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    Miracle
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    Miracle

    By Peter Harris

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    This book gives hope to couples who are in a difficult relationship and need strength and guidance. When a religious man learns that his wife had an affair, he becomes convinced by strange occurrences that the devil is within her and tries to exorcise it from her body. A turbulent relationship ensues between the couple when the man confronts his wife about her cheating. After repeated confrontations, the wife finally admits that she had an affair with a man from church. This is an authentic and genuine story about infidelity, betrayal and the struggle to move forward after deciding to stay in a difficult relationship.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 29, 2014
    ISBN9781312394384
    Miracle
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    Peter Harris

    I joined GRID-Arendal as Managing Director in 2014. I am a native of the USA, citizen of Australia and resident of Norway; I describe myself as a “professional foreigner”. I am a graduate of the University of Washington (Seattle USA), completed a PhD at the University of Wales (Swansea UK), married an Australian and have 3 children. I have worked in the field of marine geology and science management for over 30 years and published over 100 scientific papers. I taught marine geology at the University of Sydney and conducted research on UK estuaries, the Great Barrier Reef, the Fly River Delta (Papua New Guinea) and Antarctica. I worked for 20 years for Australia’s national geoscience agency as a scientist and manager. In 2009 I was appointed a member of the group of experts for the United Nations World Ocean Assessment. Apart from managing all of GRID-Arendal’s amazing activities, my interests include new methods for the conduct of environmental assessments (the expert elicitation method) and the use of multivariate statistics and geomorphology to provide tools to manage the global ocean environment. I also enjoy sailing and playing the bagpipes.

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      Miracle - Peter Harris

      Miracle

      MIRACLE

      Peter Harris

      Copyright © 2013, Peter Harris

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      ISBN: 978-1-312-39438-4

      Introduction

      This book gives hope to couples who are in a difficult relationship and need strength and guidance. When a religious man learns that his wife had an affair, he becomes convinced by strange occurrences that a demon is within her and tries to exorcise it from her body. A turbulent relationship ensues between the couple when the man confronts his wife about her cheating. After repeated confrontations, the wife finally admits that she had an affair with a man from church.  This is an authentic and genuine story about infidelity, betrayal and the struggle to move forward after deciding to stay in a difficult relationship.

      Therefore shall a man

      Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall

      Cleave unto his wife:

      And they shall be one flesh

      Genesis 2:24

      Chapter 1

      The First Miracle

      It all started about 1977. I was about to walk out of my house to attend church when I realized that I needed money to put in the collection plate in church. Since I had no money in my wallet, I remembered a twenty-dollar bill on my bedroom dresser. I went back into the house and got the twenty. With the money in hand, I left the house, locked the door, and headed for my car. It was a windy day. The wind blew the twenty from my fingers and took it up into the air. The money went over the house and disappeared. It was gone. At that moment, I knew I would never see that twenty-dollar bill again, because there was a water canal behind my house.

      I walked to the rear of my house, and I was absolutely astonished at what I saw. There was a little two-foot tree in my back yard that I had just planted several days earlier. The little tree had three small branches. Each branch was less than the thickness of a pencil. Amazingly, the twenty-dollar bill had flown over the house and was caught on one of the small branches. It was as if the branch caught the money in mid-air and held it there for me. I walked up to the tree and took the bill from the branch. I put it into my pocket. I said to myself, this is truly a miracle. I had better put this twenty-dollar bill in the collection plate at church today or else.

      Chapter 2

      Marriage and Family

      I decided to go back to graduate school. I attended a small liberal arts college in the South. It had a beautiful campus with large oak trees and red brick buildings. I first met her at this graduate school. I fell in love with her the first time I saw her in the hallway. I first noticed her beautiful smile and her slender perfect body. I walked up to her and asked her name. She said, Thgil (The-gil). I told her she had a pretty name. She smiled and asked my name. I said, Terry. For about fifteen minutes, we made small talk. She told me that she was an engineer. I thought she is not only pretty, but also smart. We talked about school and our classes. I wanted to talk to her all day, but I had to go to class. I asked, can I have your phone number so that we can talk again? She wrote it down for me. She said bye and smiled. Her beautiful smile made me feel good inside. As I walked away from her, I felt lightheaded. I could hardly wait to talk to her again.

