Motunrayo Emiola
Motunrayo Emiola “I’m afraid” She said to me, holding back her tears. She was restraining that because of me : I could sense that. Though I have been the only son who'd given her tough times : at the level of vocations, yet she took more delights in confiding in me than in my brothers. “Nothing would happen to you, Mum” I promised. I was girding myself with borrowed courage – the courage I didn’t have, lent it for her. I could sense the despair, sadness, the confusion of it all was overwhelming. But she didn’t seem to believe my words, she was indeed tired of staying in her house, she was afraid, yes, twas written all over her. Then, I began to think : is this how ones faith diminish? Is this how the boiling torrent of her undaunted faith cool off? I remembered, yes, back then. When the trial was at the apex, when an evil arrow was pointed at my brother and I. Yes,my bro...