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Caught Off Guard

Yup! This pic explains exactly how I felt last school year. I was caught off guard and fell flat on my face! The good thing though is that the bible says, "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.." I didn't want to get back up. I felt like I had failed and in some ways I did and I need to own that. But I had to get back up, dust myself off, and keep going.

 You see, the school year started off with great promise.  It was my oldest last year of high school. Yes! I had one last year before she went off to college and started a life of her own so, I wanted to make it count, but something was wrong. She wasn't the same. She was moody and stand offish.  I chalked it up to Senioritis, nerves, self doubt.  Never did I suspect she was acting off because of a boy. Yup! A boy....not just any boy THE boy. He swept her off her feet and she was dare I say; in love?

 So what's the big deal you ask? She was 18 and this was her first serious relationship but there was one, no, make that two problems.  He lived FAR away and he is not a Christian. She kept this from her daddy and me because she'd been taught for the last eight years that as a Christian you should not be unequally yolked with an unbeliever. We were fine with her courting, but, he had to be a believer. But it happened anyway, without our knowledge and we found out only when it was too late.

 What happens next is one of the hardest life lessons we have ever had to learn......

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