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I was 27-years-old and in the WRENS

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'I was 27-years-old and in the WRENS. There was a drunken sailor who was very difficult, but I thought he was a challenge, so I got to know him. He asked me to marry him. But I had the courage to say that I didn’t want to get married. He said, “If you don’t want to marry me, I will come and kill you”.

He got closer and closer to the base where I was living and kept phoning on his way to say that he was coming to kill me. So, I thought I would go and hide. If I hid in the sports pavilion then I wouldn’t be able to hear the tannoy message for me when he arrived at the main gate.

I was going through a difficult time then, so I’d be reading a Psalm a day. Before I went to hide I read the Psalm for the day, Psalm 27. It said, “The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?” In verse five it says, “In the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion”. That shocked me. I thought that, if God had got a pavilion, it must be like an invisible bubble. I was absolutely calm then.

I went to the main gate to meet him. I said, “You know I can’t marry you”. I walked down the lane in the dark with him so that he could get the bus back and he went away. The fact that I had gone out to meet him was proof that I wasn’t running away. I didn’t have to run for help. God had spoken to me in words that were exactly right at that time. '

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