By Abdulwarees Solanke
Part of nature is Pain. We are pained when we hit against hard object or a hard object hits us. Pain is a feeling of hurt. The Death of a BELOVED is one of the inevitable pains
But pain ought not to last. As air of life, we experience breeze to survive and we breathe in and out the pain eases.
We experience. a certain soothing and freshness and release from the pain of tragedy or calamity and move on in life
As for mourning, it is from fear, it is from continually looking at the length of a dagger, the sharpness of a blade, the depth of a cut, the size, the weight, the harshness, the might, the number and comparing it with our own capacity and ability, or strength. Mourning is the mother of depression
It is from hopelessness, from fear of gravity of a loss, even when there is abundance of evidence or prospects and possibilities of recovery.
Mourning is from doubt, rejection, querying of the omnipotence of the author of our faith and fate
Mourning is from despair and desperation.
Mourning is a prison, high wall of limitation and, a dark cell blindness to the favours that have come to replace or restore what we lost.
Mourning is from rejection of God. Mourning is from lack or loss of faith in God.
The one who has true faith knows that he is not the owner of whatever is in his possession. He knows the the real owner is in the One entrusts him whatever is in His possession and when Owner reclaims it, he should gladly release it, believing that a worthier, weightier trust is in wait ahead.
So, if you have dealt with your trust well, enriched it better and increased it in value before you render it back or before retrieved from you. Count yourself a faithful servant, a worthy trust bearer deserving a a higher trust and valuable recompense. A faithful servant does not needlessly or endlessly mourn when the trust returns to it’s owner when we experience a calamity in the death of a Beloved.
*Solanke is deputy director for Strategic Planning and Corporate Development at the Voice of Nigeria
