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    The Darkness In My Past
    The Darkness In My Past
    The Darkness In My Past
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    The Darkness In My Past

    By Ebere Cathy Njoku

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    Ure Okafor is pregnant with her first child and travels to Scotland at the invitation of her medical doctor sister-in-law who insists she should see a foreign doctor. Ure promptly agrees because it would give her a mini vacation and time to shop before the baby arrives.
    Things take a dramatic turn during the hospital visit as the doctors announce that she is carrying a sick child who will be born a “vegetable”. They go on to give her three choices:
    A: have the baby and care for it bearing in mind it will never be aware of anything
    B: have the baby and give it up for adoption
    C: terminate immediately

    Faced with these horrific choices, Ure is confused and her faith begins to flounder. The option she eventually settles for, as a Christian woman and the consequences of that choice is the story of “The Darkness in my Past”.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEbere Cathy Njoku
    Release dateJul 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370661145
    The Darkness In My Past
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    Ebere Cathy Njoku

    Dr Ebere Cathy Njoku is the founder and driver of the Wholesome Inspirations Network. She is on a mission to "create a change in our collective mindset toward a more wholesome way of doing everything" by flooding our environment with wholesome products and services especially in the area of the written and spoken word. She is the author of Could This be me? The Darkness in my Past Edge of a Cliff My Personal Book Journal

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      The Darkness In My Past - Ebere Cathy Njoku

      CHAPTER 1

      THE JOURNEY

      Surulere, Lagos, 2004

      I walked briskly to my car and yanked the door open, all the while holding my breath and mentally zipping my lips for I was determined not to utter a word in response to what I considered as the constant whining of Jimmy, my husband.

      I am not sure what shocked him more, the fact that for once I didn't respond with high drama or the fact that I was actually carrying out what I had been threatening all week to do. So with his voice reverberating in my head with shouts of

      Don’t be ridiculous!  

      Are you out of your mind? 

      "Come on, Ure! Grow up!!!

      I totally ignored him and entered my car, a nice, shiny black Rav4 jeep (I say my car confidently because I paid Toyota Motors on Ikorodu road for every kobo of it with my own money). When I was comfortably seated and strapped in, I finally allowed myself to release my breath that I had been holding since, then reach for the ignition, insert the key and start the car. I drove quietly away without looking back. 

      I was finally on my way to Orioke!

      I know it’s hard to believe, I could barely believe it myself, but I decided that if I had to get to the bottom of this seven year childless spell, then drastic measures had to be taken. I felt a fleeting pang of guilt over my husband Jimmy, but I knew he would come round, he always did, besides he wasn't the one taking all the heat about being barren/childless and for sure there was no way he was going to follow me to Orioke, he was barely able to join me in prayers not to talk of this. So, Orioke, here I come!

      I had been driving for about forty-five minutes and it was really getting dark, I had left the city and had passed the toll gate heading away from Lagos towards Ibadan. I glanced at the dashboard for the time and I noted that it was 9:25pm. I figured I should be arriving in, say, fifteen to twenty more minutes and that was when the apprehension and the doubts began to flood into my mind. The voices became so loud and insistent and even accusatory in my mind that I had to turn on the music just to drown the sound. I kept on driving, more slowly now because I had to be careful not to pass the sharp right turn off the express way. According to my instructions, I should be nearing the bend on the road just where the trail to Orioke began. 

      When I drove off the road and veered onto the bumpy dirt track, I turned off the music and drove on cautiously and all I could hear now was the loud and almost painful thudding of my heart as it beat haphazardly against my chest, I was really starting to panic now. I thought I would see a lot of other cars by now? My goodness, WHERE IS THE SIGNBOARD? I was told that usually many people came to this retreat, for that was what it really was, an on-going mountain retreat!

      I had been introduced to a group of women who held a weekly fellowship by Tola, a very calm lady who worked in my office. She had come to me one day and invited me to the fellowship. Initially I was not interested until she mentioned that most of the women there had gone through childlessness but were now the proud mothers of children. She really got me there; my interest was perked immediately so I quickly accepted the invitation. One thing led to the other and here I am, practically at Orioke!

      I suddenly saw the sign and I came skidding to a halt that was when I also noticed there were a few other cars parked in a scattered fashion on the base of the mountain.

      I muttered a prayer of thanks to God and stepped out of the car carrying only my bible. That was all I brought, apart from a few bottles of water, it was part of my great faith program to come here and pray while fasting for three days nonstop.

      You see, I never stopped to question my motives, I never even allowed myself to dwell on the pros and cons, and I was just convinced that this was what I had to do. 

      I began the tortuous climb up the mountain, I did meet a few people on the way up but nobody acknowledged anyone else, it was a totally solitary journey besides it was too dark to make out anybody's features. 

      As I neared the top, I began to hear muffled sobbing, loud groans, chanting and people singing praise and worship songs. It took my eyes a while to adjust to the near darkness, some people had lanterns, and others had torches, while some used their phone lights primarily for the purpose of reading their bibles. The people were scattered about, a few that were in groups, stood huddled together. I remember seeing a grown man in a business suit with his arms across his chest and eyes looking up to

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