My dd's wedding is this Saturday. We are going as witnesses, though we decided not to participate in the wedding. We've been receiving phone call after phone call from friends asking us if they should go to the wedding and offering their support and prayers for us. I'm so grateful for so many loving and supportive friends. We're telling our friends that they should do what they feel God is leading them to do as far as attendance. We understand if they don't want to come, and we also tell them that we'll appreciate their company if they do.

I'm apprehensive of meeting all of dd's future husband's family. The (future) MIL has already come out saying some really amazing things to my married dd and her husband who were there after the baby's birth. The future MIL said to my married dd, who was dd's birthing coach,  that Nathaniel would be playmates with his other half-brother (also born out of wedlock)., and how that they don't believe in judging anyone for their behavior, and so on and so on. The FIL didn't give any eye contact to my married dd and her husband the whole time they were there after the birth even though they both made an effort to be courteous to him.

Ok, so I'm being paranoid. Everything may go very nicely. My son-in-law said he'd be there to protect me. He's so sweet. I love my SIL. He's so understanding and such a man who loves God. I only wish that this future SIL would come to know the Lord too and be a man who follows God. I pray for his salvation and change of heart for him and all of his family.

They don't realize how they've hurt us. They don't know the Lord. They're only acting like people who don't know the Lord. I don't need to fear them, because the Lord who loves them, also loves me and wants to bring glory to Himself through all the pain of this situation.

Pray for us, my friends, that we might show forth the love of Jesus to this very desperate  family.