TOPE! TOPE! TOPE! .. how many times have I called your name??? .. I am reminiscing on you giving advice to someone ...then you pull at your ear lobe and mention their name three times and say " how many times did I call your name? .."don't say I didn't warn you ooo" then you will wring your hands in a 'I am washing my hands of this one ooo' way (meanwhile we all knew when the person messed up you would be part of the rescue team).
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways", declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts" - Isaiah 55:8-9
ARH TOPE!!! WHAT IS DIS NOW?
If I say I understand this then I am would be a liar!!! A big big liar!!!...I do not understand at all!!! BUT I accept God's will, as bitter as it feels right now, for who am I to question his will?
I had a plan...that if I didn't write this tribute, then all of this would turn out to be 'fake news'. After today's service I knew that plan would fail terribly...so now here I am....writing this tribute I never wanted to write in the first place!
From day one you fit right into the Addo family and you were loved by every single member of the family...and that is not easy to do. You met everyone at their level and found something in common with each of us. When you introduced us to your family and we quickly realised that the Ajiborishas were the Nigerian version of the Addos. Naturally you were loved as a sister and daughter in our home and our dads get on like a house on fire.
Personally I loved how unpretentious, unjudgmental, loving and loyal you were. You always gave so generously of yourself without question, everything people have written about you is exactly true...and yet you were so much more! You were present for all the important moments in my life from the start. Cheering on Adu to the finish line, standing with us on our wedding day, at the birth of my first child Aiden...you even gave him his first name 'BOY' (this is not the place for that story ooo), encouraging me and praying for me! Now look!! Boy is 10yrs old and he would gladly tell you he is taller than you.
I now choose to celebrate your life.. the love, laughter, tears and the joy we shared over the years of 'family' not friendship. I thank God for letting us all share in your all too short but amazing story.
Our thoughts and prayers are with your family and your fiancé .. May our Good Lord grant them all comfort and strength that only he can in this time of pain and grief. I want them to know that not even death can sever the love between our two families.. we will always be there for them.
WE WILL MISS YOU!!!
WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!!
TOPE, DAMIRIDA DUE!!!
THIS IS NOT GOODBYE.. JUST SEE YOU LATER!! SO TILL WE MEET AGAIN AT THE FEET OF JESUS, MY DEAR, DEAR SISTER REST GENTLY AND PEACEFULLY LIKE THE ANGEL YOU ARE!
ADWOA ADDO