I read a book of about 110 pages written by Ngozi Ebubedike. It is a captivating piece drawn directly from the Bible, the story of Hannah. Ngozi aptly called her book the Decoration of Faith. It is a putting together of the resilience of the human spirit in the face of daunting difficulties and reproaches. It is about the profiling and stigmatization a woman suffers due to inability to achieve pregnancy. But if you want it that badly, if you talk your desire long enough, and make the right sacrifices, no matter how long the reproach sustained, the yoke definately would be broken by the anointing attracted by your faith.
Ngozi Ebubedike did something extraordinary with this book. She made it easy for those who couldn't get to the Bible to look up 1 Samuel Chapters 1 and 2 inorder to dig into the story of Hannah, Elkanah, Peninnah, Eli and Samuel; with colour and uncanny imagination, she built a contemporary story with fictional allure around it, and made it easy for anyone to thoroughly understand the fight of faith from the standpoint of childlesness and how to overcome it.
Go and read this book. Shalom.
Benny Okafor is the author of the Heaven's Dream Series.
