My Pre-Stroke Life

-Today, I have decided, or rather the Holy Spirit decided for me, to give a brief synopsis of my life prior to the stroke. I did have rather an unique childhood even for way back then. I was born in Medicine Hat but spent my early years on a farm/small ranch 50 miles south of there. The unique thing was that we had no indoor plumbing or electricity and I rode horseback to a one room, than two room, school. When I was 11, we sold the place and moved into the city of Medicine Hat. I will interject here and say that God had always been part of my life. Kind of as there were always Bibles in our home and I went to Sunday School. Sometimes church as well. But I never heard about being "born again" until after the stroke. However, when I was 13, I stopped going to church and, except for weddings and funerals, never set foot in a church until after the stroke. I finished my high school in Medicine Hat and then attended university in Lethbridge. After I graduated, I came to Cold Lake to teach and I have been here ever since. I met my husband here, got married and had a couple of kids (now grownup and both living in Edmonton). I thought that I was living a pretty good life and never gave God a thought. Like a lot of people, I guess. Sometimes, though, it takes a rude awakening to turn people to God and, man o man, was I in for a rude awakening!