Thirteen years ago today, I welcomed tothis world my firstborn. It is so hard to believe that that much time has passed and that he is right there, in the doorway to bein’ a man. Our lives have been turned upside down a thousand times in these last thirteen years and the results have been truly glorious. I cannot deny that my life and my son’s life is the handiwork of God. He has a way of creatin’ something beautiful out of the desperate and hopeless that one can’t help but see His Mighty Hand.
About thirteen years and nine months ago, I could not embrace the truth of Psalm 127:23. I was a drinkin’, smokin’, partyin’ fool with not enough sense in her head to do otherwise. It was utter nonsense from the start of my day to the end. I don’t even know how I was the person I was, I don’t even know her anymore, I can’t for the life of me, answer that naggin’ question, “Woman, what on earth were you thinking’?”
My parents raised me to do right. They told me to stay away from boys “like that”, they told me not to drink, smoke, do drugs and so forth. I grew up a “good Christian girl” goin’ to private Christian schools and conservative Christian churches. I’ve asked myself so many times, “Why, Patti, why?” Only to be answered with silence.
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