My daughter - A fine example of a good Christian Woman

Kera was raised you might say with a silver spoon in her mouth.  She had everything, a Lexus when she turned 16, all the finest clothes and make-up.  She and I were baptized together when she was 16 and attended Vilonia Assembly regularly.  She had a heart of gold, would do anything for anyone, but she liked her stuff!

She graduated with a college degree as a FACS teacher but married soon after and is 23 now with a 18 month old son and a 5 month old daughter. Her husband works a low income job as she stays home with her babies. They attend New Life church in Little Rock.  They barely make it on what little her husband makes so she receives help through WIC until she can and has tried to pursue a job with her degree. She applied for a job through her church as helping in the daycare because she has felt the need to help her church.

Just this week she posted on her facebook site that she has been challenged by her Pastor to fast so she would be signing off for 21 days.  She felt facebook was more of a challenge than food.

When she was in high school there was one girl who bullied her, called her bad names.  We had talked about it and I told her to kill her with kindness!  She cried everyday saying that she had done all she could do to be this girl's friend. This girl was NOT going to like Kera no matter what. Now you would think in high school that this girl's problem would be that Kera stole her boyfriend or best friend, and she could've because she is that beautiful. just sayin.... but Kera had no connections with this girl and didn't even hang out with the same click. It's like this girl just got up and decided one day that she was going to hate Kera, just because.

I got a text from my daughter this morning and this is what it read: Mom, I just had the worst but funniest thing ever happen to me...I go to Wal-Mart and get 3 WIC checks worth of stuff including 36 cans of formula concentrate on top of the 2 biggest boxes of diapers on the shelf. There is ONE line open other than the express lanes so I stand in it.  It was me and Ella (her 5 month old daughter) and she was SCREAMING! The lady scanned those cans one at a time and called for someone to come help me take it all to my car. It took probably 20 minutes altogether to check out and the one person who hated me so bad in high school(she reminded me who it was) was 2 people in line behind me.  After I was done with my WIC I discretely scanned my EBT debit cart yet the cashier still decided to strike up a conversation about the food stamps and that dumb girl from high school started laughing out loud. the guy started pushing the cart and as i was walking away things were falling off my cart. The cashier yells at me and says "honey, you need to dress your baby warmer for this weather." I wanted to absolutely die. As proud and thankful as I am of my life she catches me at my weakest, but the good news is I am laughing because it is so my luck.. LOL."

I laughed out loud for maybe two seconds before I broke into a sob. a really hard cry! I don't know why I am posting this.

After 6 years out of high school and this girl is still mean to Kera?

I'll tell you, Kera handled it alot better than me and I am so thankful that I wasn't standing there with her because I feel I would have put my fist through her mouth, ok maybe not but I would have said something to her! The first reaction would be just a thought, maybe!!

She is praying for her a good job, preferrebly with her church because she feels like thats the way God is leading her. Whatever she does will take great strength because she does take care of her babies by herself, pretty much. I would just like for anyone who reads this to pray for my daughter.  She's a wonderful person who truly runs after God.  Her husband not so much, he goes to church with her but he does immature things that makes her cry. She forgives him and shows him love like it never happened. I feel inside she has lost some respect in him but she continues to love him and she never lets him see her cry.  She prays for him continuously as so do I!!

She's so cute how when she reads her Bible, she will text me with joy (in awe) and say that she just turned to a scripture and HE talked to her, answered the one question she had just asked Him!!

I am so getting out of order with this and I apologize! She called me the last morning that her husband was being a nincompoop crying. Everything at that moment was coming down on her and she told me this, "I know I don't need to say this, I shouldn't ever admit it but Mama, for all I have been through and had to forgive and I feel I live for the Lord to the best of my knowledge.. I feel like I deserve something, I mean not really but I get frustrated waiting on something good to happen in my life. I'm hoping we all get like this sometimes, I know I do.. when I've been in the valley for what feels too long, I am so thinking I should see that mountain at any time!!  

Ok, so if anyone wants to pray for this sweet girl, she's got her boots on she will haul a kid under each arm and climb that mountain!  You know what I'm sayin.  Thanks for listening.