Is comfort from heaven
The important thing to note is that our creator knew how his creation would respond to life's pressures, and how those trigger inherent behaviours He himself sent us to this earth carrying. I have come to realise that the potent mix of life's pressures and my inherent attitudes and behaviours are meant to create a hunger to depend on God. It is a constant battle to keep coming back to the Father for strength, comfort, for healing, to be taught, or rebuked, and ultimately to calm my spirit down and embrace whatever directions He will have me obey. I believe emotions are God given , not just for self expression, but as a warning system for mental health. 
We thank God for the life of Ameyo. We thank the Lord for the spirit of excellence she showed in being instrumental in curtailing the spread of the disease. I thank God for the gift of knowing her as a wonderful doctor and person. May God welcome her into His bosom and marvelous light. Rest in peace Ameyo.
Dupe Irele
In all situations we are called to give thanks so we must thank God for Ameyo's life. She was my classmate in both my primary and secondary schools and I have therefore known her for nearly fifty years. She was so clever in school, always on top of her class. Smart, witty and always with a smile. We gave her many nicknames as she was always ready to play with anyone, joke with anyone and in general her company was always a lot of fun. We lost touch after secondary school but in recent years I started seeing her once in a while and she remained as cheerful as ever. Her reputation was great and her patients always spoke highly of her. It was gratifying to see that she had bought her innate empathy and optimism to bear in her profession. She has done her bit which is why we are called to do. She touched lives and ultimately gave her own life. She is a role model and a heroine of our times. Most of all she knew and loved The Lord. May she rest in peace.
Folasade Adefisayo
Very sad indeed. RIP. May God comfort her family and loved ones and bring them peace, amen.
Morenike Adebusuyi
May Ameyo's legacy and memory be blessed. Like a lamb led to the slaughter she laid down her life. A consummate professional to the end. surely heaven stood up to welcome her. may God comfort her family and all who knew and loved her. Amen
Abby Olufeyimi
Ameyo fought a good fight and laid down her life that many may live. Heaven WON!
Alero Ayida Otobo
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for a friend. Goodbye Dr Adadevoh. An honourable soldier struck down in the line of duty.
Minjiba Cookey
Felt so sad about Dr. Adadevoh though I didn't know her. Scriptural parallels...the sacrifice of one saved many.....
But God knows best.. Who knows maybe this was her own for such a time as this , and if I perish I perish.
Taba Peterside
A great loss to Nigeria and to the health sector. Dr Adadevoh was a couple of years my senior in school and her sis Ama my classmate. When my dearest dad suddenly fell ill and was admitted in first consultant she was one of the last people with him when he drew his last breath. She then had the unenviable job of breaking the news to us which she did so well and with great compassion and really helped at the initial stage . Passionate and caring till the end. She would have been received with great fanfare In heaven !
Bolaji Osime
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) struck at the heart of Nigeria, when Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, a consultant physician, and member of the illustrious Kwaku Adadevoh/Herbert Macaulay/Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowder lineage succumbed to the scourge of the disease.
Dr. Adadevoh contracted the virus from the Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who imported the disease into Nigeria.
Sources close to Dr. Adadevoh, 58, said she succumbed to the disease yesterday evening, having been in a coma for some days.
Dr. Adadevoh, who is survived by one son, had led the medical team at First Consultants Medical Centre, a Lagos-based hospital, which treated Sawyer on his arrival in Lagos.
As the head of operations at First Consultants, Dr. Adadevoh was praised for being the first to detect that Sawyer, who was admitted at First Consultants for five days before his death, was not being truthful when he denied that he was infected with the Ebola virus.
After he had tested negative for malaria and other diseases, she was said to have ordered that his blood be tested for Ebola. It was the positive result of the test that enabled the hospital to contact the Lagos State health authorities about the first Ebola patient in the country.
Her death brings to five, including the index case Sawyer, the total number of persons who have succumbed to the scourge of the disease in Nigeria.
Among those who have passed on, Dr. Adedavoh is the first doctor and the fourth Nigerian to have died from the virus. Others who died before her comprised two nurses and the ECOWAS protocol officer, Jatto Abdulqudir, who picked up an already infected Sawyer from the Murtala Muhammad International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
However, five others who contracted the disease from Sawyer have been discharged while two others remain in the isolation ward at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
Prior to Dr. Adadevoh's death, her family and colleagues had held a press briefing in Lagos appealing to the US government to intervene to keep her from dying.
