OF LOVE AND OF SALVATION

For me love was found In a place and at a stage where only studying was required of me, I met with Emeka who was a young boy of 23years, I was very young myself  and he was a year older and  ahead of me in school,

“Hello beautiful!” he said to me at the school canteen

Looking at his handsome face, the walls that shielded me broke into pieces, I just wanted to be in his arms already, kissing and fondling his nipples with my whole body pressed against his and my head on his chest, Oh Emeka! I love this man already.

As he talked, I fantasied more

“can you hear me dear?”  He said

“Anita Dokatri” I said as I came back from the fantasy land

Emeka was actually asking if he could buy me lunch but my full name was what I could afford to mutter at the time

We started a relationship that day because for him it was love at first sight and it was obvious even to the blind that I melted at his presence. Love at first sight exist.

We were two young adults, who fell in love and his intentions were good, He invited me to his house where I met his parent, his father was polygamous he married three wives and his mother was the third, He was the only son  of his mother amongst  four girls….

It was a big house, well decorated and everyone shared a room with a step sibling except for Emeka, He was mommy’s spoilt boy. As he led me to his room, I couldn’t help but love all the antics, clean bed sheet, well lilted room and one or two play station games that the boys love to play with, I was visibly excited to be there, He drew me closer, placed a kiss on my lips for the first time since we met, his touch was sweet, his lips were sweeter, I consider the bulge in his pants as the sweetest, Oh how I love what was about to go down, I held him tighter and whispered

“take me now!”

He hesitated but the too many mils and booms stories I have read would not let me be great, I wanted to experience what those books were talking about, Emeka was going to be my first and I had no resistance what-so-ever! Lets do this please!

I pulled down his pants and he carried me into his bed at that instant, our bodies became one, moving in one rhyme to the sound of his touch, the dam broke, it was painful at first then sweet, then it got sweeter, it became the sweetest thing I ever tested.

Oh dear! I loved this man, I could tell that I love him more.

 

One thing I came to realize later on in the relationship was the fact that there was no parental guidance what-so-ever, His father wasn’t concerned about the responsibilities of a father, everyone catered for themselves and the only thing they had was a roof over their heads, his mother who was supposed to be a strong pillar and support system died months later.

Two months after my first visit to his house, I discovered I was pregnant, Emeka had to drop from school to take care of me, He was determined to do well by me and announced his intentions to marry me. Well?! I considered that to be his best decision ever because when I look back I believe God wanted it to be so but all hell broke loose, His sisters thought it was unwise, His friend said the marriage would not last and he would regret dropping out of school, his dad remained unbothered in all of this.

 

I understood their concerns though, Emeka was just in his second year in the university and I was just coming into school, imagine a fresher and a second year student, we were both young and pregnancy was never a plan we had, It just happened.

Mr and Mrs Dokatri who were my parents gave their consent and we got married, this is the sixth year in our marriage and he has always put me first in everything, Oh God bless my Emeka.

 

During the first trimester, I was in one of the girls hostel when Emeka called me

“Hello Babe, can you come out please, I am in the common room down stairs” He said and ended the call.

 

He sounded relax but it was unusual, I came down stairs and he did not as much as give a hug, he led me outside where there was a waiting taxi, we were quiet all through our way to the apartment my parent rented for us.

“What’s the matter with you?” I asked when we got home

“I will like us to give our lives to Jesus Christ babes” He managed to say after so much silence, I laughed hard! Very hard and started to cough.

 

Before now I had always known Jesus to be a character in a story book called the bible, all fictions, I always thought. Yes! I would fill ‘Christianity’ as a religion on any form I was given because my parent were once in a blue moon Sunday to Sunday church goers who took me to church only when they went and that ended it but I did not know that anyone could talk about believing in Jesus with the seriousness he had on his face.

 

“I’m serious!” He said and I could see his seriousness for myself, No! He wasn’t joking at all

Apparently he was invited for a three day vigil and he met the Lord there, He told me all about it, How Jesus was real, How he cried all through the service, how he answered the altar call and how he confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and savior and how he would want me to do same. I loved this man so much and would do anything he asked of me, after all, he had always wanted the best for me and all he ever did since I met him was for my own good, for instance, the city we live in currently was not where he wanted  us to live, but I made him see reasons why we should live here and he obliged, he dropped his school for me so I would complete  mine, he always teases me saying he wants a his wife to be a professor and  likens me to late professor Dora in academics and recognition.

 

He hates to see me complain over anything, He gets it fixed immediately when I do, He is indeed a kind man.

 

I followed him to church the next day and I also gave my life to Christ Jesus, I really did not understand it then, [I was only following my husband] until after I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, I spoke in tongues, read my bible more and understood that Christianity was not just a religion written on forms I filled but it is a relationship between God, the creator, and Man, the created, through Jesus Christ, the first begotten son.

 

Everything became real, very real to me, so real. God bless Emeka!

 

Our lives had a complete turn around after we became believers of the gospel of Christ, For example our finances got an exponential lift that I know it can only be God [ last week he changed my phone💃those days when we first met and my parent had to rent apartment for us when I got pregnant, I never knew a time would come when my husband would actually spend such huge amount on a phone but he did, He does it without sweat now]

SMILES

After we had the first child we had two other children and I am happy in my marriage, so happy….it’s sweet when someone’s son values you, no in-laws to fight with, Every challenges that life threw at us we overcame it together, He always trust my judgements and the Holy Spirit has helped and is still helping us, God has blessed us, he hasn’t for a day doubted my love, loyalty and sincerity towards him….

He takes my word on everything….. Oh! Emeka my darling husband, I just wanted to put this story out here for you all today,

 

Dear Emeka it has been six years, I thank you for all you are to me, all you have become and I also bless God for the day I met with you in that canteen, its been a blessing having you by my side and it is with you I believe in the happily-ever-after the mills and booms best seller novels preaches, many people do not believe in love but I pray they find someone like you and also find the foundation of that love and their marriage rooted in Christ and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Amen!

 

God Bless You Dearly.

 

Princess’ Note: Loving someone is great, being loved by one who is in Christ is sweeter and loving someone and being loved by that someone who brought you to Christ is the greatest, May we be that ‘someone’ people would talk about in this manner, let love led.