The Family

Saturday morning was always a busy one in the house of Pst & Mrs Daniel. Most of the house chores were done by the children and Mercy their house help. Though this didn't take place until after their usual morning devotion of one hour.

This family was blessed with doting parents, four wonderful kids and a diligent house help. They carried each other along in whatever they did, God was their priority. Mercy, their nineteen-year old house help was pretty, obedient, hardworking and committed.

When the family had travelled to village years back, Mercy was the little daughter of a widow, who did not have enough money to cater for six of her children. Due to that, she dispatched four of her children to those who were willing to take them as house helps. Two of the boys were given to a man who owned a big hotel. He had used them for different services and had paid them properly. Mercy the first daughter attached herself to Pastor Daniel and would not let him go back to Port-Harcourt without taking her. Then, she was a four-year old girl. Madam Ugochi as she was called tried to dissuade Mercy from leaving her because she was still very tender. The young girl had cried all evening and refused to sleep that night

She refused to eat till Mrs. Daniel assured her of going to the city with them. The girl had jumped and play and told her baby sister of two years that she would be leaving and would miss her. Grace by then had not understood Mercy and she only laughed and played with her.

Madam Ugochi was sad, but then Mrs. Daniel gave her words to help take care of Mercy and also treat her like her own daughter. That was how Mercy came to be a member of the family.

And true to her words, Mrs. Daniel took Mercy as her own daughter and the girl even started calling her ‘mom’. She was just nineteen now and had completed her secondary school. She was making preparations towards taking JAMB the next year.

The first child of Pst. & Mrs. Daniel was Joseph, their first son who was on his Masters as an optician in Canada. He was a very brilliant boy and was a scholarship for his Masters. He was twenty-five years old.

Their second child and first daughter was Glory, a twenty-three year old ambitious lady. She was currently doing her Masters also as a Civil Engineer. She had been brighter than Joseph in school, so her schooling had been much more faster. Many people had tried to dissuade her from her course, seeing she was a girl. But with her parents by her side, she had fought it through, and even come out with a first degree along with six others, amongst so many guys. Even during NYSC period, many guys had looked down on her as a female Engineer, she however paid deaf ears to them.

Glory had gotten married only a few months ago. The wedding had been a very big one, it was also a double celebration for her family because, she had just gotten admission to further her education to Masters. It was really a happy day for them.

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