RJN “My Journey Home” Adina – Chapter 1

As I am sitting here writing, I am a divorced woman and a mother of two beautiful children. I am at peace and full of joy. After so many years of seeking, I finally came home. I am finally where I needed to be all along, in the loving arms of my Husband, my Heavenly Husband. My journey to this place that feels like home started more than three years ago, actually nine years ago when I first found out about Kevin’s adultery, but my Heavenly Husband only got my full attention more than three years ago. At this point in time I do not know what the future holds, but I know that I am called to lay down my will for His, and to follow Him wherever He might lead.

But let me go to the beginning, to where I met Kevin...

It was the first day of July, a cold, sunny winters day here in South Africa. It was my first day at my new job, my second job since I graduated. I studied Electronic Engineering, specialising in Automation and Instrumentation. My dad believed that I must go and study after I matriculated (when you finish school here in SA). I had no idea what to study and the day he took me to enrol, I basically flipped a coin. Unbelievable, I know, but that is how it happened, I fell into engineering, but I quite liked it and did quite well, I studied hard and after I did my three years theoretical training, I had to do one-year practical training at a company before I could graduate. I got offered two training positions very quickly and accepted the one in the town where my parents lived.

After I graduated the company offered me a permanent position and I worked there for almost two years. I was young, single and ambitious, bought my first townhouse and was on top of the world. A woman breaking into a man’s world, leading the way for other women to follow.

Then I decided it’s time to expand my horizons and applied for another position at a prominent international company, and they made me an offer I immediately accepted, this was a new and exciting opportunity for me. The company was in another town, but not too far away that I couldn’t drive in and out every day. My plan was to eventually sell my townhouse and move to this town and buy a new property.

Everything was planned and organized and that cold day in July finally arrived…

The first two days were just inductions, safety procedures, company history, things like that. To my surprise somebody else started with me that day, he introduced himself as Kevin. We had to go through the inductions together. We were both appointed as Electronic Technicians, but in different departments. We studied at the same tertiary institution but didn’t see each other because he started a year later. I didn’t pay much attention to him, nothing about him really caught my attention. We were going to sit in the same office, but work in different departments.

I was now firmly planted in a man’s world. The only female in an office full of men, working with the different Plant Engineers, Operators and Tradesmen. But for me it was no problem, yes, I was young and single, but I was there to work and proof myself, not to get a husband, that was not one of my ambitions in life, or let me rather say, at that stage it was not one of my ambitions.

Kevin and three other guys were single. I found out a bit later that Kevin was in a serious relationship, but because I had no interest in him, it didn’t bother me. I befriended another guy, John. John and I became very good friends and we started to go out together, but always in groups, never on dates, I later found out he was not interested in women. It broke my heart because he was such a great guy and I actually fell for him. But we remained friends, we partied together, always drinking. I worked hard during the weeks and over weekends we partied just as hard. Although we partied and drank a lot, I didn’t have a boyfriend, I was happily single, having a lot of friends, independent and successful.

Kevin and John were also friends, but he never partied with us because he would go home every weekend, to his parent’s house, and to visit his girlfriend. He stayed in a small flat during the week because his parents stayed in another town. Sundays they went to church twice, and Kevin helped with the sound in the church.

Although we worked together, and we all got along very well, me and Kevin were worlds apart, we became friends in a way, but nothing more than that.

9 thoughts on “RJN “My Journey Home” Adina – Chapter 1”

  1. Dear Adina, thanking for sharing, I always enjoy reading your Chapters, looking forward to the next one.

  2. My sweet friend!! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a poweful message, we sometimes are raised to be power women, and to conquer the men´s world!!
    I feel so identified with the way I used to be!! I really want to read what is next!!1
    Praise the Lord He directs our steps!!

  3. Yes my dear, I can’t believe how much He changed me. From thinking I opened the way for other women to follow, to now thinking back and just seeing how totally lost I was back then… Even though I had it all, I actually had nothing, because I didn’t have Him.

  4. Congrats my dear Adina!!! Your new novel, wow!! I felt I am starting to know you! Wow, I didn’t about your curriculum and experience! I want to read more!

    1. Thank you my dear Anastasia, yes like I mentioned I kinda fell into it, because of my dad (and mother) believing you must go and study after school. But everything we do and go through is part of our testimony 🙏🏻🙌🏻

  5. Your first chapter wow, how many women are currently living the live we use to live Adina? Can you see how deceived all of us were and now that our eyes are opened to His truth, we can look around and see what is happening all around us. I pray that more women come to know His truth.

    1. O yes Yvonne, looking back I was totally deceived in my way of thinking back then. But PTL He changed my heart and my desires to be a W@H and to see the destruction feminism causes in families and in society!

  6. Who knew?!?! 🤷🏻‍♀️
    GOD KNEW 🤩 that he wanted to use your life in order to make an impact and reveal the truth about “having at all” and being a female, breaking into a man’s world.
    The only reason I never fully bought into this lie was due to how I witnessed the change in my mother when she embraced this absurd and ridiculous ideology: what it did to her, what it did to my father, and what it did to her children. Thankfully an amazingly, I was also able to witness my mother coming full circle. Quitting her job to care for my father before he died and the joy, peace, and passing away her self fully fulfilled with no regrets.
    Thank you Adina for sharing your journey that is highly unique but at the same time, a story that’s been repeated millions of times over. I’m off to read chapter 2 after coming late to the party 🥳

    1. When I hear women speaking today about their careers, long hours at work and their children in day care, I want to scream from the rooftops that they are busy destroying their families and their children! But, as He opens opportunities, I share my story as He leads, to be an older woman to these young wife’s and mothers that are so career driven and deceived like I was. And thinking that women have to work to be able to survive financially in today’s world, is such a huge, destructive lie from the enemy.

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