If you read my story, you will understand I grew up knowing and loving Jesus. But I did not understand His amazing love for me. As a little girl I didn’t realize I was a Princess to the King of Kings, that to my Daddy God I was more valuable than gold. So, never realizing I was worth the wait, at the age of 17 I became pregnant and hopeless. We were dirt poor and it was going to be such a financial burden on my parents. What was I going to do? I was going to be the first of my family to go to college, I was, I was, I was In desperation I found myself late one night laying on my front porch “ Asking my Father what are we going to do, I don’t know how to raise a baby I am a child myself. And through the tears I heard Him say “In my time I make all things beautiful.”
So lucky me, I had attend a small school in southern Illinois all my life everyone there knew and loved me, but my small school had consolidated with another small school and so off to my senior year I go nine months pregnant into an unknown territory. But I was determined to finish school and I did (wasn’t much fun but I got it done.) And me and my sweet girl had a precious bond. She was the apple of my eye and we were doing good….then her daddy and I got a divorce and my life spiraled…. I was tired of trying and began drinking and finding love in all the wrong place. I had left God but He had not left me, His arms were opened wide waiting on me to run home. And when I did He placed Dani and I in the loving arms of my amazing husband. We raised both of our daughter in church. And of course my Daddy God kept His promise, “He make a things beautiful in HIs time, as she walked on stage to get her high school diploma he whispered “ In my time I make all things beautiful and she was so, so beautiful, as she walked onto the homecoming courts at her junior college, he whispered “ In my time” and she was so, so, so beautiful. As she graduated college with a bachelor’s degree and a masters degree. But oh Wow! When the beautiful girl born out of wedlock walked down the aisle a virgin. God reminded me of his word in Deut. 5: 9,10 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. Today she has given me three amazing grandboys and every time she walks through that door, I am reminded that my God is a promise keeper