{"id":6976,"date":"2024-10-31T02:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T22:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:01:58","slug":"how-god-proved-himself-to-me-part-2-of-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/?p=6976","title":{"rendered":"How God Proved Himself to Me            PART 2 of 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6976\" class=\"elementor elementor-6976\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61ff7aa9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"61ff7aa9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49956740 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49956740\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The years seemed to roll by slowly.<\/strong> As a teenager, I would go downtown, and whenever one of those men who traveled on a religious wagon, shouting about the world ending soon and trying to get people saved, they scared me so bad that I&#8217;d turn around and go the other way to get away from them.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0My stepdad continued to come home drunk<\/strong>; he&#8217;d get mad, maybe because Mama didn&#8217;t want to get out of bed at 2:30 in the morning to cook him a t-bone steak, and the abuse continued.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you leave him,&#8221; I&#8217;d ask her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong> \u00a0&#8220;Because I don&#8217;t have a place to go,&#8221;<\/strong> she always answered.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0&#8220;Well,&#8221;<\/strong> I&#8217;d tell her, &#8220;When I get married, you can come and live with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0 \u00a0A few years later,<\/strong> I met a man who asked me to marry him and promised to take my mom, sisters &amp; brothers to live with us. I took him up on his offer. We got married, and Mom was finally able to leave her abuser. The entire family moved in with us in the tiny house my husband, Don, had bought.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong> \u00a0We all had fun<\/strong> living together for a while. My husband and I liked to listen to country music and dance while we enjoyed a few drinks. My mom did, too, so we <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6995 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1968_January-Wanda-Mom-0007_a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1968_January-Wanda-Mom-0007_a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1968_January-Wanda-Mom-0007_a-1019x1024.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1968_January-Wanda-Mom-0007_a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1968_January-Wanda-Mom-0007_a-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1968_January-Wanda-Mom-0007_a-1529x1536.jpg 1529w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1968_January-Wanda-Mom-0007_a.jpg 2027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>always invited her along. She especially loved dancing to the Beer Barrel Polka. Every time the song played, Mom would grab me and twirl me around on the dance floor. She&#8217;d smile and laugh as we listened to &#8220;Roll out the Barrel, We&#8217;ll Have a Barrel of Fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>My one dream<\/strong> was to have a baby. I became overjoyed when I finally got pregnant. The joy turned to sorrow when I lost the baby.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;You can always try again,&#8221; the doctor said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Every month<\/strong> that it didn&#8217;t happen brought sadness &amp; tears.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong> \u00a0Then, finally,<\/strong> I became pregnant again. But, before I was three months along, I lost my second baby.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong> \u00a0 \u00a0After many more years of trying,<\/strong> I became pregnant again. Things were going along well, then, on Christmas Eve, when I was eight and a half months along, on a cold <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7000 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-3359189-3359189-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Person Walking In Front Of A Bus\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-3359189-3359189-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-3359189-3359189-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-3359189-3359189-1-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-3359189-3359189-1-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-3359189-3359189-1-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-3359189-3359189-1-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>and snowy night, Don and I went to the store. We took my brother&#8217;s car to pick out a card for his wife because he had forgotten to get her one. &#8220;I&#8217;m too drunk to drive,&#8221; he slurred. Could you take my car, run to the drugstore, and pick one out for her?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong> \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Sure,&#8221; we agreed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong> \u00a0 \u00a0My husband was not a patient man.<\/strong> Ice covered the windshield. &#8220;You need to take time to clear the windshield,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;No,&#8221;<\/strong> he answered in a gruff voice as he cleared one tiny spot in the middle. &#8220;I can see.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0Off we went,<\/strong> slipping and sliding. I couldn&#8217;t see anything from my side. Then Boom and I felt a terrible pain in my back when he ran into a parked car alongside the road. People rushed over to us. The man who owned the car had broken down &amp; had been under the hood working on his car just before we came along. He had left to get a part, and I was so thankful that he did.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0I started to cry<\/strong> with fear<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7001 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/g1d5d737821512e0305ad898e02b5bdf2cb73bb2b8176d5dd222dce0e44c8fb4813a8739c7e7dd21169b5ba606b329a15303fac8139ae276227a90d68031c224b_1280-1620591-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"crash test, collision, rear-end collision\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/g1d5d737821512e0305ad898e02b5bdf2cb73bb2b8176d5dd222dce0e44c8fb4813a8739c7e7dd21169b5ba606b329a15303fac8139ae276227a90d68031c224b_1280-1620591-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/g1d5d737821512e0305ad898e02b5bdf2cb73bb2b8176d5dd222dce0e44c8fb4813a8739c7e7dd21169b5ba606b329a15303fac8139ae276227a90d68031c224b_1280-1620591-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/g1d5d737821512e0305ad898e02b5bdf2cb73bb2b8176d5dd222dce0e44c8fb4813a8739c7e7dd21169b5ba606b329a15303fac8139ae276227a90d68031c224b_1280-1620591-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/g1d5d737821512e0305ad898e02b5bdf2cb73bb2b8176d5dd222dce0e44c8fb4813a8739c7e7dd21169b5ba606b329a15303fac8139ae276227a90d68031c224b_1280-1620591.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> for my unborn baby and the pain in my back.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m not hurt &amp; I&#8217;m not crying,<\/strong>&#8221; Don said, &#8220;so what are you bawling about?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong> \u00a0 \u00a0Someone called an ambulance.<\/strong> The driver looked at me and asked, &#8220;Ma&#8217;am, how far apart are your pains?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m not in labor,<\/strong>&#8221; I told him through my tears, &#8220;but I&#8217;m worried about my baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Don opened the car door and jumped out.<\/strong> &#8220;Hey,&#8221; he yelled at the policeman, &#8220;how much will the ambulance cost me?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0The policeman told him,<\/strong> &#8220;You just get back in that car and stay with your wife; don&#8217;t get out until we tell you to.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My first ride in an ambulance<\/strong> was frightening, and fear for my unborn baby&#8217;s life topped my list. At the hospital, I told the doctor. I <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7002 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-6754170-6754170-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Patient On A Stretcher\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-6754170-6754170-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-6754170-6754170-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-6754170-6754170-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-6754170-6754170-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-6754170-6754170-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>haven&#8217;t felt my baby kick,&#8221; After the examination and x-ray, I found out I had two broken ribs. There was a gas can in the back seat, and the impact slammed the gas can into my back.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0&#8220;Your baby<\/strong> probably felt like you were riding a horse and got knocked off, but your baby is fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thankfulness to God filled my heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong> \u00a0 \u00a0Two weeks later,<\/strong> my dreams came true. I delivered a little girl. My life felt complete with my sweet baby, Lynn. But my marriage was falling apart. The end came only nine months later when Don did something <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7007 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-29043317-29043317-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Tender Moment of a Newborn with Mother\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-29043317-29043317-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-29043317-29043317-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-29043317-29043317-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-29043317-29043317-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wandasmaxey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pexels-photo-29043317-29043317-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>unforgivable. 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