I became aware of her several years ago. It happened when I answered my phone and someone told me I was about ready to lose my house because my mortgage was in default.

I told them they were crazy because I had never been late on my mortgage. I gave them some identification and they said that they had gotten the wrong person.

I came to a conclusion that someone had the same name as me and it wasn’t someone who was good. Obviously this person didn’t have the parents I had who stressed working hard and being responsible.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Then a couple of years ago when I was playing around with an identity check system and I put in my name. Again this woman popped up and I found out that she has been married five times. I have only been married once.

I tend to find that people who are frequent flyers in the marriage arena harbor a lot of heart ache.

For the most part my namesake has not created any problems for me. She crossed my mind recently when I was told that my church would have to do a background check on me because I wanted to help them launch a new ministry. I was thinking that I hoped they used other identification than just my name to do the check because I was nothing like this other woman.

Then the Holy Spirit told me why we shared the same name. Someone need to pray for this other woman. So I have started to pray for someone who shares my name, hoping that someday they will share my identity as a child of God.