It’s My Story: How did this experience affect your life as a mother?

Losing a child leaves a hollow in the mother. There is a general tendency to want to replace the child by having another but I realized that each child is unique and the vacuum created can never be filled by another child. By the grace of God, I was able to adjust and enjoy her siblings. Should I say that it made me overprotective? Maybe, I really can’t tell.

It’s My Story: As a Pastor would you say this experience has made you perhaps more sensitive and given you a heart for parents who go through the same?

Not just as a Pastor, as a mother. She who knows it feels it. I can empathize with parents who have lost their children. From the consolation I received from the Lord, I have been able to share with others.

It’s My Story: Just last year in 2020 You also lost your husband Apostle Zacharie Adetola. Did this feel like a double tragedy for you and how did the Lord uphold you through the second wave of grief?

When I was told that my husband had passed, my reaction was, “the level had shifted”. Not only will I be ministering to mothers. Widows are now included in what I call a strange ministry. Strange, not in a negative tone. I throw my right hand up to God regularly, asking Him to take it and lead me in the way. Again like Job, I feel that God trusts that I won’t abandon Him. Overwhelming but the Holy Spirit has been my shock absorber. I honestly cannot imagine this pain without Jesus. I cannot but wonder how women outside of Jesus cope.