The one ray of hope I had about his life and the misery it had made of him is that he started to talk to me about church, he was clearly interested but very cynical. Just so he could be happy again and be that guy that I first started talking to, and reach the potential that I always saw. Maaaaan, I used to pray and I do mean pray for this guy to change. I dunno if I can get a witness to the kind of deep heart-wrenching, pleading, promising prayers that I mean. If not I'll just leave you to imagine it. But as time passed, I went from believing so hard, to praying less fervently until one day, I dunno when, I just stopped praying for him altogether.
Now if you have been keeping up with me you'd know that I've been tryna end my year on a positive note by yet again spring cleaning my life and on a whim I searched his facebook profile (reading this back is soooo making me think, stalker alert! Stalker alert!). Then I decided to poke him and then I pretty much went back to my life and forgot about him. A couple days ago I get a facebook message saying 'hey I lost your number' so I sent the number over and got a call today while at work. Just before I had 'spring-cleaned' him from my life our convo's always decended into bitching fests, either him getting ugly truths out of me about himself or other people or vice versa. So it got to the point where I had once enjoyed speaking to him from 10pm til 7am (yes, this really did happen, talk about a couple of jobless students!) now a half-an-hour convo would drive me up the wall. It'd go a little like this...
Nameless: Hey, Nsoromma you monkey wot u doing...
Nsoromma: If i'm a monkey why are you calling me? It's 2am WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME. I'm doing nothing, why?
Nameless: Are you at home? Come and see me, man. I wanna see you.
Nsoromma: Errrrr...IT'S 2 IN THE F***ING MORNING MAN. I'm not leaving my house. Get lost. What do you want?
Nameless: Ah, man nothing. You're on a long ting. Just wondering how ur ugly friend is, innit?
Nsoromma: Who is ugly? Piss off man.
Nameless: So is she still the leader of ur crew? Tehehe.
Nsoromma: Huh? Ur chatting rubbish man, ur so dumb. Who talks about crews and stuff? How old are you? You were bullied as a kid, innit?
Nameless: U wish u were like me as a kid about, I don't even know why I'm talking to you your so dumb. You got a freshie man yet? Only a freshie ever would want you...
Etc, etc...
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, so not so eventually I stopped taking his calls and he stopped calling. But just to remind you trips down memory lane were rosy, there was a time when we could stand each other and that is what probably prompted both the poke from me and the call from him. Here's a snippet of today's convo...
Nameless: Hey Nsoromma. How you doing?
Nsoromma: I'm alright you know, how are you?
Nameless: I'm cool just changing my life, I got saved
Nsoromma: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! Ahhhhhhh! For real? When? Congrats, hun!
Nameless: Yeah thanks. Back in October, just tryna get my life on track.
Nsoromma: Oh wow!
Nameless: I know. But what you been up to man. It's been ages. Been wondering how you are.
Nsoromma: I'm good,....
I can see a change even in how he speaks! He's now saved and it shows. I was on break at work when we spoke and I could have exploded with joy at that one statement. 6 years on after my tearfilled prayer. If you don't know, get to know, prayer changes things! Whatever you been praying for, or like me whatever you have prayed for and forgotten...it shall come to pass! P.U.S.H. (pray until something happens) people!
2 comments:
6 years..thats like 1..2..3..4..5. I can't even bring maself to a week of committed prayer sessions...dayum!
lol! I guess the point I wanted to make as well as praying long is praying hard and believing it. I could not see anyway of this guy getting saved but he did! If you ever knew him you'd know that was a miracle. It's kinna given me a push to P.U.S.H.
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