(I write to honour Adebisi Adenipekun)
My friend Edward is a great man!
The name ‘Edward’ is very new as it was given you only yesterday, by my newly beloved Personal Assistant, at Dental Pharmacy, while you were battling with paragraph spacing of your report on the just concluded REHP-Project.
We’ve come a long way bro, and it’s crystal clear that our friendship is beyond the coincidental meeting of a very gentle guy and a hyper active dude (well, that’s me - though I’ve cooled down overtime) on the 6th of November, 2006, during our part 1 registration. Our paths have been clearly mapped before the foundations of the world were laid. How else would you explain how we became friends? Or how we agreed to share a bedspace in part 2? I really don’t remember but I’m convinced it was a working beyond us both.
Over the years, you have taught me and exemplified true friendship. By your openness, you taught me to share. My love and respect for you is ever increasing. I could have added here, just as I do say, that if you were a woman, I would marry you, but for fear of unprecedented knocks from T Mystery, I'd rather keep that thought to myself.
You remember how we walked the green lawns beside Fajuyi hall lower buttery that night, when you shared with me a dream you had about ZOO 101? I still remember and every time I do, I cannot but thank God for His sure mercies. Do you remember those divine experiences we had? How we trusted God for food, and a congo of rice + tomato paste appeared on our bed? Do you remember how we got so busy with our different endeavours that we couldn’t catch a toad over the weekend for our Monday morning PCL 201 dissection, and a toad hopped into our cupboard on Sunday night while we were cooking? You remember it was our miracle toad that saved the day for group B during the practical class when other toads gave irregular readings on the kymograph?
You remember how we talked about HPAI, iCreate, and how we created logos of many colours. You remember how we needed Great Faith for laptops, to improve our productivity in the things which we believe we were created to do?
Now, your God, your Lord God whom you serve diligently has brought you out by His Mighty Hand indeed. He has seen you through all those days of uncertainty, overwhelming tasks, disappointments from unexpected sources and so on. He has brought you out with huge testimonies, a humble heart and a strong will to take this gospel round the globe. It’s amazing how you have stayed true.
Now brace up bro, because the same Mighty Hand that brought you out of pharmacy school is ready to lift you at a pace that can only be attributed to Him (you know how our Father does His things in ways that cannot be ascribed to any man). The sudden turnaround that you experienced in the last few months is nothing compared to the lifting that is to come. Get ready!
Just in case you’re wondering what inspired this writing? It was your last sms to me. You have not seized to inspire me to look forward and smile. And indeed, we will donate billions and see to the propagation of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.
Let pharmacy arise and receive this great man into the noble profession.
My friend Edward is a great man, and I’m proud to be associated with you!
