Although my children were not fatherless in reality a man who leaves his home leaves not only his wife but also the children open to attacks from the devil. God says that he will protect the fatherless.

I know for a fact that God does protect children who no longer covered by the presence of their father in the home.

My children were young at the time that God showed me His protection.

I had decided to start going to the gym to work out. I had worked out almost daily since I was fourteen years old. With small children  at home I needed to go to a gym which had daycare.

I joined the 24 hour fitness gym and started to work out. It wasn’t too long before a fellow male gym member showed interest in meeting me outside of the gym.

He said he had a daughter and that he went to church. He named the church and I shared my church and told him a bit about my family. He asked for my phone number and I gave it to him.

That weekend I went to work at a nursing home. As I was walking down the hall I happened to look down at an ice chest and a newspaper that was on top of the ice chest. I saw that man’s photo on the front page of the paper.

I stopped to read the article and learned that this man had been convicted for sexual molestation of quite a few young children. He was a member of the single’s group at that church and he would offer to babysit for the single parents. While the children were at his house he would force them to engage in inappropriate sexual acts with each other and then he would videotape them.

After he was arrested he must have gotten out on bail because he called me showing an interest in a relationship. I declined the offer.

I thank God for his protection. He arranged everything perfectly so that I would find out the perversion of this man before I had a chance to encounter him in a dating situation.

He wouldn’t have had a chance to harm my children even if I had dated him because I didn’t allow them to stay with people I did not know and never left them alone with a man.

It is interesting that the next man I dated was a detective that worked for the DA and he said he had seen some of the videos and it was horrible what this man had done to these children. He went on to say that they had locked this man away for so long he would never see the light of day outside his prison walls for the rest of his life.

Even when the devil takes a man away from his family, God is still present and His protection is better than any man could ever hope to be.