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OH THIS OUR MARRIAGE

PART 4
HOW COME

Mr and Mrs Agbe got married 25 years ago and their marriage had no children.

Mr Agbe is a gentleman whose approach to life is very simple. He is a professor and well read.

He had fought his family members many times over his childless marriage insisting that he won't marry another woman as long as he has no problem with his current wife.

He is just one of those men who are always in church but never involved beyond being a member of the floor members association. FMA

Mrs Agbe on the other hand is very active, very busy in church and can be found in almost every committee in the church. she is also very close to numerous pastors because of the issue of her inability to give birth.

She's always afraid that she will lose her place with her husband and she attends all the waiting mothers meetings in church.

This fear had made her visit wrong altars for children in the past

I remember vividly that about 2 months ago, while the waiting mothers prayer meeting was on going, she was told that her time was close and she should hold on to God and God alone.

Mr AbleGod, the 25 year old brother who impregnated her is popularly known as bro able.

He just joined our church some 5 months ago. His marriage is yet to be one year when he got transferred in the place of work.

As soon as he came to our church, he got into the prayer team and was very vibrant.

I knew bro able is very busy with visitations and of course no one could be suspicious of a brother young enough to be her son visiting Mrs Agbe.

How this vibrant brother and our vibrant mummy fell together into adultery is beyond my understanding

To make matters more implicating, it was my husband and I that assigned bro able to pray for Mrs Agbe when our hands became full with members seeking prayers

We only ask him to pray with her in church not impregnate her

Hmmmm

I return to my tears and the banging of the door

Now I guess I have been at that door for 30 minutes....

Then the door opened

Opened slowly

I was sitting by the steps to the door, so all I can see was the bottom half of the door

As the door opened

I saw pastor Emmanuel's very popular slippers, then the feet ....

He was wearing the ever popular light green trousers....

By now my heart is beating as if it wants to jump out of my chest....

Pastor Emmanuel is dead, he died few months ago. We conducted a burial ceremony...

I wanted to look at the face of the person opening the door and wearing pastor Emmanuel's clothes but at the same time I don't want to see the face of a ghost....

Who is the man with pastors slippers and trousers living inside pastors house.....

Did God send an angel or did God send back pastor since I refused to stop banging the door?

Or am I imagining things....

I fainted


To be continued

Copyright, Bro Femi Oluyamoju of the Holy Spirit Prayer House

OH THIS OUR MARRIAGE

PART 3
MANY QUESTIONS


Pastors can lie....

A whole pastor

Haha

I find it hard to swallow the last news, does it mean that all this while I was walking with my head held high, I was actually married to a man with two wives.

Maybe he has children and he attended their naming ceremonies, but has intentionally forgotten again until one boy comes to our house to remind him after 20 years.

Or maybe he had married other women while suffering from memory loss

Maybe it's on the day of his burial that we would actually discover how many we are

Gosh....

This is just too much, I simply packed my bags from the pastors office, used the back gate behind the church offices and escaped from the church compound.

One million thoughts came to me at the same time as I walked to pastor Emmanuel's house

Which one do I attend to, my marriage issues or the diverse issues in the church

Can I attend to the church as if my marriage is fine? Won't that be living a lie, what if another case comes up like my own, will I have the right to counsel the woman?

Or do I leave church for now and sort out my home, won't that mean I am selfish and I left the people of God?

Or do I report my husband to the church elders so that He can be punished so that God won't punish him?

Or should I keep quiet on this issue and act like a submissive wife that the bible admonishes.

But if I keep quiet, won't I be helping him to cover up a life of falsehood

Or should I just leave everyone for now, my duties in church, my husband, my home, my triplets and just go somewhere quiet, one way or the other they will all sort themselves out

Hmmmm

Someone said problems are like cars without tires. Someone drops it at your door. They cannot go away by themselves. They won't be carried away by others because every other person are carrying their own personal problems.

The only way to get rid of the problem is either to carry it away by yourself, or ask those that brought it to come and carry their troubles or look for a professional problem solver to carry it away

Who will be my problem solver now....

Gosh...

