And now the rest
of the story
Berneita Kanavel

I promised I would tell you about my life after I found "Jesus".
Well here we go.

After I divorced my first husband, And for some time with my mother.
At first everything seemed to go real good living with her.
But things changed. I didn't realize it at first, but I never had any money
left out of my welfare check.
We argued about it, She said she needed to have a
little fun to. Then I found out she was using it to
play bingo.

Well, I met this man and started to date him. He wasn't a
Christian but I wasn't even thinking about Christianity yet.
We dated for a while and when my mother found out, she
called him one night and threatened to blow his brains out.
When I found out what she did, I packed my clothes and moved
in with him.
She cried and begged me to come back home. She said
she couldn't make it without my check. I'm sorry if you think
I'm mean but I refused and stayed with the man that I fell in
love with.

This man was different, he wasn't a Christian, but he didn't
shoot me down. We talked, we played, we laughed, most of all
he made me feel like I was worth something and he honnestly wanted
to make me happy. "WOW" I never had that before, he wanted
to make me happy. Needless to say I fell completely in
love with him. With in a few months we got married and I have
been with him for 15 years now and he still wants to make me
happy.

Well, to shorten a long story up a little, one night we got into
an arguement like all married people do sometimes. He never
liked arguements and got in his pickup truck and went for
a ride to keep from argueing. Most of what you read now
you might have already read in his testimony. I thought he had
left me and called his mother to see if he was there. He wasn't, she said.
Then she asked what was wrong, so I began telling her because
she was so easy to talk to. She asked me if I wanted this marriage to work.
I told her yes and told her how much I loved him, I didn't know
and she didn't know that he had gone to her house and was in the
back yard with his brother talking to him about the arguement.

This arguement happened in 1989!
My husband just reminded me that what I call a arguement, he calls
a fight. Well anyway, my mother-in-law was telling me if I wanted
my marriage to work, why not try "Jesus". Really I didn't know
what she was talking about. I had never been a Christian and didn't
know how. She asked me if I would be willing to pray with her
over the telephone. So we did, she had me pray the sinners
prayer with her. What I didn't know is that at the same time,
my husband was in the back yard at her house at the picnic
table giving his heart to "Jesus". What an arguement that turned
out to be.

Well, not only did I get my life along with my husband back
together with "Jesus" help. My mother-in-law got her greatest
wish. Her youngest son gave his heart to "Jesus".
From then on, I can't say everything has been easy, just a lot easier
to handle because now we had "Jesus" to help us. There has been
a lot of ups, but also a lot of downs and if it hadn't been for
that night we argued, who's to say where we might be now.
I thank God for all of His love that has brought us through
so much.

My prayers are, that all who read this that doesn't know "Jesus"
and has had a lot of these heartaches in there lives, may come
to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Please, if you haven't already given your heart to "Jesus".
Please don't wait, do it now, you will be so glad you did.