"THE FINAL FAREWELL"


             THE FINAL FAREWELL
In the wee hours of the morning of 1st August, 2025, the sky was somber, reflecting the gravity of death, as the nightingale, Late Madam Magdalene Chinyere Beatrice Ijebuonwu, flew over the horizon of death and never to return to the land of the living. This gloomy day ushered in unimaginable grief and sorrow laced with unconsolable heartache. Two months after her swan flight to the great beyond, today, 23rd October, 2025, marks her actual final journey to rest in the bosom of her creator. The bereaved has recovered her remains from the deadhouse and taken them to her matrimonial and ancestral home. The body has moved to the church, St. Anthony's Catholic Church Ndagbo Isiama Afara-Ukwu, for a requiem, and lay in state for the viewing of loved ones, relatives, friends, and fiends alike. And finally, she was committed to mother earth. It was a dignified valediction. Entertainment of sympathizers ensued. Thereafter, the light went out, and the reality of our loss, which up till now has been surreal, dawned on us. Life and death are enigma.

     DEDICATION AND THANKSGIVING

The Almighty God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and End, the First and the Last, on behalf of my family, I thank you for the successful burial of our mother, late Madam Magdalene Chinyere Beatrice Ijebuonwu.

In every situation, you deserve our thanksgiving and sacrifice. The powers of darkness, principalities, and strongholds that struggled to stall or scuttle this burial ceremony were coerced to yield to your Authority. Satan and his agents were roundly humiliated and defeated.

May all exaltation, honor, glory, and adoration be unto your Holy Name, Amen.

May those who sympathized with us in this trying period be granted journey mercies to their respective destinations.


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