroll but he never came back. His friend came back though, 2 days after, to pack his things.

Tope just got her first entry level job and she can finally breath freely and spoil Mummy Tope but lo and behold Daddy Tope is now back to reap where he did not sow. Tope had planned to take her mum to Dubai in December for their first trip outside Nigeria but that won’t work anymore because now her mum won’t want to leave her newly returned love all by his lonesome self.

Oh also, the expenses in the house has doubled because Daddy Tope has some medical needs that cost money. There is also the inconvenience of emotional tension in the air when Tope returns from work and there is this awkward silence because Tope and her Dad have nothing to say to each other. I almost forgot to add that Sisi Jetwe threw DT out hence the reason we are gathered here today.

Daddy Tope is a liability.

PS: If you have wronged anyone and you wait until you are knocking on heaven’s door to repent and beg their forgiveness because of the fear of hell, you are worse than scum of the earth. If you also wait until you are basically useless to come back to your family, you are a heathen.

PSS: Daddy Tope can also be a Mummy Tope.

Doxology!!