Proof The Bible Is True

I’ve seen a lot of miracles in my life. After all, I’ve been talking to God since I was a little girl! But there is one event in my life that I keep going back to. Many times. An occurrence that even now still leaves me amazed. A moment back in the summer of 1964…

 

At the time, I was a young wife and mother. I’d met my husband, Perry, a few years prior. Those twinkling eyes and Marine physique were hard to resist. After he proposed several times, I accepted, and we were married. We spent a year on the Marine Corps base in California before moving back to Oklahoma. A few months later, I gave birth to a daughter and, a couple years after that, another girl. We eventually felt the call to move back to California and settled near Bakersfield.

 

One afternoon, as usual while Perry was at work, I sat on a blanket in the backyard of our little duplex, overlooking the rolling hills, and watched the girls play with a ball in the grass. I took a deep breath and, for a minute, let the stillness of the day surround me. This, right here, was heaven. A little home with a grassy yard and a family of my own. I sat back, soaked it in and—

 

“You are to have a son.”

 

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