PROLOGUE
S.I.M.S
(STEPPING INTO MAGGIE’S SHOE)
©?Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
From that moment, our lives experienced a new turn around. But, with a bitter sweet
feeling. Baba Fire received us back after we closed down our churches in Lagos. It
raised a lot of comments online with different views. Ray could no longer interpret for
Baba Fire, as he had to start from scratch. He was posted to a branch as a branch
pastor in another town in Osun. I encouraged him to accept it and he did with so much
excitement.
We were still able to get a very good accommodation for ourselves as we had enough
money. We didn’t lose our wealth he had gathered for years as an Apostle, but rather, he sowed majority of it into Baba Fire’s ministry. He confessed to me that in Ikeji?Arakeji, he felt at peace and he didn’t feel oppressed. He no longer had that sexual
longing for married women, rather he had a thirst to grow spiritually.
The bitter sweet feeling I wrote about earlier was as a result of what happened a week
after we had settled in Osun State. Ray was terribly sick, and I thought it was the
change of Environment. I took him to the hospital and in the process of carrying out
different test on him, it was discovered he was HIV positive.
They carried out a test on
me, and I was negative. I was devastated because this was the point I had been
looking forward to Ray making love to me as his wife, but all that was not visible
anymore as Ray refused to come close to me for fear of infecting me with the virus.
When he returned home, he apologized to me and told me, I could walk out of the
marriage so that he would not infect me with the Virus.
“I wished for the shoe, I must manage everything that comes with it, the goods and
the “bads”. God knew I had wished for 3 kids, he gave me the three at once, so if
HIV comes with the wish package, I must be willing to face it.” I said to Ray telling
him I was going nowhere.
Ray and I later became intimate as husband and wife, based on my persistence but it
had to be with a form of protection or the other…
I was ready to Use Protective
Condoms or PrEP (a daily HIV Protection pill) all the days of my life.
Pastor Maggie’s shoe was beautiful, but painful too. With all my experience, I have
cautioned myself and the triplets never to wish to be in another person’s shoe, because
you never know if the person is hurting, and if it will look good on you.
So far, we thank God for his faithfulness, that in the midst of it, he gave us MARY,
MARTHA and MELODY, as a way of comforting us. They have brought us so much
Joy. Martha is a Medical Doctor, Mary is a journalist and Melody as speculated since
birth is a Gospel Musician.?
Ray, my husband finally got his position as the Assistant of Baba Fire after 14 years
of returning back to him.
We lived with our HIV status, because along the line, I also
contacted it, but we lived our life serving God till, My Husband who is now late
passed on at the age of 64.
God was Merciful to Him and he is still merciful to me. I decided to write this story as
a gift to mankind before I go on to Glory very soon. God bless you.
My Candid advice to Singles, GOD is the one who knows our perfect Fit in marriage,
Let Him choose for you, because sometimes the one we desire may not be our perfect
fit, and also Let every man or woman know his/her place, don’t out of Greed go for
another man’s place. It opens you up to attacks
God bless you.
If you have gone far away from him and you want to return back to him, Say this
Short Prayer:
“Dear Heavenly Father, I come before you this day with an open heart, forgive me of
my sins and have mercy on me. I accept Christ as my lord and Savior. Repair my life
and Home in Jesus name I pray….”
If this story has blessed and touched your life, remember to say a Word of Prayer for
the Author, Mrs. Opeyemi Akintunde née Ojerinde, the writer of this story as
INSPIRED by the HOLY SPIRIT…
May God never depart from her Life and Home…
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