By Emmanuel Nigel
Piemonte House
Date: Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Even now we cherish December 4th, 1951,
As much as we can,
In which you received the gift of human life,
From the Lord God,
The Author of Life,
The world, your parents, and relatives rejoiced when you were born,
But Sunday, August 4th, 2024,
You left the world;
Suddenly death came to you;
A million times we need you,
Dear Teacher Ananias Okello MEA,
A million times we cry as humans,
Expressing our grief,
Expressing the pain over your death:
With silence,
This is where you exclaimed goodbye to us,
Very excruciation!
That we have lost you,
On that night of unexpected moments,
You made your last breath,
We felt the pain.
If love alone could have saved you,
Certainly, you never would have died.
A heart of precious stopped beating;
Never a day could go by that you are not in our hearts and minds,
We are left with your life in our memory,
Our hearts and minds tell us that we won't forget you;
Knowing that we have lost you,
Having visited you on Friday, July 12th, 2024,
At St. Mary's Hospital, Lacor, Gulu, Uganda,
You said that you were hopeful that,
You'll be fine and be discharged from the Hospital,
The hope wasn't realized,
Death won your hope,
But now the flame of your human love,
Won't wane.
But we comfort ourselves in the words of the Gospel: John 14:1-4:
"Do not let your hearts be troubled.
You believe in God;
Believe also in Me.
My Father's House has many rooms;
If that were not so,
Would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
You know the way to the place where I am going."
Death is a universal experience that humans have pondered,
And peradventure,
Still pondering about death,
The experience of death is always depressing,
It's very hard to embrace death,
As it separates us from our dear ones physically,
Someone you used to see and talk to,
Eventually, you begin to see the grave after some time,
And you're unable to talk to the one who has died,
But as Christians,
As Christ's Faithful Believers,
We want to ponder,
Pondering with deep faith in Christ:
That death gives only one gift:
"Death can make us see God in His glory"
But first, we must believe in Christ,
Follow His Holy Life and His Holy Gospel.
"Beseeching God for Your Soul for a Peaceful Rest, Dear Ananias Okello MEA"
To forgive all your human imperfections,
That you could have had,
During your earthly life,
But to let your soul live in His perfect abode!
In the Eternal Peace of Heaven!
AMEN.
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