20 years ago

A lot happened between 30 years ago and 20 years ago:  I was in my middle 30's and trying to cope with raising our son and taking a lot of care of my husband who was suffering from burnout and chronic fatigue.  I call them the nightmare years.  Our carpentry business was failing due to my husband's health issues and I worked a series of jobs, each more horrible than the next, trying to keep us going.  Sometime I will chronicle all the provision that came directly from God and all his people during a very dark 10 years or so.  I don't know how we survived as a couple and as a family.  Many people have suffered more than ourselves but at the time it seemed that the light would never appear at the end of a very long black tunnel.  They are difficult years to think about.  As I remember that time it seems unbelieveable the way we were provided for. I don't know how it all fit together to bring us to our present circumstance but it did and I am so grateful, SO grateful.    Good things I remember are our discovery of our present church affiliation, my husband's discovery of work and healing in Japan, and a good friendship of my own forged with an elderly home care client and his daughter that I was blessed with for several years.