Take the Road Less Traveled

Psalms 16:11 "Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore."    

We haven’t always been able to put ourselves on the same page with the word peculiar.  (And we definitely haven’t always wanted to!)  We grew up in the same small town and even went to the same elementary school.  My sophomore year of high school, we started dating.  Our relationship survived a couple of rough spots and we got married the summer after I finished college.  Although our religious upbringings stemmed from two very different faiths, I felt that this wonderful man was who God had prepared for me to marry.  We talked about religion, but that usually ended up in disagreements, so I put my faith in the Lord, that he would work this very important difference out. 

After we were married, we focused on our jobs and ourselves (like most young couples do!)  We were working to buy our first house, we wanted to drive nicer cars, we went out to eat more than we ate at home, we were out with friends most weekend nights and because of that, church wasn’t a consistent event for us, we were living the life that our society would say new couples should live.  Everything changed one spring evening.  We found out that we were going to be blessed with our first child.  We had no idea how much this would change our lives!  Not only were we bringing a tiny person into our home, but the Lord would use this wonderful blessing to turn our lives onto the path that he needed us to be on. 

After she was born, we knew that we needed to stop avoiding our religious differences and get on the same page spiritually.  After some prayer and searching, the Lord began to move in our lives and the day that our second child was blessed, my husband was also baptized.  Our children were the beginning of a wonderful journey that the Lord has taken us on to be the people that he needs for us to be. 

Where are you at in your peculiar journey?  I’d love to hear your story too!  Please comment below....

Peculiar Mom

Comments

[Alexei Zoubov]

There is nothing peculiar about my life, except that I lived and interesting and fulfilling life trying to be kind an honest and am now very mush in piece with myself and the world at 72.

I studies Bible and quite a lot of books on religious matters and that never made me believe in God, angels ,hell, heaven, afterlife, etc, if anything, it strengthened my very calm and peaceful disbelief in all myths, religions and mystical supernatural beings and forces.

[Peculiar Mom]

Alexei-

I appreciate your comments and hope you feel welcome anytime to come back!

I hope that will you see through this blog and our testimonies that God is very real and loves each of his children very much. Including you! We are continuously reminded that each trial that we are presented with is part of a blessing that God has for us. I hope that you will share your trials and your blessings with us too and we will hear from you again! God bless!

[Crystal]

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