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EPISODE TWENTY-NINE
Debby tossed up and down her bed until she got up to go ease herself.
On getting back to bed, she discovered she was no longer sleepy so she sat up and reached out for her Bible and jotter close to her.
Just then, she recalled the dream she had just had and decided to pray about it first.
In her dream, she was wearing a filthy garment and holding on tight to a shabbily packaged present. A man standing in front of her stretched his hand towards her, requesting that she hands over her dirty garment and present to him, but she bluntly refused and held on to them like her life depended on them.
“But why would I be holding on to something as dirty as that, and who’s the man that was asking I’d give them to him?” She questioned herself as she replayed the dream in her mind severally.
“Omo sometimes ehn, dreams and their mysterious interpretations are something else.” She said with a sigh and laid back in bed and thought less about it, since she couldn’t get a clue of what it meant.
She gave a smile as her memory flashed back to Charity who she visited a few days back
She recalled Charity telling her about how she was going about grumbling about her marital issues while God had been signalling to her to focus on the salvation of Debby’s soul.
She never knew in the obedience of that assignment lied her marital breakthrough.
“Babe, you wouldn’t believe it” Charity told her “the moment your mom came to pick you from here to go get mentored, that same week my husband showed up. Asin ehn, I was amazed.”
“Oh wow. Amazing God. In the obedience to God’s will and assignment lies desired breakthroughs”
“Exactly dear, exactly.” She recalled Charity said and smiled to herself.
“I’m so happy for her. She deserves the breakthrough.” Debby whispered to herself as her mind drifted back to pondering on the dream she just had.
“Why on earth would I hold on to filthy things in this life for God’s sake?” She pondered in her heart, trying to decide what the filthy garment and present meant.
“Are there still weaknesses in my life I haven’t handled yet?” She asked herself. She kept thinking about it until she drifted back to sleep on her bed.
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They had just finished an evening service in church. Debby got up from the altar she had been on since the service closed and headed home.
Along the way, her mom called to ask her whereabouts.
“I’m already heading home mummy, I’m almost close to our street”
“Oh okay dear, no problem but please help me with #100Ugwu and half bottle of groundnut oil.
I ran out of cash today, so I couldn’t get those before coming home.” Debby’s mom said as Debby chuckled
“You and this your little little errands shaaa. Okay mummy, I’ve heard you.”
On getting into a “keke-napep” that’d take her home, she observed the man sitting beside her kept stealing glances at her like he knows her from somewhere.
“Excuse me ma’am. You look so familiar. Have we met somewhere before?” The young man asked as soon as they alighted.
Debby turned around to see if she could answer his question as honestly as possible.
“No I don’t think……wait, Fred?”
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After having dinner that night with the family, Mrs. Helen cleared the dishes and went to the bedroom to rest a bit.
She had missed her sons’ presence so much and it suddenly dawned on her that she hasn’t really been spending quality time with her sons and family as a whole.
“The Proverbs 31 woman….God help me.” She soliloquized and breathed heavily.
“Is there something I can help you with?” Chief asked, interrupting her thoughts
“Something to help me with?” She asked to be sure she heard well.
“Yes. I don’t want you doing strenuous work that you’d be too tired to pray at night.”
“Interesting. Since when did he develop interest in the vigils I keep? I thought it was a great disturbance to him.” She thought to herself as she sat up to listen to him.
“So….is there anything I can do for you?”
“No no no no not anything I can think of for now.” She said and left for the restroom.
“Okay, what just happened?” She asked herself and thought for a while before coming out out the bathroom and laid down back on the bed.
“I think I need a little rest. I’ve been working all day and I feel tired abit.”
“Oh okay.” Henry said and there was an awkward silence between them before he spoke up.
“Honestly Helen, the truth is I don’t want you to miss vigils anymore.
Infact, with the way things are going now, I feel like it’s best I join you but I don’t know if that’s really possible.”
“Hmmm…..okay. You don’t have to get yourself all worked up, I don’t plan on missing my personal vigils.
The once I missed weren’t intentional at all….most times what happens is I get stressed out during the day and……”
“That’s the point Helen, that’s the point. From now on, I don’t want you getting too stressed out or too tired to pray.”
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Debby was in her room full of her thoughts that she didn’t sense when her mom walked in.
“Debby what’s wrong with you. You’ve been this way ever since you came back from evening service today. Did something happen?”
“No ma’am, I’m fine.””
“Debby you and I know that is an obvious lie. You seem to be upset about something. Tell me, what is it? Did something happen?”
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