CWRC Anthology

HEALING

© 2022 by Beloved Israel Tijesuni Inioluwa.

Brought to you by Christian Writers and Readers Club.

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P.K, yes P.K, that's what I'm being called. You wonder what it means. Well, here is it.

P.K is coined from the initials of my name 'Peter Kingsley'

I'm an orphan, I used to have a sibling, just one, Peter Raymond, but he too is no more.

I had gone on holiday to my aunt's house, and when it was few days left for me to return, the news of
their death came knocking me down.

It was about two weeks before my resumption into SS3 class. Results showed that Covid 19 was the source of their death. They weren't even given a befitting burial.

I was 16 years old at the time, my Aunt Adopted me, and I lived with her till I fully grew up.

Not to sound boastful or anything like that but I was very brilliant, I graduated as the best Medicine student in UNILAG.

I rented a 'self con' immediately I graduated, I had no need for job hunting because the Blue sky hospital
(BSH) employed me right from my convocation.

I can say I am successful, at age 25, a high paid medical doctor in one of the best Hospitals in Lagos.

God has never forsaken me.

"Uh uh..." Dr. Charles, Owner of BSH, cleared his throat.

"Dr. Peter Kingsley," he called silently.

"Yes sir" I replied, removing my eyeglasses from my eyes.

"No no no no, don't remove it, put it back" he said.
I replaced the eyeglasses.

"What is this?" He asked, pointing to a sheet of paper on his table.

I fixed my gaze on it, and got a glimpse of it. It was the poem I wrote.

The signs of wonder
Brought Signs and wonders
Life eternal,
Salvation in Judea and even samaria
His mighty healing hands
Healing our sons and daughters
The demon possessed and the mad
The crippled and every handicap

He healed the deaf and gave sight to the blind
The young, the old, Servants and their masters
He surpasses every physician
Bests of the medical professionals.
None like Him, not now or ever.
The son of a carpenter, Jesus Christ,
Indeed He is the Healer.

Do you think you need medicine to be healed?
Or herbs made from some tree bark that was peeled!
Brief ease from the symptoms you feel.
Without getting rid of that thing that really kills
Is that what you really need?
No, I bet that's not it.

This is what you need,
Peace from the Prince of Peace
The one who for you intercedes,
He stands at the door knocking
And In His hands is healing,
Yes, rest that is lasting.
but you don't only need healing,
You need the Healer too,
That makes it perfect, complete and whole.

The Deputy Governor of the state was having a very strange illness and he had been brought to our
hospital.

Different tests had been carried out and yet, it hadn't been figured out.

In the first place, he should have been flown out, but due to some undisclosed reasons, he wasn't.

Dr. Charles has consulted the help of other Doctors in the country, General hospitals and private
hospitals, but they seem clueless too.

So he told every doctor and nurse in the hospital to write out possible solutions and submit them the following day, which is today.

On getting home that day, I threw my bag on the cushion, loosened my tie, went to the kitchen and took
a very cold yogurt from the freezer.I didn't even bother taking a cup.