Mrs. Esther Mensah

“Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord” (Proverb 19:14).

Our journey together started in 1975 in that small town of Asotwe in the Ashanti Region of Ghana where you accepted me with all my imperfections to be your life partner. Little did I know that you were going to leave me in the middle of the road for me to stand here today to read this tribute.

On that fateful Saturday, when we woke from our sleep, I never thought that it was going to be the last day to talk to you, hold you and look into your beautiful face. Little did it occur to me that I was seeing your beautiful smile for the last time. Ohemaa, as I used to call her, your departure has made me speechless and loss of words. Akua, I love you, but I know that your creator loves you the most. I am consoled by the words of the Apostle Paul who admonished us that in all things, we should give thanks to the Lord because he knows what is best for us. In that wise, I and all the children, together we say, glory be to the all-knowing God. I remember the light you brought into my life when you joined me in Canada in 2008 and our relocation to Calgary in 2014. I cannot but say, I am grateful to you that we crossed paths. I cherished every moment that we shared together.

I was truly blessed to have a wife who loved me unconditionally and with your departure, I don’t know how I am going to make it without you, but I know you are up there at peace with the Lord. Ohemaa was such an amazing woman, and I am not sure I can really express just how much I will miss her. Not only was her an amazing wife, but she was also a wonderful mother, grandmother, my best friend, and a colleague. Esther’s ability to make everyone she met feel happy, comfortable, secure, and loved was her greatest strength. Your love, support and presence have shaped my life, providing strength, joy, and sense of purpose. My wife was my best friend, my confidant and my everything. She was loving, kind and was always ready to stand up for the family. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to share with you, your dreams, hopes, love, friendship not forgetting your pain and sorrows. She was a woman who always put a smile on the face of everyone she met with. The bigger star in his own right has dimmed, the morning star is not rising again and the moon that lit in my heart is no more shining. Since that fateful Saturday, I sometimes ask the question, WHY? But after a second thought, I am reminded by what the Lord through the Prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 55:8, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord”.