I could not hold my tears;
So down it came as I sat down;
Oh yes, it has happened I was told;
Your dear Sister Enanga is gone to rest
We grew up in New Town Victoria;
Our citadel was across from the Woletes;
That was home for us, the center of our world;
It was where we lived, wrote and told our stories
We told stories of successes and of failures;
Stories that wrenched many a heart and made us cry;
Stories that picked us up, lifted our spirits and kept hope alive
Yesterday I sat with her on the same table and broke bread;
Death, Oh! Death;
Thy purpose is baffling and mysterious;
Life, Oh! Brief life,
Thy journey with man is very enigmatic;
To the silent eloquence of death you bring one and all
Yes of course she had a thorn in her flesh;
Something God in His infinite wisdom allowed;
Something the family pondered and prayed about
But she looked passed that ominous ailment;
Nothing could limit her resolve to serve God;
To worship Him in spirit and in truth;
So she exulted in her tribulation
Tribulation brought perseverance;
Perseverance, proven character;
Proven character, hope
Hope did not fail
Sister Enanga:
You are vindicated in death;
Your ties to the earth are loose;
Your work here is done;
The fight is over;
The race is completed;
The victory is won.
Go to the joys of Heaven;
To the gift of everlasting life;
Go to your rest, and in perfect peace, rest
My deepest condolences. May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...
John 11:32-45
32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”
38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”
45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;
Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/dead-live-again-tract/dead-live-again