I'm confused

Too many questions, yet no answer

I banged the door the more as if my life depended on it

An answer must come today because my head is full and confused

Prayer was the last thing on my mind, I just kept crying


To be continued

Copyright, Bro Femi Oluyamoju of the Holy Spirit Prayer House

OH THIS OUR MARRIAGE

PART 2
MORE NEWS

I am yet to think about the remaining bad news I got same time, same day....

I banged the door the more....

If this happened in a more civilized clime, I would have be arrested for disturbing the peace and quiet of the neighborhood.

I have been banging the door of my dead pastor for over 15 minutes now.... Crying....

I can hear a neighbor saying "is that woman pregnant for the dead owner of the house?"

Rather than the statement make me leave the door, I kept banging the door harder

Maybe I felt this was the new gate to heaven, maybe if I hit the door harder, pastor Emmanuel will step out with angelic wings and with that superb wisdom of his, he will tell me the solution to my church marriage problems.

To add insult to injury, the news got worse even before I recover from the first two news.

Two Unmarried sisters in the choir received the praise leader as their future husband to be, as if this was not enough, during yesterday's rehearsal, the two sisters went into a full, free for all physical exchange of blows, right at the choir stand.

The brother they are fighting over is actually a married man.

Can you see how bad the church as grown under my leadership? and I wear fine Turkish gowns to church every Sunday as if all is well.

For the last straw that broke the camel's back.....

One of my husband's ex contacted him saying that, has he forgotten that while he was frolicking with her, he actually married her. He took her to registry and she is also Mrs Ige. I asked my husband to please tell me it's a lie.

He looked me in the face and said it was true but he had totally forgotten before today

How can a man forget that he once married a woman

A whole woman

A whole marriage

In a whole marriage registry

And you said you forgot

Pastors can lie....

A whole pastor

Haha


To be continued

Copyright, Bro Femi Oluyamoju of the Holy Spirit Prayer House

OH THIS OUR MARRIAGE

PART 1
GENESIS

That faithful morning, I cried to Pastor Emmanuel's house. I was fed up with being a Pastor’s wife; my purse and bags were packed. I had just finished telling my husband every bitter experience I can remember using every new vocabulary I can remember from the dictionary. I fabricated new words that best described the failures that I have become.

I kept banging on the door to pastors house till the neighbors started peeping from their windows at the crazy crying woman.

I have totally forgotten in my grief that pastor Emmanuel and his wife died in a plane crash some few months ago, I was not thinking straight.

The last time I cried this much, I came to pastor's house and God used them positively affect my home. After many months I'm back, crying again

How can I explain the commotion that is about to burst forth in the church my husband pastors...

Mrs Agbe the good women leader, a woman trusting God for the fruit of the womb for over 25 years is pregnant. I would have jumped for joy if not for the painful look my husband had while he told me the news.

She's pregnant, not for her husband but for the 25 year old young pastor who was just transferred to our church. Mr AbleGod.

At the same time, the same day, I got the awful news about our very wonderful golden couple, Mr and Mrs Otun.

They celebrated their 30th marriage anniversary with funfair last month and for the past 10 years they had been the teachers and HOD for our church's marriage committee.

Their names and pictures are now a household name everywhere around us because of the various teaching engagements in many churches. Once you tell your church members you want to have a couples program with Mr and Mrs Otun, your auditorium will be filled to capacity.

I even heard the Muslims and secular organizations invite them to teach in marriage.

Yet, despite these successes, Mrs Otun just served her husband with divorce notice

Ahhhhh, and I am the wife of the pastor in the same church with this people.....

I have failed.....

Ohhhh, I cried the more

I am yet to think about the remaining bad news I got same time, same day....

I banged the door the more....

To be continued

Copyright, Bro Femi Oluyamoju of the Holy Spirit Prayer House

OH THESE OUR MARRIAGES
A Christian Marital Novel

Inspired by the Holy Spirit

Penned by Bro Femi Oluyamoju


This novel is sequel to the novel Oh This My Husband

If you have not read that novel please search for it online and read because I guess links are not allowed