Back in time: September 6, 1985

I should preface the next few "Back in time" entries with a little history.   If you don't know, I married my sweet husband  on Aug 17, 1985.  I was 16 and we had a baby girl on the way.  I left my high school  in May and never returned.  I moved to McLeod, TX where my husband was from and began life there as an adult- sort of!  In my English class every week or two, the instructor had us journal for 15 minutes each week..  Here is the results of that effort.  All of these years later, the memories are very special to me.

Entry #1:
Even though we disappointed them, they stood by us and are still standing by us.  Our parents probably went through a hundred different feelings as we told them.  Anger, at us pretending for so long that nothing was going on, and hurt that we hadn't shared our problem with them earlier.  If I had been my mother, I would have wanted to beat someone or something up to release my frustration. I am sure they felt plenty of that also.  Afer the initial shock wore off, the day-to-day problems were their biggest worry.  "Where will they live?  They have no insurance, who will pay the hospital?  Kyle isn't even working- how will they ever make it?"  With all of these questions rushing through everyone's heads, I thought "Surely there is some way to get off of this merry-go-round!"

There was...because God was there.

Even though we had left Him so far behind so many times, He was there...waiting for us to turn it all over to him once again.

Two days after we were married, The Lord sent Kyle a job- which was f antastic because I had been asked to leave my job earlier that day.  My boss saw that I was sick and knew it wasn't going to get much better.  She told me that if I couln't work to go home, so I did.  I was afraid to tell Kyle because that $110 every week was all we had.  He told me not to worry, he'd get a job soon and sure enough- that very night he did!!  God really does work miracles- even today!