ANSWERED PRAYERS

Since I was a small kid, I always had a picture of my dream husband, but this person sitting across from me in a restaurant in town was nowhere near that.  My heart was racing and I did not know what to expect.  He was a complete opposite of all dreams, all my prayers plans and ambitions.

George and I had met   in this restaurant   for more than two years and a half.  Today was a different meeting because he was expecting that special answer from me.  That answer that would change our life forever.  The answer that meant whether we would live happily ever after each day being a ride in the roller coaster or whether I it would be a suffering hell for me here on earth.  George had proposed to me nine months ago and I knew and I had stretched his patience to the snapping point yet I had to be sure.  Sure that this would be the dad of my kids.  That my kids would have a loving and supportive father, a man who would be my king and I her queen.  A man I would rely on and depend on wholly.  Nevertheless, I had delayed the answer to him this was not what I had prayed for.

In my dreaming, I had always dreamt marriage to a muscular tall and handsome boy.  The kind of a man who would make my heart melt just by staring at his smooth black shiny hair. A man who has eyes twinkling  like stars in a dark night. I had imagined for a man with so large hands that would easily grip my small waist yet so tender that they would discolor my cute hair by his tender caresses.  I had always prayed for a great singer that soothes me with his sweet voice singing me lullabies late night until I fell asleep in his warm strong arms.  I had imagined myself with a professional accountant, a medical doctor or an engineer.  My picture person as I dreamt him would spark inextinguishable fire and thirst in my mind by simply listening at his knowledge and career dreams.  That had been my prayers to God every night since I was a small girl.

This train of thoughts continued to terrorize my puzzled mind.  I took another sip of hot black coffee.  The weather outside was cold and humid.  And i am busy   viewing my gift pack my answered prayers 

George!!!  He is sitting opposite me smiling sweetly as ever.  He is short and has no any desirable physical beauty.  He is a short person and pitch black.  He wears big round spectacles that lies lazily on his bulbous nose.  His teeth were discolored and he had very rough hands.  George had not proceeded with high school education after failing to do well in the final national examinations. He had been a casual worker and was currently in construction work for my company.

 Though George was not very smart, he was always talking and mostly lecturing.  However, he was very humble harmless kind and big hearted.  This is actually, what had drawn me to him, it had actually started as a joke just like most important things in life.  I had gone to the construction site to supervise the progress of my company’s headquarter in the city’s best suburb.  I had approached the construction site my vehicle’s windscreen had been hit by a building block and shattered.  I busted out of the vehicle cursing and fussing and there was George.  It has been the poor boys silly mistake that had broken my car.

He approached me and smiling apologized to me explaining very faithfully like a puppy what had happened.  It was hard for me to forgive his poor mistake that had shattered my dreams

“Madam, if you find it in you to forgive me I will work my best to ensure your vehicle is repaired” George had said bravely.  Though this man was in the wrong, there was something special with him

“How best would you work to do that?” I yelled at him at the top of my voice attracting the interest of all the workers in the site.George smiled lovingly at me and stepped closer to the car to examine the damage of his mistake. 

“Thank God your vehicle is a left hand drive most probably you would be dead madam you have all reasons to thank him” he said with finality.

I had noted that, the situation was growing embarrassing and I Madam CEO and Founder of Eastern Global Auditors was not going to argue with this fool my lawyer that was going to deal well with him.  I asked another vehicle from the offices and left the damaged there.

I never know what happened there but the same day George came driving my vehicle already repaired and well fixed.  I did not have any word I would say to this sweet young man but after one day, I booked a dinner with him in this same hotel where we were seated.  He was taking my life in a fast wave swift and I was drunk and confused.  Drunk by this lover’s boy love and confused we were not the same “class.” He was always composed and very honest.  I was first changing my life because of this young man’s hypnotizing power.  I already adored him.  He had a special kind of knowledge about the word.  The true meaning of the mysterious book the bible.  He always explained simple but very complex issues.  Something so deep yet to him that flowed with ease.  He was making deep and permanent imprints in my life.  Imprints only him would only erase by living with him.  We continued sharing more time with me.  This construction worker was wise and resourceful yet I had never heard of such in my academia corridors.

It was a paradox how everything moved so swift.  I had started going to church.  I had been baptized and been regenerated.  I had become a close friend to this mysterious man; the more we got close and open to each other the more I was yearning to know him better.  I could  not get enough him  and I vowed to spend the rest of my life close to him as anything else apart from being a couple.  How could a gardener and a master be found in the same page of this book of life??

He had asked me many days ago.  I had delayed the answer for many days.  I knew if I do not act fast, I would lose him.  Yet here I was.  Opposite the man, I knew to be a man.  A man whose yea was yea and his nay was nay!  Yet he was too low in the social ladder to move on with a socialite like me.  This was a man who would be a dad to the child he would father.  I would never have to ‘deadbeat ‘him in the social media. 

Marriage is not about a ring nor a single day glad affair but a lifelong commitment of compassion understanding and happiness for the spouses.  George had been my best happiness for the past one year in my life.  Would I say yes or would I say no?  Kingdoms had been lost by smiles and dimples and so was my career.  The PhD I had was going to make  nice omelets for my "gardener" and burn my hands raising his rather funny looking kids……..