Greetings People!
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When I was still at home, I witnessed the awful scene of the death of one of my relative's babies.
Uncle Ezekiel (as I used to call him), a very young guy that's five to eight years older than me, gave birth to his first child, and the child fell sick after staying on earth for five months, not even up to a year.
Along the line of running "kitikiti katakata" (helterskelter) from one hospital to another, from one herbal home to another, trying to save the baby, the wife fell sick too, and she was rushed to the hospital.
Gosh! Imagine the situation of Uncle Ezekiel at that moment; he felt the planet was against him and he didn't know what to do. Everyone of us (his relatives at large) were with him; we would go here and there to put things in order to relieve him of the stress.
After two days, the wife was discharged from the hospital and was being treated at home, but meanwhile, the baby's sickness was still off and on—exactly what we termed a spiritual issue.
One day, very early in the morning, Uncle Ezekiel rushed to our house and entered my room directly with his baby.
"Please pray for my baby," He said to me with tears all over his eyes.
Yeah, he was referring to me because he knew me as the anointed (I'm still anointed though🧐).
I prayed out my heart, but the baby was good as dead at that point.
And....
The baby died in the evening.
Sigh!
You remember that part of the scriptures that said we should give God thanks for everything? That was the order of the day all through that day, even in the midst of tears.
And another consolidating word we used again was "thank God your wife is alive and you'll have another baby."
Coming to the first prompt of this contest, which says:
Your spouse and child have been diagnosed with a terminal disease that requires immediate attention. The cost of this treatment is higher than your means, and you can only save one of them. Who would you save, and why?
This is a critical one, but aligning it to my taste, which is, say, the child is very tender, Mehn! I would save my wife.
I don't want to twist it to what you're thinking right now; I mean things like, "You can marry another wife and keep your child," or *"You want to save a woman?!" Lol😄
The thing is that my wife(I'm not married) must be someone that's part of my life—I mean, someone I've been living with, someone I'm totally used to... It's hard to let go of someone like that, to someone I'm just knowing (yes, I know he or she is my baby). I remember writing about how scared I am to lose my Loved ones
Once I save her, we can go ahead and procreate another one....a finer one.
I would have switched my response to expecting a miracle to happen and save them both, but I think that wouldn't be a good response to the prompt 🤔.
But all the same, we don't pray to be in such a situation because it's hard to make a decision. It's easier said than done here.
Thank you for reading.
This is my entry to the Hive Naija weekly prompt. Do well to join
