As 31 year old Sheila Gallagher settled into bed, she reflected on her life. She thought about how if it wasn't for Frank, she would never have left her house. She had been a freshman in college when she met Frank. Somehow they ended up going to the same college.

Sheila had been a very shy and quiet girl when she was in college. She didn't have many friends, but she had one. Her high school sweetheart - Eddie Jackson.

One night, Eddie convinced Sheila to go to a party on campus. That party was where she drugged and raped. But one good thing did come from that night. She met Frank, who was nothing but a gentleman to her. How could she refuse to join his new religion that he ended up starting two years later. Or when he asked her to marry him three years after that, and now she has three beautiful children with him. Two sons - 8 year old Honest Levi Ephraim Gallagher and 2 year old Ronnie Hosea Gallagher, and a daughter - 6 year old Prudence Melea Gallagher.

Even though Frank was already married to Monica when Sheila was asked to marry him, the decision to marry him wasn't a hard one for Sheila. There's something that the people of Mount Horeb believe - a prophecy said in Isaiah 3 - 'The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder; the captain of fifty and the honorable man, the counselor and the skillful artisan, and the expert enchanter'.

'The Captain of fifty', that means Frank is to father fifty children. They believe that everyone has their part to play in the army of God while they are waiting for the second coming of Christ.

Back in college, it was the weekend after the party, when Frank took Monica and Sheila on a camping trip. Frank loves nature and he thought that Sheila could use a break from the toxicness of society after what happened at the party. It was on that camping trip that Frank had a revelation. He had a harrowing experience where God spoke to him and recited the Isaiah 3 prophecy to him.

As Sheila was drifting off to sleep, the last thought to pass through her mind was 'God bless the prophet Saint Francis'.

Frank had never preached about or said he was a prophet. He didn't think he was one but that's what everyone believed. Anything and everything he has said comes true - it always has and they believe that it always will. Hence Sheila's thought of 'God bless the prophet'.

A few hours later, it was now close to midnight by the time that Frank was finally settling into bed beside his wife Whitney. As Frank was closing his eyes and laying his head on his pillow, he heard light footsteps coming down the hallway towards his room. He'd recognise those footsteps anywhere, and as his door opened, the little person he saw was exactly the one that he thought. It was his daughter - Prudence.

"Daddy." Prudence called out softly, walking over to his side of the bed, "I had a bad dream. Can I sleep with you?"

"Yeah. Of course." Frank replied, opening his side of the comforter, "Come on. Climb in."

Prudence climbed up onto the bed, crawling over her dad's legs and snuggling up in the middle of the bed. She had curled up, pressing herself into her dad's side. Temperance may love her daddy, but Prudence was a tried and true daddy's girl. She knew that he would always protect her and never let anything happen to her.

Frank turned towards his daughter, wrapping his arms around her little body and holding her close to him, comfortingly.

"Sing." Prudence requested

Frank smiled as he sang 'You'll be in my heart'. He sang it softly so that he didn't wake Whitney or Jedidiah.

'You'll be in my heart' was Prudence's song. That was the song that Frank had sung to her since she was just a little baby. Each of his kids has their own song, a special song that he sings to them and only them.

Prudence fell asleep fairly quickly, and then Frank kissed his daughter's head, before finally closing his eyes to go to sleep himself.

Meanwhile down the hallway, in the room directly across from Sheila's, 40 year old Sophia Caroline Saunders was not having a very good night. Her almost 3 year old daughter Peyton Evangeline - she'll be three next month - was up, she seemed to have caught a little stomach bug and had been throwing up periodically throughout the night. Sophie was doing everything she could for her daughter - rocking and singing. She even gave Peyton some medicine. Nothing seemed to help. Her poor little baby wasn't feeling well and couldn't even sleep.

As a last resort, with Peyton cradled over her lap, Sophie popped out her boob and fitted it into her daughter's mouth to breastfeed. Since Peyton will be three next month, they were trying to wean her off the breast, but Sophie was desperate. Plus when your baby is sick, breast milk is the best thing for them.

Peyton felt so relaxed drinking her mother's milk straight from the tap, so to speak. Her little eyes were fluttering as she was finally starting to be able to fall asleep.

Sophie let out a sigh of relief. She knew that her daughter would be fine and it was probably just a twenty-four hour bug that Peyton had caught, but it was always a bit worrying when your kids are sick.

Sophie has two other kids: 13 year old Sylvia and 8 year old Oliver Moses, but Peyton is the one that gets sick the most. Even as babies, Sophie's older daughter and son were always pretty healthy.

Once Peyton was finally fast asleep, Sophie stood up from the rocking chair and laid her daughter down in bed, tucking the little girl in and then sitting back down in the rocking chair. That was where Sophie would be sleeping for the night. Not that she expected to sleep because from where she was sitting, she could see Peyton. She was watching her daughter sleep, watching her little chest rise and fall with every breath.


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