Life Lessons: I didn’t ‘see’ the light, until I was blind

Geraldine Alford, 82 was blinded in her 30s in a car crash. She later found Christ, and the love of a man who was also blind

I was born in 1943 in Lewisham hospital, London, and was brought up in Bromley in Kent. My dad was a civil servant; he was a tax inspector of all things. My mum was a teacher. I didn’t have a Christian upbringing. 

Difficult marriages

I met my first husband when I was 17 on a bus. I was with a friend, and he was with a friend. I wish I’d never laid eyes on him, as he was a very cruel man – both violent and unfaithful.