For May 17th:

“ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

 Jeremiah 29:11

            When I was in my mid twenties with a 3-year old daughter, I had been divorced for almost two years. I desperately prayed to God that he would bring a fine man into our lives as our only male role model had been my father. About the middle of August, my Dad went to work, had a heart attack, and died. My Mom, daughter and I were just devastated. A couple of weeks later my mom expressed a desire to go to a favorite cabin we had always rented in northern Michigan. So I drove the three of us up north on the Friday before Labor Day weekend. When Sunday morning came we decided to go to breakfast at a local pancake house. There were only about ten tables and each one was occupied by at least one person. My mother asked me if she should ask one of the young men sitting alone if we could join him. I laughed because I knew she would never do such a thing, but she did, and we did. He also worked for General Motors but at a different division than I and said he would give me a call when we all got back to Detroit. He did and we now have been married for over 43 years.

Prayer: Thank you Lord for answering our prayers…not always in the way we expect, but answered none the less.

Tamara Klemm