Done for the Journaling Challenge #1 found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/march-challenge-1-journaling.41698/
She Was Unwilling.....But God…..This is my 5-word autobiography. God changed my will!
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" Ecclesiastes 3:1
I was born in 1955. By the time I was 10 years old, we had moved 10 different times. But that changed in 1966. We were living in Indiana. Dad had applied for and got a job hauling freight with Emery Air Freight out of the Greater Cincinnati Airport, which was located in Northern Kentucky. Dad moved the family to a house in Union, Kentucky in January of 1966.
Dad, mom and I had become Christians a few months before we left Indiana. One of the greatest providences of God was Him moving us to KY and Pastor Robert T. Ginn knocked on our door, welcomed us to the neighborhood and invited us to attend his church, the Big Bone Baptist Church. What a blessing this man and his family was and has been down through the years! We learned about the doctrines of Grace and the sovereignty of God from him. Later on he would resign that church and begin a mission church, Grace Baptist Church, where my family decided to attend. Eventually, my future husband, Tim would surrender to the ministry under Brother Ginn's ministry.
Tim and I became high school sweethearts in the 10th grade. It is sad to say, but I never talked to Tim or asked him if he knew where he would go when he died. I was not growing in my Christian walk. I also knew that our pastor, Bro. Ginn, would not marry us. At some point during Tim's time at U of L, he had asked me what I would think of him transferring to the Louisville Theological Seminary. In my rebellion and Christian immaturity, I told him that I did NOT want to be a preacher's wife! WOW! How bold I was! How stupid I was! I'm sure it made God sad. I'm so thankful He did not give up on me!
Tim didn't mention seminary again. He also did not mention to me that he had asked God to save him one night in 1972 as he walked back home from my house. I know I did not have much influence in his decision as I was living totally for myself, not God.
May 8, 1976…..Tim ended the year at U of L on May 7th and we got married by the justice of the peace the next day in our apartment in Covington, KY that I had moved into in April. Tim had told me before we got married that we would continue going to my church. He kept his word to me and we went to Grace on Sunday and headed out on our honeymoon on Monday. At some point, he made a profession of faith and was baptized and became a member of our church. He became the church treasurer and we taught the kids in SS class. He finished up his Accounting degree at Northern KY University.