Love at
First Sight
by Sandra Watson
“For
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of
peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will
call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you
will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart”
(Jeremiah 29:11-13)
When I was little I moved to a foster
home, and continued to move to many different schools as a young child.
I couldn’t talk. Nobody showed me how. I would say "shoe," if my shoe
laces were untied. Also I couldn’t talk in sentences. People could not
understand me. I was mixed up because I understood people, but they
couldn’t understand me. This made me cry all day long. In my foster
home we spoke mainly Spanish and a little English. I couldn’t speak
either.
After a couple of years passed, I
moved to a different house and school. I went to Lomita Elementary
School. My knees were shaking and my hands were sweating because I did
not know anyone. On the first day of school, when I walked through the
playground, I saw classmates playing with other kids and saying good-bye
to their parents. Seeing this made me wish my mother would have stayed
with me always. I missed her and wanted her back with me.
Suddenly we
stopped because we were at Room 3. This was my new classroom. My
foster mom told me that I was going to have new classmates and a new
teacher. “Who will look after me always?” I wondered to myself. My
foster mom pointed to my teacher, Mrs. Watson. When I looked into her
eyes I thought that she was so beautiful and she reminded me of my
mother. I felt like she was my mother. When my new teacher hugged me I
felt her love unbundling within me. I told myself that I wished that
she was my mother!!! When I looked back my foster mom was gone.
In the classroom I was the only girl
amidst a lot of boys!!! When Mrs. Watson was talking in front of the
classroom, I was day-dreaming about us and how happy I would be with a
new family.
When I was eight the dream came true.
The government told them they had to fill out the paperwork for me.
My teacher and her husband wanted me to be a part of their family. They
did it. Later on, at their home, they asked me if I wanted to be their
own daughter. I didn’t know what to say. So I asked God, I didn’t know
much about God then. I felt a finger writing on my heart. It spelled
“Y…E…S.” I asked Him are you sure and He said, “Yes!” I told my new
parents, “Yes!” I am now a part of the Watson Family.
One month later, we went to the court
because the judge wanted to make sure I wanted to live with the Watson
family. I said yes, I wanted to be one of the Watson's. After the court
meeting my very own parents gave me a gold heart locket. Inside the
locket was a picture of my parents. We went home, sweet home.
I am now 18 years old and graduating
from high school. I know God has always been working in my life time.
He chose a family for me and gave me a little brother. He has also
helped me to be in contact with my birth sister. As it turns out, she is
in a Christian home, too, and they had been praying for me since I was a
little girl. I’m so glad that I have a God that knows all about me and
stands beside me in hard times and in good times.
By: Sandra
Watson
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If you have questions about Especially For Youth (and those new to the Lord),
or if you would like to sent a message to the Watson family,
Contact:
Letters@FridayStudy.org
Ron Beckham, Pastor
Friday Study Ministries
The First Church On The Net
www.FridayStudy.org
Ron@fridaystudy.org
