I continued in school, and soon met someone else on a local bulletin board (similar to the Internet, and I was screaming fast with a 14.4k modem! =) We met, fell in love, and 6 weeks later we were married. I jokingly call it a "good honeymoon", even though we didn't go anywhere, because we gave birth to our daughter exactly 9 months later. This was something that I thought I'd never get to experience due to some virus I contracted when I was about 14. What a joy she was! God certainly blessed me that day, and I knew it. How did I thank Him? Well, I've never left my daughter when she needed me, nor her sisters that joined her years later. But did I do as God commanded and take this miracle of life to church and get baptised, as is written in the Bible?
No. Shamefully, no.
You see, I'd been away from my church for a number of years now, and I'd also gained about 40-some pounds over the years, and had lost half my hair. I was blessed that God had given me a daughter I thought I'd never have... and I didn't go back to church because of vanity.
Time went on, I did well where I worked, and I had a happy marriage at first. My daughter brought endless joy. But I continued to not follow
This brings me to recent history, and getting to the point. The LORD brought 2 more daughters into our lives, but then my wife wandered. I'm not surprised (now), we didn't put God first in our lives. I went online to places I shouldn't to try and reconnect, but to no avail. This chapter in my life was closing, and a most unexpected one was just about to begin...