We are who we are today because of what we came out of.....

Here it is, this will be the 1st for many of you to know exactly what Hector & I have walked thru these past couple of years. I wanted to share our story in hopes that someone who reads this will know that because God brought us  out of this He can bring you out as well. Don't ever doubt God's word in your heart. There is power when we believe, and even more when we speak it. 

In December of 2008, my husband came home from a long day at work. He quietly sat down on the side of the bed with the most devastating look any woman would never dream of seeing on her lover’s face. As I knelt down to sit between his legs I picked up his face to where we were looking into one another’s eyes. I was not expecting the response he gave me when I asked what was wrong. He informed me that his boss of 10 years had told him that they had to let him go. He was fired. He immediately cried like I have never seen him do before, as some of you know he is an emotional man.  His heart is big. I was 6 months pregnant with our 2nd little girl & as a woman who has always been taken care of by my husband financially & emotionally I had to keep it together. It was not I that needed reassuring at that moment that everything was going to be okay, but him. In January of 2009 all monies had stopped coming in. Hector received his last paycheck, which was nowhere near what we were used to getting every month. I had been married to Hector for 6 years, we had just celebrated our 6 year anniversary on December 4th of 2008. During those 6 years I could get whatever it was that I wanted or needed, and when our 1st daughter came along she had that lifestyle as well. We were set….so we thought.

The first year was so hard it seemed just about everyday we were living in fear of what were we going to do. How were we supposed to pay for Nina’s birth? I was attending a birthing center in Austin, TX at the time & we were paying out-of-pocket $500 each month. If we had a balance the day Nina was born we could not deliver there. Thankfully, God provided as he always does and we were able to pay off the birthing center in Feb. March 3, 2009 Nina Sophia was born.

After a long hard 2 years of not having that security in our finances, dealing with my emotions of being a mom to a new born, having to live off of whatever we could, trying to keep it together in our marriage so that our frustration did not get thrown at the other, and a few months of facing embarrassment in the line to get food stamps, waiting with more underprivileged families for WIC from the government, paying for milk, eggs, and cheese at the local grocery store with my WIC card or simply swiping the white lone star card as quick as possible so no one I knew could see me use it, seeing car after car get taken away from us, and not knowing if we'd ever be back to where we once were; I had to live out what I had been confessing all these years of being a christian, a believer in God’s Word. I had to start walking by faith and not by sight. It wasn’t easy at all, but my goodness, I knew I could. I had to get rid of the victim mentality and start living the more than a conqueror lifestyle.

In the process of trying to walk by faith we received a notice from our mortgage company that our home was going to be auctioned off in a few days. They gave us 3 days to move.  We received that letter shortly after making a $10,000 payment for all the months we had not been able to pay. After that, we thought we were back in right standing with them. We were caught up and were ready to make that next payment the following month. Just when things seemed to be getting better. My husband went from being unemployed and receiving a just enough to get barely by benefit check to a just enough get by job here in town. Even though he was back in the employed line it still wasn’t enough to pay all the bills we had. Like I mentioned before we had a lifestyle that we could afford, at the time. After December 2008 that was all too overwhelming. We couldn’t afford to keep up with everything. We lost our Expedition, my Mustang Convertible, an XTerra, and when we moved out of our house we moved in with my parents. We were and still are so thankful that my parents offered us a place to stay.

Our girls are now 5 and 2, and Hector & I will celebrate 7 years of being married in December of this year. I am so blessed & no one could ever tell me that God does not provide. No one can never ever tell me that faith is not real. It was our believing in God’s Word and speaking positive things in to our situations and ov

Enjoying Life Again Together

er our lives that got us back on our feet.

As I sit here writing to you, I sit here in my bedroom at my computer desk in my house that God miraculously kept for us. We worked everything out with our mortgage company. They forgave all of the late payments, everything they were asking for when it was up for auction, and unpaid taxes for our city. It’s as if we just moved into our home like we did in September of 2005. I am still able to stay home with our girls, and Hector is working as an independent agent for a few insurance companies. He’s blessed, and the Lord is increasing all that he is putting his hand to do. God is so good to those who love him and keeps his commandments.

Religion will tell you that God does not want you prosperous. I've heard them say that we're supposed to live a life where we have just enough or barely enough because we are not to be wealthy as God's Children. My friends, listen to me when I say, God NEEDS you to be blessed so that you can be a blessing. Not only that, but He wants us to have a life we love, because it is Him who gives that to us. I serve a more than enough God. The God of the universe who will do whatever it takes to make sure you are blessed. 

So, that’s my life. That’s where we were and this is where we are. I love my life. I see good days ahead. I serve a big God.