Christkind

The story his mother told him was 
outrageous 
How could anyone be that desperate 
to have a child? 
Of what value is delving into the den of 
darkness all in the name of erasing 
the shame of barrenness? 
Why didn’t his mother adopt? 
Why didn’t his mother wait? 
His problem started when
He turned sixteen! 
He would sleep in his bed at night and 
wake up on a refuse dump somewhere 
around the city! 
It always happened in the night! 
He was never conscious of what he 
was doing 
He usually came to himself just as the 
cocks begins to crow 
He would become aware of who he
was and where he was! 
He would be smelling of filth and he 
suspected that sometimes he fed on 
rotten food and other things on the 
refuse dump! 
His parents were quite wealthy and he 
was their only child! 
They tried very hard to help him come 
out of the problem 
At first they locked
The doors and the gates! 
They got security men to watch over 
the house and gave them the power to 
arrest him if he ventured out of the 
compound! 
It failed! 
He always got out of the house mysteriously! 
So his parents changed their location. 
They moved from the heart of the city
To one of the estates on the outskirts of 
the city His parents wanted to keep him far 
away from refuse dumps 
They had become an object of pity in the 
neighborhood they were living in and his 
parents felt a change of scene would do 
everybody some good! 
It didn’t work for him
As soon as they moved to the new house, 
his disappearances intensified and this time 
he would have to walk for many miles before 
he got back home after he had regained his 
senses! 
Before he would get home within 30 minutes 
and only the early risers saw him but this time 
everybody saw him walking home early in the 
morning smelling of refuse, dirt, and waste 
all over his body and his eyes blazing like fire! 
He got committed to the psychiatric hospital 
at least three times a year! 
Nobody could diagnose what was wrong 
with him! 
They kept him and released him 
Yet the problem persisted! 
He hated it 
He hated what he was 
He hated being looked at by many 
like he was a mad man who could go off 
the rails at any moment! 
Somehow he gained admission into 
the university and was able to get a 
degree! 
The tricky thing about that was the fact
That his parents deliberately rented 
an apartment close to a refuse dump 
for him! 
They made an allowance for his condition,
 hoping he could dash to the refuse dump, 
do his thing and then return to his 
apartment to freshen up in the morning 
before going to school! 
It was the only way they could help him 
and it worked! 
He kept to himself and made sure he 
kept human contact as the barest minimum 
He did this so that nobody can care enough 
to spead rumors about his condition on 
campus!
 He was a weird guy and only a few people 
knew about his dilemma on campus
His mother confided in the landlord of his 
one-bedroom apartment and some other 
people! 
His mother just wanted them to keep an 
eye on him and not panic when they 
notice the pattern! 
Academically he had a photographic memory 
He was very sound 
He graduated with a second class upper
His parents insisted he would not observe 
the NYSC 
They got him an exemption on health grounds 
His father got him a job in a bank 
His parents just kept managing him 
He had his good days 
He also had his terrible days 
He was as human as others except for 
the refuse dump visits
When he turned twenty-five his mother 
started shopping for a wife for him 
His mother was sure there was no hope 
of a happy marriage for him 
She just wanted to milk children out of him 
The children would be her compensation! 
His father, encouraged by his mother, 
drove him to a brothel at least once a month 
to sleep with prostitutes! 
It was the only treat they had to give him 
for being a good boy and he looked forward 
to it eagerly! 
Somehow his mother got a young lady, 
she was a local girl who hawked cooked 
beans and bread! 
The lady got pregnant for him
His mother took the lady in and cared for 
her like a daughter 
He was not allowed to live with her in 
his apartment 
She comes to him during the day and 
plays the role of a wife but at night 
she slept with his parents in their apartment 
upstairs 
This was to prevent her from being
Exposed to his dilemma 
She delivered a son 
It was his happiest day in life 
The boy grew quickly and normally 
Until he clocked six and took to eating 
dirt! 
No matter what food they gave him, 
he wouldn’t eat it until he got some dirt 
or sand and mixed it with the food!
 It was Terrible! 
His wife couldn’t understand it 
She started going from clerics to spiritualists 
Doctors definitely didn’t get it 
The clerics told her she should ask her 
husband what the source of the problem was 
She asked him on her knees, in tears 
He told her to follow him 
They went to see his mother! 
His mother told them her story 
How she desperately needed a child 
and had to eat seven types of convictions 
on the most stinking refuse dump in their 
town while she was stark naked! 
She said all she did was in a bid to 
be a mother! 
She said she was never told
Her child would have issues or that it 
would also affect her grandchild! 
They resigned to fate 
A friend told her about the brother in 
Jeans and T-shirt 
She called him and told him her story! 
He asked her if they were believers 
She said No! 
They were non-Christians 
He told her the case was not hopeless! 
Her family came to see him in Lagos! 
He told them the devil was not given 
the power to create human beings! 
The notion that he and his son came 
from the devil was not only a lie but 
a hoax! 
God made man in his own image! 
Going by the characteristic of the
Devil, if he made anything, it will have 
to be in its image and not in th image of God 
They got it! 
He led the couple to Christ! 
After they had given their lives to Christ, 
he filled them with the Holy Spirit 
Then he rebuked the strange spirit of 
malady over him and his son!
He blessed their family! 
The young boy started crying,
 his mother brought out his food! 
(The one they had carefully mixed 
with some brewery waste) 
The boy sat down to eat 
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt prayed 
in tongues 
His parents prayed in tongues 
They watched him as he took a spoonful 
of the food! 
He ate it and spat it out immediately 
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt laughed! 
His parents cheered! 
The yoke of affliction was brokenness! 

Ps: They now live in Lagos 
He works with a new construction project 
on the Island as a consultant! 
Their son
Attends a school on the Lagos Island 
He is eight years old now! 
Both father and son were completely 
set free and set in Christ 
His parents came to see the Brother in Jeans 
and T-shirt on their way to the airport 
as they went on a deserved vacation! 
The Holy Spirit restored Eden

GSW's note: The devil has an image 
If he wanted to make anything 
He would make such in its own image! 
You are the image of God as a mankind 
But when you came into Christ, 
you became a Christkind! 
A citizen of Zion! 
A member of the assembly of the saints 
in light! 
You are of God and in God!