He looked beyond me and poured his love

We had almost arrived at my house when it occurred to me that I wasn't the one giving directions to the driver.

“How did you know where I was headed?” I asked him. There was a look of surprise on his face,

“Don't you know me? My name is Sammy. I live here at Corper's lodge”. I could swear I had never seen him in my entire life but since he said he lived in my compound, I allowed him to drop me off.

God knew I didn't have a dime to pay for transportation fares.

Two days after that, I received an anonymous call saying that I had to go pick up a package with a transport company. I sat down to think carefully about who would send me a package since I hadn't ordered anything. Eventually, I decided to place a call to my girlfriends.

“I got a call saying that I have a package with Efficient Motors, do you have any idea who it might be?” Jane, one of my closest friends, snickered over the phone.

“Treasure, do you think any of us have the resources to send you a package like that?”

“I didn't say you sent it” I snapped at her angrily “I asked if you had an idea who sent it”

It was useless talking to them. Even if they knew, it was obvious they were not telling.

“Please check up on me every 30 minutes. If I stay for more than that without texting you then you guys should be on alert, it means something is wrong” I had told them before dropping the call.

I was so scared that I sent the number of the caller to them, just in case anything happened.

I left for the motor park immediately because I didn't want to arrive in the evening which increased my risk of being in danger.

When I got to the counter to say I had a package, the attendant asked for my name.

“Treasure Effiong”

“Please go over to the logistics office and hand them this piece of paper”

In return, I was handed a heavy sack.

I loosened it right there at the park and nearly screamed.

It was half a bag of garri with other food items stuffed conspicuously into it. I knew immediately who had sent it.

“I traveled to the village last week so I decided to send foodstuffs to you. Give half of them to your older brother” my mother told me when I called her.

I had not even told her my foodstuffs were finished since it was only a few days to payday. I said a silent prayer of appreciation there at the park.

Now there was this.

I was just on my bed, watching a movie, when an email notification hit my phone. I ignored it until the end of the movie and when I finally decided to read it, I dropped my phone and screamed.

The last time I received a script writing contract was in 2022 and I was paid poorly for it because I knew most of the people involved with it.

Now I was staring at a proposal for a script writing contract worth a whooping 200,000 naira.

That was the third time in the week I was experiencing a much-needed miracle. Yadah’s song sprung from the wells of my heart to my lips and I gave in, singing as if my life depended on it,

“You looked past my sins, my guilt my shame and poured your love,
You looked beyond me o, you looked beyond me o
I'm the one that you have shown mercy, you have shown mercy, you have shown me mercy….” Yadah – Beyond Me Lyrics

And so I began, on my knees, to thank God for His mercies that week. I had not done anything special, no prayers or fasting, but God slammed me with 3 heavy surprise packages, and just when I needed it too.

I would have thought I merited it if I was probably a worker in church but like Yadah said later in the song, I was just a little girl whom God chose to overwhelm with His love.