“Lord, I feel like an amputee”, Pastor Marcello Tunasi in agony

Congolese pastor Marcello Tunasi published a poignant message this Thursday June 13 on his Facebook page to express his pain and dismay a few hours after his wife Blanche Odia Kandolo was brutally torn from his affection.

“Lord, I feel amputated, I feel torn and floored. My breathing is like a fire consuming my bones and my heart. I realize more and more that the wife you gave me was a very rare and irreplaceable pearl. In all my life, I’ve never felt such pain, and I hope with all my heart that this will be the last.

Everything that reminds me of Blanche, a toothbrush, a cup, a photo, a souvenir, a decoration and especially our children, tears me to pieces. I’m counting on you to strengthen me and give me the strength to go on without her, because you know better than I how much she meant to me, to the children and to the whole community.

I thank you for having lent her to me for 18 years, and I believe that she is with you, in your glory, and that on the day of the Rapture I will see her again,” he writes.