Arnella and Worrel Morris - George Henry

GEORGE HENRY, STAR Writer

Arnella and Worrel got to know each other when Worrel took one of Arnella's co-workers to her workplace one Sunday evening for a meeting. The co-worker introduced Worrel to her, but just for what it was worth.

It so happened that the co-worker was a church sister of Worrel, and, according to Arnella, her co-worker told her that Worrel was a good person and that was that, because she did not make anything out of the introduction.

"I saw this lady a few years before at a church where she was singing and was introduced as sister Arnella from Ritchies in Clarendon. I asked myself if nice girls like her could come from that community. But years after that, I had a car and my church sister who was working where she (Arnella) was working asked me to take her (church sister) to school until at the end of the month she would pay me," said Mr Morris.

He said his church sister asked him to wait a little after he dropped her, because she had a friend who she wanted him to meet. Lo and behold, the individual she introduced to Morris was the nice girl he heard singing at the church.

"For me, my choice of women was browning. I never had anything against dark skinned women, but I liked brown women. However, I saw some qualities in her which made her qualified to be my wife. However, with all that, I still was not sure about a relationship with her because my thing was for a brown woman. but as time went by I saw the qualities that a man could look for in a wife in her," Mr Morris recalled.

Shortly after, Worrel popped the big question and the two became man and wife on April 4, 1998.

the right woman for me

"It seemed as if I had no doubt that she would have said 'yes' to me; and so I said to myself that it seemed as if she was the right woman for me. I went to a church brother of mine and asked him what he thought about her and he told me that she was a nice girl," he said.

Worrel said he went back to his friend one day and asked him to lend him some money, which he used to purchase a wedding ring, but up to that time he still did not ask Mrs Morris to marry him.

"The friend he told that he wanted to marry me was the one who told me that Worrel wanted to marry me. I was not looking on him as my husband at the time he was taking me to classes with his car. I just saw him as a friend, but I always prayed and told God that I made mistakes and I did not want a repeat," recalled Mrs Morris.

She said she Mrs Morris noted that she would pray and ask the Lord to let her have a God-fearing man as her husband, someone who would love her and love her first child whom she had out of marriage. She said she saw that type of person in Worrel.

"The way he talked, you could see that he was a no-nonsense individual who did not stand for foolishness. He was a real Christian man and he still is a Christian. When he finally came and asked me to marry him, I did not hesitate and said yes," noted Mrs Morris.

Worrel remembered that when he went to Mrs Morris' parents to inform them that he wanted their daughter as his wife, her mother was a bit hesitant, because she wanted her to complete her studies.

"Arnella said to me while I was talking to her mother, 'any how I am not married to you, I am going to run away'. but with all the hesitation I was still confident that we would have been together," said a confident Mr Morris who said he had no problem with his wife going to school after they got married.

Since they tied the knot, their union has produced Romario and Matthew. Mr Morris said Arnella's first child Omar McLeod (athlete at Kingston College and formerly of Manchester High) is being treated like his own son because of the love he has for him and his mother.

The two say, since exchanging wedding vows, they have had disagreements, but nothing came of them. They said they have never had to call any counsellor to work out their differences.

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