I spent another three years in prison before completing my book. Pastor
James and Joyce were my best buddies, they always came visiting, they
followed me for my studio sessions. They became my P.R.O, they took
letters for me from fans, sorted out important ones and brought them for
me. They brought homemade food anytime they came, we played cards
within the 10 minutes visiting time.
The Prison was also home for me, as I had become friends with the
warders and most of the inmates. I led a lot inmates to Christ. The prison
was another ministerial assignment for me.
Exactly, five years of staying in prison, I released my book through the
help of Pastor James and his wife Joyce… It was an autobiography of all
that happened, and how I was saved by Grace despite being in prison.
The book started topping the charts, it was selling in millions. People were
buying the copies like water. Pastor James was in charge of my
marketing. Practically everyone was talking about the book, so it didn’t
come as a surprise when I had a visitor and it turned out to Daniel, my
husband…
The moment I entered the visiting room, I wanted to hug him out of
excitement of him being alive, I restrained myself, but before I knew what
was happening he had hugged me so tight…
“My Grace…” Daniel said…
He just called me “My Grace” just the way he used to call me, “Has he
regained his memory” I thought silently as I patiently waited for his next
reaction.
“My Grace. I knew I had met you somewhere, I thought it was a former
life, but as I read the book, it seem like you were bringing back my memories ” he said with tears flowing down his face. “I am sorry for everything I did! ” I said
“No, I forgive you…Anyone could have done what you did, under those
circumstances, we all have different ways we commit sin and try to cover
our tracks. I forgive you wholeheartedly…” Daniel said as he was touching
my face…: “How have you been coping?’ he asked with tears still flowing
down his face..
“Thank you so much, thank you Daniel… how are you doing now? Your
wife and kids…?”
“My kids are fine, but as regards my wife, I should be asking you that
question, how are you doing? You are my wife…so how are you doing
Grace?”
I was shocked beyond words as I didn’t understand where Daniel was
heading with this conversation…
“I mean the woman your mother married for you…”
“She is not my wife, the marriage was based on falsehood, and besides I
can’t be married to two women at the same time, you are my wife whom I
never divorced… the kids are adopted so, they are mine…, but if she
insists on taking them, Let her take them, then we can adopt ours…
Was Daniel in his right frame of Mind, did he know what he was talking
about? I was a prisoner…
“Daniel, I am in prison, I can’t be your wife anymore”
“On our wedding day, we made a vow, and that vow was to stay for better,
for worse. We promised to stay together through the best times and worse
times… we had our 12 years of “for Better” so I won’t leave you now, when
it has become “for worse”… you will always be my wife…” Daniel said…
“Daniel, I have committed adultery against you, murder and yet you want
to still stay with me?”
“As disastrous as the sin Eve committed by making her husband and
mankind sin against God, God never replaced her. God didn’t change her,
Even God knew it is For Better, For worse.
I couldn’t wrap my head around this, I sat down looking at Daniel thinking
to myself “God, why this so much love and Mercy”, but as beautiful as this
looked, I wasn’t sure this could work out…but Daniel had it all figured out…
YOU ARE READING
THE NIGHT AT THE HOTEL
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