PART 29
“HIM, HER & I”
(A love Triangle)
©?Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
With Mmesoma’s help, I recklessly abandoned myself to God. I went back to the basis.
I started chasing after God and not men. At that point, I knew I was no longer interested
in men or marriage.
Was I created to just get married, have kids and die? No! God must have created me for
more.
I started attending a Bible believing church close to the house. The Church was a
holiness and Word grounded Church. I grew in the Lord and committed myself to the
service of God.
It was there I became a Lady of virtue.
I went through the drilling of God. It wasn’t easy but God’s Grace was sufficient for me.
I also worked on the evil Spiritual covenant between my Uncle and I. I stood on the
Word of God claiming the new covenant I had in Christ and breaking all negative
covenants.
I used my money for the Lord, as I also concentrated on my business. The Gas station
Odi bought for me had been under the supervision of a man, but when I got a hold of
myself, I decided to step up in all aspects of my life, which one of it was been serious
with my work…
Along the line, I met different men wanting a relationship with me, but I knew I wasn’t
ready yet. I knew I was not yet at the Spiritual level I was aiming for, so I humbly turned
them down.
This went on for another two years. Two years of self-development and self-love. I got
to love and appreciate me.
One faithful day, I had gone out for my early morning cry as usual. I wanted to continue
my mother’s legacy, so for close to 6 months I had been on the road everyday
evangelizing from 5:30-7am, before going for my daily business.
That day I was led to go to a new environment to do the morning cry. As I was
preaching, I kept hearing a familiar male voice preaching on the next street. As I was
approaching the end of the street, his voice was becoming clearer.
“Bro Stephen!” I screamed in the midst of preaching…
We both ran towards each other like two friends who had not seen each other in a
while…
“Sis Timi….”
We comported ourselves as we rounded up our morning cry….
“Sis Timi, my goodness! If someone had told me I will set my eyes on you today, I won’t
believe….I am so happy to see you”.
We spoke at length in his vehicle which was an exquisite one. He asked about
Jadesola. I told him about all that had transpired and he was short of words. Jadesola’s
disappearance hit him the most. We exchanged contacts and promised to keep in
touch.
After departing from each other, it dawned on me that I didn’t ask him if he was married,
but did it make any difference. The last time I saw him was close to 8 years ago, I knew
in that time he would have gotten married.
We established a mutual friendship and chatted occasionally.
There was a nudging in my Spirit to go back to my father and ask for his forgiveness for
absconding. It was a difficult thing to do but I knew I had to, but I was scared of my
father. When I got there, you would not believe who I saw there….
As I alighted from my car in front of my Father’s compound. I saw Jadesola reading a
Bible. She was taller and looked very beautiful. She was already 18 approaching 19
years.
“Mummy…” Jadesola said on recognizing me
“Jadesola!” I said in what was not more than a whisper
“My God! You are alive… my daughter is alive” I said screaming loud.
My father and my other family members rushed out. There was mixed reactions, some
were happy to see me, while some were angry at me, but I cared less. What I was
concerned was how my daughter I had not seen for close to 5 years was standing right
in front of me…
“How did you get back here? What happened, I thought you had been killed by the
Kidnappers when all efforts to rescue you proved abortive…”
“God saved me…!”
“I know… but how did it happen?”
“I remember Aunty Rose the caregiver whispering to me, that we had been kidnapped,
when the cab we took went off the main road. When Aunty Rose and the other
passengers started asking why the driver went off the main road, the man seated
beside the driver drew out a perfume and sprayed it in the car, immediately everyone
went to sleep, but as for me, it threw me into my asthmatic crises. The perfume smell
was choking and I could not breathe… I kept coughing very strongly as I was struggling
for breathe…
“Action, this small girl is not sleeping, it seems she is an asthmatic patient, this one may
die with the way she is coughing” the man who sprayed the perfume had said.
“So what should we do?”
“Let’s dump her body, if she survives her luck and if she dies her luck too “
The car had stopped and they threw me out of the car, with my school bag. After they
left, I kept coughing and it felt like I was going to die. Suddenly I heard a woman’s voice
who was singing and worshipping God. I had struggled to get closer to the voice… From
a distance, she heard a loud cough
“Who is there?” She had said as it was already dark…
I couldn’t talk as the cough was overpowering my ability to speak. She raised her torch
and saw me. She rushed at me when she saw that I was a school girl…
“What are you doing here, little child?”
I brought out a paper and scribbled “Kidnapped”, hoping she could read and write.
“You were kidnapped? So you escaped?” She asked and I nodded in the affirmative….
She pulled me into a little hut and brought out a bottle of palm oil mixed with salt. She
gave me two tablespoons of it and the cough in no time subsided.
The woman told me she was a prophetess who lived in the city but spent some days in
the bush to be alone with the Lord. I stayed with this woman for three years as I could
not remember the way home, but by the third year, we had come to visit one of her
family members around here. The moment we passed here, I screamed….” Mummy,
look at my house”. She had stopped and brought me here, the moment Grandpa saw
me, he screamed my name which gave the prophetess assurance this was my
home….” Jadesola said
I wept as she narrated how God had taken her through this Amazing journey.
“We didn’t have your number to contact you and I couldn’t remember the way to our
house… How is Daddy?” Jadesola had said
“A lot has happened Jadesola… I now understand why God allowed what happened to
you happen, I guess God knew I couldn’t train you in the way of the Lord, so He sent
you to a prophetess who could give you that training… “
“Is he dead?”
“No, we are just separated!”
“The baby?”
“I lost her!”
“No!”
Jadesola broke into tears and I wrapped her in my embrace….
*******
Much later, I knelt before my father….
“I am sorry for absconding, I am sorry for keeping away from you all these years…I am
sorry” I said weeping before my father…
He kept a very firm face but his emotions betrayed him as tears dropped from his eyes.
I knew I had cause my parents a lot of pain and disappointment…
“Dad, I know I have not been the child you wanted me to be, but I want you to know I
am no more that girl, I am a changed girl who is more passionate about getting things
right and fulfilling destiny. I want to make up for the years I wasted, Just find it in your
heart to forgive me… I thought marriage was the ultimate not knowing that God was the
Ultimate… I may not be able to follow your religion but I promise to be a good child to
you” I said
My father had wept and prayed for me. I insisted that he and Jadesola come spend the
weekend at my place after narrating all I had been through. He agreed with me.
My father on getting to my home gave me an advice that got me back to my parent’s
house…
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