Full Circle

The first time I ever heard the story of Hannah and how she prayed for a child and God gave her Samuel, and then she gave him back to God. I was a christian about a year, and about to dedicate my baby Sarah. What I learned that night as I stood by myself no-one standing with me, was that I was promising to live for God myself, therefore showing her and her siblings how to live for Christ. I must tell you as a woman married to an unsaved man, who saw no value in standing at the alter and making this vow before God and his people, I had no idea how I was going to carry this out, this was back in 1989. Today all the way into 2010, my time for the training is past, all I can now do is to continue to pray, knowing I was faithful to live for God, imperfectly but as sincerely and passionately as I have known to do. I did my best to instill christian principles into my 3 children's lives, and in the process faced divorce, supporting these kids by myself through their teenage years, and even had the privilege of taking custody of my niece Christina in 2002. many victories and many tragedies have transpired through these 21 years but the last 2 weeks have brought some of God's biggest blessings so far.



Mothers day 2010 I had the blessing and privilege to see my daughter and son-in-law stand at the very same alter I stood at alone, and dedicate themselves and little Ariana to the Lord 21 years later, and Pastor Tyson spoke out of the passage in
2 Timothy 1:5--When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which first dwelt in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also. Only God, and myself knew this was the first passage I ever taught publicly, at a Mother daughter banquet many years ago. O Lord may I have the privilege of seeing Ariana dedicate her children one day!! And just as blessed tonight my niece Christina will go forward, and make public in her home church what she has waited 3 months to do, which will be her surrender to the mission field of God's choosing. When she left for college in Oklahoma last August one of our last conversations was for her to guard against making any emotional, man called decisions! I knew then that there was a very good chance God would call her to missions. So she obediently waited and prayed to make sure, and as she put it, every time she picks up her bible God brings her back to this decision, and she wanted to wait and make it public in her home church tonight! All praise be to my God from whom all blessings flow. And I still hold out in prayer that God is moving in my older 2 children's lives to bring them in line with his will for them. What a year of blessing and victory this has been and I believe God for all of my children that are really his...the fruit of the whom is his reward! Lord help me to continue to cut a path through which my family can follow and serve you together all the days of our lives.....As for me and my house we will serve the Lord, I can only speak that for myself and each of them have free will and must STAND-UP and speak it and live it for themselves, God bring each to that place on a daily basis, for I die daily!
Days turn into Weeks, Weeks into Months, Months into Years, Years into a Lifetime a Lifetime into a tale that will be told throughout all eternity