Chapter 2 The Young Vibrant Man

The Young and Vibrant Man

I met my husband in the Church, in the youth department when we were single. His zeal and love for God made me love him and pick interest in him. I started having a crush on him without him knowing about it. I love it whenever he was to preach or conduct prayers or the day he was the leader of the service in the youth ministry. This likeness and excitement in my heart whenever he is leading the service or preaching was not just because I loved and had a crush on him, but it was more of his excellent ways of doing them. He is such an eloquent speaker, he outlined his points and made his speech very easy to understand. Any time he preached, there are lots of creative teachings that must give one new idea, great relief, strength to carry on, and determination to make peace with God and man and live rightly.

I was very beautiful, and popular in the youth ministry, mostly because of my beauty. I was also committed to the Church activities, contributing to the youth ministry project, in fact, to so many youths, especially male youths, I was perfect in everything. So many of the male youths had a crush on me, and a lot of them approached me proposing to either go out with me, date me, or even have sex with me. But I turn them all down because I wasn't ready to marry and sex wasn't my thing. Of over one hundred and fifty youths in our youth department, of which over fifty were male, it was only about ten that didn't approach me for a romantic or intimate relationship. And of course, Solomon, my husband, was one of the ten men who did not approach me.

Another thing that made me love him more was that he cared nothing about fame, position dragging, or trying to impress the ministers and/or the leadership of the Church to obtain favor from them. He does everything absolutely for God to see him and bless him. He never involved himself with Church politics. When other youths are killing themselves, fighting and campaigning for one office, post or favor, or another, he will quietly exonerate himself. This attitude rather made him popular, and the ministers, the entire Church leadership and members loved and trusted him. Therefore, he was always given or voted into any office that requires a trusted, honest and selfless person in the youth department.