Alex’s Story

It’s all a joke, until it gets a serious. Something we jokingly say between ourselves, and to be fair it’s an accurate start to our love story lol! It was the 14th June 2020, a sunny day in Boris Johnson Covid ridden country. We should have all been at home, and if outside, only for essential journeys, right? Im sure some of you did otherwise but anyway it’s not about you it’s about us, and we definitely did otherwise. One of us had a valid reason I should say, hmm wonder who?

I’ll spare those details for another day, But as God ordained it, here we both were travelling the streets of Charlton on a Sunny Covid afternoon. I was driving back home to Essex, Busuyi was walking back home to Woolich. I was on my way towards the Blackwall tunnel, and I had just got on to Bugsby Way. A few hundred yards in and there she was. Golden brown skin, black jumpsuit and a red wig…yes, A RED WIG! I drove passed and only got a glance at her but I was pulled in immediately by what I saw. I had gone passed the left turning I needed to take to approach her so I had no choice but to drive on. And there in lay the choice of a life time.

To carry on my journey, or make an illegal turn for the red head with the brown golden skin? (Im sure i’ve done worser things for less). The choices laid before me, dressed in banter and mischief with a sprinkle of adrenaline, was really a simple one to the naked eye. But dig a little deeper and we see Gods hand move in our simplest moments, we experience God’s peace in our simplest sate of mind, and Gods plans in our simplest actions. In that moment, that simple U-turn changed my whole life.