As my mind goes down memory lane lately I remember having a friend from church come over and talk about going to Oregon and Washington and how much she liked everyone there. Since I was from California and my family only took vacations to Oklahoma or Arkansas to see family. We hardly ever took trips for spiritual reasons, most of our family trips were for fun or for family. And even though these are precious trips in my mind. I would like to teach my kids that the brethren is our family and take trips to different assemblies so they can have many friends. A lot of my friends now are some of those kids this friend was talking about, actually I ended up marrying one of them....hehehe how ironic is that. We lived on the same coast line, went to the same church and yet never met till years later.
Another thing that is so ironic is when I was about 18, I was in Colorado and we were seeing some dear friends of ours. And we all went to Taco Bell to visit, I was visiting with a friend and giving him a senior picture and this crazy guy came up and asked if he could have one and I said sure, I signed the picture and gave it to him. Years later when I met the man of my dreams and we were visiting he looked in his wallet and he had a senior picture of me in it. This just amazes me how almost 2 years later I would meet that crazy guy and end up marrying him. I feel as if the Lord had us planned for each other from the beginning we just had to wait for each other to be ready.
I was always scared of getting married young, I had so many friends who did and I thought that was what you did in the faith. And for some reason I ran from it. If a guy showed to much interest, I lost interest real quick. When my dad died I think that made me even more that way. I went through a rebellious stage, or should I say selfish stage. I thank you Lee for having patience and waiting on me to grow up.
IT MAKES ME A HAPPY GAL TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!!
7 comments:
I've always LOVED the "Senior Picture" story. Lee must have thought you were HOT a long time before you knew he was alive ;) It would have been even more neat if I would have met you while you were in Colorado. Oh well.
Lovely story! I would love my kids to feel that the brethren are our family, I think they do. Have loved your posts lately.
Thats neat! It is kind of ironic how things work out.
I like your post about the farm. I sometimes remember things from my childhood that just give me that warm feeling inside.
It is so neat how God works things out. His timing truly is perfect. I too want to teach my kids that the brethren are family.
I haven't been on the computer for awhile, so I just got on, and I got caught up on your blog. Sounds like you've been thinking a lot about the past. I know God will help you with the house and the move, and your finances and everything. It's so good that we can have our memories of our past trials, so we can actually be strengthened and grow, and learn from them. It's also good that we can't see the future. I'm only 15 1/2, and already I know that if I had known about something before it happened, I might just have laid down and quit. Okay, maybe not that drastic, but hey! It makes me think of that verse to the song "Let me lean harder on Thee."
"Veiled is the future before me,
Life's checkered pathway I climb,
God in His goodness revealing,
Only one step at a time.
Will the tomorrow be clouded?
Will it bring sunshine or rain?
Let me lean harder dear Jesus,
Let me lean harder on Thee."
Thank you for sharing the words to that song, Neena. It's not a song we sing here but the words touched my heart because it is the way we all walk so much of our lives in the Faith. Sometimes God gives us strength for miles, sometimes it's one step at a time. But He's always there to lean on and and that comforts me so much
Happy Easter
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