Once, there was an interesting occasion. In the evening when I was supposed to go home suddenly I herd one man laudly boasted of a «good» job that was recently offered: to translate into russian a game of immoral content. He was very happy. But I've become very upset — did my company would really do such a thing? I wanted to stop that somehow. But I realized that translation into russian language was the only source of income for the company. At that time I was working on a game «Cossacks» but it was pretty far to the profit. So my streight demand not to do that translation might sound like «let's not earn money». But I couldn't leave that case just like that. I prayed but I didn't know what could I change. Yet I'd decided to talk to my boss the next morning and tell him that I disagree to make translations of the games with such content. But how I was surprized when my boss told me that he spoke with the customers and he had already decided not to translate that game and not to make translations at all. He wanted to focus on the «Cossacks» development. I was shoked with such sudden answer on my prayer.

    After two years my boss told me straight, «Here's a sum of money. It's yours, you can take it any time you want.» Thenadays I'd watched a film «Schindler`s List» and it impressed me a lot. If I have money it's bad when it just lying vainly. I must use it for good things, for the spreading of God' Word and for human's salvation. I took the money. Part of it I used for my needs, part of it I offered to my church. At that time apartments in Kiev costed rather cheap. So I bought an apartment (19,000$). I guess that was the lowest price for an apartment ever. Now apartments have risen in prise in 10-15 times. Till that time a lot of things had been changed in our country. Paying taxes had become much easier. A fixed tax had appeared and my dream to pay taxes honestly and to have a normal level of life had become true. Wonderfully how God gave me everything for normal life, though I didn't seek it. Jesus Christ said: «But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well». That word is absolutely true. It was impossible to calculate and predict everything so exactly. It was impossible not to see God's hand in all those things.

    As it had turned out later, the buying of the apartment became a bullet point of another very important event in my lyfe — my marriage. Please, don't thing that my future wife was so matherialistic that she sought only for a husband with apartments. But her mother was dead set against any non-Orthodoxal churches, especially against the church which I attended, because our pastor was korean. She forbade Marina (my wife) to attend meetings even up to violent steps. But Marina still attended meetings no matter the suppressions. When I saw her faith and her life I realized that I would like to have her as my wife. I also liked her appearance. But it was scary because I knew that her mother was dead set against the church I attended. To my great surprise Marina's mother didn't mind if we would get married. So my marriage was also a great mirracle. A few days before I offered to marry me, Marina had a revelation in prayer that I would be her husband. We hadn't date before so there were no signs of my intentions, so she even thought that it could be a temptation. Yet she didn't imagine her life without me. Without having any guess in three days I offered her to marry me. In two months we got married. God's hand undoubtedly was in all that. It was like in fairy tail as if somebody gathered up the puzzle. It may be strange to read these lines — aren't two people to have dates to know each other better, to find out that they fit each other? But I simply believed that we would get along with each other anyway because we were Christians. I will write later about how it was practically. When I write these lines I think that it looks like a fairy tail. There were doubts, fallings, temptetions, sufferings and worries indeed, but I can hardly remember all those bad things, because they seem so small and unimportant in comparison with all things that God has done in my life.

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