They felt that the medical care she was getting in the isolation ward was insufficient and had called on the US government to send the ZMapp trial drug to save her life.
Dr. Adadevoh comes from an illustrious family of physicians, politicians, statesmen and clerics.
Her father, the late Dr. Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh, was a renowned Harvard University-trained physician and former vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos, while her grandmother was the daughter of Sir Herbert Samuel Macaulay, a foremost politician and founder of Nigerian nationalism in the early 1940s.
Macaulay himself was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was ordained the first African Bishop of the Anglican Church in Nigeria in 1864, making Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, his great-great-great-grand daughter.
The Adadevoh family can trace their roots to the Creoles in Sierra Leone, Ghana and South-west Nigeria.
We were just grateful that it was not raining because the airport management of MM1 are plastic, waterproof people from another galaxy, so they cannot see any reason to get passengers to their cars via covered walkways. We were just thrust into the open and more or less left to fend for ourselves in order to reach the buses provided to ferry us to the car park!
Had it been raining, I shudder to think how things would have gone. It had rained earlier in the day, and this accounted for the whipped chocolate cream that I had to step into. I acquired a muddy hem on my maxi dress like a tribal right of passage. There was just no way of hoisting the garment and manoeuvring three different kinds of hand luggage through the teeming crowd at the same time.
Interspersed in the melee were touts holding up wads of crisp one thousand Naira notes, offering to sell foreign exchange or just break down notes into smaller denominations. They had the same effect as blue bottle flies buzzing around my ears. My first instinct was to reach for a fly swatter. Both official and 'kabu-kabu' drivers bent on attracting passengers to hire their vehicles tried to intercept our egress by running alongside or stepping in front of us to offer their servIces. If the money changers were flies, these were annoying pests of another kind which I can't quite find the adequate description for.
Soon, it was all over and we were in our car, and speedily being transported home. My head was reeling, I was utterly exhausted and I haven't been more pleased to cross the threshold into my home in a long time. For now, all is well and I can quickly forget the MM1 experience. That is; until the next time I travel out and return.
But when will this avoidable chaos end?
I kicked off celebratIons for my birthday by being in a place of deep gratitude for another year of life, by his grace. I was reflecting on so many things, mostly the power of grace that I have been privileged to receive. In my reflections I read three pieces of writing from my journals which centred on grace and gratitude. They were written at different times over the last year and a half, and come together for me now as one whole thing that I embrace.
01 January 2013
SAVED BY HIS GRACE
Saved by His grace
Steeped in His love
My only answer
Is that its from heaven above
Grateful beyond measure
For innumerable gifts
For privileges
Seen and unseen
What an amazing God!
What a Saviour!
I bend low my knee
My heart cries out
Why me! Why me!
And he answers...
Because I love you
Because I honour my word
Because I want you to be
An example of this love
Endless and free
From eternity to eternity
I have loved mankind
Be a temple for me
Be the bible people see
Be the catalyst for someone to take courage
Be bold, be different
Showcase my creativity
Let me be me
GRATEFUL IN LAGOS 29 August 2013
G - Gratitude
R - Reverence
A - Adoration
T - Thanksgiving
E - Eternal glory
F - Fellowship
U - Unending love
L - Loyalty
I am grateful Lord, because of who you are, your patience and love for me. I am grateful for the truth you have revealed to me about myself, and my behaviour that makes me struggle within sometimes. I am sorry for my stubbornness , for my rebellion and going my own way, and doing things in my own strength.
Forgive me Lord. Have mercy on me for I am a very silly girl at times.
This is why I am so grateful, because you always rescue me, and I am so happy that there is room for forgiveness from you. That there is fullness of joy in your presence.
Help me Lord to forgive myself.
Be glorified in my life Lord. I am grateful for my life, and what you are doing in it, and what you will have me do.
I bless your name and reverence you. In Jesus mighty name.
Amen!
SAVED BY GRACE 12/07/2014
Every human being has faults that are inherent that can be magnified or subdued by the environment in which they grow up and have been nurtured. We are each socialised in peculiar ways triggered by the innate forces within until we find ourselves in a new environment with different forces, reach an age of reason, or come to realisations. Realisations and recognition are the bedrock of self awareness. There are two kinds of self awareness-one which is completely in the natural-governed by self willandanother which is in the spiritual-governed by God's will.They can sometimes be in conflict because our life's experience may not corroborate our Christ given identity, and therefore how God sees us. This is where FAITH comes in.
