Another mother’s day without you, lau sinagu lalokauna 🕊❤️ and memories are all that we’re left with.
As I take a trip down memory lane, I’m reminded of one thing and one thing alone – your faith in God! Your faithful prayers uttered in silence or loudly, God heard and answered, saving many of us, your children, grandchildren, inlaws, and so on from unknown dangers and perils.
You not only taught us with words but lived your life in humility and showed us the importance of living in peace & harmony with everyone around us ❤️🙏
Psalms 133:1-3 NIV
[1] How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! [2] It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down on the collar of his robe. [3] It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
I remember back in March 2018, when you were so sick – we flew over to see you 😒 I was heart broken when we returned, even to the point of letting my children, your bubus, know that we would be lucky to see you at Easter 2018 :(:(
I was waiting for ‘that call’, up until Easter, but it never came! And it was with grateful hearts to God when we boarded the plane again, this time with our children, to visit you. Not knowing that it would be our last physical visit with you – God’s plans are always higher than ours, my beloved mother 🙏
To this day, two of your prayers as you lay in your sick bed are vividly clear in my mind – I’m reminded every day of God’s healing powers and saving grace:
Tamagu lalokau
(My dearest Father)
Ame hagoadamai
(Grant us strength)
Oi emu ai bai aheabidadama
(To have faith in you)
Badina namo bona mauri badina
(Because all things)
Na oi emu amo emaimu!
(Come from you)Vabu Vavia, March 2018
Tamagu Lohiabada
(My Father, My Lord)
Ame bogagu hisi
(Have mercy on me)
Lau nagarimu
(I’m afraid)
Emu goada ahenigu
(Grant me strength)
Ina na egu guriguri
(This is my prayer)Vabu Vavia, March 2018
He answered yours, and our prayers 🙏 Healing you and let you be with us for 3 more wonderful years. Being bedridden didn’t stop you from praying and singing your favourite hymns, choruses, and perovetas. Your love and faithfulness for God was evident even in those final dementia filled years & months ❤️
Reading from Psalms to you on that fateful August morning is a blessing – your laboured breathing calmed down, rapid eye movements eased, now glazed with tears, shone as if something glorious only you could see appeared before you 🙏 As I read the final verses of Psalms chapter 8, I knew you’d gone to be with the Lord – a peaceful passing over that I witnessed and will cherish always. May your beautiful soul rest in God’s eternal peace 🕊🙏
Psalms 8:1-9 NIV
[1] Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
[2] Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
[3] When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
[4] what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
[5] You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
[6] You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
[7] all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, [8] the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
[9] Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Iaia, a living testament for us, that God truly does hear the prayers of His faithful servant 🙏
[1] There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
To God be the glory always ❤️🙏
Idau Hahine 