So I lost a friend. BIG DEAL right?! Everyone loses a friend to the cold hands of death once in a while. What's more, I'm sure you know it all Lord. Oyinda and I were not even that close right? She was just a junior colleague with whom I never had a five minute conversation. Just 'Hi' whenever we bumped into each other once in a while. I don't have her phone number, she doesn't have mine and HELL!,...we are not even friends on facebook. I agree Lord. But all these have nothing to do with all I'm about to spill so please lend me your ears. I know you have a lot of prayers to listen to and answer and the whole 'balancing the good and evil scale' is probably more important than the rantings of a grieving friend but PLEASE Lord!, I need a clue right now before I lose my mind!!
So, where do I start?
Ok! I know! Let's start from the whole balancing the good and evil scale! Dear Lord, is that scale truly being balanced?? Or maybe its not supposed to be because I look around me Lord and all I seem tosee is the constant depletion of the good. Yeah, I know I'm blabbing now. So let me just get straight to the point and link it all up. Why did you let Oyinda die Lord? Cos I'm sure you will agree that she's one of the good ones. Well, let's say she's not entirely good. No one is. But she is one of the few that comes very very close. How do I know? Well, people always tend to say good things about you when you are gone, but my Lord, I don't know of ANYONE who had anything bad to say about her even when she was alive! She was nice, peaceful and an FBI (Firm Believer InChrist). Let's not even talk about the fact that she was pregnant with an innocent child. I'll save that for when I can comprehend that. Why am I even mentioning all these?? You are the omni-EVERYTHING so you know all these! So please tell me Lord, is it that Oyinda didn't deserve to live?? Or is life just too cruel that you had to save her from it.
Off my head now Lord I can give an endless list of things I term 'the unfortunate mishaps of life'. I mean, instead of Oyinda and her friends, why shouldn't armed robbers get involved in auto accidents and die everytime they go to perpetuate their evil deeds?? That will definitely serve as a deterrent to other robbers don't you think? Why can't terrorists develop vasovagal syncope, drop, hit their heads and die everytime they plan to blow up a train or a plane?? Why do we have rich corrupt leaders who grow and blossom in corruption, live 'the-good-life', then one day give up their corrupt and messy pasts, accept u Lord, die peacefully in their sleep and then make heaven. (At least that's what THE book says!)
Why will a drunken driver survive an autocrash while innocent passengers all die?? Why should an innocent child be born with a congenital lesion that will eventually kill the child within a few days of life?? Why do some live through so much, then die in their prime? Is there a reason why you take some people at 70 and then take Oyinda at 28?? What parameters decide who lives and who dies Lord?
Am I asking the wrong questions?
Lord?
Lord??
Are you there?!......