Standing on our belief system is a powerful tool which keeps us focussed on where we are going and centred on the truth about who we are in God's eyes. To ignore this truth is to diminish GRACE. We have free access to this grace through the word of God which is available for us to eat of.
Yes I am flawed. Yes I have made mistakes and taken decisions that I know are wrong. Yes I have said a word that has wounded someone. Yes I have failed to take many opportunities that came my way. However, I know that , I know that, I know that my spirit man must be in the driving seat.
I am grateful for grace. I am grateful that I always have new choices. That I am transformed by the renewal of my mind. It is grace that has made that provision for me. I must keep that uppermost in my mind. My mind is the most powerful weapon with which I can hold on to the truth in His word regardless of times, seasons, circumstances or what others say about me. In Christ, I am a work in progress, but also, I am:
-More than a conqueror
- Able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me
-able to move out of darkness into His marvellous light.
Jealous Saul-triumphant David 1Sam 16-18
The bible's account of the relationship between Saul and David, is rife with Saul's jealousy towards the young, handsome, harp playing, spirit filled warrior and David's determination to honour God rather than reciprocate Saul's several attempts to murder young David.
It is notable that David, prior to his being anointed the next king of Israel, appeared to be a nobody; inconsequential. The baby of the family- the last born who was at best an errand boy for his older brothers and he tended sheep. In short, he was in a humble/lowly estate while his older brothers who were respected and recognised by the King and the society were warriors and officers in Saul's army. They had the macho job, certainly in national security terms, their job carried more weight than David's.
What at all was that boy up to?...
Playing harps and following goats and sheep around!
It transpires that the brothers too were jealous of David. A feeling that deepened from both David's brothers' heart , and the king's. It all started after the pip squeak of a lad killed Goliath with one of the most unconventional battle weapons ever..... In fact ,Saul had put his armour on him, but the young lad asked to take it off and rather chose to wear his normal shepherd clothes . All he took with him by way of weaponry was a sling shot and five smooth pebbles.
Na wao!
OMG!
The boy killed the giant and took his head to Saul!
Self note:
1) In what ways am I hindering my victory over something because I have taken on a battle strategy that is a wrong fit for me. I am chosen by God to win battles for him in His strength and possibly using the uniqueness of my skill sets, regardless of whether or not these are recognised by others.
2) A key thing to note, is that God was with David but had left Saul.
3) All their feelings of jealousy, the insults and derision levelled against David by the brothers and even the attempt on David's life by the king Saul came to nothing. Imagine! Saul throwing a spear at David twice, with the pre-meditated motive of pinning him to the wall!!
Haba! What was David's offence?
Nothing.
Saul was simply jealous and he was unable to keep his feelings in check. But the bible says the 'evil spirit' that came over Saul was from God.
This I don't understand.
Why would God do this?
When I think of this, I feel sorry for Saul, because I know that even if he wished it, he could not possibly win against a spirit that God had put in him.
4) I am not a lawyer but this 'evil spirit from God' drove Saul to do all sorts of things that could be evidence of criminal intent:
-Malice a fore thought
-Attempted murder
-Stalking David thereby constituting himself into a public nuisance
-Consumed with the unlawful motive to cause grievous bodily harm to David
5) So, Saul was 'set up' by his maker. How could he have done anything to turn this tide? Did he have a choice to do different?
Whatever the answers to my questions, I can learn from Saul how poisonous jealousy can be, and how it will literally drive you insane, and you could possibly break the law too, if left unchecked.
6)....And yes , the close cousin of jealousy is resentment. I must get rid of that and all its other relatives.
-anger
-strife
-'pull-him-downism'
-'she/ he is such a goody-two-shoes isms'
We must get rid them and throw them away, far, far from our normal living environment, just like we empty our bowels.
7) Also, here I see again God being the perfect Human resource manager in using David's hitherto unrecognised skill sets where it was least expected. David's killing of bears and lion's that had attempted to eat his sheep, was not really recognised as a skill worthy of use for national battle. Certainly not against the huge giant of a man, who's physical size alone struck fear into an entire army.
As well, David, their next king was under their very noses but they did not know!
8) We should ask ourselves, which staff or junior worker that God has anointed for higher service have we overlooked? As God is God, he will give them the opportunity to spring up one day as He uses them to fulfil an assignment. We may be surprised, but we must not allow jealousy a shred of room.
I ask myself which part of me has The Lord planned for triumph one day, that I am unaware of ? What humble little part of me is a giant slayer in disguise?
Perhaps you would like to think about these points and see if you too are a giant slayer in disguise?
