It seemed like a dream. But it was as
real as day. And the Lord of history led Iheanyi into the center of the plain,
which was filled with dry and decaying bones. The Spirit asked him: �Favored
One, can these bones come back to life?� �Lord God,� he answered, �you alone
know that. You hold the future in your hands.��
If you truly believe that faith moves mountains, he was told, pray over
these bones: �Dry bones, hear the Word of the Lord. See! I will bring my spirit
into you, and you will come to life. I will put sinews upon you, make new flesh
grow on you, cover your corrupt body with fresh skin so that you may come to
life. I will give you a new flesh and a new spirit and restore you to your
former self. Then you will know that I am the Lord.�
Soon with a rattling the bones came
together, bone joining bone. The sinews and the flesh came upon them, and a new
skin covered them. But there was no spirit in them. And the Lord said to him:
�If you believe that faith works wonders, pray to the Lord to breathe his
spirit into these bones that they may come to life.� And as the spirit entered
the dry bones, they suddenly came alive and stood upright together and began to
walk as one with pride and confidence toward the RISING SUN, a vast army. And
the Lord said to Iheanyi:
�Look! These are the bone of your bones, the
flesh of your flesh, the remains of millions of your people killed in Nigeria these 37 years. They cry out to
you to give meaning to their suffering and death. Stop complaining:
�Our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, and
we are cut off.
Tell the Biafran Nation what the
Lord has decreed:
O my people, I will open your
graves and have you rise from them, and give you back the land of your
ancestors. And you will cleanse and purify it and put your great but wasted
talents into the building of a great and mighty country, a light to the
nations. I will do it because I made the heavens and the earth, and dictate the
rise and fall of nations. Nothing is impossible with me. Remember Israel, Poland, Armenia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the other captive nations of
the former Soviet
Union,
which were crushed by the evil might of powerful empires. Their names were once
erased from the face of the earth and their conquerors thought their sun had
set forever. But they never reckoned with me, the Lord of history. And as I
brought them back from the dead, so will I bring BIAFRA back.��
Biafra�s bones shall rise again.
Do you not know or have you not
heard?� The Lord is the eternal God,
Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint nor grow weary, and his
knowledge is beyond scrutiny. He gives strength to the fainting; for the weak
he makes vigor abound. Though young men faint and grow weary, and youths
stagger and fall. They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they
will soar as with eagle�s wings. They will run and not grow weary, walk and not
grow faint.�
(Isaiah
40: 28-31)�
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY BIAFRA, LAND OF THE
RISING SUN!
Adapted from Ezekiel 37����
Rev. Fr.
C. Aham Nnorom, Ph.D.
The Biafra Igbo Coalition (BICON)