...and for our sakes, that we may live well...

Life is not A, B, C…, but A, AB, B, BC, C… Many times we confront life as though it is “simple as A, B, C…” in popular parlance, but at the end we realize that we have been wrong about many things. Life is as rare and complex as the grading system of few tertiary institutions with grades that almost make your head spin. In addition, just like the saying that “…all is fair in love and war” life confronts us with issues that make us question living, reality and focus, but also in the end we sigh, “…all is well that ends well…” How do we now measure a “well ending” or more preferably a “happy ending”? It has crossed my mind many times when old folks die that people say, what a long life, but when a young person dies, we are quick to say, “…oh too young” and I am guilty of that too without pausing to consider if the life was meaningful. There are many old fools who have died at their very old ages who if they had died earlier would be better for the nation, but we have come to accept age as the perfect measure of a life well spent. This regretful incident has helped me and my family to rethink and probably redefine the meaning of a good life and we conclude that it is a life spent with JESUS in focus. Our young lady died at a relatively young age, but as her dear husband mused just by the grave side, we are consoled that she knew the Lord, through life-she lived a good life. To the departed, we are constrained, but for the living, we continue to strive to achieve the good life. May the GOD of all comfort keep the hearts of her husband and child in peace and to the families of the departed (Oladele and Olurinde), we have a hope that all is well… Till we meet to part no more Mrs. Olufunke Oladele