Written by Patience Nyangove
Thursday, 03 September 2009
PICTURE this: A woman prepares her wedding day, buys her own wedding rings, the wedding gown, sends out invites, and buys food and drinks for guests to feast on her big day just like what anyone would do.
However, come wedding day with all friends and relatives who have come from all the corners of the country discovering that the groom is missing.
He has not chickened out or fallen ill or dashed off to attend some emergency elsewhere - there is just no groom as part of this wedding. Instead, it’s a bride’s only wedding.
The above illustration might sound as if it was plucked from a fiction novel but it’s nothing more than facts that happened in the life of Linda Losper from Oranjemund.
According to a statement Linda released almost a year after her “lone” wedding she claims she was asked by God to prepare a wedding.
With God’s help she claims she prepared for her wedding which she admits she thought “was crazy, I said yes Lord I will accept this challenge”.
She goes on to say that she prepared for the wedding and went on to have it.
“This is me Linda Losper doing my Heavenly Father’s bidding. This has been the most beautiful journey that I have travelled with Jesus Christ. I hope this would serve as an example of faith to others, and that everybody would realise that God works in many different ways with each individual, which some might not understand now. I did this without a physical man,” Losper concluded.
Emmanuel who stays in Oranjemund confirmed the “lone” wedding saying it was so weird.
“She used to work for Namdeb when she had that wedding of hers. It’s so unusual you know. Never have I heard of someone who marries him or herself. Whether it’s pure faith in God or desperation, it boggles one’s mind.”
Whether it was real faith in action for Linda or some weird dream she had and wanted to make true no one will ever know, but it sure is a weird wide world.
PICTURE from 1weddingsource.com
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