Then I said something that I should not have. I said, “God has sent me to Wheeling to humiliate me.” At that moment Shirley reached around and slapped me hard on the face, and she told me, “Shut up!” She said, “You are a man of God and one of the greatest preachers in the world. Don’t you ever talk like that again.” As you might guess, I stopped crying at that time, and she has never slapped me like that again.