      I called her the next day. We arranged a date, and the rest is history. We married several months later. We raised two lovely children and lived a normal middle-class life.

      Thgil was an only child. Her mother was a school teacher and her father was a steelworker. She told me that growing up, she wish she had a little brother or sister. As a child she spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom either reading or imagining herself as a lovely princess or famous singer. She said she lived a sheltered life until high school. She was a high school majorette and was on the girl’s track team. She was also valedictorian of her class.  

      I was just the opposite from Thgil. I came from a large family. I was always a quiet and subdued type of guy. I mingled with friends but not too often.  I never liked large crowds. Throughout our marriage, Thgil would always try to get me to go to music concerts and dances. She loved to dance. I only went a few times and most of the time she ended up going with either her girlfriends or relatives.

      Over the years, we had our ups and downs like any other couple, but we always loved each other.

      Chapter 3

      The Church and Loss of Faith

      After our marriage, Thgil joined the church that I attended. I had joined this church almost five years earlier. During the first twenty years of our marriage, we attended church about every Sunday and were very active. She sang in the choir. I was a deacon and the financial secretary. Our church was the center of our lives. It was not only a place where we worshipped, but also a place of fellowship with friends and other church members.

      Thgil was a faithful choir member. She attended most of the rehearsals and sang at almost every service. She loved going to church and started playing piano for the Sunday school. Thgil began playing piano in grade school. Her grandmother played and had an old upright piano in her home. As a child, Thgil would go to her grandmother’s house and practice on that old piano. She did this as often as she could. After Thgil’s grandmother passed away, the upright piano ended up in our home. Thgil practiced on it several times a week.

      I was completely caught off guard. As financial secretary of our church, I coordinated my duties with the recording secretary. After working with this person, I realized that she was dishonest. She was a paid employee of the church, but many times she would arrive late. She did things that made me suspicious of her character. Since I was also a deacon, it was my duty to tell the pastor about the recording secretary’s character. When I spoke with him, he was not interested, perhaps because the church’s secretary was the daughter of a respected deacon of the church.

      A month later, her fraud was uncovered. She had stolen a large sum of money by forging checks and cashing them at the bank where she worked. Rumors surfaced that others were involved. One Sunday morning, the pastor told the congregation from the pulpit that the secretary was responsible. He also told the congregation that I, the financial secretary, was also responsible.

      It truly hurt me, because I had known the pastor since my boyhood. He was a family friend. I thought highly of him. After this incident, I left that church. I became depressed and lost my faith in churches. Consequently, I started attending church only on holidays and during special events, such as funerals, weddings, etc. For years, I drifted in and out of different churches.

      Chapter 4

      The Affair

      After the fraud incident, Thgil also left the church. But I could not find another church for us to attend on a regular basis. To fulfill her passion and spiritual needs, she found a gospel choir to sing with called The Gloryland Choir. This non-denominational choir consisted of about seventy-five members from diverse backgrounds. The director happened to be Thgil’s piano teacher who had recommended that she sing in the choir. Thgil began taking piano lessons from the director of the Gloryland Choir about the time that I lost my faith in churches. Thgil’s main reason for taking piano lessons was to learn to play contemporary gospel music. She could play church music from a hymnal, but not in a contemporary style like present day gospel musicians. Several years after taking lessons, she played contemporary gospel music well enough to perform in public.

      About two years after Thgil began singing with the Gloryland Choir, she asked me to attend an event with her. The event lasted for about an hour. Afterwards, a reception was held for the choir members and their guests. I walked into the reception room with Thgil and noticed some of the male choir members staring at me. I felt very uncomfortable. When I spoke to some of the male choir members, they avoided making eye contact with me. I became suspicious. I wondered if something was going on between Thgil and one of the male choir members.

      After returning home, I thought about telling Thgil what I had encountered and asking if something was going on between her and one of the male choir members. Then I thought I might be overreacting. If I asked her, we would

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