WAVES AND SHADOWS July 7, 2024

November 12, 2021

"Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart."  Psalm 37:4 NASB

TEN DAYS OF THINGS I GAINED, LEARNED AND REMEMBERED:

DAY 5

On October 31, 1971 I gained a new future when BW proposed to me. I learned (again) that God hears and answers our prayers. The memory will stay with me forever.

November 13, 2021

DAY 6

BW gained the trust and respect of my dad when he asked permission to marry me. Dad would grow to think of him as another son; BW would honor my dad as much as he did his own. I learned even more about BW when he showed this simple and traditional courtesy to my dad. I remember that our engagement was now (almost) official.

November 14, 2021

DAY 7

I was expecting an engagement ring for Christmas. BW had proposed and asked Dad for my hand. But my hopes were a little high. I gave an award-winning performance when BW handed me a gift-wrapped box that contained a pair of Acme cowgirl boots! It was the cowboy way, I guess.

Sometime between December 25 and our wedding day on March 29, 1973 we did go together to Kay's Jewelry to pick out my engagement ring and matching wedding bands. They were perfect. And (now) official. I really was going to marry my hero, this prince in a Stetson.

I gained a gift that announced our future together to anyone within seeing distance of my ring finger. I learned that "good things come to those who wait". And I'll always remember that once-in-a-lifetime shopping trip.

November 15, 3032

DAY 8

All it took to get BW to go to church with me was for me to invite him. He had been a member of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, but admitted he hadn't been in a while. He started going with me on most Sundays when he wasn't at the fire station, or when we were not at the lake with his family. He moved his membership to Exchange Avenue Baptist Church the Sunday before our wedding.

We gained the beginning of our church home together where we would begin raising our two daughters as they completed our family. We would learn more about God's Word that would draw us into a closer relationship with Him and with each other.  I remember that God answered my prayers for a godly husband.

God, You are good because You knew that the separate paths BW and I were on from the beginning would bring us together a full year after I had simply turned that part of my life over to You. You guided both of us, against many odds, to the exact time and place of our first encounter.