She had blocked him out of Whatsapp and
imo, deleted his phone number; he on the other hand had (un-friend) her on Facebook, un-followed and
deleted her photos on Instagram and Airtipp, he also deleted her photos from
his tablet but could not deleted the ones in his laptop; he refused to
delete them because he still had hope. He was heartbroken yet he still loves
her, he wished that all this was just a joke, even the joy of a miracle that
occurred to him on the same day she broke up with him could not overwhelm his
broken fragile heart.
Days later he started sneaking in and out of her wall on facebook
to see any new post from her and to find out what she is currently doing but could not find anything
other than previous posts. He has had sleepless nights, he has tried to forget
about her but he couldn’t, he wouldn’t want to call her because hearing her voice in this kind of mood would kill him the more. He thought to himself if he could just go back but on
a second thought he wouldn’t because of the sheep (congregation) under his care.
He called his close friend in the neigbhourhood
church from where he was moved and he (friend) told him how she has been uncontrollable
before their disengagement, how she dresses however she likes, how she comes to
church whenever she likes, how she involved herself with a dancing group and
later formed her own, how she uninvolved herself from the prayer group she was
leading, how she stopped singing and dropped in her choir practices, how she
stopped backing up prayers in services. Then he knew she had gone far before
she broke up with him but he still had hope that if he could get back he would
rescue her from the on-sloth of hedges.
He knew this would not have happened if
the brethren in his neigbhourhood church had the love of Christ in them. They
had told her that she became born again because she was desperate to get
married, they called her a pretender, they called her an agent on assignment,
they called her a gossip, and they told her the reason why she ‘backslided’ before was because
a brother in the church failed to marry her and now she is back running after the
assistant to the coordinator because she wants him to get married to her.
Back in her mother’s church which was
orthodox where she attended before she joined her childhood neigbhourhood church
she experienced love, she was very celebrated because of her giving life style,
everybody loved her enthusiasm and zealousness, the priest in her mother’s church was willing
to do anything for her to make sure she is involved in any way she can in
church. Although she has not come to know Christ but she had come to experience
his love from those who don’t really know him but knows what is moral and
humane. She came to her childhood neigbhourhood church hoping to find the same
experience of love but the reverse was the case rather she got pierced in the
heart.
When he was around he had been her
consolation, sometimes she would cry and sometimes she would quarrel because of
what she heard them say concerning her, he would always encourage her with the
word of God and wipe her tears with his hands, he would pray with her and
anoint her face and hands, he would reassure her that he would marry her even
if the whole church was against them only if she could trust him because the
battle won’t be easy.
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