I started coming to Vincentian prayer house in 2010 November. I was jobless and a widow with four children. As I came hear my life was completely beyond me. I was hopeless, broken, rejected and abandoned by my family. I felt a lot of bitterness towards everyone and very angry towards God as I felt I was suffering so much. I could not even forgive my step uncle who had raped me. My Jesus revealed Himself to me during the one week retreat that I attended that November.
I kept on praying for His mercies towards me and my four boys and He did wonders for me. By December that year after only one month I got a job! I was able to provide the basic needs for my family though the salary was not much. Miraculously, my son passed well that year and last year Jesus proved to be the father of my son as he immediately got sponsorship from someone we didn’t even know. My other son who had dropped out of school agreed to go back to school after refusing to go for classes for four years. By God’s grace, he also accepted to back to church and he received the Sacrament of baptism on 27th November 2011. Its so amazing how my Lord provides for my three boys in High school. He gives their school fees without fail, they have never been sent home for lack of school fees.
Even though my salary is only 10000 which sometimes we aren’t paid in two months, I learned to work as if for the Lord and not for money and that’s why we never go without a meal or any basic need. I now experience the peace and love of Christ through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which before I came to VPH did not embrace. I now feel the presence of Christ in the greatest Prayer of thanksgiving; the Holy Mass which I never experienced and could get totally bored before I started coming here. Now I know that I have a father, who loves me very much and who will take care of my children and me! He is so faithful.
“Abraham named that place ‘The Lord will provide’ and even up to today people say, on the Lord’s mountain it shall be provided.” (Genesis 22:14)