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" I knew that this was indeed no coincidence but was in fact the hand of God. ..."
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My name is Pat Scuffins and I’ve lived nearly all my life in my home town of Mallow in Co. Cork. My early and later schooldays were one of complete unhappiness, all due to the horrific and bullying methods of the Christian Brothers, and others. An unhappy school life was followed by an equally unhappy marriage, which resulted in separation. This left me a nowhere person in life.
For years I indulged in heavy drinking and debauchery and much more sinful acts of an unspeakable nature. Then after many years of pointless living a BIG change was about to come into my life. Even though I was a Catholic I never really had much time for that church and its odd policies. Then the true Word of God was revealed to me by a wonderful stroke of fate. This I discovered when my son, Dennis, himself now a born again, he used to tell me about the teachings of the bible which he explained to me in some detail.
At this stage I met a wonderful person who was to become a big part of my life, Marian, all the way from Dundalk in Co. Louth (the Wee County!). We both enjoyed our life to the extreme for years but we lived in sin and that was simply not good enough. Marian, who was also to become born again in Christ, eventually wrote to me and said it could not go on any longer, that she, in her heart, had to live for Christ in an obedient and proper way. I knew that this was indeed no coincidence but was in fact the hand of God. I knew in my heart it was the Lord at work. His mercy upon me was clear as I thought more and more. I thank Him for enabling me to see the light. And so, after a period of time, my heart surrendered as I read and understood His Word more and more. And some three and a half months ago I went on my knees and repented, asking Him for forgiveness of my sins and told Him I was an unworthy person deserving nothing more but to be cast into the fires of hell! I asked Him to change the delight I got out of my sin to one of hate and to come into my heart and save me.
So, from then up to now, today – the day of my baptism, here at this lovely location of Inniscarra, I put my trust totally in Him forever. Amen
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