Abiola!!! Hmmm!!! 15 year!!! 15 years ago you left this sinful world. Just like yesterday, so fresh in my mind. The Shock! The Commotion! The Despair!! The Agony of crying and driving up and down in search of a Funeral Home to give you a befitting Burial. Putting up The Act, Pretense and Show of being strong for my junior ones but sobbing behind close doors. HOW CAN I FORGET??? Then, The Reality!!! Of GONE FOREVER..... You were so Caring. So Humble. So Gentle. So Kind. So Generous. So Loving. So Hard working. So Serious. So Determined. So Focus! So Respectful. So Devoted. So Faithful in Christ Jesus. So.......so.......so.......
This morning, I woke up unhappy, down, really down, not wanting to get out of bed. Thinking of how sad and depressing this Man-race can really be sometimes. Thinking!!! Ahhhh Thinking of many young lives lost too soon.
For 15 years, I have been mostly silent about your passing on into glory for the pain and stress was deep. Then I took my phone, saw your photo. The pain started creeping and flowing back BUT GOD SHOWED UP, and took my mind back to what HE did for me EXACTLY ONE YEAR OF YOU PASSING ON TO GLORY.
In the mist of all the pain and turmoil of this world, EXACTLY ONE YEAR April 30,2003 from that date when your Uncle Gboyega who cared for you so much call me and we planned and ran with MANY Friends and Family around Atlanta to bring closure to this. God COMPENSATED me with a special gift. He laid a new foundation of blessing for me. I receive a (hard to get) State License to operate a School
Abiola before your death, you were a blessing. After your death you are still a blessing. For God is blessing everyone that has participated in your Home-Coming. I thank God and your family for the opportunity.
Yes, Abiola, you are greatly missed. You will always be missed, but I have the confidence and joy that you are with our Lord Jesus.
I, your aunty Bunmi Mark-Ige, I miss you greatly and I love you dearly. Rest Peacefully for now until Christ returns. Then you will rise with the Saints in Christ JESUS and live forevermore. R.I.P