By Ben Ondoro:
EULOGY FOR CHARITY MBUI
Good Morning, I will be very brief this morning even though we all know that there is so much good things one can say about Charity Mbui but the program doesn’t allow for that at this time. I am encouraged by your coming here this morning and may God reward you all and bless you for standing by the family of our late sister.
Charity Mbui, Charity, who was she one may ask? If you didn’t know Charity then you can tell who she was just by looking around and seeing for yourself those who have come here to bid her farewell. That’s who Charity was! She was a mother, a sister and a friend to many of us within the KCO family and we will forever be grateful for that. Last night at the funeral home, I talked about an experience of losing a mother; this morning I want to say once again that one of the biggest losses we can have is that of losing a mother because there is always something very special and different about mothers. I have lost a mother so it easier for me to put that into perspective even though losing any family member is equally painful.
Ladies & gentlemen, we are all gathered here this morning in unity with a common purpose to support the family and also to pay our last respect to our friend Charity. And to Ken, Mike and Tony, I want to assure you that our prayers as a community will always be with you. So this morning I appeal to my fellow Kenyans, pastors, believers, to please let us continue to pray with the family and offer our support wherever needed just as we have done the last two weeks. I am so proud of you as a community and also thankful that this family has been more than willing to allow us as a community work with them in arranging for a dignified send-off for one of our own, a member in good standing of the Kenyan Community in Ontario, my friend Charity.
I am fortunate to have known Charity on a personal level over the years especially while I served as the President of the Kenyan Community in Ontario and still I can’t get into terms with the fact that our beloveth sister has gone to live with the Lord. It is sad but at the same time our hearts are filled with joy because the Lord that giveth, He also taketh so He has taken Charity from our midst to be with Him at a place that he had already prepared for her. Knowing that a lone gives me comfort and I pray that it will give the family comfort as well. Though our hearts are filled with much sadness on this day, our message is not one of despair, but one of hope, love, and celebration. That is the reason today we are celebrating Charity’s life and our hearts should not be troubled. Charity, as far as I know had lived an amazing life even though it may have been rather short at only 55 years of age. Her spiritual life was larger than life itself and some of us who were closer to her learnt so much from her.
Having said that, what else do we remember when we think of Charity? I think everyone who knows her very well would agree with me that her commitment to KCO stands out to us community members BUT above all, her sense of humour and a big smile. She was that kind of a person that would make everyone laugh so hard some of them would end up crying; that is how Charity touched the hearts of many people within our community. Even though Charity has left us, I believe her spirit will be felt within our community for years to come. She stood tall in her commitment to the KCO membership and was involved! She also took part in many activities in other communities and that seemed to have been her passion.
So at this moment as we bid farewell to our friend, let’s all think back and remember how Charity touched our lives. How she made us laugh and how good Charity was as a person. This is the moment for us to be thankful that we were given the chance to have known a special mother, sister and a friend, named Charity. She will always be remembered and she will continue to live on in all of our memories.
I would like to end by reading the following poem:
Life is but a stopping place,
A pause in what's to be,
A resting place along the road,
to sweet eternity.
We all have different journeys,
Different paths along the way,
We all were meant to learn some things,
but never meant to stay...
Our destination is a place,
Far greater than we know.
For some the journey's quicker,
For some the journey's slow.
And when the journey finally ends,
We’ll claim a great reward
And find an everlasting peace together with the Lord
May Charity’s soul rest in peace and may we all be blessed!
AMEN.
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