Johannesburg: You Know True Encouraging Words When You Hear Them...

After Ulo's call, I received a call from someone who identified himself as the Managing Director of Sosoliso Airlines. He said that they would like to support us in any way they could. I told him that my focus for now was praying for my daughter and that he should speak to my husband on any other matters.

As far as I was concerned, if the company wanted to help us out, they would call and say, “this is how we want to help, how do you feel about it?”, not to call me and say they would like to help. What did he expect me to say? “Okay, send me $1m so I can pay bills?” I did not want any distractions. I was focused on God and Kechi and did not wish to be disturbed.

Many people had been visiting me to find out how Kechi was doing and some of them gave me money to help pay for food and transportation, many of them people I had never met before. None of them called to tell me that they would like to support me in any way they can. They just obeyed the prompting of The Spirit and gave. That was how God worked.

Shortly after this upsetting call, I received a call from one of my brothers in law, Patrick. Apparently he was with the governor of Imo State (my home state), Governor Achike Udenwa, who wanted to speak to me. The Governor spoke words of encouragement and told me to also take care of myself to be strong for Kechi.

Susan, Elsie's friend who had helped Mike get his visa from the South African embassy in Nigeria, paid me a visit all the way from Pretoria. Very pretty and petite, she had the lovely accent most South Africans have. We had a lovely visit and she promised to keep in touch.

Ulo called after Susan left. She was with Chinedu, our brother, and in discussion with him about the things she had said to me, it turned out that Chinedu received that same word for me and had in fact shared it with his friend, William, that morning. He also received word that I should minister to others in the hospital. A bit  scary, but I prayed that God would make a way. I trusted absolutely in Him...

To be continued...