A PASTOR GIVING HIS WIFE.. DEAD LINE IN THEIR MARRAIGE

                                       LOSE THE RING, LOSE YOUR HOME

   “What is keeping my husband late this days?” I wondered, because it’s rare of him to come home late and it troubles me a lot. I waited for him in the sitting room and watched the clock ticked gradually, I later dozed off while I was waiting for him and about 1: 00 am in the morning my husband knocked at the door and I went to open the door.
“Welcome darling” I greeted him as I took his bag from his hand,
“Leave it!” he shouted at me and urged me to go to bed, with out asking any further question I went to our room,
   Before my husband got from bed that morning I have prepared breakfast and called on him to come join me at the dinning table. “Darling, what made you come late last night?” I asked
“What sort of question is that or do you want to be monitoring me?”
“Well, if you’ll like to know I went out with some old friends of mine to a little party and I don’t see it as a crime to do so or is it?”
“No, it is just that you would have called you weren’t coming home early and you are the one taking the Bible study session today, that was what kept me worrying since you haven’t prepared anything to teach yet” I told him.
“Don’t bothered I won’t be attending the bible study, I have told Pastor Adebayo to preach; because I won’t be available, I will be going out.”
   Before I could utter any word he left the dinning table and went straight to our room, I followed him immediately trying to caution him for not wanting to attend the Bible study, when he is less busy; above all, he is the General Overseer. When I got to our room, he carried his small bag and told me he was going out and he won’t be coming home early. I tried asking where he was going to but I was ignored. That night; since I knew he wasn’t coming home early, I left the door open, prepared his meal and went to bed.
   When I woke up in the morning, I realize my husband was not home. After bathing, I went to his office in the church thinking that he would have come home and left for his office, but getting there the receptionist told me he hasn’t resumed that day. I was marveled and I ranged his mobile number but it was switched off. For a week I was praying for him to come home safely and since none of his relative knew his where about, I had to report to the police.
   That very night I reported to the police; my husband came home with a lady, though I was angry and wanted to rebuke him for such act and since the lady was with him I decided to be calm, but I called his relatives that his back home and told the police also. After dinning with my husband and the lady that was yet to be introduced me, I called my husband aside and pleaded with the lady that he should forgive us for I want to talk to my husband. “Darling you did not tell me you were going to stay away from home this long?” I asked him,
“I wanted to surprise you that was why I left for that long, I actually went to get a new wife but I have not done a proper introduction between her parents and mine” he said, I was shocked at what I heard and tears dropped down my cheek, “You better don’t cry yet because you can’t bear me any child and for that reason I must marry a new wife” I was quite as he spoke this words and when he was seeing the lady off, he told me he really meant it.
   When he came back I pleaded with him not to do this, but I was ignored and when he began knotting off his tie, I noticed that our weeding ring was not on his finger, “Darling, our weeding ring is not on your finger, where did you keep it?” he laughed when he heard this and told me he threw it into the lagoon at third mainland bridge. I was stunned at what I heard as tears rolled down my cheek again, I became speechless, not even a word could come out from my mouth. “Since you are pleading and you don’t want me to go into that marriage; then, if you can get that ring before next two weeks, I won’t go on with the marriage plans anymore” I felt a vibration through my spine as this words hit my hears like a dagger in the heart, what a world I thought and who am I going to run to, it was just as if my life was collapsing, while in tears I slept off.
   For one week I could not go out or do much at home, “Where do I want to start searching for a ring in this whole Lagos, above all I am not a mermaid that lives in the water?” So many thoughts came through my mind and at last I decided to go to my Friend and God; which is Jesus, who never fails.
   I started fasting from the beginning of the second week which I was giving and while I was fasting I searched the room, hoping I’ll find it there just in case he didn’t throw it into the lagoon. I kept searching the nooks and cranny of the house but found nothing, and when it got to the last day I searched also but unfortunately I couldn’t find it at 4:00 pm, so I left to the market to get some food items in other to prepare his favorite food so as to beg him to change his mind.
   When I got to the market, I bought some soup items, meat and some fresh fish around sand-field area at Victoria Island, which was close to my place. Getting home; I started preparing meal for dinner, which I was hoping my husband would eat since he has not eating my food since the week he told me to look for our weeding ring. As I was cutting the fish, I noticed that my knife was hitting at something solid that sound like a stone, I took the fish and tried removing the dirt from it, dipping my hand in the stomach of the fish that I was holding I brought out a ring stained with blood and dirt’s, I rinsed the ring and realized that it was mine, “Ah!” I screamed rolling all over the floor thanking God.
   I prepared the meal with joy and placed it at the dinning table, when my husband came back, with out asking him to come to the dinning table, he joined me willing and before he started with his meal, he asked for the ring. “If you can’t produce the ring, then your time is now and you will definitely leave this house.” I smiled and brought the ring. To my surprise he was very shocked and couldn’t believe it, so he requested to see the ring properly and he realized it was his, and it fitted him perfectly. He knelt down and asks me for forgiveness and since I was full of joy, I told him to pray for forgiveness that I have forgiven him.
   So that was how our marriage was saved and we had our baby boy a year after, and we thanked God for making our marriage a success, and by his grace my husband still pastor’s and he is growing from strength to strength, including my entire family.       
 
BLACKMESSIAH