BE ENCOURAGED BY SUNDAY ANANI

Last night, after the children had gone to bed, we had some time to do something unusual.
We decided to look through my WhatsApp chats with my wife as far back as May 2017. I often back up my chats so I could still retrieve them.
Going back to read through those chats further made us appreciate where we were coming from.
We saw a chat we had on when the gynaecologist we were seeing then finally agreed to treat my wife for PCOS. It was a tough phase of our life.
It took time for him to agree with my wife that PCOS was suspected as the cause of our delay in pregnancy then.
We read how we were in debt in 2017 and how our monthly earning then was subjected to two loan deductions.
There was a salary alert I sent to my wife back then. We saw it again last night and we were just wondering how we even survived on it. It is unbelievable.
The chat archives also reminded us of how we lost money to a business that went wrong and how the man in whose business we invested was dribbling us for months.
More painful was that the invested sum was borrowed too.
We again read how my wife was going from Ikorodu to Badagry to recover that money but all to no avail until the man was arrested, detained, charged to court, and released.
He fled afterwards to Ghana, leaving his guarantor to bear the weight. We later gave up on that case.
In the chat history, we saw some pictures (now blurry) that made us laugh. We listen to some audio notes we exchanged that made us laugh too.
We thanked God we could recall those difficult times but they are now behind us.
People pass through a lot every day. You may be in the middle of one tough time at the moment.
I bring the words of Psalm 30:5 to soothe you.
“… weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Your joy will as an individual.
If you are a couple, your joy will come if you don’t despair. Even if you despair, God will show up for you by His mercy.
It is never comfortable to be in the middle of lack, pain, inadequacies, losses and inconveniences but God will prove Himself faithful.
Your weeping may endure for a night, days and even years, but your joy will never fail to show up.
Be encouraged again.