Answered Prayers

As a mom, we pray for our children. We pray for their safety, their discernment, their health, and for years I have prayed for their future. The friends that they will hang around and the people that they bring into their confidence and trust. I have prayed for girls that are true, helpful, loving and that can care for, support, encourage and bring out the best in them.

I have prayed that their future partners are wonderful, secure, positive and kind people. I feel God was listening because my four boys have bought 4 delightful girls into my life and I love each of them dearly.

#1. I was beginning to despair. He had taken a job several counties away where he knew no one and was lonely. I was repeatedly telling him to go out, find a church, meet people. I reminded him that the odds of God dropping a girl on the football field and saying 'here's one for ya" were very slim. Well, God laughed at me and instead when #4 was pulled to coach Baseball that year ( a sport he knows little about), there was the girl. She was arriving with her sister to take her nephews to ball practice and noticed him. I'm told she noticed him because he was rude to her as he got out of his vehicle hurrying to get to the field. But eventually they talked, he apologized ( I am told) and now.....

2 kids and 7 years later, they seem to be doing all right.

#2      I knew her before he did. She worked for me at the child care center that I managed. She had loaded up her truck and her pet goldfish after college graduation several states away and moved to N.C.  I was so impressed by that. She knew no one here and was determined to make it. She became friends with a co-worker who had gone to school with #2 and they all went out on a group get-together one evening to bowl.  He met her and was instantly sold!  She took a little persuading. We continued to work together. When I moved to a new position in the public school she came with me as my assistant. It was later that they got engaged. They are married, love traveling and being dog parents.

#3   Met her in college. He told me that he noticed her in class and that they had 2 classes together. She says that they only had 1. She was an athlete and he was there studying agriculture. Two different worlds. She has since gone on and completed her Masters degree and he is raising cattle. She has moved here from her homestate and they are currently living together in our old home in N.C. We are excited for their future.

#4  This relationship began in high school and it has been sweet following them along as they have grown up together. They both went into the work force after graduation and are just now hitting their stride in their respective careers. They were living in our old home in N.C. and have recently moved out into a neighboring city to their own apartment. They support and encourage each other, love to travel and are cat parents.

I never knew how much these girls would bring into my life as they love my sons. I am so grateful for each of them and try to be loving, supportive and good to each of them in ways that speak to their individuality and needs. Cause heaven knows, these boys can be trying!