I hope you don't feel I've abandoned you, but this is a huge week in our little town. Washington, MO presents The Washington Town and Country Fair.....
This is how my last draft started, August 8th. Then the devil decided that my life was too focused on God and our family struggles began. Well the devil did not win in fact he made us focus our lives on God even more. I have also been lead to expand my blog to disciple and not hide my Christian beliefs. I still will be focusing on Sewing, Crafting, Family, Friends, and Of Course Shopping, but remembering God has given me this wonderful life and fabulous talent.
This is the way my newest draft, started yesterday, is coming along.
I have been struggling with what I’m about to tell, not sure if I wanted to share or how to share it. After many prayers and a lot of thought, I decided that if I was going to write a blog about my life (even if I do focus on crafting) I want it to be all of my life stories.
Here's my story.....
It all started this year in, ok it all started the day I met my husband, but let’s start from August. My oldest son, who is now legally an adult, was being bullied. In the adult world it is considered it so much more serious than that. He was threaten, assaulted, and eventually had to file a restraining order against a once friend who he has known most of his life. I’m not going to go into any more detail than this, because even though he was granted the full order of protection, we all deserve a little bit of privacy.
Here the Lord was our rock!
Next I received a jury summons, the first time in my 40 years! The paper read to call the night before to see if they still needed me. Unfortunately I got the bad news to report to the justice center the next day, and oh man did I draw the short stick! I arrived the next day to find a very nice Chief Deputy of the Sheriff’s Office in a different county, assisting us. As we waited for the Judge to call us, I met some wonderful people. One wonderful lady was the founder of a local charity for under privileged families. She explained there role in our county and the high demand for all around help. Don’t get me wrong I knew there is need for her service, but the amount of need hit me like a ton of bricks.
We were finally called up to find the States Attorney General, Assistant Attorney General, and a County Prosecutor prosecuting the case. I have never been part of jury selection so little did I know this was not a good sign. The Judge introduced himself as not of my county, ok, introducing everyone else then….. telling us what the charges were against the young man sitting at the defense table, oh no no no no. I did not sign up for this. The icing on the cake if we were picked we would be sequester in his county two and a half hours from home for five or six days.
Lord, I am your servant if this is what you are leading me to do give me strength.
Well I made it past the first half of August……
Stay tuned for part 2 of 3.
