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THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE

Just last week Friday I saw a scenario that totally almost moved me to tears…… It was democracy day and there were limited movements, the road was quite carless and free.

I had gone to the clinic as early as 7:30am so as not to miss the doctor’s appointment and just as much in add time to get responded to early, obviously I met people there. Looool! There was this old woman who was finding it very hard to read the information on her new card to verify if it were correct and another young pregnant lady trying her best to pick up the pen that had just dropped to the floor, I gladly helped them both sequentially and the chorus of  “Ese o! Corper” (Corper Thank You) filled the tiny air. I just figured it was best I wore my heard dressing to the clinic since I wasn’t dressed in my khaki.

It did take hours before the only Doctor on duty for the day finally came, who could blame them it was a public holiday and everyone was trying to find a resting solitude. But just before the doctor’s arrival did this scene take place and it has gone a long way in my memory to stay forever.

At first it was a woman’s loud voice I heard…. Speaking at the top of her voice in Yoruba and seen been led down the aisle by two people, a nurse and a man by her left arm carrying a child. She was wearing brown shades, clearly informing us that she had sight problems, since she could not walk on her own and could obviously not see a thing.

“Will they be working today? Oh! I should have known today was going be a public holiday!” – She kept muttering

Don’t worry a Doctor will soon come around …- The nurse managed to calm her down, then asked her what the problem was, but as she was talking did everyone in the waiting rooms stare turned to the little child the man was carrying, Good Lord! Was she beautiful! Her skin was accurately fair and evenly glowing with adorn, her eyes were particularly big and joyfully dark in all the right places… I am sure her hair would have been really nice too, if not for the fact that it had been covered with an Hijab, immediately the man dropped her on the floor she gently moved towards the blind woman and said “Mummy”! I was shocked! The woman that sat beside me just had her mouth open…. Wait! That’s not all. 

The man that carried the girl child had only one eye, the other was bad and totally gone… I saw this when he had turned to the little girl and told her to come back and sit beside him, only for her to say “Daddy I want Biscuit”… I did not even know which one was more amazing.

Is it the fact that a one-eyed man and a blind woman could form a union or the fact that a one-eyed father and blind mother could have such a beautiful daughter. God is truly great!

As we all there marveled at this lovely new discovery and others started discussing as to how great God was to have made such thing happen did I resolve to listen to what the woman was saying to the nurse. She said all of this in Yoruba but I will put it in English...

“I have been calling the doctor since but he has not been picking…

Please she’s all have got in this world and she means a lot to me, that’s why I don’t joke with her health

She been having this catarrh now for almost 2weeks, I was here last week to seek medical help and attention, the doctor checked her and wrote us some drugs but no relief for her, she even gets worse at night as if she manages to breathe from her sleep… I called the doctor back and he said I should bring her today, not knowing it was going to be a public holiday… Her father and I were so worried when we got to the gate and he saw no one and no vehicles. Then the bike man that brought us said the clinic will not be working today, that was when I started crying and shouting for a medical doctor”

The nurse who now understood why she was shouting and very much in pity told the woman a doctor will come but it might not be the same one as they met the other day but this one will also examine the girl and answer them.

She then replied “If you say so then, we will wait… For this child I have never seen in my life but the joy she has brought to me knows no bounds and I try my best even as a blind mother to see to her in good health,

As you can see I am blind and the father can however see her with only one eye, so she’s obviously the only light in our lives and we love her very much”

Now I was jumped back into reality when the young pregnant lady I had helped earlier was quietly crying and mopping her eyes with a handkerchief, our eyes met and I smiled and nodded at her, she smiled and nodded back.

It then dawned on me that only very few of us come across this kind of scenes, some once in a month or Infact once in a life time. Here is a precious child that despite the importance the father still managed to scold and call her to order when she was disturbing her mother for biscuit but eventually patted her gently to sleep while they waited for the doctor. They love their child and want the best for her…

She’s their little light..

The mothers little light and her father’s Heritage.

So please let us all appreciate our creator for that wonderful little light he had placed in us and blessed our lifetime with… for it goes a long way to reach other people’s hearts and reminds them of his unconditional love.

Olowu Modebola Anne.

Creative Publisher & Columnist.