Firework interrupters

Mr john Okeke, a Christian. That type that uses their earthly head to serve God. If you had been following events, You would easily have recalled that He is not the type that believes you need to be a little crazy to serve God well.

Do you know the type? Crazy types that drink alcohol, commit not only fornication but adultery over and over then, suddenly, they turn into overnight saints and start throwing away things they considers sinful. With alcohol and things like that go with the bottle, the wife becomes more useless than she was while the man is on Earth. 

Then, the zeal he started with while on Earth got more better of him now he is in heaven and he starts reading and taking everything he reads about in the bible literally. He never believed before that the reason he was unable to pregnant his wife had anything to do with him. While on earth, it's his wife's fault, while in heaven, it's demons at work never his. His milling around anything on a green bottle and short skirt never contributed to any of the problems.

He used to go to the church and listen to the sermon with an earthly ear. Then now he is in heaven, he buried himself in every church sermon and is more saint than the priest and all his entourage and prayer warriors put together. He is a member of every male compulsory society and a member of non-compulsory societies. He is a member of those who sleep in the church to secure it from evil with their magic powers as against the word that stated it clearly. "If God doesn't secure a town, in vain the watchman stays awake in the night" he is tired of attending his friend's childbirth naming ceremony. This year, he is determined that others must attend his child naming ceremony come nine months time. He was into attending any night services, topping it with fasting. this night, the New Year's Eve cross-night prayer session is the one he wants to close the year with, and hoping to see the result on his wife by the end of January whether satan and his demons like it or not. 

The service and crowds were something else this New Year's Eve. The sermon was on how satan's number one mission is to destroy the institution of the family. "the devil is a liar. He will try but will never succeed" the crowd roared Amen. It started that way around 8:30 pm and continued till 11:40 when the normal service came to an end. Then the vigil for crossover night started five minutes later. The candle was lit and around 1:15 am the spirits that are many in the air already, seem to have increased threefold and still going. Then the priest seems to be overly carried in spirit. When he quoted Genesis 15:5 "The Lord took him outside and said " Look at the sky and try to count the stars- If you can!" he said. " Your descendants will be that numerous."

"I want you all to look up at the sky now and start counting" the priest boomed. Mr. John was about to cast his eyes on the sky to count when the touts that lined up the prayer arena on both sides and south released their fireworks that particular moment and counting stars was made extra difficult when the fireworks started exploding and Mr. John's eyes were fixed in the sky trying to count stars he found difficult to do. He began cursing and for about ten minutes, his eyes were locked on the sky, his mind out of the service and heart searching for ancient curses that are portent than the prayer session he was in. He saw only one later after the fireworks stopped exploding. He was highly disturbed for he lost track of the line of the service.

He was transformed into a beast with eyes and mind fixed in the sky searching for what was there but he could not see them. He added another five minutes to the curses of the fireworks touts. "May their sins be visited for ten generations, may their wives and children's wives remain barren, may their...." he was still cursing when he saw two stars. He focused on both and was about to start counting when crowds started moving. 

He got lost and joined the movement. They lined up heading to the alter and he lost the trend of his cursing, the focus on what was happening in the crossover was floating and was worse than the banger crackers intent in disrupting the service. He realized that he disrupted himself and was forcing himself to bring himself back to the present. When everyone started lighting their candles, he realized he left him on his chair. Security people would not let him go back he placed his hand on the hand of a lady in front of him, kind of sharing in the blessings coming from the woman's candle. Once his hand landed on the lady, his mind returned fully back to the service and he started canceling in his heart all the curses he sent the way of firework crackers. He seemed to need the same amount of time he spent on giving the curses to cancelling it he was still at the canceling, lost in it that he forgot the number he have cancelled and many still needed to balanced the equation.

Around 2:45 am, the service came to an end. He stood there in his position still cancelling and cancelling. He felt hand on his shoulder and when the hand remained on the shoulder, he opened his eyes to see he was almost alone on the ground. He was asked to leave that the workers wanted to pack up and close up. He marched out in full stride joyfully in light heart and his attempt to visit all other activities he missed when he was cursing firework crackers proved impossible, he was still in light spirit when he found himself in his room and the wife shouting happy new year.