His lasted nine years while hers spanned 12 years. Both were pursuing doctor of philosophy degrees in different departments of the same university. Those were years of pain, but they came to pass. His post-Ph.D experience has eclipsed the moans of those years, while she is now on the same faculty with the supervisor who held the key to her graduation, who in the dramatic final moments of the ordeal, acknowledged that her God is real. God chose when to conclude the matter.

?Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.? ? Ecclesiastes 7: 8 (KJV)

Your trial is a phase which shall pass.
Let the Son shine in your heart daily

By, Nosa Owens-Ibie,
Monday, July 05, 2004

Emailed December 30, 2004