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***IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST READ, BE SURE TO START WITH THE FEBRUARY 16 ENTRY*** well, at that point in my life, i'm not sure exactly what was happening with my husband, but i know i was really searching and desiring accountability in my relationship with God. i needed someone to get in my face. ...brief flashback.... while we lived in the house that burned, we did get involved in a church between new waverly and huntsville. it was a little country church with a pastor barely older than us who really was looking for support. not realizing how much we were teetering, he put us in leadership right away. sometime after the house burned but while we were still living with my aunt and uncle, we decided to leave the church. i can't really comment too much on whether it was the Lord. we thought it was the Lord telling us to leave. but i can say that it definitely wasn't the Lord in the way we left. sometime when no one was there (i think on sunday afternoon), we went to the ch...

My Uncle Larry and Aunt Glada are wonderful people. I mean that. They immediately offered their home to us. It wasn't even a question. Once, when i attempted to express my thanks to Uncle Larry, he calmly replied that "God gives us things so that we can share them with people." That said, dependence on someone else is a very difficult place for your pride. James and i told my aunt and uncle that we only needed to stay there for a couple months....tops. Aunt Glada said she didn't want us to leave until we found just the right situation and we were really ready. We both immediately started looking for work through temp agencies; that's pretty much the quickest way to start working somewhere while you look for something you actually want to do, but it can also be pretty difficult and sporadic. God gave us a resting place there with Uncle Larry and Aunt Glada. We were uncomfortable, but God was working in our hearts. In May, the Lord used my uncle to connect me to ...