In the way of introducing myself, I am somewhat sight-impaired, I have had several mini-strokes, and I am fairly computer-illiterate since the strokes. And Crosswalk is more difficult than it was when I was a member eons ago!!
GOD has blessed me with a beautiful, sudden, unexpected, beyond-imagination gift, but it has come with very disturbing
news. I could certainly use some good prayer and advice.
MY GIFT: Contact with the 61-year-old woman who was my 15-year-old neighbor-girl the last time I saw her!!
When she was 14, she got kicked out of her mother’s home, and she came to my house with a grocery bag that had a couple (at the most) outfits in the bottom of it, to tell me her story how she could not return, by her mother’s orders. I couldn’t believe her mother would really do that, so I went to her house (about 1/2 a block down my street) and had her mother sign a paper I wrote, saying that she indeed could not return home. I told her to gather more of her clothes, because she could stay with me, but she said she had no more clothing. We went back to my house, with my two children, ages 3 and 5.
I am just guessing at all their ages; I don’t remember. But I know I had only been widowed for a few months and I was not 29 yet.
She lived with us for around a year, then the State took her away because I had not gone through the State to move her in. They ordered no contact for us, and she was gone from us. I would look for her sometimes, but it was a large city, and I never found her.
Eventually, I moved my family back to my home state, California, then after being widowed for 10 years, I got married and moved to Washington State but continued to try to find her.
But can you believe it??? A few days ago, I found her!! We have been chatting on the phone and writing!!
But recently, she, at the age of 61, told me the part I am so upset about. It is how she, as a woman, has been treated in the church I used to attend in Minnesota. . . .