The devil did not take your child

To Nicole Gopaul, I would like to say that contrary to your statement at Alliyah’s funeral, “the devil did not take your child”.

The devil has no control over life or death. That control belongs to God. Alliyah was loaned to you and your family for only eight years. In that short time, she touched many lives. You should be strengthened by the fact that unknown to her family, she seemed prescient of what was to come.

She asked you to hold a thanksgiving for her life some weeks ago.

Be thankful that you did before she passed. She also asked about heaven mere days ago. In her own way, she was trying to say without saying. As a wise king of old once said, on the passing of his son, “I shall go to him, he shall not come back to me.” Be comforted.

Linus F Didier Mt Hope