25/06/2023
All, to answer today's question, "What on your mind?", here's what on my mind:
It is to share with you my testimony about what I called a genuine surprise.
As always, especially in the last five years, I woke up this morning, thanked the good Lord for waking me up. And because I was running late for our regular prayer service, held here at BABMOC'S Site 1 Campus every Sunday, I quickly got not formally dressed and on, on I went, just to meet the second of what I call a real surprise to a person.
Today, June 25, 2023, members of the BABMOC'S Fellowship, at its Head Quarters location, showered on my sister and I flowers, symbolizing their level of appreciations for what they described as the Motherly and Fatherly roles they said we have been playing, and continue to play in the lives of children in our paths without boundary. Unlike my sister, who later confessed that she was a part of the planning, I had no idea that such honor was coming my way. I was so much caught unaware, over come by emotion that I just didn't know how to start an acceptance remarks. It fact, it reminded me about similar gesture on the part of a dear friend, who, for my 50th Birthday, surprisingly planned and held a party, bringing together nearly all of my friends in the US to Johnson City, Tennessee, without my know.
At first, I really didn't appreciate the gesture because I felt that it made me to appear before my friends, some I have not seen for years, half dressed. But amazingly as years rolled out, I became to realize that such move is what one can actually refer to as a genuine surprise.
Today's program, as small and short as it was, will forever remain with me. Speaking for the body, Ms. Annie J. Barrolle, moderator for the Fellowship, said it was the body's way of wishing my sister and I Happy...Happy Mother's and Father's Days. Earlier, Rev. Garway, PTA Chair person , thanked my sister for being so supportive of BABMOC'S mission, and for his part, Mr. Steven Sonah, a parent in BABMOC School, thanked me for for initiating the idea of BABMOC.
For myself, the BABMOC'S Family, and on behalf of my sister, I say many....many thanks to the organizers - the leadership and members of BABMOC'S Fellowship, Sites 1 & 2. May God richly bless and return to them great favor, Amen!