Our Guests Donald & Bridgette Wilson
Sid: I have a couple in the studio that are red hot for Messiah Bridgitte and Donald Wilson. Bridgitte works for Messianic Vision, and Donald is in the construction industry. Bridgette and Donald were high school sweethearts. Donald you were on the football team, Bridgette you were the cheerleader and take you back to those days and they were wonderful days and you had dreams and visions, but then your almost a child 16 yourself and you find out that your pregnant what did you do about it Bridgette.
Bridgette: Well Sid I only had one choice and that was the decision of my parent and that was to have an abortion. When I went to the abortion clinic it was all I’d seen was women all over the place Sid. One of the things that I wanted to do was escape, it was a terrible experience. Words cannot explain the experience, it was as if someone had taken this glass window behind us and hit it with a hammer and it shattered into just hundreds of pieces, that’s how my spirit was in my soul. But through the abortion procedure it was cold it wasn’t anything…no one really told me what it was going to be like, but it was a very cold place. As I said, I wanted to escape out the back door. The whole procedure was impersonal-able, it was cold, and it felt as if my insides were being ripped out. It’s hard to put into words, it’s a part of you being separated from yourself unwillingly.
Sid: Donald did you care at all that she was having an abortion, I mean your only a year older, your only 17.
Donald: Well, I felt like there was nothing I could do, I really wanted the baby, but in those times the man had nothing to say because her parents had made it very clear that it was going to be that way. And the only thing I could do was really to support her.
Sid: Okay, but then a year later she’s pregnant again, what did you think about that.
Donald: Well, this time I felt as though that we could of have the baby, but I saw in her mind that she didn’t want to have the baby, and then again I felt like it was nothing I could do, when it comes to abortion I don’t understand that.
Sid: Okay Bridgette you then are ready for another abortion, but it was a little different this time you knew the procedure, you knew what was going to happen tell me about that second abortion.
Bridgette: Well, Sid the second abortion is like a blur to me because after the first abortion my mind was just so shattered and my insides were shattered as well. My emotions were tore up as I was walking and it looked like I was in tack, but the insides of me was ruined; just completely ruined. And I was a different person from the day I walked in to have that first abortion, I was a different person thereafter.
Sid: You used a word before that you were almost numb.
Bridgette: Exactly I was numb and it’s vague, the second abortion I know what happened but it’s vague. And someone would say “Well, why did you have it?” Well, it was the mindset that I was in, it was a form of birth control. And I still needed to accomplish those things in my life and so that’s…
Sid: Donald, today, what do you think about abortion?:
Donald: Well, the late 70’s and the early 80’s when we was going through this, we didn’t have anybody to tell us what we were actually doing was killing off our family. And that’s what we were doing. And today right now there’s millions of babies out there; people have lost millions of their babies and they paid people, people are getting rich. You pay them to kill your babies and that tears me up every day that I think about that.
Sid: A lot of people think that isn’t a baby when they have their abortions, it’s only a baby when it’s born.
Donald: There’s a baby there, they’re brain starts to form and he’s there. Soon as conception the baby is started. The word says “I knitted you in your mother’s womb.” And that’s what He does God starts putting the baby together right then. And that baby there when he gets to a certain size he starts moving around he starts swimming and dancing in his mother’s belly. And that can happen at 3 months he’s moving, he’s doing things, and you can see fingers and you can see him forming.
Sid: Well, Bridgette two abortions your numb at the second one, but in ’81 again you’re pregnant and you decide you’re not going to have an abortion, how come?
Bridgette: Well, life Sid in 1981 when I had my son I realized that the pain that I had caused myself from the first 2 abortions it was just too great, I couldn’t bear another abortion. It was as if, it was as if my whole soul was crying out not to do it; so that’s what we did we had our son.
Sid: Okay, your living together your raising your son and you decide to get married your 22 Donald is 23 your also pregnant now with what would be your daughter, but Donald you’re not acting like a married man but how come?
Donald: I didn’t think I was a bad guy but what I did was go out and spend nights away from the house, I’d go out drinking and doing drugs with my friends. We’d go away I had a wife at home but it didn’t matter to me because I thought I was doing a good thing as far as being a man. I thought I could handle this thing and it was my way, and I still loved my wife and she’d be there. I had a very poor conception of life at that time. I’m sad to say, but I looked back and I don’t understand where my head was at but I really really had a poor conception because I’d leave my son and my wife there with nobody there to protect them, maybe not even have enough food.
Sid: Okay what you suspected was true you found out you have two children now Bridgitte, and you find out that Donald is cheating on you. What did you do about it?
Bridgette: Well, first thing I did Sid was I confronted him, and he denied the situation. We both knew that this relationship had come to a point where we had to make some type of change in our life.
Sid: But previous to that though there was a change in you; you literally became a believer in Jesus, tell me about that.
Bridgette: Yes I did I was watching Jimmy Swaggert in the mid ’80s, and he had on his program these children, they were undernourished from a third world nation. At the end of that program my heart was touched by the words that were spoken and I said the sinner’s prayer Sid. Then shortly after that and I tried to find a church, and so I went back to the church that I grew up in as a child.
Sid: Donald as so she tried to influence you; could you see a difference in your wife out of curiosity?
Donald: Yes, I could see a difference there was an awesome change in her; she had a purpose now and I could see her striding forward now. I still had blinders on my own eyes because I thought my way was the best way.
Sid: So you’re continuing on your drinking and drugging being promiscuous, and she’s going on with the Lord but so the two can’t continue that way. So you just finally move out Bridgette you move to Georgia with your children. You’re headed towards divorce, did you want divorce?
Bridgette: Divorce was never my goal in the relationship but when I seen that he was not going to change over the ten years or more that I laid on my face and I prayed for him day and night and I had friends to pray for him as well. I could not see a change, I tried everything. I tried tapes, I tried going to different seminars anything just to see him come to the Lord because I’d seen Donald as a different person than he was portraying himself.
Sid: So you were looking at him as what he could be not what the world had made him.
Bridgette: Exactly.
Sid: See you really still had faith that he could be the man that you fell in love with in high school, that high school football star.
Bridgette: That is correct.
Sid: Okay, let’s hold that thought both of you because Bridgette you went to a church that is a very unusual church it’s one that has seen hundreds of divorced couples and separated couples come back togther. So that had to be building your faith. And I have the CD series of entitled “What God Has Joined Together,” by Dr. Gary Whetstone. Gary went through divorce and he has found that when you understand the communication skills of marriage; when you understand how to deal with finances; when you understand the needs that the husband have and needs that the wife has; when you understand God’s given rules for the husband and wife; when you understand God’s plan for marriage, and there’s a supernatural anointing.
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