Greetings!
There's always someone that would be close to us no matter how the situation is. No wonder in my area, there's a popular saying that says, “there's no way it would be bad for a person that there would not be a person left with such a person”
In my own case, my younger brother, Joshua was the one left with me. When everyone left me, he was there with me. When people saw in me to be a bad person, he saw the good in me. When I was being disowned and isolated by friends and family, Joshua would always associate himself with me.
There's a day I called him and asked why he has always being with me and it's then that he answered saying,
“Sam, if I'm not with you, who else do you expect to be with you?” He asked rhetorically. “Thank you Josh, I really appreciate your kind gestures towards me, even when others didn't believe in me.” “you better stop thanking me, it's my duty to be with you and I will always be with you by the special grace of God.”
What I was passing through then was not something easy as my mistake caused everyone to see me as a black sheep both in the family and among my friends and even the church.
Back then, I mistakenly impregnated a sister in the choir and that's the end of my good deeds both in the church and among my friends and family.
When this thing happened to me and the Sade, everyone one disowned us and it's as if the world was against us. I could remember us being suspended by the church over our gross misconduct. This was announced by the pastor on the pulpit as we were called out for identification.
Aside from being called out, we were asked to always come to church whenever there's a service as we were suspended for 5 months.
The period was so terrible for me to behold as it was of emotional trauma to Sade as her father would not even hear her out just because he's an elder in the church.
My family on so many occasions sent emissaries to Sade's father just to plead with him to accept her as anyone can do mistake, but what the father was saying was that,
“I brought her up in the way of the Lord, but Shade disgraced me.”
This was what he had been saying even since the incident happened and all pleas to him were fruitless.
However, Sade's mother, though pained to the marrow, would not go the way of her father. Like I said earlier, she's not happy with what happened between me and her daughter as she was also a deaconess in the church, but at the same time, she embraced us and showed us love unlike the father.
As for my parents too, the same thing that happened to Shade was the same that happened to me, I was also disowned by my parents and just for the intervention of my brother who helped me to broker peace with my mum, I wouldn't have had any relationship with both parents for the sin I committed.
So, after some time when the pregnancy had reached the 9 month period, Sade delivered to us a bouncing baby boy and to my greatest surprise, the boy looked like Sade's dad who had rejected her daughter for the sin she had committed.
When the news of the arrival of our baby broke out, it's the presence of our mothers that we saw. Our father's with their stony hearts didn't even show up except the pastor who came to greet us at the hospital.
Lest I forget, after the 6 months suspension, we were reinstated back to the church and to our various units, but as regards the educational journey of Sade, everything was put to a halt during the pregnancy.
So, it's when the pastor came that he promised to help us talk to the both fathers which he did before the naming ceremony.
So, on the naming ceremony day, both fathers and the entire church came to celebrate with us and it's at the naming ceremony that we were being forgiven by our parents.
After the naming ceremony and a few months, Sade went back to school to complete her nursing program at the university and upon her graduation from the university, we tied the knot and officially and legally became a husband and a wife, during the time, how boy, Inioluwa had clocked 3 years of age and till now we are still enjoying our marriage with Oluseun added to us.
Thanks for reading.
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