BORN OF A MIRACLE
STOLEN FROM A FATHER
Every word on every page of this book is a bridge built back to you. Every chapter is proof that you were loved beyond measure, beyond language, beyond anything I can adequately express within the limitations of human speech. One day, when you hold these pages in your hands—when you are old enough to read them, old enough to understand them, and old enough to sit with the weight of what they contain—you will know the truth. You will know that your father never abandoned you. You were not left behind. You were not forgotten. You were not unwanted. You were robbed of your father, and your father was robbed of you, by forces that chose their own interests over your God-given right to know both of your parents. I love you, my son. Forever and always. In this life and whatever comes after it. This book is also dedicated to every child growing up without their mother or father—not because their parent died, but because circumstances, betrayal, or the deliberate choices of adults drove a parent out of their life. You are not fatherless. You are not motherless. You are not defined by what was done to you. You are not the sum of adult failures you never asked to inherit. You are a child loved by God, seen by God, and known by God—and your story is not over. The chapter you are in right now is not the last one. This book is also a lesson—written in love, not in anger—to every parent whose unfaithfulness, pride, or bitterness has placed their child in the middle of a war they never chose. Children did not ask to be born into the storm. They deserve better. They deserve the truth. They deserve both of their parents. May this testimony open eyes, soften hearts, and, above all, protect the children.
He is a South Sudanese philosopher, historian, theologian, and humanitarian of mixed Nubian heritage—a man who believes passionately in the unity of Sudan and who has consistently, at considerable personal cost, rejected the division of his people. Born into a nation at war, he experienced displacement, statelessness, and the unspeakable weight of being a former child soldier. These were not wounds that destroyed him; they became the furnace in which his character was forged, the crucible that produced a man of unusual depth, unusual resilience, and unusual purpose. A former lay pastor in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and co-founder of the Sabbath Day Remnant Church (SDRC), Alfredo is a man whose faith is not theoretical but lived—tested in refugee camps, on battlefields, in foreign cities, and in the long silences of separation from a child he loves more than life itself. His theology is not the comfortable theology of those who have never suffered. It is the theology of a man who has wrestled with God in the darkness and emerged, still believing, still standing.
